September 19, 2007
Who is on the Technorati A-List?
Earlier today, I read a post on Wendy Piersall’s eMoms at Home blog about the Technorati A-List. As of September 19, 2007 Wendy has a Technorati rank of 2,115. Yes, her blog is in the top 5K at Technorati. Awesome Wendy! Interestingly, Technorati is not reflecting her last several posts yet so her rank is probably even better than that.
One of her goals is to make it into the top 100 blogs list. She ponders that goal and highlights some interesting facts in her post (see below)…
“Before I begin, here are some fast facts:
- 11% of blogs on the current Technorati Top 100 blogs are led by or singly authored by women (maybe 12%, because I am unsure of the gender of the author of ICanHasCheesburger). They are:
- Ariana Huffington
- Michelle Malkin (twice)
- Kathy Sierra (now retired)
- Sina
- Megan Frost
- Peety Passion
- Ilker Yoldas (my bad for the initial omission!)
- Heather Onnen
- Dooce
- Xiaxue
- Yet, more women than men are bloggers, with 20% of American women who have visited blogs having their own versus 14 % of men (Synovate.com).
Before you guys get your tightie whities in a knot, this isn’t an accusation. Here’s a few more stats for you:
According to ComScore, the most visited blog topics break down as follows:
- 43% of people visited a political or news blog
- 17% of people visited a “Hipster” blog
- 15% of people visited a tech blog
- 8% of people visited a women’s blog
- 8% of people visited a media blog
- 6% of people visited a personal blog
- 3% of people visited a business blog
And keeping in mind that blogs in general are in the tech industry, overall for every one woman employed in high-tech, there are 4 men alongside her.”
Her post was prompted by a post made by Pearl at Interesting Observations called Male-Female Ratios of 50 Influential Blogs and more. Fascinating information! I wonder how they determine the gender of their readers. I don’t know how many of my readers are men and how many are women. Is that a new Feedburner Flare that I’m unaware of? 
BTW, I love Pearl’s avatar. I’m guessing it’s an elf but it also brings to mind a Vulcan. (I’m a sci-fi gal)!
I am not trying to get entrepreMusings in the top 100 because I know I don’t have the time to invest in making that happen right now, but I do want to support these women (and men whose blogs I read often) who do want to achieve that goal…just let me know how!
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September 19th, 2007 at 10:11 pm, pearl Says:
hi Aruni…. I am smiling
from not only having just made that smiley post but Im also smiling ‘cuz I know you love my avatar 
I love me in that avatar too… 
elf or vulcan - both would do… lol
but more important is that I want to thank you for the offer of support and I do need help of course!! Wendy has asked and you are asking how you can help out, I am not even sure… I took Wendy’s 10 days to blogging free course but haven’t followed it completely, so a lot of it depends on me, me to figure out how much time I want to devote to blogging and laying out my goals (which is the very first day’s lesson in that free e-course is BTW)… but I’ll be in touch with you soon…..
September 20th, 2007 at 8:09 pm, Aruni Says:
Thanks Pearl. I took Wendy’s course when I first started too. It was very helpful, but it takes time to keep up with all the great advice she gives.
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:59 am, Peety Says:
With passion and dedication one can accomplish anything..
Thanks for the reference..