There are upwards of 27 million blogs in the world. To discover how they relate to one another, we’ve taken the most-linked-to 50 and mapped their connections. Each arrow represents a hypertext link that was made sometime in the past 90 days. Think of those links as votes in an endless global popularity poll. Many blogs vote for each other: “blogrolling.” Some top-50 sites don’t have any links from the others shown here, usually because they are big in Japan, China, or Europe—regions still new to the phenomenon. key tech politics gossip other gb2312 23. Fark gouy2k 13. Dooce huangmj 22. Kottke 24. Gawker 40. Xiaxue 2. Engadget 4. Daily Kos 6. Gizmodo 12. SamZHU para Blogs 41. Joystiq 44. nosz50j 3. PostSecret 29. Wonkette 39. Eschaton 1. Boing Boing 7. InstaPundit 17. Lifehacker 25. chattie555 com/msn-sa 14. Beppe Grillo 18. locker2man 27. spaces.msn. 34. A List Apart 37. Power Line 16. Herramientas 43. AMERICAblog 20. Think Progress 35. manabekawori 49. The Superficial 9. Crooks and Liars11. Michelle Malkin 28. lwhanz198153030. shiraishi31. The seesaa Space Craft 50. Andrew Sullivan 19. Open Palm! silicn 33. spaces.msn.com/ 45. Joel46. on spaces.msn.com/Software 5. The Huffington Post 8. Thought Mechanics 15. theme.blogfa.com 21. Official Google Blog 38. Weebl’s Stuff News 47. princesscecicastle 32. Talking Points Memo 48. Google Blogoscoped 42. Little Green Footballs 26. spaces.msn. c o m/ 36. spaces.msn.com/atiger 10. spaces.msn.com/klcintw 1. Boing Boing A herald from the 6. Gizmodo Where Rojas used to 13. Dooce The public suffering 18. locker2man In Chinese. 26. spaces.msn.com/gb2312 33. spaces.msn.com/huangmj 39. Eschaton Liberal pro-Dem 45. Joel on Software Joel expanding fringe of Net culture: work, before he jumped ship. of a postpartum depressive. In Chinese. More Japanese. political blog of Duncan Black Spolsky, CEO of a small New York– 19. Open Palm! silicn nerdy and fun. Mommies everywhere seem to (a.k.a. Atrios). Known for its based software company, computer 7. InstaPundit University of In Japanese. 34. A List Apart If the term liquid relate. 27. spaces.msn.com/msn-sa serious, in-your-face invective. programmer, and book author, 2. Engadget The Net’s premier Tennessee law prof Glenn In Japanese. center makes you think of candy 20. Think Progress House shares his coding tips. tech blog and the flagship of the Reynolds started spinning his 14. Beppe Grillo Grillo, an rather than a Web page, this site 40. Xiaxue Self-absorbed travails organ of the Center for American Weblogs, Inc., blog network. Pete libertarian-conservative punditry Italian political satirist noted for 28. lwhanz1981530 The blog isn’t for you. Design tips and tricks of twentysomething lovelorn 46. spaces.msn.com/gouy2k Progress, a think tank led Rojas, the brains behind the blog, pre-9/11 and ranges freely packing stadiums in Italy and of one pensive-looking Japanese for those in the business. Wendy Cheng. Famous in In Japanese. by former Clinton chief of staff specializes in product reviews among tech issues, law, politics, having giant wavy hair, writes an boy with photos that highlight his Singapore, she has also been John Podesta. 35. manabekawori 47. princesscecicastle Lots of and breaking news in gadget-land. and the war on terror. English/Italian blog peppered six-pack and pecs. In Japanese. criticized as racist and xenophobic. with strong anti-corruption, anti- More Japanese. blurry cam shots of 19-year-old 3. PostSecret An online “art 8. Thought Mechanics 21. Official Google Blog 29. Wonkette Part of Denton’s globalization outrage and a 41. Joystiq All things video-game Ceci and her friends in Toronto. project” that allows people to read A mishmash of Website design, As the name implies. empire, gossip for the D.C. set. 36. spaces.msn.com/atiger pro-tech, pro-little-guy ethos. related, and part of the Calacanis In Chinese. your deepest secrets on scanned code, music, and art. Founding editor Ana Marie Cox Welcome to “a Tiger’s Space.” In He knows his audience. 22. Kottke Jason Kottke got his blog network that includes anonymous postcards. handed over the reins in January, Chinese. 48. Google Blogoscoped 9. Crooks and Liars big break in 2000, when he was Engadget. A lefty blog 15. theme.blogfacom A Google gossip-watch site run In Arabic. profiled by The New Yorker. Now but it still dishes Cox-like ’tude. 37. Power Line A conservative 4. Daily Kos Started by a U.S. composed mostly of links to 42. Little Green Footballs from Stuttgart, Germany. he blogs full time. political blog by three lawyers. The Army veteran, Markos Moulitsas video clips from the MSM (that’s 16. Herramientas para Blogs 30. shiraishi seesaa A rabidly conservative war blog. blog got famous during “Rather- 49. The Superficial Maliciously Zúniga, Daily Kos is the standard- “mainstream media” to you). Madrid, Spain–based blogger 23. Fark A frenetic mix of Star In Japanese. The source of so much Net bearer for liberal political Marcelino Madrigal writes in gate” for helping to prove that the funny celeb gossip that—along 10. spaces.msn.com/klcintw Trek: The Next Generation tidbits controversy that it spawned a blogs Netwide. Spanish on music, graffiti, and 31. The Space Craft Where docs used by CBS questioning with the ubiquitous celebrity boob The Horn Village Blog, in Chinese. and dorky Photoshop contests. watchdog, LGF.blogspot.com. whatever else he wants. Microsoft discusses its rather lame Bush’s military record were fakes. and butt shots—keeps you coming 5. The Huffington Post Famed 11. Michelle Malkin Dubbed 24. Gawker The gossipy flagship network of blog sites called Spaces. 43. AMERICAblog Lefty political back for more. national syndicated columnist, 17. Lifehacker Part of the 38. Weebl’s Stuff News From the Filipino Ann Coulter, Malkin of the Denton blog empire. blog famous for exposing Jeff former California gubernatorial Nick Denton blog empire, 32. Talking Points Memo Josh the creators of Weebl and Bob, 50. Andrew Sullivan A gay, writes about America-haters, Gannon, the male prostitute candidate, and former conservative Lifehacker envisions a better world 25. chattie555 What’s not Marshall has taken the blog form cartoon talking eggs who love, Catholic war supporter, albeit one illegal immigrants, and cleared to attend White House Arianna Huffington gets on the where computers make us more to love about sketches of skinny from couch-potato punditry to real I mean love, pie. They’re Internet who is very critical of Bush. Democratic windbags. press conferences. blog bandwagon with a posse of productive, rather than suck adolescent Kimono-clad girls journalism. He recently hired a stars and were recently picked In January, he leased the site to famous friends in tow. 12. SamZHU In Chinese. down our spare time. playing with hippos? In Japanese. reporter to muckrake full time. up by MTV UK. 44. nosz50j In Japanese. Time Warner. 30 new york | february 20, 2006 Infographic by Ben Fry; data by Technorati.