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Apparently, it is all in the links. A new study<\/a> has attempted to rank blogs in these terms. Since we can only read so many blogs, the question was which 100 would you pick that would give you an overall impression of what\u2019s going on in the blogosphere generally.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, rather than write something myself, I\u2019m sharing this link. And this one from a science blogger who is persuaded it is bad math<\/a>, since it lists his old (now defunct) blog rather than his new one.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s also why you will want to post a link to my<\/em> post about this on your own blog, and post a mention of your post linking to my post in the comments section here.<\/p>\n

Wow, who knew that making one\u2019s blog influential involved so much running in circles?<\/p>\n

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