The 100 Most Informative Blogs
You want to stay informed but you do not have time to read every blog and newspaper out there. How can you achieve this?
Some researchers at the Carnegie-Mellon University School of Computer Science have an answer for you!
Mores precisely, their study (PDF here) provides answers to this question:
Which blogs should one read to be most up to date, i.e., to quickly know about important stories that propagate over the blogosphere?
The answer will vary depending on how you ask their model the question, i.e., what criteria you give it. You will, for instance, get a different answers depending how quickly you want to find out about an event or how much time you have to read blogs and posts.
The Top 100 list that making the rounds of the blogosphere now is based on 2006 data and answers this question:
If I can read 100 blogs, which should I read to be most up to date? Unit cost (each blogs costs 1), optimizing population affected (PA, we want to be the first to know with many many people coming in the cascade after us)
The Modulator staff is thrilled to be ranked #7 on this list which we provide in full for your reading pleasure:
- Instapundit
- Don SurberT
- Science & Politics
- Watcher of Weasesls
- Michelle Malkin
- National Journal’s Blogometer
- The Modulator
- BloggersBlog.com
- Boing Boing
- Atrios
- A Blog for All
- Gothamist
- mparent777
- TFS Magnum
- Alliance of Free Blogs
- anglican.tk
- Micropersuasion
- Pajamas Media
- BlogHer
- MyPetJawa
- Reddit
- Soccer Dad
- Nose on Your Face
- aHistorically
- The Anchoress
- AmericaBlog
- SFist
- TBogg
- HorsePigCow
- Why Homeschool
- The Daou Report
- Sisu
- MetaFilter
- Megite
- LAist
- Captain’s Quarters
- Shakesville
- Guy Kawasaki
- Lucy by Lucy
- Blue Star Chronicle
- Official Google Blog
- The Glittering Eye
- asterisco.paradigma.pt
- Read/WriteWeb
- Hullabaloo
- The Conservative Cat
- Phillyist
- The Social Customer Manifesto
- The Next Net
- Gateway Pundit
- Crooks and Liars
- Right Wing News
- 10,000 Birds
- O’Reilly Radar
- Cowboy Blog
- Business Opportunities Weblog
- DCist
- Creating Passionate Users
- Citizens For Legitimate Government
- What About Clients?
- Rough Type
- The Unofficial Apple Weblog
- Dans la cuisine d’Audinette
- The London Fog
- Bostonist
- Seattlest
- Austinist
- Indian Writing
- Power Line
- Firedoglake
- Blog d’Elisson
- Rhymes With Right
- Written World
- The Jeff Pulver Blog
- blog d’eMeRY
- Hugh MacLeod’s gapingvoid
- Catymology
- Hugh Hewitt
- Lifehacker
- jordoncooper.com
- Econbrowser
- A Socialite’s Life
- Gates of Vienna
- NevilleHobson.com
- Waxy.org
- A Life Restarted
- The Volokh Conspiracy
- See Also…
- Dr. Sanity
- Mudville Gazette
- www.saysuncle.com
- Privacy Digest
- Londonist
- Shanghaiist
- Catholic and Enjoying It
- Single Serve Coffee
- Jeremy Zawodny’s blog
- ScienceBlogs
- Basic Thinking Blog
- Scobleizer
NB: Many thanks to all the Friday Ark participants in 2006 who, I suspect, played an important role in Modulator’s high ranking.