Breaking them down by percentages:
Blogs about blogging - 2%
Political Blogs (Conservative) - 5%
Political Blogs (Liberal) - 13%
Business and Economics - 2%
Cooking/Hobby - 2%
Marketing - 4%
Music/TV/Movies/Celebrities - 10%
Personalities - 18%
Tech - 18%
News - 26%
The "News" category includes bloggers that blog about a wide variety of things, plus those who blog about the mainstream media (MSM). "Personalities" are bloggers that would normally fall into "News", but they are well-known as bloggers, i.e. Robert Scoble, Wil Wheaton, David Sifry, Dave Winer, etc.
What surprised me was that there are twice as many left-leaning political blogs as conservative ones. The conservative one's seem to have more weight because many of the liberal bloggers spend a lot of time rebutting and responding to the conservative posts.
Political blogs and News blogs (which are often also political) make up almost half of the A-List blogs. This mirrors the search terms on Technorati's home page as well. People are reading, commenting and blogging about current events - no surprise there.
That makes me feel much better about the range of topics on AListReview. I was beginning to feel it was a little politics-heavy, but between the dedicated political blogs and the bloggers in other categories who throw in their two cents, politics is a huge blogosphere subject. Am I right? Let me know what you think.
everything is politics...
Posted by: chartreuse | May 8, 2006 6:22 PM | Permalink to Comment