The Truth Laid Bear has an “ecosystem” to rank blogs, using both inbound links and traffic as indicators of popularity. Here’s the top ten as of this afternoon:
Higher Beings
1. Daily Kos: State of the Nation (6587) details
2. Michelle Malkin (4935) details
3. Instapundit.com (4928) details
4. Cosmic Variance (4863) details
5. Tricia’s Musings (4712) details
6. lgf: helping moonbats sleep soundly (3906) details
7. Boing Boing (3762) details
8. Talking Points Memo (3314) details
9. Power Line (3041) details
10. Wanderlust Sha (3027) details
Okay, there seems to be a bug somewhere; we’re not really the fourth-largest blog on the Internets, by any plausible way of counting. Unless they are counting by awesomeness. But then we would have Instapundit and Malkin beat handily.
Hi Sean,
at the risk of sounding jealous, envious, and green with livor, I have to say I do not rate your blog as awesome. It does not supefy, it does not startle, it does not cause shots of adrenaline. It has many pluses, of course – otherwise it would not be where it is, in the list above or in other ranking systems around.
And you should be happy about that. A physics blog cannot, _cannot_, be a top ranking one. Beware. If you get there, you have mutated to something you might not have liked in the past. What are you, a guy with an opinion on everything ? A star writer ? Certainly both, but you first and foremost are a scientist, and if you forget your roots it gets dangerous.
Just my two pence… and congratulations.
Cheers,
T.
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What a funny result!
I don’t suppose the number of inbound links increasing could be the fact that dailykos.com linked to cosmivariance.com? There was a main page story on 3/26 that linked here, and a couple of recommended diaries whose authors had cosmicvariance.com on their blogroll.
Hell, that’s how I found the site originally, back when the site was younger. Been lurking ever since~
Hmmm I meant stupefy… I do not really know whether your blog supefies or not, whatever that means.
T.