{"id":688,"date":"2007-11-07T00:52:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T06:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2007-11-07T00:52:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T06:52:00","slug":"britains-top-ten-journo-bloggers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2007\/11\/britains-top-ten-journo-bloggers\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain’s Top Ten Journo-Bloggers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Y<\/span>es, shameless list-porn. Buoyed up by hitting 300 subscribers in Feedburner<\/a>, and approaching 30,000 unique users I was hit by an attack of vanity (over-compensating for my plummeting Technorati<\/span><\/a> ranking) and decided to try and list the top 10 UK j-blogs. Pride, of course, always comes before a fall.<\/p>\n

So, I followed Martin Belam<\/a>\u2019s Herculean efforts to get the top 100 newspaper RSS feeds via Google Reader<\/span>. Using a list compiled from weeks of research<\/span> culled from blogrolls, I thus proudly determined my own top ten of the UK\u2019s finest journalism bloggers:<\/p>\n

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  1. 194 Roy Greenslade<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. 165 Paul Bradshaw<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. 119 Shane Richmond<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. 73 Robin Hamman<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. 66 Jemima Kiss<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. 65 Andrew Grant-Adamson<\/a><\/li>\n

    65 Martin Stabe<\/a><\/p>\n

  7. 61 Richard Sambrook<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. 49 Seamus McCauley<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. 46 Simon Waldman<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Kudos to Paul Bradshaw. Obviously I haven\u2019t included myself, as I don\u2019t have enough subscribers<\/span> really trust the methodology.

    Couple of points, besides all the obvious ones.<\/p>\n

    Is Seamus too much of a renaissance man to be a journo-blogger? If he\u2019s ruled out Andy Dickinson<\/a> sneaks in.<\/p>\n

    If you also strip out the newspapers (Roy, Jemima and Shane), then Suw and Kevin from Strange Attractor<\/a>, Charlie Beckett<\/a> and Vickywatch<\/a> all creep in. And if you finally strip out Vickywatch (because [insert convincing reason here], erm…) then I creep in.<\/p>\n

    Have I missed anything or anyone out? Except for Martin (77), who would, of course, slot in at number four, although like Seamus he may be too much of a polymath. To burst all our balloons and put it all in to perspective, Mindy McAdams<\/a> has over 400 Google Reader subscribers.
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    Yes, shameless list-porn. Buoyed up by hitting 300 subscribers in Feedburner, and approaching 30,000 unique users I was hit by an attack of vanity (over-compensating for my plummeting Technorati ranking) and decided to try and list the top 10 UK j-blogs. Pride, of course, always comes before a fall. So, I followed Martin Belam\u2019s Herculean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","tag-uk-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}