Posts Tagged ‘Louis Gray’
The Entire Louis Gray GReader Leaderboard
Posted by Yuvi in Google Reader, Leaderboards on January 17th, 2009
When I posted Scoble’s GReader Leaderboard I included a spreadsheet that contained the entire list, rather than just the first ten sites. So here is the same one for Louis Gray – the leaderboard for the last 5000 shares and 10,000 shares: html version | ajaxy version
This will probably go on with every leaderboard I produce.
Update: Added data for the last 1000 shares as well 
GReader Leaderboard: Louis Gray
Posted by Yuvi in Google Reader, Leaderboards on January 11th, 2009
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
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
