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Last week, NorthxEast posted their list of the 50 most influential women bloggers. Many post at several blogs, some have left the blog where they established their influence, others have retired one or more of their blogs, and a few are known more for their work at a blog-related company rather than as a blogger. Here's a (nearly?) comprehensive list, plus Technorati rank.
We also fixed two typos from the NxE post: the correct spellings are Arianna Huffington (not Ariana) and Rebecca MacKinnon (not McKinnon).
(Thanks to Kim for most of the research behind this post and Peter for some last-minute code.)
| Person | Blog | T Rank | ||||||
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| 1. | Lisa Stone |  | BlogHer | 133 | ||||
| Jory Des Jardins | | BlogHer | 133 | |||||
| Pause | -- | ||||||
| Elisa Camahort Page | | BlogHer | 133 | |||||
 | Worker Bees Blog | 89,301 | ||||||
| Elisa Camahort's Personal Weblog | 324,332 | ||||||
| Elisa's Green Scene | 354,952 | ||||||
| Veggie Going Vegan | -- | ||||||
| The SF Bay Area Theatre Blog | -- | ||||||
| HealthyConcerns.com | -- | ||||||
| Elisa Camahort's blog | -- | ||||||
| 2. | Arianna Huffington | | The Huffington Post | 1 | ||||
| 3. | Gina Trapani | | Lifehacker | 134 | ||||
| x | Gina Trapani | -- | ||||||
| 4. | Pamela Jones | | GrokLaw | 6,471 | ||||
| 5. | Michelle Malkin | | Michelle Malkin | 55 | ||||
| Hot Air | 76 | ||||||
| 6. | Erin Kissane | ? | A List Apart | 49 | ||||
| x | Incisive.nu | -- | ||||||
| 7. | Heather Armstrong | | dooce | 43 | ||||
| 8. | Xeni Jardin | | Boing Boing | 5 | ||||
| Boing Boing Gadgets | 461 | ||||||
| x | xeni jardin | 32,236 | ||||||
| 9. | Ana Marie Cox | | Wonkette | 79 | ||||
| x | RADAR | 90 | ||||||
| Swampland | 1,002 | ||||||
| r | Suck: Daily Archive 2001 | -- | ||||||
| 10. | Lisa Sugar | | POPSUGAR | 512 | ||||
| x | Sugar Inc. | -- | ||||||
| 11. | Shai Coggins | x | b5media | 1,387 | ||||
| S Studio by Shai Coggins | 56,914 | ||||||
| r | Self Help Diva | -- | ||||||
| x | eWriteLife.com | -- | ||||||
| 12. | Elizabeth Spiers | | Gawker | 14 | ||||
| ElizabethSpiers.com | 264,327 | ||||||
| 13. | Rebecca MacKinnon | | Global Voices Online | 227 | ||||
| RConversation | 10,202 | ||||||
| 14. | Lorelle VanFossen | | The Blog Herald | 947 | ||||
| Lorelle on WordPress | 1,146 | ||||||
| x | Taking Your Camera on the Road | 112,582 | ||||||
| 15. | Stephanie Pearl-McPhee | | Yarn Harlot | 732 | ||||
| 16. | Kara Swisher | | BoomTown | 2,596 | ||||
| 17. | Kathy Sierra | r | Creating Passionate Users | 2,789 | ||||
| 18. | Tamar Weinberg | | Mashable | 11 | ||||
| Lifehacker | 134 | ||||||
| Search Engine Roundtable | 970 | ||||||
| technipedia | 4,101 | ||||||
| Tamar Weinberg is a Schwag Addict | 51,297 | ||||||
| 19. | Amanda Marcotte | | Pandagon | 28,300 | ||||
| 20. | Jessica Morgan | | Go Fug Yourself | 566 | ||||
| Ultratart | -- | ||||||
| Heather Cocks | | Go Fug Yourself | 566 | |||||
| Dancing Brave | 370,518 | ||||||
| 21. | Wendy Piersall | | Sparkplugging | 5,930 | ||||
| Inspired Business Growth | 155,210 | ||||||
| WendyPiersall.com | 353,305 | ||||||
| 22. | Susi Weaser | | Shiny Shiny | 2,292 | ||||
| Susi Weaser | -- | ||||||
| 23. | Anita Campbell | | Small Business Trends | 4,678 | ||||
| 24. | Tara Hunt | | HorsePigCow | 11,566 | ||||
| x | Citizen Agency | 90,470 | ||||||
| 25. | Skellie | | ProBlogger | 25 | ||||
| Freelance Switch | 714 | ||||||
| Skelliewag.org | 3,352 | ||||||
| NorthxEast | 6,135 | ||||||
| Daily Bits | 15,507 | ||||||
| Anywired | 404,815 | ||||||
| 26. | Mary Hodder | x | Dabble Video Search | 10,664 | ||||
| Napsterization | 100,119 | ||||||
| Dabble Video Search Blog | -- | ||||||
| x | Mary Hodder | -- | ||||||
| 27. | Tina Su | | Think Simple Now | 5,290 | ||||
| Adam and Tina | -- | ||||||
| 28. | Violet Blue | a | tiny nibbles - violet blue | 49,679 | ||||
| a | open source sex | -- | ||||||
| 29. | Beth Kanter | | Beth's Blog | 5,205 | ||||
| 30. | Cyan Ta'eed | | Freelance Switch | 714 | ||||
| x | Eden | 87,639 | ||||||
| 31. | Liz Strauss | | Successful-Blog | 3,291 | ||||
| Liz Strauss.com | 142,905 | ||||||
| 32. | Emily Chang | | Emily Chang | 9,985 | ||||
| eHub | 10,411 | ||||||
| 33. | Veronica Belmont | | PlayStation.Blog | 988 | ||||
| Veronica Belmont | 7,223 | ||||||
| x | Mahalo Daily | 20,877 | ||||||
| x | Tekzilla — Revision3 | -- | ||||||
| 34. | Anne Truitt Zelenka | | Web Worker Daily | 759 | ||||
| Anne Truitt Zelenka | 40,491 | ||||||
| r | tech decentral | -- | ||||||
| The Everyday Cafe | -- | ||||||
| Togetherism | -- | ||||||
| 35. | Meg Hourihan | | Megnut | 56,244 | ||||
| x | Blogger | -- | ||||||
| r | meg.hourihan.com | -- | ||||||
| 36. | Debbie Weil | | BlogWrite For CEOs | 23,203 | ||||
| x | The Corporate Blogging Show | -- | ||||||
| 37. | Staci Kramer | | paidContent.org | 444 | ||||
| mocoNews.net | 3,271 | ||||||
| r | Trust But Verify | -- | ||||||
| 38. | Ariel Waldman | | Engadget | 3 | ||||
| x | Pownce | 48 | ||||||
| Ariel Waldman | 24,338 | ||||||
| a | Shake Well Before Use | 48,226 | ||||||
| 39. | Veerle Pieters | | Veerle's blog 2.0 | 1,880 | ||||
| 40. | Rachel Sklar | | The Huffington Post | 1 | ||||
| Eat The Press | 63,268 | ||||||
| 41. | Cali Lewis | | GeekBrief.TV | 6,202 | ||||
| iCali | 126,120 | ||||||
| Dear Cali, | 237,981 | ||||||
| 42. | Gala Darling | | iCiNG | 6,046 | ||||
| 43. | Leah Culver | x | Pownce | 48 | ||||
| Leah Culver | 23,514 | ||||||
| 44. | Justine Ezarik | | Tasty Blog Snack | 7,044 | ||||
| x | ijustine.tv | -- | ||||||
| 45. | Sarah Meyers | x | Pop17 | 13,097 | ||||
| SARAH AUSTIN | 83,704 | ||||||
| 46. | Karen Cheng | | Karen Cheng’s Snippets of Life | 8,126 | ||||
| 47. | Amber MacArthur | | Amber Mac | 31,224 | ||||
| x | commandN | 52,442 | ||||||
| x | The TWiT Netcast Network | 187,157 | ||||||
| 48. | Christine O'Kelly | | {self made chick} | 296,778 | ||||
| 49. | Ms. Danielle | | MSDANIELLE | 22,603 | ||||
| 50. | Shelley Powers | | Burningbird | 88,507 | ||||
| Burningbird's RealTech | -- | ||||||
| Legend | |||
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| Blogcosm profile of this blog | ||
| a | Adult content | ||
| Link directly to the blog | ||
| r | Retired | ||
| ? | Arguably not a blog (what do you think?) | ||
| x | Not a blog (at least not by our definition) |
Technorati Rank as of July 2, 2008 (or later)
Read the whole post for more background on each person -- plus additional candidates in the comments. We will have even more candidates later this week. Meanwhile, let us know if we missed any blogs or made any errors.
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So I'm curious. What is your definition of blog.
And thanks for the information. Technorati doesn't have the power it once had so I haven't paid any attention to the numbers for a very long time. Interesting to see.
"Taking your camera on the road" lacks dates; that automatically means "not a blog" for me. The articles may in fact be reverse chron, but with no dates it's impossible to tell.
In general: there are lots of gray areas, which is one reason we have the "?" label -- though we haven't even put all the questionable cases there. On the one hand, Huffington Post is now mostly just an online newspaper, but gets grandfathered in. On the other side, we don't consider podcasts (audio or video) to be blogs -- though reasonable people may disagree.
Anyway, thanks for the comment.