The StatBot

The Techmeme Leaderboard, CrunchBase Bloggerboard and my own All-Time Techmeme Leaderboard only take into account the Headlines on Techmeme. However, most of the interesting discussion happens in the, err, Discussion Links. So, I consider them as important, if not more important, than the headlines.

But, there is no Leaderboard for the Discuss Links. Until now, that is. Here it is:

This one is way more different from the AllTime Headlines Leaderboard, and contains several surprises.

First, Techcrunch isn’t No.1. They are No.8. Engadget, Gizmodo, Mashable, Wired Blog all pass over it (Gizmodo should actually be ranked higher than Engadget, since there is a duplicate “with” the www. at No.94 with 299 posts). Surprising for me, WebProNews, a site I have not visited even once in my 4 years of internet life (no offense to the fine folks there), beat TechCrunch. Is this because whenever TechCrunch discusses something, it becomes the Headline?

Note that No.1 in this list, ZDNet Blogs, includes a host of bloggers. Digg and Slashdot appear here, while they are absent in the Headlines leaderboard. Natural, since Digg and /. are places of “discussion”.

Also, I think this one has more “unknowns” in it than popular ones. Mainstream media is either absent or considerably lower down (NYTimes is 54^th!). LouisGray says discussion links are where the copy cats live(update: He says some are copycats, not all). Comments?

P.S. I’m working on making charts comparing the distribution of “power” in both the lists. Also, if I do a “Discussion Authors Leaderboard”, the results are surprising. Stay tuned. This should be interesting…

The Techmeme leaderboard is limited only to the past 30 days. Here’s the Top 100 Sites on Techmeme, all time: