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Submitted by dmarti on 4 October 2007 - 12:34pm. in
Doc Searls makes some good points about blog ranking. It's so bogus, but it's so much fun people can't stop doing it.
After all, everyone who has blog aggregation software should have, lying around somewhere, some data for building lists of top bloggers.
I have a Perl script to check the outgoing links from blogs for me, via planet sites. Yes, the planets aggregate the blogs, and the script snarfs the links from the planets. I'm so meta it hurts. So I have a bunch of link data, going back a little more than a year.
Remember, folks, blog rankings are not about your value as a human being, or the value of your work, or even how good your blog is. They're just about how much someone else's computer program likes you. This particular list doesn't even indicate whether or not I read your blog, just whether or not enough people whose blog copy my Perl script grabs from aggregator sites link to you. And you don't even have to be running Linux, if enough Linux-related blogs, or blogs that get picked up on Linux-related planet sites, link to you.
Disclaimers are boring, though, so here is the Official Linux Blog Top 40 List, divided into A, B, C, and D lists for your status-seeking convenience.
The A list
1. Jono Bacon
2. Jeff Waugh
3. Evan Prodromou
4. Justin Mason
5. Benjamin Mako Hill
6. Stuart Langridge
7. Miguel de Icaza
8. Joey Hess
9. Bastien "Hadess" Nocera
10. Zaheer Abbas Merali
The B List
11. Robert Love
12. Jordi Mallach
13. Scott James Remnant
14. John "J5" Palmieri
15. Quim Gil
16. Tom Chance
17. Zak B. Elep
18. Ross Burton
19. Noirin Plunkett
20. Celeste Lyn Paul
The C List
21. Lennart Poettering
22. Mark Shuttleworth
23. Daniel Stone
24. Deb Richardson
25. Anders Lund
26. Donnie Berkholz
27. Christopher Blizzard
28. Thom May
29. Alvaro Lopez Ortega
30. Lucas Nussbaum
The D List
31. Aaron J. Seigo
32. Frank Hecker
33. Philip Van Hoof
34. Tollef Fog Heen
35. Vladimir Vukicevic;
36. Andy Wingo
37. Martin Pool
38. Greg Kroah-Hartman
39. Jan Schmidt
40. Russell Coker
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A-list! woot, etc. This may not actually correlate with anyone actually reading the blog, of course ;)
For what it's worth, I found blog-ranking fun too, and created another perl script to generate a similar list for the Irish blogosphere, using Technorati data -- http://taint.org/technorati/
http://taint.org/technorati/source.tgz is a tarball of the source to generate that, if anyone's curious...
While I'm sure J5 appreciates the listing...
... he would probably appreciate if you spelled his last name (Palmieri) correctly.
Fixed -- thank you.
Thanks for the fix.
Strange list
I do wonder how your script aggregated the list:
Several links to "blogs" are not to blogs but to normal homepages or even project pages where the reader first has to pick the blog link or has to check for whom he has to look (the kiten link is such an example). You didn't even check if the links are working - have a look at link #39 for example.
Also, some of these blogs publish once every months, one or two even only once every two months. Why is that supposed to be a "Top 40 Linux blog"? That has indeed nothing to do with being a Linux blog in the sense of often publishing. Let alone that for some blogs it is hard to get an idea why they are listed as a Linux blog.
As another point, the different projects are by no means represented according to their importance. I counted some 5 gstreamer developers, more then a dozen GNOME developers, but only 2 KDE developers? To not even include Zack Rusin (who is in these days more X than Qt/KDE) is quite a shame, and the fact that you concentrate on GNOME almost entirely is just strange and gives a pretty good idea how you for yourself rate that project.
And of course there are several noticeable people who are missing - for example the Debina founder Ian Murdock should have his blog listed here.
In the end: yes, it is a automatically generated list. But the quality of the list is very poor. And therefore it should not be called "Top 40 Linux blogs" because it implies some quality and some importance.
Call it "40 Most linked blogs in the Planetarium" or something so that it is clear what the criteria are. Otherwise you just try to bring fame to people who don't deserve it.
As a last word, since I should not criticize without a better idea: you might consider aggregating all Linux blogs of the Planetarium for some time and check how often they publish. Also, a rating of the different planets and aggregating technorati information could also improve the results and actually bring some sanity into your data.
And at least two of those
And at least two of those guys work for Sun, so can't exactly be considered "Linux blogs", surely?!
Fixed 39
I just fixed the link for 39.
Some projects do use blogs for intra-project discussion, while other projects use mailing lists more. For example, Greg K-H is only number 38 because the main project he works on, the kernel, is all about the mailing list. And a lot of kernel people who write interesting stuff on lkml aren't even on here at all.
I read Dave Jones -- kernelslacker.livejournal.com -- all the time, and he's not on here. That's weird.
I do get planet.freedesktop.org and planetkde.org -- any other X or KDE planets that I should be getting?
Other planets
Did you get http://planet.fedoraproject.org/
http://planet.centos.org/ http://planetmysql.org/
And other relevant planets as listed on http://www.planetplanet.org/
Thank you
I had the other two but not planet.centos.org. Thank you.
Sun -- why not?
If you work for Sun, and you contribute to an upstream project that also gets bundled with Linux, you're just as much a "Linux blogger" as anyone on this list. If I excluded people whose projects run on non-Linux systems, or who work for companies that do non-Linux OSs, I'd have to get rid of everyone except a few hard-core kernel hackers, and most of their conversation happens on lkml anyway.
I like to be on the list! B or C would be cool!
I maintain a LINUX Blog that is aimed at frustrated Windoze Users and Students! I am NOT a Programmer, I am content at being an Advanced User. What I hope to do is to enlist volunteers to write about all the Linux Distributions available, I post their reviews on my blog. If successful, I hope to have a PDF ready and then I hope to fill the niche of having a National Print Magazine on Newsstands everywhere in North America!
Mark McLaughlin
linuxglobe.wordpress.com
Thanks for the links
Thank you for the nice list of usefull links!
Cheers,
Maarten
P.S.: why is my blog not in the list? (just kidding!)
This is the worst list ever!
This is the worst list ever! The A-list is all wrong... they rarely talk about linux... not useful at all...
Aaron
Aaron has one of the most entertaining and worthwhile blogs, too bad he isn't higher up.
Wow, tough crowd
This is a great list but, wow, tough crowd when Shuttleworth is a C-lister and Max Spevack doesn't even rate a mention. :-)
Fair !!
I think the list can grow..Many blogs i read are missing here ..
May be a part2 of this post will be good ;)
Not including Zack Rusin's
Not including Zack Rusin's blog says pretty much everything about the quality of this list.
What is this?
This list just plain stinks.
What is the usefulness of the list when you have to dig through piles of crap to find anything worthwhile??? A Top ten would have been sufficient with good quality content. Not 40 almost worthless ones.