This morning I stumbled upon a site that shows a visualization of the popularity of Spanish bloggers. It’s called Blogocosa and based on data from the social network Bitacoras.com, that has more than 250,000 subscribers. They started tracking the popularity of these writers in January. The size of the images, 30×30, 60×60 and 90×90 pixels, depends on the number of followers each user has on the network.
Blogocosa gives a nice overview of a blogosphere that is totally unknown to me. Apparently Jordi Lagares, Andres Nieto Porras, and Fran J Saavedra are national blogging heroes. I found this link on the personal blog of Dutch social media maven Polle de Maagt and agree with his remarks on the poster. He says the page gives an incomplete overview, since it only includes bloggers from Bitacoras. Moreover, they don’t take expertises and niches in account.
However, it remains interesting to create some sort of ranking. International marketing bloggers already have a top 150 list: The Advertising Age Power 150. The ranking is based on eight sources, like the Google Pagerank, Technorati Authority, Yahoo InLinks, and Alexa Traffic. Although the ranking won’t ever be perfect, most people do take these ranking seriously.
Maybe it’s an idea to start a European Technology Blog Top 100? Hm, I’m gonna take it to the drawing board. Stay tuned.
Nice functionality and visualisation Blogocasa! I think it is a nice addition to Social Network Analysis and the potential visualisation. High rated (on the basis of several factors) can automitically be rewarded with a larger image. It helps in visualising the contributions of bloggers to the web.
You should take a look at an initiative of Karel Geenen (http://www.karelgeenen.nl).
It is called Het GEzicht Achter Den Nederlansche Weblog @ http://www.karelgeenen.nl/bloggers/hetgezicht.htm
The graphical representation is indeed nice, even if it misses things.
The type of data ranking that you are talking about is already done in a way by a company like Wikio. On a country by country basis, they compound many elements into a rank list.
See the “high tech 100 for France” for instance:
http://www.wikio.fr/blogs/top/high-tech
Granted, something better should be done for Europe.