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GReader Leaderboard: Louis Gray

This entry is part 1 of 3 in the series GReader Shared Items Leaderboard

GReader Shared Items Leaderboard

Louis Gray’s post about maximizing the value of a Google Reader Linkblog reminded me that I’m again behind schedule. So here is Louis Gray’s Google Reader Shared Items Leaderboard, considering the sources for the last 1000 items shared:

 

Rank Site Shares Percentage
1 http://www.louisgray.com/live/ 95 9.5
2 http://www.techcrunch.com 43 4.3
3 http://www.readwriteweb.com/ 34 3.4
4 http://venturebeat.com 33 3.3
5 http://scobleizer.com 29 2.9
6 http://gigaom.com 25 2.5
7 http://www.inquisitr.com 24 2.4
8 http://www.alleyinsider.com/ 19 1.9
9 http://techwag.com 18 1.8
10 http://www.scripting.com/ 17 1.7
11 http://www.centernetworks.com 16 1.6
12 http://www.thegrayeffect.com/ 15 1.5
13 http://regulargeek.com 13 1.3
14 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress 13 1.3
15 http://www.chrisbrogan.com 12 1.2
16 http://blog.wired.com/business/ 11 1.1
17 http://www.winextra.com 11 1.1
18 http://thefuturebuzz.com 10 1
19 http://news.cnet.com/ 10 1
20 http://www.growmap.com 9 0.9
21 http://daringfireball.net/ 9 0.9
22 http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/ 9 0.9
23 http://techpulse360.com 9 0.9
24 http://www.9to5mac.com/ 8 0.8
25 http://staynalive.com 8 0.8

 

His own blog comes first, with 9.5% of stories, followed by TechCrunch, RWW, Venturebeat and Scoble. There are only 2 blogs in the top ten (Scoble and Dave Winer), and 10 blogs in the top 25. However, I believe that as I produce leaderboards for more people, I’ll find it filled more and more by those magazine-blog-whatevers like TechCrunch and Centernetworks.

And just for some historical interest, here’s a leaderboard of the last 5,000 items shared:

Rank Source Shares Percentage
1 http://www.louisgray.com/live/ 337 6.74
2 http://www.techcrunch.com 266 5.32
3 http://www.inquisitr.com 208 4.16
4 http://www.readwriteweb.com/ 185 3.7
5 http://www.alleyinsider.com/ 119 2.38
6 http://scobleizer.com 92 1.84
7 http://profy.com 92 1.84
8 http://gigaom.com 89 1.78
9 http://news.cnet.com/ 89 1.78
10 http://venturebeat.com 82 1.64
11 http://www.winextra.com 74 1.48
12 http://www.centernetworks.com 72 1.44
13 http://www.scripting.com/ 66 1.32
14 http://www.9to5mac.com/ 58 1.16
15 http://bhc3.wordpress.com 56 1.12
16 http://techwag.com 53 1.06
17 http://staynalive.com 52 1.04
18 http://www.chrisbrogan.com 52 1.04
19 http://regulargeek.com 48 0.96
20 http://www.markevanstech.com 48 0.96
21 http://www.webomatica.com/wordpress 45 0.9
22 http://www.tuaw.com 41 0.82
23 http://mashable.com 40 0.8
24 http://www.davidrisley.com 39 0.78
25 http://michaelfruchter.com/blog 39 0.78

I’ll leave you people to compare & make notes, but here are mine:

  • Profy, at spot 7 in the 5,000 items list, does not appear in the 1,000 items list. By does not appear, I mean does not appear – There isn’t even a single item shared. Wassup with that?
  • Hutch Carpenter makes an entry at spot 15 when you consider 5,000 items, but goes way down to spot 60 when considering just the last 1,000 items.
  • CNET is being shared less. So are the Apple-related blogs (Good for reality, I’d say :D).
  • Check out the Gray Family blog – I’d expect the twins posting soon :)
  • Remember, people can never be reduced to just numbers :)

Oh, and some graphs:

Update: Apologize for the shitty quality. The theme is resizing them to fit the shadow. Will fix asap

lg1000

lg5000 

Both are typical power law graphs – a few sites contribute a lot of stories, and a lot of sites contribute very few stories. Pretty normal for something related to the internet, I’d say :) Note that I’ve excluded Louis’ blog from the charts – would’ve skewed ‘em too much.

(Also, notice that the new graphs look way, way different from the ones I used to put here before. That’s because I’ve switched – from Office 2007 to the R language for producing my charts. And, I’m loving the new way, to say the least. Thanks to the brilliant folks at Mining Labs for bringing it to my notice :) )

So, what do you see here? Your notes? Louis Gray’s Notes? Leave ‘em in the comments :)

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