The top 50 blogs (as of April 3, 2009)

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I've put them in alphabetical order in an attempt to prevent bias, but if you want to see them ranked (by how often they are referenced) see the link.

http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top

Poll Results

Option	Votes
Gawker http://www.gawker.com/	3
Michelle Malkin http://michellemalkin.com/	3
Boing Boing http://www.boingboing.net/	2
fivethirtyeight http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/	2
Jezebel http://jezebel.com/	2
Talking Points Memo http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/	2
Chicago Breaking News http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/	2
The Consumerist http://consumerist.com/	2
The Corner http://corner.nationalreview.com/	2
Threat Level http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6	1
Kotaku http://www.kotaku.com/	1
The Conscience of a Liberal http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/	1
Calculated Risk http://calculatedrisk.blogspot.com/	1
Whitehouse.gov Blog http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog	0
kottke http://www.kottke.org/	0
The Volokh Conspiracy http://volokh.com/	0
AMERICAblog http://americablog.blogspot.com/	0
Gadget Lab http://blog.wired.com/gadgets	0
Deadspin http://www.deadspin.com/	0
Gateway Pundit http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/	0
The Plank http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_plank	0
Neatorama http://www.neatorama.com/	0
io9 http://io9.com/	0
Greg Mankiw's Blog http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/	0
Swampland http://time-blog.com/swampland	0
Balloon Juice http://www.balloon-juice.com/	0
Bits http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/	0
CrunchGear http://crunchgear.com/	0
Lifehacker http://www.lifehacker.com/	0
Washington Wire http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire	0
The Caucus http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/	0
Engadget http://www.engadget.com/	0
The Daily Fish http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/	0
Political Punch http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/	0
The Huffington Post http://www.huffingtonpost.com/	0
Political Ticker http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/	0
Think Progress http://thinkprogress.org/	0
Gizmodo http://us.gizmodo.com/	0
NewsBustershttp://newsbusters.org/blog	0
Firedoglake http://www.firedoglake.com/	0
Political Animalhttp://www.washingtonmonthly.com/	0
Political Radar http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/	0
Instapundit.com http://instapundit.com/	0
Mashable http://mashable.com/	0
ReadWriteWeb http://www.readwriteweb.com/	0
Crooks and Liars http://www.crooksandliars.com/	0
Power Linehttp://powerlineblog.com/	0
The Official Google Blog http://googleblog.blogspot.com/	0
Daily Kos http://www.dailykos.com/	0
TechCrunch http://www.techcrunch.com/	0

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 4 April 2009 03:45 (sixteen years ago)

The #81 most referenced blog is Jihadwatch.com

THE END IS NIGH

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 4 April 2009 03:46 (sixteen years ago)

krugman.

― iatee, Saturday, 4 April 2009 04:01 (sixteen years ago)

I give up. How could anyone follow 50 blogs closely enough to have an informed opinion on this?

― Aimless, Saturday, 4 April 2009 04:47 (sixteen years ago)

except for my one or two crazy AGGREGATOR OMG ALL THE FUCKING TIME RSS MY GOGGLE RAEDER TUMBLR YOWZA bros, most people i know just follow like three websites total on the regular.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:09 (sixteen years ago)

The one whose link shows recent activity on my part is 538, so that is how I vote.

― sugjust blaze (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:37 (sixteen years ago)

i bet he knew you'd vote that way

― s1ocki, Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:37 (sixteen years ago)

he's probably already predicted the results of this poll with +-2.6% accuracy

― sugjust blaze (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 April 2009 05:48 (sixteen years ago)

do not regularly read any of this, will vote for "conscience of a liberal" based on name alone.

― ian, Saturday, 4 April 2009 06:06 (sixteen years ago)

also, shoulda stuck a fluxblog option in imho.

― ian, Saturday, 4 April 2009 06:07 (sixteen years ago)

It's interesting that many if not most of the top blogs are extensions of established media outlets or already well-known commentators (CNN, ABC, Krugman, NYT, etc). I suppose it's not surprising, but the vision of a near future in which everyone was getting their news from dudes in their underwear posting from their parent's basements turned out to be unfounded.

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 4 April 2009 15:13 (sixteen years ago)

michelle malkin dot com

― goaty (harbl), Saturday, 4 April 2009 15:15 (sixteen years ago)

what alphabet were you using when you put this in alphabetical order z s?

― rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Saturday, 4 April 2009 15:25 (sixteen years ago)

haha

― s1ocki, Saturday, 4 April 2009 15:26 (sixteen years ago)

Man, that was so disappointing. I put it all in an Excel spreadsheet, and then I was going to sort alphabetically and paste it into here. But then I got distracted by the rest of the internet, and didn't paste it in alphabetically. A minute later I started a thread on the Mod request forum asking if it was possible to change the order of things.

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 4 April 2009 15:42 (sixteen years ago)

I must vote with my heart over my conscience. The Corner it is.

― Mordy, Saturday, 4 April 2009 16:04 (sixteen years ago)

this list huffs po

― I wanna change your name to mrs. smash (some dude), Saturday, 4 April 2009 16:31 (sixteen years ago)

I was hoping joshreads.com would be on there. ;_;

― i'm shy (Abbott), Saturday, 4 April 2009 16:35 (sixteen years ago)

hardly read any of these, but..
gawker! <3
also, krugman, think progress

― we are here to celebrate, worship and adore (daria-g), Saturday, 4 April 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

i f'd up the alphabet

― prostitutes all over the place (k3vin k.), Saturday, 4 April 2009 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

proof of immediate realization of f'ing up the alphabet: Blog poll, futile request

― I f'd up the word rear (Z S), Saturday, 4 April 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)

threat level and 538 are the only ones that aren't awful, so there's that.

don't read 538 any more. therefore, threat level. had no idea it was so popular.

― caek, Saturday, 4 April 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

Can I just plug Calculated Risk here? It taught me a LOT about the current financial crisis.

― steve "no neck" yamaguchi (vermonter), Saturday, 4 April 2009 19:49 (sixteen years ago)

Plug away!

Calculated Risk

― it's going to be very hot, it's going to be very uncomfortable (Z S), Saturday, 4 April 2009 19:52 (sixteen years ago)

I've never heard of a single one of those blogs.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 4 April 2009 20:40 (sixteen years ago)

When I used to read the Consumerist regularly, I had a dream about how balls Best Buy was, and at this point I decided it was influencing my subconscious too much to continue reading it.

If you hate Comcast & Best Buy, you will like the Consumerist.

― i'm shy (Abbott), Saturday, 4 April 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 9 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 10 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

seven years pass...

surprisingly, many of these are still very popular, er, "blogs"

― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 21 September 2016 20:14 (nine years ago)

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