This is a follow up to our post last month that listed some of the top tech bloggers according to TechMeme. The goal was to be able to take a look at the individual bloggers who were writing headlines, not just the blogs they wrote for.
As promised, the team (Mark McGranaghan and Henry Work) has put together much more detailed statistics on the blogs and bloggers that publish tech news headlines and has published it over at CrunchBase.
The top 100 blogs are listed here along with the top three authors by publication. The default view is “all time,” which is back to March 2006, but can be toggled to the last 90 days, last month, or last seven days. The image below shows the top ten publications by all time.
The data can also be viewed by author here with the same time toggles.
Blogs and authors can be clicked on to see links back to TechMeme for each of the headlines. Here’s Erick Schonfeld, for example.
This data goes back much further than the TechMeme Leaderboard, and it also calculates things differently. The leaderboard looks at the last 30 days and calculates top sites based on share of headline space, meaning how long a headline stays up affects rankings. Our calculations look only at the raw number of headlines, nothing more.
More data is coming soon. And check out StatBot, a new site that is also doing some great work slicing up data from TechMeme and other sites.
I truly appreciate every single post made by the whole list of bloggers listed above. Without your post, It’s highly impossible to be informed about stuff that matters to us(technology) in a very short period.
Impressive summaries… some well-known ones didn’t make it to the list?..
@2 - sorry, obviously it was there.. my bad…
May i know how to justify the ranging of the bloggerboard ?
Great work on the combos guys. Just solid info all around.
Quantity != Quality
TechCrunch should do a proper audit rather than this crap from TechMeme, and move from posturing to fact.
But they won’t because then they will move off the top spot, and CNET and Engadget will fly up to the top - by a mile.
90sdotcommer - what, did we forget to cover whizzgo when it launched? apologies.
BloggerBoard gives a good overview on the number of posts.
It would be great if there would be also some additional information on the current audience size.
This could be either Alexa or Compete data on a per blog base or the number of comments on a per author and per blog base.
There seems to be a small glitch in BloggerBoard: ReadWriteWeb occurs twice: as Read/WriteWeb at position 13 with 425 posts and as ReadWriteWeb at position 25 with 238 posts.
Great! Keep up the good work.
Glad to see a mention to yuvi’s site, thestatbot.com in there. Very cool stuff to come on that blog.
@ Arrington
“90sdotcommer - what, did we forget to cover whizzgo when it launched? apologies.”
FYI,
His website is http://www.whatgreencar.com/ and not whizzgo, which is just an ad-banner on his site. Before you try to reply back with smart ‘I gotcha back’ comments at least make sure you get it right.
Have a good day!
@7/8/12 - LOL
my bad too.. at times it could be confusing… 
Does posting the most articles make one a top blogger?
TechCrunch is an obvious winner - but it is great to see Techdirt get due recognition……
It is one of thr few blogs (besides Oreilly and Sun) where the comment are on the same level as the posts.
Ironically, several of those blogs listed are NOT on the Tecnorati top 100???!!
http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/
and some high on Technoratti are NOT TechMeme.
Okay, we know you made it #1 on the list, now stop showing off your blog continuously.
http://www.tech-exposed.com
Great list but I too would also like to know more about the criteria used for place within the top 10
Michael,
Why are some sites posted twice? And not combined into 1 if that is by monthly basis?
@Dev,
I think M.A. did that on purpose. I don’t think he even wanted to bring attention to the guys real Website….
I cant remember the last time I was on cnet, especially to read their blog
note: ReadWriteWeb is counted twice, as ReadWriteWeb and Read/WriteWeb. Please can u fix that.
actually, a far more useful methodology would be one which found a way to rate the actua content of a post. that is, not all posts are created equal. one or two lines, slapdash, obviously are not the equal of a post based on real research or reporting or original thought. thoughts?
i would love someone to rate the comments of the top tech blogs. i agree about techdirt’s comments. always great. they are pretty good here at TC too.
The comments on TechDirt are usually way better than the posts.
Mike is very heavy handed with his personal agenda and worldview.
Once again, it looks like I got overlooked. Not a big deal, just a flaw in the measurements.
@Richard MacManus
Fixed, thanks for the heads up.
@Louis
Yeah, your blog kinda gets the short end of the stick here, sorry about that. Our database has several posts from your blog, though not enough to make it onto the all-time publications leaderboard (http://www.crunchbase.com/bloggerboard/tech/publication/louisgray-com) though you are on the 30-day list (http://www.crunchbase.com/bloggerboard/tech/publications?date=last_30_days).
It seems that your posts tend to stay on the site for longer than average, which is why your Techmeme Leadboard rank is higher than your BloggerBoard rank. Actually, if we divide the Techmeme Leaderboard “Presence” rating by the number of headline posts over the last 30 days, we get a sort of proxy for per-post impact. Here’s that measure for a handful of sites, normalized to TechCrunch = 1.0:
TechCrunch: 1.0
ReadWriteWeb: 1.1
Wall Street Journal: 0.8
TorrentFreak: 1.2
A VC: 1.0
louisgray.com: 1.35
Mark, looks good, appreciate the follow-up. I expected to be included on the 90 and 30 days update, and it looks like this has been resolved. Thanks.
I didn’t know what mashable was until I attended SXSW.
I’m just sayin…
so are we just counting number of post? not measuring quality?
sd & others: quantity != quality. This is true. However, since getting onto Techmeme is one measure of quality (relevance, rating amongst peers, etc), getting onto Techmeme a lot indicates more quality. It’s not perfect — like for really good bloggers who only post occasionally (but make it to Techmeme when they do), but it’s still interesting.
> However, since getting onto Techmeme is one measure
> of quality (relevance, rating amongst peers, etc), getting
> onto Techmeme a lot indicates more quality.
I would say getting onto Techmeme measures how popular a story is among popular tech blogs. Whether that’s a quality measure seems to be another issue (it may or may not be — e.g. it may be there’s some super high quality tech site out there which is way ahead of its time, meaning many of us don’t link to it because we don’t get it, or it may be that things like knowing a person in private life subconsciously influence what we link to, meaning more connected bloggers get more backlinks, etc. Also — and I do definitely like Techmeme as a source to know “what’s hot” in tech blogs, I think it’s very smart in computing this and locating clusters! — the way Techmeme is set up it seems to favor display of commentary of hot stories over commentary of stories that don’t make the Techmeme frontpage).
^ I agree. Techcrunch dominates Techmeme anyway, and most of the TC stories that make it as headlines there aren’t what I would call newsworthy: they’re just about the blogoshere or about a rumor that never turns out to be anything. Not saying that TC doesn’t deserve a lot of headlines though.
rumors abound on TC and now we know that tricky dick nixon (arrington) reads IP addresses of his commentors.
Nice self-promotion TechCrunch. Very smart move. I’d publish any list that has my blog as being more relevant than NYTimes and CNet as well, especially considering their valuations. Additionally, I’m assuming that you plunged into the data as part of your corporate development program around building a larger blogging network. Any good finds out there or are they all still taking stupid VC money?
Shameless plug with this post. I like the blog, it’s good. Techmeme is no where near as good and their RSS feed sucks.