Media search engine Technorati is about to release The Technorati Attention Index, which measures the mainstream media websites with the highest number of blogs linking to them in the past 30 days. Right now it has a blog post with the inaugural list. YouTube takes the top spot with the New York Times, BBC News, CNN.com, and MSN rounding out the top five. Compared to the top non-blog sources on Techmeme’s leaderboard, which is a narrower universe of sites which tech blogs link to, the top five mainstream media sites there are CNET News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and Computerworld. (The leaderboard for sister site Memeorandum, which covers politics, more closely matches Technorati’s list).
Here’s the list in its entirety from Technorati’s index:
- YouTube
- New York Times
- BBC News
- CNN.com
- MSN
- guardian.co.uk
- Washington Post
- Yahoo! News
- Reuters
- Los Angeles Times
- Telegraph.co.uk
- MSNBC
- The Wall Street Journal
- Time
- Wired
- USA Today
- boston.com
- FOX News
- Daily Mail
- ESPN
- CBS News
- Financial Times
- Forbes
- San Francisco Chronicle
- Chicago Tribune
- The White House
- New York Post
- New York Daily News
- International Herald Tribune
- PBS
- Salon.com
- BusinessWeek
- Slate
- Newsweek
- New York Magazine
- Economist.com
- CBC.ca
- San Francisco Examiner
- MarketWatch
- Chicago Sun-Times
- US News & World Report
- Houston Chronicle
- Yahoo! Sports
- Entertainment Weekly
- Seattle Times
- E! Online
- People
- Science Daily
- Style.com
- The Christian Science Monitor
All Yahoo properties should be classified together, I’m curious how this would change things.
Actually it would be more meaningful if the various Youtube links were separated by source … yes that is true that people link to Youtube, but that is different from people linking to NY Times or the BBC. I am sure no single Youtube broadcaster or video production outfit has as many links as any single other source or media outfit on the list.
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Anjali Sen
Nope. That would be as meaningful as separating NY Times links by author. Each entity on the list has many, many different content producers, Youtube is not unique in that respect.
The Yahoo point is somewhat valid. Yahoo properties should not be grouped together (again, Youtube is separate from Google) but it would be an interesting data point
Wow 2 yahoo sites in the top 50.. they sure suck!!! Good thing they got rid of Jerry. Yahoo should be DOA within the year… right????
Just bahh if you agree…
Unsuprisingly Youtube sits at #1
I have a feeling all the newspapers included in the above list will do fine. This is a pseudo indicator of their relevance in the world of the web.
I wouldn’t call the San Francisco Chronicle “doing fine” right now.
May be not with its current cost structure. But I would be very surprised to see the company disappear considering its brand equity and reputation.
If this was about most linked blogs then TechCrunch would have been in the Top10
I wonder what the list of the top 50 most linked to blogs would look like? Looks like we’ve got a follow-up article for you to write, Leena.
Isnt that just a mix of the Techmeme leaderboard and the Technorati 100? Close enough for me.
Hah hah hah…true! But that requires that I go and look up the data and then combine the two to figure out the definitive list, and let’s face it I’m a lazy, lazy man! ;D
That would be a much more interesting list to me. I’m considering a post encouraging bloggers to add or claim their blogs at Technorati. I suspect those that aren’t from techie backgrounds don’t even know about it.
cool list
fyi – the link to the technorati blog post is broken
would love to see this list combined with non-MSM sites – do talking points memo/andrew sullivan etc. get read/linked as much as MSM sites?
Kinda shocked Wikipedia didn’t make the list; considering how ridiculously good its SEO is, I just figured bloggers were pumping in tons and tons of traffic.
Ah never mind, guess Wikipedia doesn’t count as “media”
Why’s the White House on this list?
There was no technology there until last February… Not enough time to make the list.
This is news? informative? or technorati desperately seeking publicity?
I find it hard to disagree with your third guess… at least they are trying to do something, though, they are still falling into obscurity.
Jon
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Yeah, I link to Wikipedia on my blog all the time. Is that bad?
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BC Business should be in this list. The guy who tweets is hilar.
so?
What? I thought we didn’t need any of these old timey media sites because bloggers would be taking up the slack as meet their well deserved deaths. I should hope that they linking to them only in stories about how they are all irrelevant.
Found this very interesting, and surprised to see some of the sites on the list.
I kind of got a question. What does this mean for bloggers? Are we better for linking to these news sites, or others. Is there a benefit in linking to the more popular ones?
Paper press will do anything to stay current. Newspapers and mags soon to be extinct.
I wonder if I develop my own Indian media site which will offer everything….
but there is problem of funding…
my biggest surprise? LA Times is #10, ahead of Fox News, ESPN and CBS News. May be some interesting intel to glean from this, as i would have thought people view something on a TV news source first, and if they want to actively research/blog it they’ll go to the web second. What it ALSO means is that people at work are wasting time surfing news! (yes, that’s toungue-in-cheek, but possibly relevant!)
So now I will focus on these sites to get more love fro Technorati
interesting suff
http://www.videonewslive.com is good too.
Nice post. Thanks.
.. Muy buen artículo que lista los 50 sitios mas enlazados por los bloggers (en ingles). …
Why do you all think NPR isn’t on this list??
Not even one site outside the US-UK? very strange. The leaderboard for sister site Memeorandum includes Haaretz, Jpost and more.