ARTICLE: NY Mag side bar on top 50 blogs
As part of the Feb. 2006 cover story, NY magazine ran a chart looking at the top 50 blogs and wrote short, useful descriptions of each.
Linkology
By Stuart Luman
There are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. To discover how they relate to one another, we’ve taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped their connections. Each arrow represents a hypertext link that was made sometime in the past 90 days. Think of those links as votes in an endless global popularity poll. Many blogs vote for each other: “blogrolling.” Some top-50 sites don’t have any links from the others shown here, usually because they are big in Japan, China, or Europe—regions still new to the phenomenon.
