There are upwards of 27 million blogs in
the world. To discover how they relate to one another,
we’ve taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped
their connections. Each arrow represents a
hypertext link that was made sometime in the past
90 days. Think of those links as votes in an
endless global popularity poll. Many blogs vote
for each other: “blogrolling.” Some top-50 sites don’t
have any links from the others shown here,
usually because they are big in Japan, China,
or Europe—regions still new to the phenomenon.
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1. Boing Boing A herald from the
expanding fringe of Net culture:
nerdy and fun.
2. Engadget The Net’s premier
tech blog and the flagship of the
Weblogs, Inc., blog network. Pete
Rojas, the brains behind the blog,
specializes in product reviews
and breaking news in gadget-land.
6. Gizmodo Where Rojas used to
work, before he jumped ship.
7. InstaPundit University of
Tennessee law prof Glenn
Reynolds started spinning his
libertarian-conservative punditry
pre-9/11 and ranges freely
among tech issues, law, politics,
and the war on terror.
3. PostSecret An online “art
8. Thought Mechanics
project” that allows people to read
your deepest secrets on scanned
anonymous postcards.
A mishmash of Website design,
code, music, and art.
4. Daily Kos Started by a U.S.
Army veteran, Markos Moulitsas
Zúniga, Daily Kos is the standardbearer for liberal political
blogs Netwide.
5. The Huffington Post Famed
national syndicated columnist,
former California gubernatorial
candidate, and former conservative
Arianna Huffington gets on the
blog bandwagon with a posse of
famous friends in tow.
9. Crooks and Liars A lefty blog
composed mostly of links to
video clips from the MSM (that’s
“mainstream media” to you).
10. spaces.msn.com/klcintw
The Horn Village Blog, in Chinese.
11. Michelle Malkin Dubbed
the Filipino Ann Coulter, Malkin
writes about America-haters,
illegal immigrants, and
Democratic windbags.
12. SamZHU In Chinese.
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13. Dooce The public suffering
18. locker2man In Chinese.
of a postpartum depressive.
Mommies everywhere seem to
relate.
19. Open Palm! silicn
14. Beppe Grillo Grillo, an
Italian political satirist noted for
packing stadiums in Italy and
having giant wavy hair, writes an
English/Italian blog peppered
with strong anti-corruption, antiglobalization outrage and a
pro-tech, pro-little-guy ethos.
He knows his audience.
15. theme.blogfacom In Arabic.
16. Herramientas para Blogs
Madrid, Spain–based blogger
Marcelino Madrigal writes in
Spanish on music, graffiti, and
whatever else he wants.
17. Lifehacker Part of the
Nick Denton blog empire,
Lifehacker envisions a better world
where computers make us more
productive, rather than suck
down our spare time.
In Japanese.
20. Think Progress House
organ of the Center for American
Progress, a think tank led
by former Clinton chief of staff
John Podesta.
21. Official Google Blog
As the name implies.
22. Kottke Jason Kottke got his
big break in 2000, when he was
profiled by The New Yorker. Now
he blogs full time.
26. spaces.msn.com/gb2312
33. spaces.msn.com/huangmj
39. Eschaton Liberal pro-Dem
45. Joel on Software Joel
In Chinese.
More Japanese.
27. spaces.msn.com/msn-sa
34. A List Apart If the term liquid
center makes you think of candy
rather than a Web page, this site
isn’t for you. Design tips and tricks
for those in the business.
political blog of Duncan Black
(a.k.a. Atrios). Known for its
serious, in-your-face invective.
Spolsky, CEO of a small New York–
based software company, computer
programmer, and book author,
shares his coding tips.
In Japanese.
28. lwhanz1981530 The blog
of one pensive-looking Japanese
boy with photos that highlight his
six-pack and pecs. In Japanese.
29. Wonkette Part of Denton’s
empire, gossip for the D.C. set.
Founding editor Ana Marie Cox
handed over the reins in January,
but it still dishes Cox-like ’tude.
30. shiraishi seesaa
23. Fark A frenetic mix of Star
In Japanese.
Trek: The Next Generation tidbits
and dorky Photoshop contests.
31. The Space Craft Where
24. Gawker The gossipy flagship
of the Denton blog empire.
25. chattie555 What’s not
to love about sketches of skinny
adolescent Kimono-clad girls
playing with hippos? In Japanese.
Infographic by Ben Fry; data by Technorati
Microsoft discusses its rather lame
network of blog sites called Spaces.
32. Talking Points Memo Josh
Marshall has taken the blog form
from couch-potato punditry to real
journalism. He recently hired a
reporter to muckrake full time.
35. manabekawori
More Japanese.
36. spaces.msn.com/atiger
Welcome to “a Tiger’s Space.” In
Chinese.
37. Power Line A conservative
political blog by three lawyers. The
blog got famous during “Rathergate” for helping to prove that the
docs used by CBS questioning
Bush’s military record were fakes.
38. Weebl’s Stuff News From
the creators of Weebl and Bob,
cartoon talking eggs who love,
I mean love, pie. They’re Internet
stars and were recently picked
up by MTV UK.
40. Xiaxue Self-absorbed travails
of twentysomething lovelorn
Wendy Cheng. Famous in
Singapore, she has also been
criticized as racist and xenophobic.
41. Joystiq All things video-game
related, and part of the Calacanis
blog network that includes
Engadget.
42. Little Green Footballs
A rabidly conservative war blog.
The source of so much Net
controversy that it spawned a
watchdog, LGF.blogspot.com.
43. AMERICAblog Lefty political
blog famous for exposing Jeff
Gannon, the male prostitute
cleared to attend White House
press conferences.
44. nosz50j In Japanese.
46. spaces.msn.com/gouy2k
In Japanese.
47. princesscecicastle Lots of
blurry cam shots of 19-year-old
Ceci and her friends in Toronto.
In Chinese.
48. Google Blogoscoped
A Google gossip-watch site run
from Stuttgart, Germany.
49. The Superficial Maliciously
funny celeb gossip that—along
with the ubiquitous celebrity boob
and butt shots—keeps you coming
back for more.
50. Andrew Sullivan A gay,
Catholic war supporter, albeit one
who is very critical of Bush.
In January, he leased the site to
Time Warner.