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Dave Sifry of Technorati tracks what bloggers link to and notes in his latest report that the New York Times receives by far the most inbound links—and that mainstream media websites are linked by the blogosphere way, way more than even the best-read blogs. He offers a couple of nifty graphs that show it. The news for Los Angeles is that of the nine most-linked blogs in the world, three are rooted in L.A.: Boing Boing, the Huffington Post and Crooks and Liars. Among the media sites, the L.A. Times ranks ninth behind SFGate and Guardian Unlimited and just ahead of Yomiuri Online.
Sifry also compares the Technorati 100 (most linked-to blogs) of today to the hit parade in 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005. Tons of turnover, and you can watch the blogosphere's maturity from a techie niche into serving broader interests.
| Technorati 100 | |
| November 29, 2004 | February 19, 2006 |
| Boing Boing 9,094 blogs 15,917 links Instapundit.com 8,003 blogs 11,410 links Davenetics 7,427 blogs 7,571 links Buzznet 7,331 blogs 94,609 links art 7,137 blogs 10,018 links Penny - Arcade 6,844 blogs 7,873 links Daily Kos 6,560 blogs 9,862 links Firefox 6,280 blogs 8,599 links Gizmodo 6,152 blogs 10,055 links Common Dreams 5,443 blogs 9,539 links |
Boing Boing 69,667 links 20,504 sites Engadget 76,888 links 15,295 sites PostSecret 21,271 links 12,907 sites Daily Kos 53,338 links 11,257 sites Huffington Post 43,225 links 8,630 site Thought Mechanics 8,832 links 7,499 sites Gizmodo 15,981 links 6,800 sites Michelle Malkin 42,593 links 6,768 sites Google blog 15,952 links 6,694 sites Beppe Grillo 18,914 links 6,532 sites |
LA Observed is currently way down at number 2,322 with 3,005 links from 450 sites. That puts us fifth in links among blogs that use Technorati's Los Angeles tag (behind Firedoglake, Professor Bainbridge, aaron and the Online Journalism Review. From the big list, Malkin rates an L.A. mention. Before she went off to be the right's attack darling and the left's symbol of horribleness, she was a Daily News editorial writer and columnist.