A new top 100?
Monday, October 1, 2007 by Dave Winer.
12PM: The TechMeme Leaderboard site is live. 
Like almost everyone else, I keep track of who's pointing to me in Technorati, a service that was created in a Thanksgiving programming binge by David Sifry, based on the output of (my own labor of love) weblogs.com.
Technorati grew to become a blog search engine, and much more, but as Mike Arrington points out on TechCrunch, their unique position has been whittled down by other blog search engines who are doing a better job technically. Not hard, since Technorati is famously unreliable.
Technorati is also famous for its top 100 list, ranking blogs according to the number of in-bound links. Scripting News started out as the #1 blog on Technorati, and occupied a top 10 slot for a long time, until they changed the algorithm to place less weight on long-term links, so Technorati's list became a measure of recent popularity. News sites, that aren't actually blogs (imho) became the mainstay of Technorati's list. Today, Scripting News is solidly in the second 100 on Technorati.
Last night Mike Arrington got a scoop, as he so often does, that there's a new list coming soon, from TechMeme, that ranks the sites based on some other measure, which is not (yet) understood in detail. Mike also has a screen shot, which teases, by showing that TechCrunch is number 1 (all those scoops make a diff) followed by Engadget and the New York Times. The Techmeme list doesn't pretend to know what is a blog or isn't they rate all sites regardless or race, creed or color.
But Mike's screen shot teases, stopping at #30. What about the rest of the list? There are a hundred or more bloggers who want to know if they made the list, and if so, where they are. Brilliant marketing by Gabe, and damn you Mike. 
So I begged Gabe for the list, and he relented, and sent me an OPML file containing the data which I then turned into the list below. Enjoy!
1. TechCrunch 
2. Engadget
4. Ars Technica
7. GigaOM
8. BBC
9. InfoWorld
11. The Register
12. Reuters
14. paidContent.org
16. Gizmodo
18. eWEEK.com
20. Computerworld
22. Associated Press
23. TorrentFreak
24. Webware.com
25. VentureBeat
26. The Unofficial Apple Weblog
27. Business Week
28. CrunchGear
31. Techdirt
33. Bits
34. Rough Type
35. DailyTech
36. Scripting News
39. CenterNetworks
41. ZDNet
44. PC World
45. Wired News
46. Inquirer
47. AppleInsider
48. Epicenter
50. Washington Post
52. Bloomberg
54. Apple
55. BoomTown
57. Publishing 2.0
58. Scobleizer
59. A VC
60. iLounge
61. Download Squad
62. All Facebook
64. Boston Globe
65. Electronista
66. Yodel Anecdotal
67. apophenia
70. USA Today
71. Compete Blog
72. AdAge
73. Apple 2.0
74. WebProNews
75. Mashable!
76. New York Post
77. Googling Google
78. iPhone Central
79. Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog
81. DigiTimes
82. Digital Daily
83. BuzzMachine
85. Security Fix
87. Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim
88. NewTeeVee
90. Think Secret
92. Reflections of a Newsosaur
93. GNUCITIZEN
94. O'Reilly Radar
95. MediaShift
96. ipodminusitunes
98. Kotaku
99. Valleywag
100. Los Angeles Times
PS. This is a snapshot taken last night. The list is fairly volatile, according to Gabe, and will change quickly as stories move up and down the ladder at TechMeme.
PPS. The existence of this list will probably make getting stories on TechMeme even more highly valued than before, if this list is taken as gospel, as Technorati's was, even with its flaws and skews. There was no correlation, for example, between flow and rank, a site with very high flow could have very low rank on Technorati, if it didn't get many inbound pointers. It was just one measure, as TechMeme is just one measure.
