TechWag

This ought to start off some conversations this morning, if not a bitch meme or two. Techcrunch has gone through Techmeme’s head lines to figure out who the top bloggers are since the beginning of the year. The good part, we read most of these folks, the bad part, if they have an ego, it just got seriously inflated.

For now we thought we’d show a teaser - below are the top 100 tech bloggers/authors, based on the total number of headlines they have had on TechMeme from January 1, 2008 until today. The data isn’t 100% perfect as we’ve been grabbing it only once per hour, so a headline that was up for less than one hour may not be counted. But in terms of tracking the most popular bloggers, the data is meaningful. Since a lot of the top leaderboard blogs are multi-author, this helps to shake out who’s actually writing the popular stories. Source: Techcrunch

In all the list is very good, as many of the top headliners are those folks we read, like, and enjoy what they write. If they needed to get a kudo, then this is a nice way to start off a Monday morning.

What is interesting in the list as well is the difference between the leader board shown below and the actual authors and where they come from. While the leader board shows the popularity of sources, the techcrunch data leads to some interesting vector mapping between the sources and the writers. The top five head line grabbers and where data comes from are not in conjunction with each other.

This is what makes it interesting to the overall way that techmeme does its job, while the sources of data are popular from leading media like nytimes and news.com, the top five writers are bloggers. Not surprised to see techcrunch on the top of both lists either.

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