Blognetnews.com has released its first list of “California’s Most Influential Political Blogs.” I am very pleased to report that Orange Juice! is listed in the top 10 – above established major league blogs like the O.C. Register’s “Orange Punch.”
I offer my sincere thanks to our readers and to my fellow bloggers for making this blog such a popular site – not just in Orange County but throughout the state. Indeed, we have readers all over the U.S. (see the map below).
Congratulations to Jubal/Matt Cunningham and his band of merry Reeps over at Red County/OC Blog. Coming in first place is quite an achievement. Kudos also to my friends at the Liberal OC. Their readership has really picked up over the last few weeks. They truly deserve their Top 15 ranking.
And a big raspberry to all of our detractors, who often say that no one reads this site. They are, apparently, quite wrong about that! As sports commentator Jim Rome likes to say, “Scoreboard!”
Here is the official release from Blognetnews.com, regarding how they put together this ranking system:
Welcome to the next step from BlogNetNews.com/California . Over the weekend, we launched a new feature that ranks which California state politics and news blogs are having the most influence on the direction of conversation in the state blogosphere.
Our rankings come from data provided in your RSS feeds, data from the activity of readers on BlogNetNews.com and data about Internet traffic from third parties. Each Sunday morning at 12:01 AM, BNN will release a new top 20 list of the blogs most powerfully shaping opinion in the California blogosphere. Every week, you can find the list here: http://www.blognetnews.com/California/influence-index.php .
If you want to promote your ranking, we have some tools to help you do that here (automated so they change each week as your rankings change): http://www.blognetnews.com/California/show-rank.php .
We first tested this a couple months ago in the Virginia blogosphere where the rankings met with some controversy. We’ve tried to learn from how that worked and improved our system since then. What you’re seeing isn’t a final product, we have improvements underway to strengthen our data and we’ll be tracking the results closely over the next few months to try to learn how we can make this more accurate and reliable. Remember that because these are weekly rankings — based only on seven days data — small and new blogs can have really good showings from time to time while older, more established blogs will show their strength by staying in the top 20 from week to week.
In the meantime, I am happy to hear your questions or concerns. In order to prevent bloggers from trying to game the system, we have to keep the exact makeup of the rankings system to ourselves, but we can say it includes, traffic, comments, links, clicks, ratings and still more data that make the BNN Influence Rankings the single most comprehensive source for information on what’s happening in the California blogosphere.
Dave Mastio, Editor
Blognetnews.com
Never quite seen people so full of themselves, especially for wannabe politicians
Poster 1,
Wannabe politicians? I don’t know about that. Speaking for myself, I am a blogger first, all else comes second.
As for being full of ourselves, please note that we thanked our readers and gave credit to the other local blogs.
You may want to lay off the whiskey this early in the morning…
Congratulations, Art and company!
Thank you for turning a comment into a personal attack like all those with a 5th grade intelligence do – you have made my point for me very succinctly
Poster 4,
I see you have no sense of humor. Must be a Reep…
Your point by the way was that we were “full of ourselves” and that we are “wannabe politicians.”
How did my retort prove either of those points?
Education by the way does not necessarily impart intelligence. But having the latter makes accomplishing the former all the easier. I have a hard-earned MBA – what about you Senor Anonymous blogger?
Red,
Thank you!
Congrats Art.
Actually there should be a blog ranking based on instilling the freedom of speech.
Jubal is the biggest blog tyrant there is in the blogsphere.
He’ll delete just about anything that he opposes unless the commentator is someone that’s influential(i.e. eleceted offial, high ranking politico)
Anybody asking for proof? Just look at the fact that OC Juice hit the over thousands comments on one thread recently. That’s unheard of at the ocblog.
Honestly Art, I think you would increase your commentators and influence if your address was easier to remember. I always long on the Ocblog to link on to your site.
Lastly, there is obviously an opportunity for your blog given the republican slant ocblog is considered the most influential.
I’m not sure members of the state assembly or senate care about the oc blog nor the U.S. congress or Senate, muchless governor Arnold or Mr Presidente Bush. The question now is…Who is being influenced by the OCblog?
And do they have any power outside of their minority status to influence anything?
Poster 7,
Thanks for the kudos and your input.
I do wish we had a better URL. One way to get to us easier is to save our URL to your favorites folder. You can even save the link on your desktop.
I do try to take care when it comes to deletions. We have one poster, Stan Fiala, who insists on posting crazy rants with F words. Those we delete.
Your final points are sage indeed. The Reeps have painted themselves into a lonely corner. Red County even attacked one of Loretta Sanchez’ staffers, Alicia Berhow, when was hired by the OC Business Council. That’s nuts! It makes sense to hire a smart Dem like Berhow.
It feels great to be on a winning team!
Art, Claudio and Co-conspirators:
Props on scoring so well in this survey……
The news I get on this site is unvarnished and while some of the comments push the envelope, there is some real news here, especially concerning Santa Ana.
Thanks for the public service amigos.
Congratulations Art!
But I do have a comment. It seems like there are more graphics and pictures lately that make the blog more difficult to navigate quickly. That is not a criticism, but rather an observation and am only making the comment because I want you to have even more success in the future.
Andy,
Thanks!
I do try to use a lot of pictures – to keep things interesting.
You might try our RSS feed, which I think is sans pictures.
Or you can read our blog at blognetnews.com – they load very fast.