Influential Flying Pigs

By Fester

I'm trying to be productively procrastinating right now as I really don't want to mow the lawn so I meandered over to the Memeorandum leaderboard and guess what --- we are in the top 100 (just barely @ #100).  The more impressive thing to me is who our peers are --- The GOS @ 500K hits a day is there, major newspapers, think tanks and hack blogs are there, and then us with ~1,000 to 1,500 hits a day. We are hitting a high influence, high value add contribution to the discourse.

We have always been this way under a wide variety of influence and linkage metrics.  Wikio has us ranked as one of the top 400 blogs in terms of influence in the country, Blogburst routinely pays us as we sit in the top few percent of their leaderboard, and our Technorati rank at the old site routinely had us higher than several 100K hit a day political blogs.  This only works because our readers, commenters and e-mailers are so damn good at forcing us to think and challenge our assumptions. 

Thanks guys!

 

 

87	National Review	0.20%	Link	nationalreview.com
88	TownHall Blog	0.19%	Link	townhall.com/blog
89	Lynn Sweet	0.18%	Link	blogs.suntimes.com/sweet
90	City Room	0.18%	Link	cityroom.blogs.nytimes. com
91	Gateway Pundit	0.18%	Link	gatewaypundit.blogspot. com
92	Atlanta Journal-Constitution	0.18%	Link	ajc.com
93	Daily Kos	0.17%	Link	dailykos.com
94	US News	0.16%	Link	usnews.com
95	The Field	0.16%	Link	ruralvotes.com/thefield
96	The Raw Story	0.16%	Link	rawstory.com
97	Washington Times	0.15%		washtimes.com
98	Wonk Room	0.15%	Link	thinkprogress.org/ wonkroom
99	TVNewser	0.15%	Link	mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ ?c=rss
100	Newshoggers.com	0.15%	Link	newshoggers.com/blog

 

Comments

[Steve Hynd]

Yes, thanks folks!

I'm very proud to work with such a great crew of bloggers and to have such wonderful readers.

Regards, C

[Chuck Adkins]

Lucky bastards. ;-P

[distributorcap]

congrats!

[Earl]

Congratulations, of course, but now that I check the full leaderboard in the middle of the night, you guys are up to #97!

Keep at it!

[Steve]

It was a couple of years go when I happened to come across Cernig and immediately bookmarked the site. At the the time he was one of the few who were able to presciently "connect the dots", so to speak. The site, with the new personnel additions, is easily one of the best group blogs around, maybe THE best, and always my first stop after logging on. Congrats on a well-deserved notice.

[1MaNLan]

Even if the site did not attain the influence it deserves to have, it would still be great, of course. But, the combination of gifted bloggers, with their differing interests, expertise and input, makes this site a spicy meatball, indeed. It seems that there is always something thought provoking for almost every non kool-aid drinker out there. I just don't understand how you guys can keep coming up with such high quality stuff on a daily basis. Y'all must be on intellectual Viagra or sumpin'.

[Libby]

Thanks to everybody from me.

[Jay McDonough]

Congratulations. Well deserved.

[HyperIon]

#92 right now...