Blogcharts

Johannes Beus
Those of you who are regulars of this blog will know that I have a certain inclination towards toplists and charts. Yesterday, when Frank Helmschrott and Cindy published the Lesercharts (readercharts) based on Feedburner-data, I decided to use this occasion to finally put into action the idea and concept of a blog-ranking that has been flying around my mind for a while.

The blogcharts are based on the number of Google-Reader-users of a feed. A few month ago I noticed by chance that there is the possibility to query this number for every feed on an individual basis. Thanks to a few scripts, crawling-processes and database-queries, I tried to compile every published feed for a blog, determine the usercount and then tally up those numbers for each domain – the results are these blogcharts.

In my opinion, the advantage here is that this process of collecting data is independent of counters (Blogoscoop) or Feedburner (Lesercharts) and therefore enables us to look at all blogs. As far as disadvantages go, there is the fact that only the Google-readers of a feed are included – which (depending on the topic) will probably entail fluctuating variations. Additionally it is important to try and discover every feed for a blog and include them into the count. I really tried, but I am sure that a few feeds will have fallen through the cracks. On a similar note, more advantages and disadvantages of established blogcharts can be currently found at Upload-Magazin.
Johannes Beus - on Tue (01/27/2009) at 15:23 PM

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