The new BNN “Most Influential Political Blog” rankings are out…and I am very pleased to report that the Orange Juice! is still in the Top 5, at #4.
Red County/OC Blog continues in the top slot, with the California Progress Report coming in on its heels at #2, and the Flash Report is at #3.
The relatively new JohnSeilerBlogs.com comes in at #5. And the Liberal OC goes to #9 – which gives O.C. based blogs six of the top 10 slots.
The L.A. blogs continue to move up, primarily due to L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s continued shenanigans. These include Mayor Sam’s Sister City, FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog, Patterico’s Pontifications and L.A. Observed.
I found it interesting that the California Progress Report is near the top of the rankings, while the California Conservative blog is near the bottom of the top 20. That’s California for you!
It is astounding that conservative blogs Red County/OC Blog and the Flash Report continue to stay in the top 5, in what is a blue state. You have to figure that the liberal blogs will eventually take some of their market.
On that note, none of the newer Red County Blogs are showing up in the Top 20 rankings. The Red County San Diego, San Bernardino and Riverside blogs appear to be having some trouble matching the success of their progenitor, Red County/OC Blog.
I am still not quite sure how BNN puts together its rankings, but here is some more information about the Orange Juice! readership, from Google Analytics from June 25 – July 14:
- We have had 8,281 visits and 24,213 page views
- Our readers generally look at close to 3 pages per visit (2.92)
- 22% of our visits are “new visits”
- Our top traffic sources include:
- The Liberal OC (1,003 visits)
- Red County/OC Blog (270 visits)
- Topix.net (264 visits)
- Yahoo (237 visits)
- Google (137 visits)
- SAUSD corruption coming out with Mijares gone (928 page views)
- Claudia Alvarez goes off again (328 page views)
- Lupe Moreno in her own words (309 page views)
- Pulido sticks with Minuteman Lupe Moreno (287 page views)
- Recall Solorio (267 page views)
This week also saw the debut of the new Irvine Sucks! blog. Let’s see how quickly they move up the rankings!
Interesting sidebar…the Santa Ana Unified School District (SAUSD) is blocking access to the Orange Juice! from their computers. So is the Garden Grove Unified School District. The City of Santa Ana has also gotten into the censorship act, as the public computers at the Santa Ana Library also block access to the Orange Juice! – even though they allow access to Red County/OC Blog. The O.C. blog community needs to stand up against such censorship!
Our San Bernardino, San Diego and Riverside blogs are only three to six months old. Give them a chance.
BNN hasn’t yet included San Bernardino and San Diego in their list of blogs. Where they are on the BNN list isn’t a measurement of their level of success.
Still, they’re doing well considering their youth. During the June 25 – July 14 period you mentioned, RC/San Bernardino had 4,384 visits and 8,849 page views. Not bad for a blog that’s only three months old.
San Bernardino has a school district with many of the same problems as SAUSD. You might want to consider keeping a corner of that blog for exposing corruption of that school district, like Art does here.
There’s a lot of anger and outrage and calls for change in SB’s crony infested SD.
Art,
I was at the Santa Ana library this weekend and they now block Red County/OC Blog as well. The first time I tested it, I got on, but trying it again, a sign popped up saying it is an “unauthorized chat room.” I think the City just has a filter, but it is too strong of a filter. I think they should allow blogs in the libraries.
As for SAUSD, I think their intentions are much more malevolent. Shame on them for trying to silence the truth.
Kudos to the OJ for garnering the ire of Audrey Noji!
Who would’ve thought Noji, a progressive Democrat, would resort to censoring the flow of information.
Gone are the days when SAUSD administrators are no longer accountable to the public they serve.
Turn up the heat on all SAUSD administrators housed at HQ.
Congratulations to Art and Claudio and the rest of you! Well Done!!
Rob Richardson MUST be voted out in the next election.Shame on him for running a disfunctional and corrupt school system that fails 50% of it’s students.Vote NO on any incumbents on the ballot.
You can bet Russo, Bratcher, Lopez, Trigg & Burrell have access to OJ 24/7 on the SAUSD network.
Matt,
It is true that blogs take awhile to take off. The 909 ought to be fertile territory for you with all the ex-OC Reeps who live there.
Maybe you guys can build a huge hot air balloon shaped like Jim Brulte’s head and use it as the new symbol of the 909? I don’t think that has been done before…LOL
I hope so.
Google Analytics is pretty cool, huh?
Matt,
You got that right! I owe you one for the referral…
The blocking of the blog in SAUSD is interestug. Administrators at school sites have access to it; however, teachers are blocked by a firewall. Actually, the only computers affected by blocking are computers that teachers and students use. All other computers in the district do not go through the firewall. So, I see the blocking as a very deliberate atempt to silence teachers.