The BlogShares Blog

One of the youngest blogs in the Index! In 2002, Markos Moulitsas founded the political site Daily Kos, with a liberal bent and frequent posts. Added to the index in March 2003 (the first months!), the valuation has seen a few spikes up and down over the past few years, currently sitting at a lower point, but by no means losing traffic or contributors. The site is supported through advertising and ad-free subscriptions if desired.

If you have a political eye, this is one to trade. Bear in mind the share count is a little high right now, lets see if we can fix that eh. In other news, in the last week 90,000 new blogs were added to the index, but 280,000 pings to parse new content were received - thats one ping every 2 seconds! We like these numbers, and theres more to come.

Posted by Suburban Wolf at 02:28 PM | FrontPage | Permalink | Comments (16)

Added to the index in April 2005, Binary Moon is the work of Ben Gillbanks, a blogger and software developer, writing games since early 2000, which he promotes on his sister site Binary Sun. Interestingly enough, Ben is one year younger than yours truly, but then hes still going strong in the online world. The valuation of this blog continues to rise, as seems to be a growing trend in quite a few Top 100 blogs these days.

In other news, earlier this morning maintenance was performed to remove a few years worth of old entries, which went perfectly - we're now about 30,000,000 rows and 3.5Gb of space lighter. Over the next week or so we'll look at more gently removing additional tracking data to save more space, and look for ways to boost site speed and efficiency. Stay tuned.

Posted by Suburban Wolf at 03:00 AM | FrontPage | Permalink | Comments (0)

Time for your weekend Blog Of The Week - Twitter! We certainly wish we hadnt started adding these to the index in 2007, now theres over 820,000 of them and rising! The site is principled on the question: "What are you doing?", with a post limit of 140 characters. People post about a variety of topics, see a search for 'blogshares', for example. Users post their activities frequently, and have thousands of both followers and other users they themselves follow. Of course, their own blog holds the top spot on the Top 100 List, along with twitter blogs for Barack Obama and Wil Wheaton, not to mention tech pundits Kevin Rose, Jason Calacanis, Robert Scoble, Justine Ezarik and more. How can you not want to get involved???

Now, sitting at No. 8 on the Top 100, the index entry for our recently elected President shows nothing but growth - added in June 2007 (the month before my stroke, would you believe), at this rate it'll steal the top spot from the Twitter Blog, with (at this time) over 530,000 users following his activities on the site. Keep an eye on this one, folks.

Posted by Suburban Wolf at 04:38 AM | FrontPage | Permalink | Comments (6)