Fun With Charts

I'm dashing out of the house, but I thought I would share a couple of charts that I just made for an essay that I'm writing. Observations welcome.

Here are the charts without context: 

Chart 1. The
Top 20 Bloggers of 2004

 

  1. InstaPundit
  2. Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
    Marshall
  3. Eschaton/Atrios
  4. AndrewSullivan.com – Daily Dish
  5. The Daily Kos
  6. Matthew Yglesias
  7. TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
  8. The Volokh Conspiracy
  9. This Modern World
  10. Crooked Timber
  11. Asymmetrical Information
  12. USS Clueless
  13. Samizdata.net
  14. VodkaPundit
  15. Doc Searls Weblog
  16. Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal
  17. BuzzMachine by Jeff Jarvis
  18. The Rittenhouse Review
  19. Oliver Willis: Like Kryptonite To
    Stupid
  20. LILEKS (James) The Bleat

 

Source: Rankings from combining data from Blogstreet
Rankings, Truth Laid Bear Ecosystem, Technorati Top 100 and The Truth Laid Bear
in 2004


Chart 3.

Top Twenty Political Blogs of
2010

1.
Huffington Post

2. Hot Air

3. CNN
Political Ticker

4.
Ben Smith's Blog

5. Hotline on
Call

6. The Corner
at National Review

7. Think
Progress

8.
FiveThirtyEight: Politics Done Right

9. Political
Punch

10. Michelle
Malkin

11. The Note

12. The Plum
Line

13. The Daily
Beast – Blogs and Stories

14.
NewsBusters.org – Exposing Liberal

15. The Daily
Dish by Andrew Sullivan

16. RedState

17 Public
Policy Polling

18. American
Thinker

19. Big
Government

20. Commentary

Source:
According to Technorati, the top political blogs on January 23, 2010

4 thoughts on “Fun With Charts

  1. I’m not a regular reader of any the current top political blogs. I read Sullivan sometimes, largely because I read McArdle and I sometimes see a title that looks interesting on the sidebar.

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  2. If you had asked me “What do you think are the top political blogs today,” I would have given you more names from the first list than from the second. My daily reading definitely has more from the first list.

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  3. I’m the same as Ragtime; obviously, my blog reading hasn’t evolved much (he says proudly, displaying his get-out-of-my-yard-you-whippersnappers! credentials).
    Though honestly, I guess that’s not quite true. I still read Yglesias and Crooked Timber. I stopped reading Marshall years ago, but only recently (thanks in part to the health care debate) have become re-addicted to his much expanded TPM operation. I got tired of Sullivan a long time back too, and him I haven’t gone back to (I’m genuine surprised the Dish still rates in the top twenty). All the cool kids discovered 538 and Nate Silver a while back, but–like with TPM–I only started regularly reading him recently.

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  4. Gosh, I read three of the top 20 blogs regularly, and none of the top 20 political blogs.
    Pausing to analyze my behavior, I like blogs that give you a sense of a personality behind them, not a cause or an obsessive interest in some particular item. (Also, for me, it can’t be a personality type that I spend my whole life trying to avoid, such as Upper West Side limousine liberals, or snotty gynephobic gays.)
    I hope our hostess wasn’t expecting deep or universal insights from the comments, because she has gotten only idiosyncratic, not to say narcissistic, musings.

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