Eat the Press analyzes how Technorati's somewhat-incestuous Top 100 (which measures not readers or popularity, just inbound links from other blogs) looks different now than it did a year ago. The piece is anchored by a nice pic of BoingBoinger's Mark Frauenfelder, Xeni Jardin and Cory Doctorow (l to r). Their site has yielded #1 to EndGadget, but is still right there at #2. Other Los Angeles-based blogs near the top include The Huffington Post (#5, same as last year), Crooks and Liars (#14, down from 9), TMZ (#15, not in Top 100), Little Green Footballs (#21, was 40), Perez Hilton (#40, not in Top 100), Go Fug Yourself (#48, not in Top 100) and Defamer (#49, up from 58). Nick Douglas at the Eat The Press pins C&L's drop on the easy access to video on YouTube and other sites, but really, if you're still #14 on Technorati's universe of 35 million-or-whatever blogs you don't really have to worry about little fluctuations. Also noteworthy to me in the Top 100: Hugh Hewitt is still in the elite at #72 and Robert Scheer's year-old Truthdig is doing well at #83.

By comparison: Little ol' LA Observed hovers these days in the #3,200 area, as of the moment with 5,573 current inbound links (or 8,212 depending on which part of Technorati is speaking) from 614 blogs. It seems to change weekly if not more often.

Noted later: Crooks and Liars had four of the year's ten most-linked blog posts, according to Nielsen BuzzMetrics via Kausfiles. Michelle Malkin had one of the others.

Photo: Scott Beale/Laughing Squid via Eat the Press