DISQUS

Turlough · 4 years ago

I never know how to interpret those figures -- how many do you think read the regular columnists in the national newspapers. Not a lot, I'd guess.

How many blog accesses are genuine reads? Who knows!

Robin Grant · 4 years ago

Remember that the Brit Blog Top Ten is self selecting - If Political Betting, Bloggerheads, Harry's Place, Samizdata, Adam Smith Inst. etc. joined in, I'd soon by knocked off the bottom of the list. However, the thrust of your argument is still sound...

Monjo · 4 years ago

I just checked Instapundit. It is a pile of crap. Basically, it is an aggregator of snippets, quotes and links, where's the PUNDIT!??

Aggregator sites always attract a lot of readers because people can quickly scan for stuff they find relevant and then go to the full articles - the blogosphere in the UK and US is different as the big US bloggers know there's no money to be made in writing anything, just aggregating (Vodkapundit is another example). All the money in blogging is providing services: eg software, hosting, ads or aggregation.
British bloggers like Tim Worstall actually write their own content and don't act as mere aggregators (at least most of the time, he does do sometimes and deliberatly so for the Britblog roundup).