Twenty Highly Rated Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 Bloggers

Here is a list of 20 bloggers that are important voices in the web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 market. The inbound links and Technorati data are provided and they are listed in order of blog reactions reported by Technorati. There is a wide range here. The statistics here will continue to evolve for each blog. These stats were taken a few months ago and will continue to evolve. I am not saying these are necessarily my favorites, although I respect them all, these writers command the numbers. Let me know if I left off a higher rated web 2.0 blogger (by these three stats) than these twenty below. I have listed multiple authors in some cases. There may be a few others that have multiple authors. Yesterday I reported on a list of top 100 analysts blogs by Technobabble. Number one on that list, Jeremiah Owyang just missed this list with 8,627 blog reactions from Technorati when I did the numbers.

Note - I have updated the Google results on 7/31/08 as there was some wide variations in the numbers I had before. Thanks to Niall Cook for pointing this out to me. I also noticed the the Google numbers are generally down, perhaps they have a different approach to doing the stats. The returns are still quite high for all but one. This does to change the order as I used the Technorati numbers to determine the order.

Michael Arrington (and others) TechCrunch - Google reports 15,800 inbound links. Technorati has 141,377 blog reactions and an authority rating of 23,975.

Pete Cashmore - Mashable - Google reports 6,790 inbound links. Technorati has 108,230 blog reactions and an authority rating of 15,487.

Jordan Running - http://www.downloadsquad.com/. Google reports 4,260 inbound links. Technorati has 78,630 blog reactions and an authority rating of 4,069.

Richard MacManus (and others) ReadWriteWeb - Google reports 7,200 inbound links. Technorati has 41,727 blog reactions and an authority rating of 8,706.

OM Malik - Google reports 8,920 inbound links. Technorati has 40,748 blog reactions and an authority rating of 6,340.

Guy Kawaski - Google reports 8,270 inbound links. Technorati has 35,178 blog reactions.

Robert Scoble - Google reports 8,000 inbound links. Technorati has 30,857 blog reactions and an authority rating of 6,020.

Merlin Mann - Google reports 4,090 inbound links. Technorati has 29,779 blog reactions and an authority rating of 4,245.

Leon Ho - Google reports 2,150 inbound links. Technorati has 26,177 blog reactions and an authority rating of 5,765

Seth Godin - Google reports 13,000 inbound links. Technorati has 23,440 blog reactions.

Tim O’Reilly - Google reports 4,220 inbound links. Technorati has 23,007 blog reactions and an authority rating of 5,184.

Rafe Needleman - Google reports 2,550 inbound links. Technorati has 18,665 blog reactions and an authority rating of 3,954

Steve Rubel - Google reports 6,990 inbound links. Technorati has 16,066 blog reactions and an authority rating of 3,418.

Signal vs. Noise - Google reports 4,280 inbound links and Technorati has 14,290 blog reactions Authority: 2,604

Dan Farber - Google reports 2,000 inbound links. Technorati has 12,231 blog reactions and an authority rating of 2,736.

Katie Fehrenbacher, Liz Gannes, Mike Gunderby, Anne Zelenka – Web Worker Daily - Google reports 2,650 inbound links. Technorati has 12,191 blog reactions and an authority rating of 2,790.

Robin Good - Google reports 2,030 inbound links. Technorati has 10,726 blog reactions and an authority rating of 2,144

Ilkeryoldas - Google reports 53 inbound links. Technorati has 9,678 blog reactions and an authority rating of 3,077.

Mary Jo Foley - All About Microsoft - Google reports 1,640 inbound links. Technorati has 9,635 blog reactions and an authority rating of 2,044.

John Battelle - Google reports 6,460 inbound links. Technorati has 8,921 blog reactions and an authority rating of 2,018

Comments

[Niall Cook]

Interesting list, Bill. I'd be interested to see the breakdown between web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 and more on your methodology/search terms.

[Bill Ives]

Neill- Thanks for your comment. The methods to determine the order were simple. I used the number of blog reactions reported by technorati. I also included the technorati rating and the number of inbound links reported by Google as a cross-check. Google almost always reports higher numbers for several reasons. These are the top twenty of a much larger list. I found these bloggers through a combination of methods. Many are well known. Other I found through Google and Technorati searching on the terms web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0. Since many, like myself, cover both topics I did not attempt to divide them into those two groups. The numbers are always changing as the web is dynamic. If you know of bloggers on these topics that rate higher than these top 20 I welcome your input. I plan to post the next twenty tomorrow. Bill

[Niall Cook]

Thanks for the response, Bill. Now I understand your methodology although not sure I agree with the approach. They are not so much web 2.0 or enterprise 2.0 bloggers, but bloggers who happen to have mentioned those terms at some point on their blogs.

The breakdown would still be good I think. Lots of those same bloggers are harping on about how enterprise 2.0 isn't the same as web 2.0 - as I do - so it is probably worth the split.

[Bill Ives]

Niall

I certainly agree that web 2.0 and enterprise 2.0 are not the same thing and have written about it several times here and elsewhere. Some of the bloggers write about both topics as I do. Some only cover web 2.0 and a few only enterprise 2.0. I could attempt to divide them into three buckets, one topic or the other or both. Perhaps I will if I get a chance. I just find that some of what they write about is relevant to both topics, even though they are different topics. I am simply listing people here by the numbers and not by my favorites, although I respect all of them. Not all of them are on my blog roll for example. I created this list for another purpose and decided to share it as I though some people might find it interesting. I made some new discoveries in the process. Thanks for your interest. Bill