Sunday 26 April 2009

Liberty or dearth

Via Iain Dale, I find that Brian Michaelthwait Micklethwait is compiling a list of Libertarian bloggers.

He says
My point is not to assess quality, or to wonder whether I personally like them or will want to read them every day or every other day. (This will not, in other words, be the libertarian bit of my personal blogroll.) Nor do I intend to fret about readership numbers. Just how many libertarian bloggers there are out there? Who are they?
I, however, am concerned with fretting about readership and quality or what have you. So I did me a spreadsheet, stuck all the urls into Technorati and ranked them by number of blog reactions (this is the number of times other blogs have linked to that blog)
1. Order-Order (6732 reactions)
2. Samizdata (3331 reactions)
3. Devils Kitchen (2181 reactions)
4. Burning Our Money (2070 reactions)
5. Adam Smith Institute (1391 reactions)
6. Old Holborn (1065 reactions)
7. Craig Murray (948 reactions)
8. An Englishaman's Castle (868 reactions)
9. Tim Worstall (794 reactions)
10. Obnoxia The Clown (689 reactions)
11. Mark Wadsworth (636 reactions)
12. UK Libertarian Party (529 reactions)
13. Bishop Hill (385 reactions)
14. Libertarian Alliance: Blog (334 reactions)
15. The Last Ditch (333 reactions)
16. Little Man What Now (326 reactions)
17. Looking for a voice (320 reactions)
18. Douglas Carswell (314 reactions)
19. Freeborn John (291 reactions)
20. Lander Underclass (269 reactions)
21. Brian Micklethwait (240 reactions)
22. Counting Cats in Zanzibar (162 reactions)
23. Henry North London (144 reactions)
24. Freedom and Whisky (134 reactions)
25. Sinclairs Musings (124 reactions)
26. The Welfare State We're In (89 reactions)
27. Blognor Regis (79 reactions)
28. Liberty Alone (79 reactions)
29. From the Barrel of a Gun (52 reactions)
30. Shades of Grey (52 reactions)
31. Natalie Solent (42 reactions)
32. Charlotte Gore (31 reactions)
33. Robs Blog (27 reactions)
34. ill and ancient (24 reactions)
35. Oxford Libertarian Society (24 reactions)
36. CrozierVision (23 reactions)
37. Englands Freedom (17 reactions)
38. AngloAustria (16 reactions)
39. Public Interest (16 reactions)
40. Michael Jennings (15 reactions)
41. Ferraris for all (10 reactions)
42. Picking Losers (7 reactions)
43. Don't Hold Your Breath (4 reactions)
44. Garner blog (2 reactions)

2 comments:

  1. Ah that's very clever, and I notice I actually make your list, thank you :)

    The silly thing is I've only been on that domain for a month so Technorati doesn't have all the figures from my previous URL, but it's not a big deal. It's the price you pay for moving domains!!

    ReplyDelete