Bloggasm

A survey of 10 major liberal blogs and 10 major conservative blogs found a general increase in page views on both sides of the political spectrum over a two week period. Liberal blogs saw the sharpest increase, with 1,009,314 more page views this week than the week prior. Conservative blogs experienced 852,294 more page views this week. This increase in traffic is likely due in part to the end of the holiday season, which usually results in a more regular blogging schedule for most bloggers.

For consistency, only blogs that openly displayed their traffic statistics through Sitemeter were surveyed. The number of page views does not represent the number of unique visitors to a site, but rather the number of times a page was loaded.

Patterico.com saw the sharpest increase during this time period, with 65% more page views this week compared to the week before. Andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com saw the sharpest decrease, with a 27% drop in page views.

Complete traffic stats below:

Liberal Blogs:

http://dailykos.com/

last week: 4,176,901
this week: 4,915,909
Change: An increase of 739,008, or 18%

http://crooksandliars.com/

last week: 942,874
this week: 1,018,782
Change: An increase of 75,908, or 8%

http://firedoglake.com

last week: 450,500
this week: 565,448
Change: An increase of 114,948, or 26%

http://www.eschatonblog.com

last week: 357,527
this week: 391,864
Change: An increase of 34,447, or 10%

http://americablog.blogspot.com/

last week: 346,972
this week: 316,513
Change: A decrease of 30,459, or 9%

http://washingtonmonthly.com/

last week: 247,773
This week: 274,100
Change: An increase of 26,327, or 11%

http://www.mydd.com/

last week: 143,687
this week: 162,946
Change: An increase of 19,259, or 13%

http://www.talkleft.com/

last week: 134,194
this week: 166,614
Change: An increase of 32,420, or 24%

http://openleft.com/

last week: 131,453
this week: 123,389
Change: A decrease of 8,064, or 6%

http://www.sadlyno.com/

last week: 97,893
this week; 103,523
Change: An increase of 26,327, or 27%

Total last week: 7,029,774
Total this week: 8,039,088
Change: An increase of 1,009,314, or 14%

Conservative Blogs:

http://hotair.com/

last week: 2,255,712
this week: 2,512,825
Change: An increase of 257,113, or 11%

http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/

last week: 1,803,798
this week: 2,191,357
Change: An increase of 387,559, or 21%

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

last week: 1,566,439
this week: 1,142,603
Change: A decrease of 423,836, or 27%

http://michellemalkin.com/

last week: 1,253,909
this week: 1,614,697
Change: An increase of 360,788, or 29%

http://www.ace.mu.nu/

last week: 386,200
this week: 483,511
Change: An increase of 97,311, or 25%

http://www.redstate.com/

last week: 239,185
this week; 344,526
Change: An increase of 105,341, or 44%

http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/

last week: 265,732
this week: 249,123
Change: A decrease of 16,609, or 6%

http://althouse.blogspot.com/

last week: 177,944
this week: 201,817
Change: An increase of 23,873, or 13%

http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/blog

last week: 135,798
this week: 153,398
Change: An increase of 17,600, or 13%

http://patterico.com/

last week: 65, 885
this week: 109,039
Change: An increase of 43,154, or 65%

Total last week: 8,150,602
Total this week: 9,002,896
Change: An increase of 852,294 or 10%

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…that it shouldn’t be considered “original reporting” if all your reporting could have been done by simply using Google. Offended and in a huff after several people pointed out that liberal blogs like the Huffington Post and Talking Points Memo were breaking ground with original journalism while conservative blogs served as little more than echo chambers, Malkin decided she’d set the record straight and document all the original reporting that conservative bloggers did last year.

I clicked through several of the links she provided, and while there are a few cases where a conservative blogger actually did do some actual reporting, most of the instances were anything but.

For instance, Malkin cites her own blog post on the supposed conflict of interest that debate moderator Gwen Ifill had because she happened to be writing a book on Obama (I debunked this claim here). But if you actually read through the post there’s almost nothing in it that hadn’t been widely known and Google-accessible months before she wrote it. I’m sorry, Michelle, but an investigative reporter you aren’t.

There are several other cases just like this. A blogger simply strung a few links to articles together or reprinted an email from a reader and POOF, suddenly he’s responsible for “original reporting.”

It’s the conservative blogosphere’s quest for “original reporting” that spawned one of Jon Swift’s most hilarious posts: Great Moments in Election-Year Blogging

You’re a joke, Michelle, which makes it all the more hilarious when you prance around patting yourself on the back for your investigative journalism skills.

I’ve wanted to start a regular Bloggasm feature for awhile now, a once-a-week post that is published like clockwork. I’ve been hesitant though because my time is limited and I didn’t want to fall off the bandwagon, because that’s just lame. But it’s New Years and the time to take on bold new initiatives, so I’m announcing what I hope will be a regular feature.

I got the idea from reading TVNewser, the TV News industry blog. Several times a week they post a “ticker” that tracks the viewership ratings for all the major cable news networks. TV ratings have always been a hotly debated issue, and I thought why not do that with blogs? I’ve written a couple posts on Bloggasm tracking blog traffic for major sites and they’ve always been widely circulated. And some of the biggest stories to hit the web during the election season were the ones comparing the traffic data for the biggest political sites.

So I’ve chosen 10 major conservative blogs and 10 major liberal blogs to track on a weekly basis. Rather than relying on tracking sites like Comscore, I chose only blogs that openly display their statistics through Sitemeter.

Now, I should first issue the caveat that tracking blog traffic is far from an exact science. It’s much more accurate at tracking long term trends rather than giving realistic traffic numbers. I chose only blogs that use Sitemeter so that my results can be as consistent as possible. Rather than trying to track unique visits, I’m going to deal with raw pageviews, which simply count the number of times a page is loaded, not the number of individuals who loaded it.

I’m not sure which day this will be posted every week. I’m thinking it has to be a Monday, Wednesday or Friday. I think it will come down to whichever day would be the least stressful

I’m starting with political blogs for now, but I’d love to open it up to several different niches. Hopefully this beta test will be successful, because I think this will actually be a very valuable feature. Wish me luck.

Some of you might not know this, but early this year I became internet famous for declaring Jan 30th “International Delete Your Myspace Account Day.” Because of all the inbound links I received to this post, I constantly get traffic from people Googlling things like “delete your Myspace.”

And about once a month I get a crazy email like this one:

my best friendS ex boyfriend got her password to myspace and changed it. now he is posting horrible things about her and she has family on her friends list who see these things and think badly of her. she is so caught up in getting her password back she has sat at the computer for two days trying to figure something out. is there any way you can delete her myspace for her?
>the link is [REDACTED] PLEASE DELETE IT NOW! HER EX IS PSYCHO AND HE IS EFFECTING MORE THAN JUST MY FRIEND!

You think this is bad? I should reprint some of the email I get regarding my “Your Chances of getting laid on Craigslist” post.

The Poor Man Institute has published the nominees for Wank [blogger] of the year. It’s like picking a puppy, I don’t know which one to choose.