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One third of Techmeme’s headlines come from the Long Tail: The Statbot

(Note: This is a part of a series of articles on the Techmeme leaderboard. Stay tuned for more)

The Techmeme Leaderboard, though less than a year old, is already THE authority on, well, authority on the blogosphere (Technorati Top 100 is THE authority on popularity). Analysis of authority is always interesting, so I headed over to the Techmeme Leadeboard, and conjured this analysis out of thin air :)

Long Tail Playground? Or A-List party place?

(This graph would have looked like a flag if not for the pseudo-3D look, no?)

As you can see, the top 10 sites contribute about ~29% of the headline content, and the Top 25 contribute about 45%. More importantly, the sites that have never set foot on the Top 100 contribute 33%, or about one third of the headlines. Here’s a perhaps-easier-to-grok pie chart of the same data:

This pie chart represents the state of the Techmeme Leaderboard at this instant. 28% of all stories come from the Top 10 sites. However, 32% come from sites which are not in the Top 100.

So, a large number of small blogs contribute about one third of Techmeme’s headlines. Long tail playground.

This is the first in a series of posts dissecting the Techmeme Leaderboard. If you have any specific things you need to know, post ‘em over in the comments (Louis Gray already sent me his list ;))

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