The 40 things I link to the most

The New Google Reader Trends are a great addition…

My Top Ten (Look who’s #3)

Techmeme 31
The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) 24
Scobleizer – Microsoft Geek Blogger 23
TechCrunch 21
Sactown Royalty 19
GigaOM 17
louisgray.com: live 16
AMERICAblog 14
AppleInsider 14
Athletics Nation Stories 14

Will someone please tell me how as a user how exactly is google trends is beneficial to me?!

When I saw the phrase “google trends” i thought WOO WOO GOOGLE IMPLEMENTED A PERSONALIZED MEME

Then I clicked and was horribly disappointed.

One thing interesting, at least for me is that of all the commentary so far (other than mine) that I have read on the readership stats, noone has mentioned that Google Reader is not providing the stats publishers really need – the readership stats of their feeds.

Hmm Robert, why would you include Digg in your shared feed? I thought you only linked through to original articles there.

Your shared list does appear in my own Top20, but only because of the number of items posted.
I read a “river of headlines” rather than a “river of news”, thus whilst I have read a lot of posts in your shared list, it only accounts for 1% of all posts.

There doesn’t seem to be a way to sort by % read

Andy: I still find lots of interesting stuff on Digg, although the noise level is huge. Well, I read 26,000 RSS items so you don’t have to.

A more interesting analysis would be: wide impact original posts vs. posts triggered by external publications on the main blog.

Robert,

Could we convince you to improve your own signal-to-noise ratio by adding tags to your posts? The “Blogging” category doesn’t differentiate much for tag-savvy users and analytic tools.

Chris Prillo does a great job of tagging (insert peer pressure here), and WordPress has some nice plugins to make it pretty painless to implement.

Yeah, I’ll try to do that.

Interesting that most of the lists are relatively new web 2.0 focused blogs.

One of the few oldies but goodies on the list was /.

Now, if this poll was taken just two years ago, it would probably have been much higher up on everyone’s lists – and Geek Forums (like: Channel9 ) would have been well represented

Hi Robert,

Can’t you share an OPML file? We can play with them like playlists..

@8. I used to read Slashdot daily. Not anymore, this blog has totally replaced that classic.

Scobleizer (the blog) is somehow much more personal, more approachable. Slashdot seems to be in fire-and-forget mode, whereas Robert really cares about the issues he posts about.

Heck, I don’t know. May be I just don’t like the current layout of Slashdot.

Robert, since you are doing more to promote Google Reader than perhaps anyone else, maybe you can get them to fix this: I subscribe to the RSS feed for your link blog, and it doesn’t use the RSS spec correctly, putting a link to the blog, not the article, where the title should be. As a result, when I want to blog something you’ve linkblogged, I have to click the link, which brings me to the front page of a blog, and then find the article in question.

With Digg, it is the worst, since the article is never on the front page. If Digg is the number one linked-to source in the linkblog, then that means that a ridiculous amount of the time, subscribers to the link blog have no hope of finding the main article. Talk to the Reader team, and get them to use RSS properly. God knows I’ve already tried on this.

Hi Robert, feel free to link to http://www.smallbiztechnology.com – Ramon

Now, they beat me to it! I never expected it, but maybe, my analysis might be a bit more indepth… For example, I have a suggestion for PodTech…

I really, never expected this to turn up:) Atleast, I don’t do only the last 30 days:)

Is that because some dev at Google was listening or just a fluke?

Great to see TUAW near the top there.

I have construct the Top 40 Blogs’ Feeds into one OPML file:
http://www.tablane.net/yc/opml/

Maybe miss one or two.

Social netowrking is one of the best things you could do online,i really like the concept of virtual conncetivity all over the world.

@13 Yuvi,
What Google gives here is nice but what you bring to the table is a feast. You may have kicked the idea (Google Reader Trends) off.

Don’t sweet this, you are still on a roll.

Guy

That should be:
Don’t Sweat this

Guy

When someone invents something for quality metrics about links or readership instead of just quantity, I’ll be amazed!

David: I only post things to my link blog that reach a certain bar of quality in my mind. Only 1 out of every 25 posts I read gets shared with you. So, look at this list as “best of the best.”

Here’s my top five:
Robert’s shared items 53
MSDN Blogs 35
Scobleizer – Tech Geek Blogger 11
The Daily WTF 11
TechCrunch 9

Look whose number 1 AND number 3. And yes Robert there’s alot of feeds I don’t subscribe to because I know the best of them will come my way via you. Though there’s a number I’ve subscribed to because you’ve featured them at some point or another.

Geez, I don’t even make the top 40 … guess I gotta write more interesting stuff!

I have put the reading list in one structured web page:
http://www.tablane.net/yc/opml/scoble.htm

This is how OPML files cab be converted to a web page.

Hey, what about MY blog?! I’m so hurt…