Xiaxue -- one of the world's top bloggers
The Technorati 100 list of top blogs is far from fixed, and 65 blogs that were on it last May have already fallen off it, according to an analysis by Tristan Louis. And that includes 45 of the 50 blogs in the bottom half of the table.
Boing Boing held its top spot. Otherwise it's interesting to see Engadget (now second, was sixth) overtaking Gizmodo (was fourth, now ninth), and the stunning success of Post Secret (up from 67th to fourth).
Top ranked blogs that no longer make the Technorati 100 list include Wil Wheaton (was 15th), Kuro5hin (39), Joi Ito (54), Lawrence Lessig (69), B3TA: We love the web (79), and Dive into Mark (96). Stunning newcomers include The Huffington Post (now 6th), Blog di Beppe Grillo (11), Lifehacker (14), MSN Space Alliance (20), Joystiq (28), TechCrunch (30), Xiaxue (40) and Paul Graham (49).
The appearance of blogs like Xiaxue and Pink Is The New Blog show the list getting much less geeky.
The figures seem to demolish the idea that the Technorati 100/top blogs/A listers act as gatekeepers to the blogosphere. Tristan concludes:
Because the overwhelming majority of the blogs listed in May 2005 experienced a downward spin, it seems that the concept of a network effect is widely overstated. In fact, there seems to be the equivalent of a reverse pull, where being a Technorati 100 is only a short lived glory.
