Rating Ozpoliblogistan

Bryan · Thursday 22 March 2007 · 11:59 pm

Just for fun, I thought I would find out which site is the top ranked blog on Australian politics. I decided to use Alex Traffic Rankings and my feeds list (plus assorted others) as the starting point for this experiment. A lower Alexa number is a higher ranking.

Anyway, the results are as follows:

  1. Tim Blair - 85,011
  2. Oz Politics Blog - 110,978
  3. Ambit Gambit - 120,775
  4. Jennifer Marohasy - 158,201
  5. The Spin Starts Here - 278,780
  6. Larvatus Prodeo - 309,436
  7. John Quiggin - 433,695
  8. Catallaxy - 474,606
  9. Andrew Landeryou - 526,127
  10. ROCKET - 532,656
  11. Reasons You Will Hate Me - 604,011
  12. The Road to Surfdom - 666,437
  13. Club Troppo - 668,647
  14. Webdiary - 674,500
  15. Bastards Inc. - 839,600
  16. The Bartlett Diaries - 869,744
  17. AnonymousLefty - 881,570
  18. The Pigs are Flying! - 943,064
  19. A Western Heart - 1,086,938
  20. man of lettuce - 1,108,319
  21. Henry Thornton Blogs - 1,109,565
  22. Andrew Leigh - 1,339,768
  23. Antony Loewenstein - 1,594,099
  24. Your New Reality - 1,651,035
  25. The Orstrahyun - 1,670,536
  26. Leftwrites - 1,698,748
  27. The View From Benambra - 1,720,694
  28. CoreEcon - 1,814,324
  29. JF Beck - 1,960,846
  30. Electron soup - 1,991,134
  31. Harry Clarke - 2,368,492
  32. Moment to Moment - 2,373,524
  33. The Adventures of QueerPenguin - 2,478,327
  34. The Dead Roo - 2,483,503
  35. DogfightAtBankstown - 2,538,593
  36. Bilegrip - 2,538,920
  37. Machine Gun Keyboard - 2,544,608
  38. Mumble - 2,752,307
  39. Ampersand Duck - 2,833,678
  40. Your Democracy - 3,255,533
  41. Whacking Day - 3,617,667
  42. GrodsCorp - 3,791,346
  43. Event mechanics - 3,965,281
  44. The Poll Bludger - 4,027,363
  45. Sachi's hyperbolic space - 4,030,762
  46. Thoughts on Freedom - 4,178,720
  47. Stoush - 4,186,105
  48. Father Bob - 4,409,742
  49. Sailing Close to the Wind - 4,514,525
  50. The Killfile - 4,693,214
  51. Andrew Norton - 4,723,243
  52. There Aint no Sanity Clause - 4,742,257
  53. Personal political - 5,017,198
  54. Hyperidian Bannerman - 5,142,709
  55. Austrolabe - 5,326,999
  56. William Burroughs' Baboon - 5,705,161
  57. LaborFirst Blog - 5,781,319
  58. Polemica - 5,962,727
  59. Crazybrave - 6,481,629
  60. Graeme Bird - 6,557,040
  61. Politically homeless - 6,705,782
  62. Modia Minotaur - 6,718,173
  63. Fair Crack of the Whip - 7,510,140
  64. Virulent Memes - 7,859,987
  65. Planet Irf - 8,123,090
  66. South Sea Republic - 8,217,942

Unfortunately, Alexa did not rank some sites that should have scored highly. Note: some of the following were ranked, but the rank was for multiple blogs from the one primary address.

Second is not too bad! But to be fair, most of the traffic coming here is not for my erudite posts. My visitors come for the politics test. The market place for serious analysis is much smaller than for cheap baubles. There are many better blogs than mine.

Some day I might repeat this exercise using Technorati.

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Evolution of dance

Bryan · Sunday 8 October 2006 · 11:49 am

Over 33 million people have seen this You Tube offering. It is worth a look if you haven’t seen it already.

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The whacky world of Google video

Bryan · Sunday 12 March 2006 · 5:11 pm

I do not know why people spend hours in their bedrooms putting together lip-sync video productions. But they are funny to watch. I have just spent the last hour with my children absolutely laughing our guts out over what can be found at Google video.

The best (press the play button to see it) [link]

Second place [Link]

Third place [Link]

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What do you watch on TV?

Bryan · Wednesday 30 November 2005 · 8:26 am

Morgan has taken political polling to new heights.

According to the results, Labor voters just love soap operas — Passions, Days of our Lives, and the Young and the Restless. They also watch Insiders, Lateline and SBS News.

Coalition voters watch Dancing with the Stars, McLeod’s Daughters, travel and gardening shows, crime and drama shows, Business Sunday and National Nine News.

I am speechless!

  First Preference at Federal Election
  ALP   L-NP   Other   Can’t Say
  %   %   %   %
Population 14 and over 38   39   15   8
Current Affairs              
7:30 Report 41   36   18   5
Foreign Correspondent 40   34   21   5
Four Corners 41   33   21   5
Insiders 46   30   20   4
Lateline 45   29   21   5
Today Tonight 39   44   10   7
60 Minutes 36   46   11   7
A Current Affair 37   46   9   8
Sunday 38   42   14   6
Business Sunday 33   51   11   5
Meet The Press 39   39   15   7
Dateline 43   31   21   5
Insight 42   29   25   4
Evening News              
ABC News 38   38   18   6
Seven News 39   43   11   7
National Nine News 36   47   10   7
SBS World News 42   31   20   7
Ten News 40   41   11   8
Soap Operas              
Home and Away 42   36   10   12
Passions 48   27   11   14
Days of Our Lives 47   36   8   9
The Young and the Restless 46   38   8   8
Neighbours 43   32   13   12
The Bold and the Beautiful 44   39   9   8
Gardening and Travel              
Gardening Australia 35   45   13   7
Better Homes and Gardens 37   47   9   7
The Great Outdoors 35   48   10   7
Getaway 34   50   10   6
Backyard Blitz 38   44   11   7
Crime and Drama              
ER 39   42   11   8
All Saints 37   43   11   9
Blue Heelers 38   43   10   9
Desperate Housewives 39   42   13   6
Lost 40   42   11   7
CSI 37   42   13   8
CSI: Miami 37   42   13   8
The Bill 37   42   15   6
McLeod’s Daughters 35   46   11   8
Reality TV              
Super Nanny 37   43   12   8
Big Brother 43   36   13   8
Newlyweds- Nick & Jessica 42   32   16   10
Dancing with the Stars 36   48       7

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