The Real Top Ten Politics Blogs
Iain Dale and his readers produced The Top 100 Political Blogs
Position and last year:
1 1 Guido Fawkes Subscribers:639
2 2 Iain Dale Subscribers:404
3 7 Spectator Coffee House Subscribers:621
4 3 Conservative Home Subscribers:791
5 5 Political Betting Subscribers:1,113
6 4 Dizzy Thinks Subscribers:955
7 - Paul Waugh Subscribers:143
8 13 Tom Harris MP Subscribers:228
9 6 Devil's Kitchen Subscribers:105
10 18 Daniel Hannan MEP Subscribers:420
I have added subscriber numbers from Google Reader - other RSS readers and ways of reading blogs are available - but it shows that there is a free market way of ranking blogs, not depending on votes, and also how few people actually are interested in the Westminster village.
Reordered it becomes:
1 Political Betting Subscribers:1,113
2 Dizzy Thinks Subscribers:955
3 Conservative Home Subscribers:791
4 Guido Fawkes Subscribers:639
5 Spectator Coffee House Subscribers:621
6 Daniel Hannan MEP Subscribers:420
7 Iain Dale Subscribers:404
8 Tom Harris MP Subscribers:228
9 Paul Waugh Subscribers:143
10 Devil's Kitchen Subscribers:105
It would be interesting to expand the sample as I know other UK political blogs have more subscribers , surely Google must have a way of doing so.
Comments
Do I hear subscriptions?
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=ukipwebmaster&view=subscribers
Posted by: ukipwebmaster | October 23, 2009 6:11 PM
The Google Ad is for Adult Size Jumping Castles. Excellent plan for my next party.
Posted by: Colin Campbell | October 23, 2009 7:06 PM
The Google Ad is for Adult Size Jumping Castles. Excellent plan for my next party.
Posted by: Colin Campbell | October 23, 2009 7:10 PM
Hmmm. One data sample? What are you—a climate scientist? ;-)
Through Feedburner (another Google property), for instance, I have 1,743 subscribers...
DK
Posted by: Devil's Kitchen | October 23, 2009 10:06 PM
What is a subscriber? Do you have to pay? If so, how valid a metric is it?
TE- A subscriber is just someone who uses Google Reader to keep up to date with a particular blog, it is free and it could be said to provide a reasonable relative sample of the number of readers. I would guess a figure in the order of 1 in 20 readers of a blog use Google Reader.
Posted by: bill | October 24, 2009 3:50 PM