Devils' Kitchen

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 8:00pm

Stephen,

Damn! I appear to have dropped five places to 52! It’s difficult to measure blogs by links, isn’t it?

The Kitchen, for instance, receives a long of links partly because I am part of a cabal of robustly-worded, libertarian political blogs; although I have relatively few blogs linking to me, the vast majority of those links are from other people discussing what I’ve written. Because of this, my links : blogs ratio is about 4 : 1.

Someone like Girl With A One-Track Mind is linked to by a lot of blogs (and a lot of people read her) but the number of links is much smaller (link : blog ratio of about 2 : 1) which would suggest that fewer people discuss the posts themselves.

What, then, defines “influence”? Is it people talking about you and your writings, or simply the number of readers (I’m not really setting myself up against The Girl, BTW).

Techorati is global, so people like The Lone Voice and Drinking From Home have a large number of links from US blogs because they address a lot of US centric concerns (WoT, etc.).

Gosh, this whole ranking thing’s difficult, eh?

DK

Oh, BTW, the phrase is “fool proof” not “full proof”.

Al Tepper

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 9:38pm

Well done for a great post.

Am thrilled to be in such good company and to be representing the green blogosphere and especially the UK green blogosphere.

But let’s not read to much into the list as 90% of the blogs I value and read on a daily basis are not in the list.

Long live the long tail!!!

Namaste

Al

Becky

Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 10:55pm

Ooh, I’m number 74! That’s a pleasant surprise.

It’s nice to share a list with such luminaries, although I’m worried that I don’t deserve to be here.

Stephen

Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 7:33am

DK: Hah! Sorry you’ve went down the list a little. I guess it’s because I received some help this time. I agree though - it is difficult to measure by links… or any other way for that matter!

I like your notion of looking at links in relation to blog posts. Something that I’d never thought of. **sigh** it’s even more complicated now.

Re: Full proof/fool proof. I’ve tended to use full proof to say something is definitive. Might be a northern thing?

Al: Couldn’t agree more mate. It doesn’t matter if a blog has five readers or five million. It’s whether the blogger enjoys writing it and the reader(s) enjoy reading it. One man’s junk is another’s gold… or something like that.

Becky: Whatever this list is worth, I’m sure you do deserve to be in it. BTW how come your gravatar still works? Mine stopped working a few weeks ago. This is or was the problem.

:Ben Metcalfe Blog » Blog Archive » #67 in the UK100 influential blog list

Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 8:00am

[…] Apparently this turgid literary cesspit of a blog, written by a dyslexic who can barely string two sentences together, comes in at number 67 in the UK100 blog roll - compiled by PRBlogger (Stephen Davies) using Technorati ratings. […]

Peter

Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 12:29pm

http://www.liberalreview.com/content/2006/10/liberal-review-in-the-uk-top-100

Suitably bashfull ackowledgement of this great honour…

John Baker

Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 4:46pm

Well I’m absolutely flabberghasted. Number 75. What about all the big big big blogs like the newspapers and tv stations and supermarkets?

Stephen

Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 4:52pm

No mainstream media blogs I’m afraid Peter. It’s a collection of ordinary (for want of a better word) blogs only.

I’m not sure if any UK TV stations or supermarkets have blogs… do they?

AccMan / I’m 79 on a list

Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 5:08pm

[…] I’ve pretty much stopped taking notice of Technorati. The rankings are meaningless except to say I’m at X position in an undifferentiated glob of blogs. Which is sort of OK if you’re in the sub-10K area. The figures change (up and down in some weird way) almost daily and I’ve more or less given up asking them to re-index my site. But someone else thinks Technorati has value. […]

Jackie Danicki » If you were under my influence, you’d be doing tequila slammers this lunchtime

Thursday, October 26, 2006 at 11:48pm

[…] As you may have read, I don’t buy into the supposed accuracy or relevance of ‘top bloggers’ lists, but my place on this one is interesting. If I did buy into such rankings, I’d be rather chuffed that all I have to do to curry even more influence is cross-post at Samizdata, which is ranked number seven. […]

hecklerspray

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 7:09am

But… but… but… Our technorati rank has gone from 5,046 to 3,635 since you did it first. That makes hecklerspray 24th, not 33rd.

Sounds petty, yes, but 24th place means that my Mum will only lock me in the cellar with the corpses of every pet I’ve ever owned for two hours a day, as opposed to the five hours she’s giving me at the moment.

Manoj Ranaweera

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 7:38am

For some reason, Technorati no longer tracks my blog http://manojranaweera.wordpress.com - All my attempts to contact them have failed. It has tracked mine for 70 odd days.

regards
Manoj
CEO - ebdex

Stephen

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 7:46am

Hecklerspray: You’re right… it has. You must have received quite a few links since I began collecting the data.

Sorry about the whole pet corpse thing. If only it could be done automatically.

Manoj: That happened to me once but I kept emailing T/rati and eventually the problem was addressed.

Simon Willison

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:34am

I’ve got a UK blog, ranked 2,488 when I checked just now.

Alexs Travel Blog

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:43am

I swear my travel blog should have been there somewhere

Alexs Travel Blog & Photos

Stephen

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:48am

Simon: Added.

Alex: Maybe in time?

as days pass by » Blog Archive » UK100 bloggers

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 9:19am

[…] Cor, look, a UK top 100 bloggers list, and I’m 23rd. Andy B and Simon W are ahead, of course. As is Boris Johnson, who I’ve met and is a bit mad. […]

Rules of Engagement at twopointouch: web 2.0, blogs and social media

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 11:07am

[…] It kind of ties in with the recent talk about which are the most influential blogs, and the lists published by Edelman/Technorati of the top 50 bloggers in various countries, according to inbound links. The rankings have proven quite controversial, and I’ve seen a number of alternative lists (those three are for the UK alone). What exactly should we be measuring? […]

Andy Merrett

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 12:13pm

Has someone developed an automated tool for checking TR rank? HDTVUK probably just missed it as it’s jumped up to 14239 today which would make us around 94 unless everyone else moved up.

Great list though.

Stephen

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 12:29pm

Hey Andy,

Re T/rati tool. I don’t think so. I haven’t heard of one. Would be good if T/rati put this list in its own unique automated ranking system. That way it would be constantly updated.

HDTV UK added mate.

Rich Boakes

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 1:04pm

Hey, I squeezed into the #50, thats a nice Friday bonus :-).

Anyone who’s interested in their rank might enjoy this: a while back I translated the blog valuation code into sterling, enabling British bloggers to get a feel of their contribution to Great Britain PLC. Crank up the Edward Elgar, strike your best Churchill pose and enter your URL to discover what your Great British Blog is worth.

Rich Boakes

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 1:28pm

PS. Andy, it’s a good example of how to use the DuckSoup Library to interrogate the Technorati API which is what I think you’re after.

Stephen

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 1:35pm

Rich, thanks. Added. Like the ‘What’s Your Great British Blog Worth’. Mine’s £53 grand. Any offers?

Do you think it’s possible to do something with the T/rati API?

Ellee

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 8:23pm

Hey, you missed me out, you don’t have many women listed. But I’m glad to see my allies Iain and Guido are way up there.

Rich Boakes

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 10:50pm

Stephen, The T.API is a doddle to use, the real fun bit comes with working out who’s in (or from) the UK (IP geolocation is unreliable so it’s footwork) or… get in contact with Mark Sweeting of BritBlog and quiz him about technoranki.

andrewskinner[dot]name » Blog Archive » links for 2006-10-27

Friday, October 27, 2006 at 11:48pm

[…] UK100 bloggers For some reason I appear to have been missed off the list… (tags: blog list) […]

John Baker’s Blog » Blog Archive » Presque vu X

Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 8:09am

[…] PRBlogger has listed the top 100 most influential blogs in the UK, based on Technorati data, and this blog comes in at number 75. I’ve never been on a list before. Add Bookmark to: […]

Meriblog: Meri Williams’ Weblog » links for 2006-10-28

Saturday, October 28, 2006 at 7:32pm

[…] prblogger.com » Blog Archive » UK100 bloggers Interesting list of Top 100 UK blogs. Quite impressed by how many peeps I know are on it! (tags: blogging tools uk top100 interesting) […]

Stephen

Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 10:46am

Ellee: Afraid you don’t make the list. Check your ranking here.

Re. Women bloggers. If you know of any that make the list please let me know.

Rich: Thanks for the info. Could possibly do something with it (the list) in time.

Flemming

Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 11:59am

You solicited comments to your work. Here is mine.

http://www.onalytica.com/blog/2006/10/edelman-influence-and-intelligent.html

The Modern Age » links for 2006-10-29

Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 5:20pm

[…] prblogger.com » Blog Archive » UK100 bloggers Top limeys blogging away in the world (tags: blogging uk) […]

Stephen

Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 6:24pm

Flemming: Nice analysis. You’ve got me wrong though.

You said: “Why do they call it “influence” when it’s clearly not?”

My post (this post) says: “But how do you properly measure influence anyway?”

You said: “Why don’t they just call it “popularity”? Then they would be totally right.”

My post says: “I don’t know of any other method that can effectively measure authority, popularity… or whatever you want to call it.”

I would still argue that inbound links result in influence to a degree. How much? I don’t know. Probably small… but the blogs in question could still be classed as ‘influential’. You can’t dismiss it (inbound links equalling influence) altogether.

But as I’ve said before influence should be measured by a number of methods. How does your company do it?

Cheers,

Flemming

Sunday, October 29, 2006 at 7:52pm

But Stephen,

You’re presenting your analysis in a manner as if measurement of influence, popularity, centrality and other similar network metrics is a new science.

It is not (that new). There is a lot of research in the area already, which you seem to skip/disregard.

Measuring how elements of a network influence each other has been done since the 40s. It started with measuring how sectors of the economy influence each other (Leontief). In sociology, social network analysis has been developed since the 70s and at the same time academics started measuring the influence of academic journals (actually using the same principles of indirect influence as Leontief devised).

My point is that when a researcher (you in this case) presents a new way of measuring/explaining something, that contradicts thousands of peer reviewed academic articles, hundreds of books and at least one Nobel Prize winner doesn’t he owe it to the discussion to at the very least explain why his method is better than the current consensus?

I could ask the question the other way: Where in the academic literature do you find support for your methodology?

Stephen

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 8:32am

Flemming: As I said, you’ve got me wrong.

“You’re presenting your analysis in a manner as if measurement of influence, popularity, centrality and other similar network metrics is a new science.”

No I’m not. When have I said that this list is “new” or a “new science”. It’s barely an analysis.

“It is not (that new). There is a lot of research in the area already, which you seem to skip/disregard.”

Like I said, I don’t claim anything to be new. Which research have I skipped/disregarded? Research on the UK blogosphere?

“My point is that when a researcher (you in this case) presents a new way of measuring/explaining something, that contradicts thousands of peer reviewed academic articles, hundreds of books and at least one Nobel Prize winner doesn’t he owe it to the discussion to at the very least explain why his method is better than the current consensus?”

Oh please. Have I ever claimed anything but my intention to collect Technorati data on the UK blogosphere? Do I claim this method is better? No.

“I could ask the question the other way: Where in the academic literature do you find support for your methodology?”

This is the way Technorati collects data. I merely made a UK version. So it isn’t my methodology.

Flemming, quite clearly you know something about this field of analysis. But to show your own intelligence you’re trying to make something out of nothing. This list (and that’s all it is) is merely a way to arouse some discussion around the UK blogosphere. Nothing else.

Like I said in my comment above and the comment I left on your blog (which you haven’t approved for some reason) I’d be interested to know what your thoughts are on this particular kind of measurement. Seriously, I do because I’ll probably learn something from you.

Flemming

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 9:12am

Ok, now I better understand where you’re coming from. In this light I can see I may have slightly misunderstood the background of the analysis and given undue focus to an issue that was not the focus of the analysis.

Thanks for taking the time to clarify.

mike

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 10:45am

I reckon I should be at #79 in your list.
Rank: 11,974 (431 links from 198 blogs)

You might also want to compare your 100 with the Technorati based list that I put together in May 2005 - which wasn’t totally reliable, as a Technorati glitch of the time weighted some of the political blogs in the list much too highly (one particular linking blog was being counted multiple times).

http://www.troubled-diva.com/mostlinkedukblogs05.htm

Interestingly, our respective definitions of what constitutes a UK weblog differ. You’ll see my definition at the end of the list. The major difference is that I excluded ex-pat blogs - whereas you have included some (Chase Me Ladies, Vitriolica Webb, Arseblog, Tim Worstall), but excluded others (a couple of the biggies being Petite Anglaise and My Boyfriend Is A Twat). I don’t think there’s a right or wromg answer - but decided it was better to exclude all ex-pats, rather than to include only a few.

bengoldacre

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 12:43pm

i’ve got a feeling http://www.badscience.net should be at about #45

http://www.technorati.com/search/www.badscience.net

Antony Mayfield

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 3:18pm

You’re doing a grand job - nice one. My Technorati rankings have been all over the place in the past few weeks so I’ve no clue where I should be. But it’s nice to be included on your list, chap - thanks… Even if they aren’t the answer to understanding the web, we’re hard-wired to love lists and the attention this one alone has got is proof of that…

Justin

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 3:37pm

Thanks for persevering with this list Stephen – where do you find the time?

Rich – I’m loving ‘what your Great British blog is worth’ – very neat!

Keep up the good work.

How much?? « The last man in Europe…

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 3:44pm

[…] Whilst following the conversation around Stephens TOP 100 Uk blog list (very useful piece of work) - i came across Rich Boakes comment and some nifty coding work he has done to translate the Technorati blog valuation code into Sterling - check it out. So for once and for all you can find out how much your blog might be worth. I obviously won’t be giving up my day job just yet… […]

Stephen

Monday, October 30, 2006 at 3:55pm

Mike: Thanks, I’ve added your blog. Don’t know how I missed it this time.

Bengoldacre: Thanks, added.

Antony: Cheers mate. I’ve had a good response. You bet.

Justin: I just don’t have a life.

JonnyB

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 1:35pm

At the risk of blowing my ‘I hate these sort of lists’ cover and reavealing that I quite like them, what I’d do, if I had any form of programming or statistical knowledge would be…

a) weight each linker according to its own number of incoming links (a la Google). Spam blogs, or links from blogs nobody else has discovered, don’t make somebody influential.

then

b) disregard all links that are directly reciprocal. So blogs with 20000 on their blogroll who get links back out of politeness and etiquette would be penalised. Besides, these people have no life and clearly cannot be thought of as influential.

DK has a good point, above, I thought.

MondoBlog » Blog » La lista dei 100 blog più importanti del Regno Unito

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 2:34pm

[…] » Articolo scritto il 26 Ottobre 2006» Categorie: Blogosfera, Classifiche» Non ci sono commenti 1. gapingvoid Rank: 147 (9,166 links from 2,931 blogs) 2. Mashable! Rank: 385 (12,583 links from1,929 blogs) 3. EU Referendum Rank: 603 (5,312 links from 1,563 blogs) 4. The Lair of the Crab of Ineffable Wisdom Rank: 923 (1,970 links from 1,263 blogs) 5. Tech Digest Rank: 948 (5,507 links from 1,245 blogs) 6. Akihabaranews.com (En) Rank: 1,142 (4,901 links from 1,083 blogs) 7. Samizdata.net Rank: 1,370 (3,238 links from 1,020 blogs) 8. plasticbag.org - a weblog by Tom Coates Rank: 1,421 (2,297 links from 999 blogs) 9. Shiny Shiny Rank: 1,450 (5,873 links from 987 blogs) 10. Coolest Gadgets Rank: 1,532 (4,439 links from 955 blogs) 11. All About Symbian Rank: 2,516 (3,335 links from 706 blogs) 12. LiveSide Rank: 2,529 (2,156 links from 700 blogs) 13. Girl with a one-track mind Rank: 2,596 (1,305 links from 689 blogs) 14. c h r o m a s i a / photoblog Rank: 2,623 (1,742 links from 685 blogs) 15. Iain Dale’s Diary Rank: 2,633 (3,593 links from 684 blogs) 16. tallskinnykiwi.com Rank: 2,838 (2,160 links from 649 blogs) 17. Boris Johnson MP Rank: 2,901 (962 links from 638 blogs) 18. Mind Hacks Rank: 3,064 (1,991 links from 612 blogs) 19. Guy Fawkes Rank: 3,080 (2,300 links from 610 blogs) 20. Andy Budd::Blogography Rank: 3,107 (1,213 links from 605 blogs) 21. Chase me ladies, I’m in the cavalry Rank: 3,254 (2,202 links from 585 blogs) 22. Londonist Rank: 3,334 (1,798 links from 576 blogs) 23. Drinking From Home Rank: 3,560 (1,638 links from 550 blogs) 24. Harry’s Place Rank: 3,673 (2,526 links from 538 blogs) 25. roobottom dot com Rank: 3,673 (604 links from 538 blogs) 26. Random Acts Of Reality Rank: 3,762 (1,116 links from 529 blogs) 27. The Lone Voice Rank: 3,853 (1,057 links from 493 blogs) 28. Internet Marketing News and Blog Rank: 3,861 (1,256 links from 520 blogs) 29. Bloggers Blog — Blogging the Blogosphere Rank: 3,930 (1,840 links from 513 blogs) 30. Tim Worstall Rank: 4,015 (2,069 links from 506 blogs) 31. Adrian’s Blog Rank: 4,606 (1,926 links from 458 blogs) 32. Bloggerheads Rank: 4,984 (1,440 links from 432 blogs) 33. Hecklerspray Rank: 5,046 (867 links from 428 blogs) 34. Adam Smith Institute Rank: 5,175 (1,431 links from 420 blogs) 35. NevilleHobson.com Rank: 5,175 (2,630 links from 420 blogs) 36. WanderingScribe Rank: 5,340 (603 links from 410 blogs) 37. Confused Of Calcutta Rank: 5,438 (1,311 links from 382 blogs) 38. Pickled Politics Rank: 5,528 (2,307 links from 399 blogs) 39. NHS Blog Doctor Rank: 5,578 (995 links from 396 blogs) 40. Belle de Jour Rank: 5,610 (680 links from 394 blogs) 41. A Deeper Look Rank: 5,711 (1,178 links from 388 blogs) 42. Popjustice - 100% Solid Pop Music Rank: 5,856 (836 links from 381 blogs) 43. The Cartoon Blog by Dave Walker Rank: 6,376 (903 links from 357 blogs) 44. little.red.boat Rank: 6,423 (870 links from 355 blogs) 45. A Welsh View Rank: 6,783 (1,069 links from 341 blogs) 46. The Mobile Technology Weblog Rank: 6,919 (3,118 links from 337 blogs) 47. Strange Attractor: Rank: 6,921 (577 links from 336 blogs) 48. European Tribune Rank: 7,007 (2,862 links from 332 blogs) 49. London Underground Tube Diary Rank: 7,404 (698 links from 318 blogs) 50. boakes.org Rank: 7,753 (524 links from 307 blogs) 51. City Hippy Rank: 7,782 (723 links from 306 blogs) 52. The Devil’s Kitchen Rank: 8,009 (1,050 links from 299 blogs) 53. JonnyB’s private secret diary Rank: 8,009 (471 links from 299 blogs) 54. Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck. Rank: 8,119 (671 links from 296 blogs) 55. Receding Hairline Rank: 8,585 (386 links from 284 blogs) 56. Bad Language Rank: 8,738 (605 links from 280 blogs) 57. english cut: bespoke savile row tailors Rank: 8,903 (638 links from 276 blogs) 58. London Daily Photo Rank: 9,195 (658 links from 269 blogs) 59. diamond geezer Rank: 9,692 (569 links from 257 blogs) 60. Break of Information Overload Rank: 9,808 (313 links from 254 blogs) 61. Interconnected Rank: 9,848 (639 links from 253 blogs) 62. blogjam Rank: 9,986 (448 links from 250 blogs) 63. Blairwatch Rank: 10,032 (1,131 links from 249 blogs) 64. Gadget Spy Rank: 10,246 (384 links from 244 blogs) 65. Dodgeblogium Rank: 10,366 (781 links from 242 blogs) 66. Naked Blog Rank: 10,433 (442 links from 241 blogs) 67. :Ben Metcalfe Blog Rank: 10,776 (470 links from 234 blogs) 68. Adactio: Journal Rank: 10,930 (496 links from 231 blogs) 69. Pepys’ Diary Rank: 10,930 (684 links from 231 blogs) 70. The Soccer Weblog Rank: 10,930 (3,181 links from 231 blogs) 71. Biased BBC Rank: 11,192 (638 links from 226 blogs) 72. The Mink Dimension Rank: 11,258 (384 links from 225 blogs) 73. Jackie Danicki Rank: 11,258 (561 links from 225 blogs) 74. Becky’s Web Rank: 11,258 (372 links from 225 blogs) 75. John Baker’s Blog Rank: 11,320 (514 links from 224 blogs) 76. clagnut Rank: 11,320 (406 links from 224 blogs) 77. ArseBlog Rank: 11,382 (627 links from 223 blogs) 78. fugufish frog Rank: 11,436 (318 links from 222 blogs) 79. AccMan Rank: 12,006 (727 links from 212 blogs) 80. things magazine - still waiting Rank: 12,073 (469 links from 211 blogs) 81. gordonmclean.co.uk Rank: 12,323 (648 links from 207 blogs) 82. gendergeek Rank: 12,375 (806 links from 206 blogs) 83. The dullest blog in the world Rank: 12,323 (338 links from 207 blogs) 84. We Blog Cartoons Rank: 12,433 (422 links from 205 blogs) 85. vitriolica webb’s ite Rank: 12,433 (356 links from 205 blogs) 86. Open (finds, minds, conversations)… Rank: 12,556 (503 links from 203 blogs) 87. .: ShaolinTiger - Kung-Fu Geekery :. Rank: 13,310 (424 links from 193 blogs) 88. TechCrunch UK Rank: 13,384 (391 links from 185 blogs) 89. The Obvious? Rank: 13,384 (1,484 links from 192 blogs) 90. Spy Blog Rank: 13,459 (452 links from 191 blogs) 91. Liberal Review Rank: 13,862 (628 links from 186 blogs) 92. A PR Guru’s Musings - Stuart Bruce Rank: 14,025 (486 links from 184 blogs) 93. An Englishman’s Castle Rank: 14,025 (572 links from 184 blogs) 94. CoolSmartPhone.com Rank: 14,188 (726 links from 182 blogs) 95. Neil’s World Rank: 14,546 (540 links from 178 blogs) 96. edublogs Rank: 15,272 (598 links from 170 blogs) 97. politicalbetting.com Rank: 15,665 (686 links from 166 blogs) 98. Brighton Daily Photo Rank: 15,665 (192 links from 166 blogs) 99. The Bag Lady Rank: 15,769 (1,874 links from 166 blogs) 100. Random Burblings Rank: 15,774 (289 links from 165 blogs) […]

Andrew Ian Dodge

Tuesday, October 31, 2006 at 7:09pm

Must try harder obviously. Interesting to know where we stand.

Alan

Friday, November 3, 2006 at 4:02pm

The definition of what makes a UK blogger must depend on a lot of criteria. One of which has been mentioned in some of the comments - expat Brits. Do they warrant being included.?

How about expats living in the UK?

I’m a South African who lives here and started blogging here - does that make me a UK blog? I’d have thought so even though ‘British Bloggers’ won’t include me as a British blogger. Odd, really, when I’ve had British nationality longer than South African nationality.

Stephen

Friday, November 3, 2006 at 4:27pm

Hi Alan,

I’ve added you to the list (not this list but the Excel sheet I have) but you’re right - there should be certain criteria on determining a blog’s origin.

Maybe that’s for the blogger to decide?

Andy K

Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 10:49am

Hi there, I have a site which I think should be included in your Top 100 UK Blogs.

http://www.denimology.co.uk

It provides daily denim, news, reviews, interviews, photos and celebrity denim style tips.

According to Technorati it has the following stats:

Rank: 10,745 (1,134 links from 258 blogs)

Cheers

Andy

Gordon

Tuesday, November 7, 2006 at 3:49pm

Missed this as I’ve been away.

But what an excellent list, particularly once you get into the low 80s… yes yes, I think you should freeze this list at this point.

Hard though, innit. I know Mark at BritBlog has technoranki as a method of ‘ranking’ blogs that are members of BritBlogs but a lot of sites aren’t.

Northwing » The EU and UK euroscepticism - an Investor writes

Tuesday, November 14, 2006 at 11:55pm

[…] It’s also worth mentioning that currently the UK’s top ranking political blog is EU Referendum. It came third overall in the same study in relation to all UK blogs. The UK blogosphere are debating Europe like there’s no tomorrow, and much of it is sceptical. This isn’t puppeteered by the Murdoch empire. These are rational debates based on the available evidence. - Posted in Europe by Northwing   […]

:Ben Metcalfe Blog » Blog Archive » I’ve decided to leave Citizen Agency…

Thursday, January 11, 2007 at 5:19pm

[…] Established blogger and industry commentator (67th most influential British blogger according to PRBloger) […]

Matt Wardman

Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 12:40pm

I am doing some work in the same area, based on Iain Dale’s publication last autumn - be interesting to compare results.

Rgds

Matt

Matt Wardman

Thursday, March 22, 2007 at 12:57pm

I’m doing some work on Iain Dale’s published polical blog lists with Technorati and Google data at:

http://www.mattwardman.com/blog/2007/03/21/number-crunching-the-top-100-political-blogs-with-iain-dale/

I am collecting data on his top 25-50 blogs in each category.

Would you be able to refresg your data set for comparison?

Matt

PS: Your contact form seems temperamental. Not sure it came through.

Labour Blog Explosion? Crunching the Numbers

Tuesday, April 3, 2007 at 5:26pm

[…] It is instructive to compare two of the most popular political blogs. Data is from March 2007. Figures in brackets are the equivalent from September 2006, taken from here. […]

kevin

Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 9:33pm

Our blog site is UK based, hmm!

Stephen

Saturday, August 25, 2007 at 9:38pm

Just checked, your blog’s ranked at over 97,000 by Technorati so it wouldn’t make the list and, besides, this list is waaaaaay out of date anyway.

Stupid, lazy PR people, bloggers and media databases

Sunday, August 26, 2007 at 1:37pm

[…] If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Tom Coates of the excellent plasticbag.org blog has quite rightly complained about the frequent incompetent pitches he gets from PR firms. Tom thinks the reason is because Stephen Davies included him in his list of the Top 100 UK Blogs. […]

Unilever Centre for Molecular Informatics, Cambridge - Brighten the Corners » Blog Archive » Dark side of the moon

Friday, August 31, 2007 at 3:00am

[…] On a lighter note, we’re not the only people getting angry right now. I read a fair few of the London (new-)media/web/design blogs too, of whom one of the very best is Tom Coates’. He’s - justifiably - a bit down on marketers, and after being named on a PR blog’s list of the most 100 UK bloggers - now edited - he started getting a lot of unsolicited mail (spam, more or less) from desperate PRs trying to promote their latest charges. […]

car valeting

Sunday, April 20, 2008 at 11:37pm

Its a interesting list i do think theres clearly a lot of amazing blogs on there but theres also a good few missing what about blood bus for a start its probs the funny est blog iv ever read