Comments on: Malkin’s #1

By: Danny Carlton: codenamed "Jack Lewis"

Danny Carlton: codenamed "Jack Lewis" — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 14:43:59 +0000

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By: The Unabrewer

The Unabrewer — Tue, 23 Aug 2005 10:23:10 +0000

Yeah, Malkin gets a lot of links from left-wing blogs noting how crazy they think she is.

It's not just the left-wing ones.

By: The Jawa Report

The Jawa Report — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:52:30 +0000

Malkin Knocks Instapundit From Top of Ecosystem!

Wow. I never thought I'd live to see the day that Glenn Reynolds would be #2 on the TTLB Ecosystem. I was hoping to knock Glenn off his #1 high-horse, or if not me then IMAO or one of Frank...

By: Hyscience

Hyscience — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:07:40 +0000

Malkin is Top Dog Congratulations to Michelle Malkin, one of our daily reads, who today made the number one spot on TTLB's Ecosystem. James at Outside the Beltway notes that Malkin's placement is probably not one of TTLB's quirky fluctuations that sometimes occur. Ra...

By: Michelle Malkin

Michelle Malkin — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 19:39:02 +0000

WE'RE SHE'S NUMBER ONE! Thanks to OTB, I see that Michelle's blog, this one you're reading right now, is the biggest, baddest blog in the world. On behalf of my co-guest bloggers, I'd like to take all of the credit for myself. Of course...

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 18:17:39 +0000

I've long been surprised at the sheer number of links Glenn maintains, simply because of the style of most posts. One is more likely to link a substantive post than a "here's an interesting link, go look" type of post that makes up the bulk of his blogging. Inject laziness and/or poor etiquette in "hat tipping" things seen via Glenn, and the links will be less than they might. And then there's the controversy/fawning combo mentioned here as well. My first inkling she'd made #1 came in a post I saw yesterday analyzing the top 20 in the Ecosystem. I'd not checked the Ecosystem lately, in part because it is so far out of touch, and in part because I am no longer an obsessed newbie, and in part because of the trend toward takeover of the top by journalists and celebrities. I was surprised by much of the makeup of the top 20. The blogosphere is not what it once was.

By: This Blog Is Full Of Crap

This Blog Is Full Of Crap — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 17:34:01 +0000

Way to go, Michelle!

I really don't like to engage too much in inside-baseball statistics of blogging, but James Joyner points out an interesting event in the Ecosystem this week: For the first time since I've been following it, roughly February 2003, a site...

By: Will Franklin

Will Franklin — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:59:16 +0000

Yeah, Malkin gets a lot of links from left-wing blogs noting how crazy they think she is.

By: O. F..Jay

O. F..Jay — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:48:45 +0000

Interesting, and as previously noted by Anderson, Malkin tends to generate more scandal, more bile, more hatred than Reynolds. Usually the people who hate Reynolds are the techie types who think his style is ruining the WWW, but Malkin, she gets both fawning response and bilious bites from all over the place.

And yet, as observed too, Glenn has the upper hand in terms of traffic both received and generated, but his incoming links usually consit of hat tips.

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:39:38 +0000

I wonder if Glenn suffers from success to a degree. I know that there have been a couple times that I have mentioned Glenn or Instapundit and been lazy about linking because, well, he's Glenn--while I would never do that to basically any other blog.

It isn't my practice, but I know I have done it, and wonder how many others have as well.

By: bryan

bryan — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:38:42 +0000

Anderson has a point. Malkin is getting lots of links because she has more of an ability to piss people off than Reynolds. How does one get irate about "heh"? During the Kelo decision, I had spikes in traffic from both Malkin and Instapundit, and in terms of generating traffic Reynolds is still head and shoulders above Malkin.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 16:29:59 +0000

Anderson: You nailed it.

By: Anderson

Anderson — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:50:38 +0000

I suspect that the Volokh Conspiracy is much more likely to be linked for "hey, look at what these smart people said" instead of for "hey, look what an insanely stupid thing this person said!"

Nevertheless, the only thing worse than being negatively talked about is not being talked about at all.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:09:33 +0000

When I began following, it was Instapundit, Kos, and Atrios who were usually the top 3. Interesting how Atrios has slipped to ninth behind the likes of Power Line and Captain's Quarters.