Who Are The Top Tech Bloggers?

We’ve been analyzing historical TechMeme data to dig a little deeper than the leaderboard information on the site that shows top blogs over the trailing 30 days. Mark McGranaghan and I are slicing the data in a number of ways and will publish it shortly on CrunchBase.

For now we thought we’d show a teaser – below are the top 100 tech bloggers/authors, based on the total number of headlines they have had on TechMeme from January 1, 2008 until today. The data isn’t 100% perfect as we’ve been grabbing it only once per hour, so a headline that was up for less than one hour may not be counted. But in terms of tracking the most popular bloggers, the data is meaningful. Since a lot of the top leaderboard blogs are multi-author, this helps to shake out who’s actually writing the popular stories.

Clarification: This list doesn’t take into consideration authors who write for multiple publications.

Full list is below:

Rank Author Property Num. Headlines
1 Michael Arrington TechCrunch 207
2 Erick Schonfeld TechCrunch 126
3 Larry Dignan Between the Lines 105
4 Duncan Riley TechCrunch 88
5 Marshall Kirkpatrick ReadWriteWeb 75
Henry Blodget Silicon Alley Insider 75
7 Mike Masnick Techdirt 65
8 Thomas Ricker Engadget 55
9 Mathew mathewingram.com/work 54
10 Eric Savitz Tech Trader Daily 53
11 Allen Stern CenterNetworks 52
12 Om Malik GigaOM 51
13 Josh Catone ReadWriteWeb 50
14 Mary Jo Foley All about Microsoft 47
Ryan Block Engadget 47
16 Joseph Weisenthal paidContent.org 44
17 Rafat Ali paidContent.org 43
Ionut Alex Chitu Google Operating System 43
19 Eric Bangeman Ars Technica 39
Kara Swisher BoomTown 39
21 Mark Hendrickson TechCrunch 37
22 Robert Scoble Scobleizer 36
23 Jacqui Cheng Ars Technica 34
Arn MacRumors 34
Elinor Mills CNET News.com 34
26 Brad Linder Download Squad 33
Sarah Perez ReadWriteWeb 33
Saul Hansell Bits 33
29 Ina Fried CNET News.com 32
Caroline McCarthy CNET News.com 32
Eric Eldon VentureBeat 32
32 Joshua Topolsky Engadget 31
Greg Sandoval CNET News.com 31
34 Todd Bishop Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog 30
MG Siegler VentureBeat 30
36 Anne Broache CNET News.com 29
Ernesto TorrentFreak 29
38 Paul Miller Engadget 28
MG Siegler ParisLemon 28
40 Nate Anderson Ars Technica 27
41 Philip Elmer-DeWitt Apple 2.0 26
Fred A VC 26
Philipp Lenssen Google Blogoscoped 26
Miguel Helft New York Times 26
45 Liz Gannes NewTeeVee 25
Marguerite Reardon CNET News.com 25
47 Rafe Needleman Webware.com 24
Martin LaMonica CNET News.com 24
Peter Kafka Silicon Alley Insider 24
David Kaplan paidContent.org 24
51 Nilay Patel Engadget 23
Darren Murph Engadget 23
Owen Thomas Valleywag 23
54 Erica Ogg CNET News.com 22
Matt Buchanan Gizmodo 22
Greg Sterling Search Engine Land 22
Richard MacManus ReadWriteWeb 22
Caroline McCarthy The Social 22
Barry Schwartz Search Engine Land 22
60 Scott Karp Publishing 2.0 21
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes Hardware 2.0 21
62 Dean Takahashi Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi  20
Ryan Paul Ars Technica 20
Danny Sullivan Search Engine Land 20
Stacey Higginbotham GigaOM 20
Tom Krazit One More Thing 20
67 Dave Winer Scripting News 19
Jesus Diaz Gizmodo 19
John Markoff New York Times 19
70 Doug Aamoth CrunchGear 18
71 Staci D. Kramer paidContent.org 17
Dan Frommer Silicon Alley Insider 17
Dawn Kawamoto CNET News.com 17
Joel Hruska Ars Technica 17
Ken Fisher Ars Technica 17
Steven Hodson WinExtra 17
Dan Farber Between the Lines 17
Matt Marshall VentureBeat 17
79 Joe Wilcox Microsoft Watch 16
Jacqui Cheng Infinite Loop 16
Jason Chen Gizmodo 16
Caroline McCarthy Webware.com 16
Wilson Rothman Gizmodo 16
David A. Utter WebProNews 16
85 Cade Metz The Register 15
Karl DSLreports 15
Nick Rough Type 15
Stephen Shankland CNET News.com 15
89 Chris Williams The Register 14
Peter Ha CrunchGear 14
Michael Learmonth Silicon Alley Insider 14
Brian Stelter New York Times 14
Enigmax TorrentFreak 14
Nicholas Carlson Valleywag 14
Betsy Schiffman Epicenter 14
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan HipMojo.com 14
97 Tom Krazit CNET News.com 13
Chris Ziegler Engadget 13
Dan Goodin The Register 13
Mike Butcher TechCrunch UK 13
Jason Calacanis The Jason Calacanis Weblog 13
Adam Ostrow Mashable! 13
Stefanie Olsen CNET News.com 13
Michael Liedtke Associated Press 13
Larry Dignan Zero Day 13