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Thanks to Tim Selwyn at Tumeke! for the word.
In the absence of matters concrete some of us, including Adam, are dribbling on about metrics.
We now have a variety of rankings – Tumeke!, HalfDone, Open Parachute.
So Adam hesitates to introduce yet another. However, in looking at Tumeke! rankings, which personally Adam prefers overall, one cannot help but be struck by a number of factors. Many blogs in the Top 35, after which Adam could not be bothered doing the analysis, are in fact collectives.
Public Address is in fact several blogs so the numbers are an aggregation. It is not one blog.
So in an idle moment Adam went through the Top 35 blogs in the Tumeke! blog rankings as at end January 2009 and produced a list of blogs run by one author.
To run a blog as a ‘blogger sole’ is hard work. To run one that successfully competes with the collectives is damn hard work.
Therefore, step forward for the inaugural blogger sole listing of NZ political, news and current affairs blogs. Drumroll please!
1 Kiwiblog
2 WhaleOil
3 DimPost
4 No Right Turn
5 Poneke
6 Homepaddock
7 New Zeal
8 Roarprawn
9 Cactus Kate
10 The Inquiring Mind
11 Open Parachute
12 Hot Topic
13 Radical cross stitch Error per comment below, everyone below move up 1
14 Something should go here, maybe later
15 Fundy post
16 Put’em all on an island
17 whoar
18 Anti-Dismal
19 MacDoctor
20 The Persuader
21 Dear John
22 Keeping Stock
Special thanks to the Top 4 for their efforts as each of them is in the Top 10 of blogs in the Tumeke! listing.
Trackbacks
- NZ Blog ranks - April ‘09 « Open Parachute
- NZ blog ranks - March ‘09 « Open Parachute
- Ranking methods for NZ blogs « Open Parachute
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The Inquiring Mind 
Barnsley
One of the things that intrigues me is when you compare some of the Alexa rankings with reported stats.
I currently run Sitemeter and Statcounter.
Sitemeter gives me the lower number and that is the one I give to Tim Selwyn.
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Lots of murk.
I agree with your single blogger opinions. Until recently it was just me with a couple of posts a month from friends. Since FFM joined the traffic has gone up and the pressure has eased off me. he is only posting at my place until I have finished his template so will be back to solo blogging soon.
I run stat counter and my data from them is actually pretty close to what alexa claims with regard to international visitors.
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Barnsley
Your post provoked me into some analysis of my own.
Once you start down the analysis path you find some murk.
Just looking at the Tumeke! stuff raises a number of questions.
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Perhaps if it was called the VVS?
More to come on that one Adam.. My little teaser has been taken up by some very clever sneaky bastards who will hopefully reveal how it was done in the next week or so.
Just let google be your guide and you will see what they have been doing.
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Barnsley have you found your Indians?
Maybe they thought the VDS was a cricket blog?
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Poneke was depressed and threw himself under a steam engine. He is now chuffed to bits.
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Thanks for putting me on your list but I shouldn’t be there. There’s two other people who write for radicalcrossstitch.com They don’t post very frequently but they do post. Hoorar to all the people ranked after me 🙂
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scrubone
I am reminded of the immortal closing line to Billy Wilder’s film masterpiece
Some Like It Hot
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I considered factering in the number of bloggers, but some pointed out that many blogs have one or two bloggers doing 90% of the posts, with others chipping in only every once in a while.
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Nice to be in the top twenty, Adam!
And, yeah, what has happened to Poneke, I wonder?
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I like your list, it puts me higher than any other I have seen!! And you’re right, sole blogging can be a bit rough at times.
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One I’m a bit curious about is poneke, rated at #5, but, as far as I know, it hasn’t been running at all over the past month or so. It is a good blog when it’s around, but it seems to periodically disappear, only to reappear later.
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