The Blog Elite: Very High Authority Blogs

In his October 2006 State Of The Blogosphere report, Technorati’s David Sifry gives an overview of the grouping of blogs by authority. Blogs that have over 500 other blogs linking to it in the last 180 days are part of a ‘blogging elite’. Sifry says:

In the final group we see what might be considered the blogging elite. This group, which represents more than 4,000 blogs, exhibits a radical shift in post frequency as well as blog age. Bloggers of this type have been at it longer – a year and a half on average – and post nearly twice a day, an increase in posting volume of over 100% from the previous group. Many of the blogs in this category, in fact, are about as old as Technorati and we’ve grown up together. Some of these are full-fledge professional enterprises that post many, many times per day and behave increasingly like our friends in the mainstream media. As has been widely reported, the impact of these bloggers on our cultures and democracies is increasingly dramatic.

Sifry’s Alerts: State of the Blogosphere, October, 2006

Where do cool / design / trend blogs sit? A random sample:

Very High Authority Group

Coolhunting.com : 2362 blogs link

The Cool Hunter : 2308

Core77 : 1377

PSFK : 920

Josh Spear : 516

High Authority Group

NotCot : 377

Trendhunter : 321

Influx Insights : 194

Marktd : 164

…which probably indicates that trend sites are not only reporting on culture but shaping it too.