Here are the Liberal Democrat entries in the top 100 political blogs as ranked by Wikio:
| 1 (7) | Liberal Democrat Voice | Down 3 |
| 2 (26) | Jack of Kent | New |
| 3 (51) | Caron’s Musings | Down 14 |
| 4 (55) | Craig Murray | Up 6 |
| 5 (56) | Liberal England | Down 2 |
| 6 (63) | Stephen’s Linlithgow Journal | Down 1 |
| 7 (64) | Mark Pack | Down 18 |
| 8 (72) | Liberal Burblings | Up 11 |
| 9 (77) | Liberal Vision | Down 19 |
| 10 (82) | Miss S B | Down 30 |
| 11 (84) | Peter Black | Down 12 |
| 12 (85) | Nick Thornsby | Down 11 |
| 13 (90) | Andrew Reeves’s Running Blog | Down 4 |
| 14 (93) | Alex Folkes | New |
Only one new entry this month, Alex Folkes, as Sarah Bedford, Mark Valladares, James Graham and Millennium Elephant drop out of the top 100 along with Mark Thompson’s now defunct blog. [Update: Also new in this week is the long-running blog Jack of Kent, which Wikio had not previously counted as a political blog.]
Across the top 100 there is much more moving around than I can recall happening before, with many blogs moving up or down by large margins. I am not aware of any chance in their methodology but, as the system works on gradually phasing out older data it may be that the impact of different blogging patterns around the general election are now dropping out.
Under Wikio’s methodology the overall profile of blogs that tend to support a particular party or cause can become a self-reinforcing cycle because the higher a blog rates the more its links to other blogs count, so those blogs in turn come out higher and hence any links from them back to the original blog count more driving that blog higher and so on.
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Jack of Kent being put into the right category obviously makes sense, but have I missed David saying he’d joined the party? Knew he voted for us last time, but not that he’d joined.
He’s a supporter rather than a member. I’m using a slightly different criteria from Ryan on his aggregator (which is for members only) and instead I’ve include him as he self-identifies as a “Lib Dem blogger”.
So you can now be a Lib Dem blogger without being a party member? Hmm.
Am happy to be regarded as a Lib Dem blogger as I am highly supportive of the influence the Lib Dems are having on the Coalition. And I am proud of having voted Lib Dem, which I suspect is more than many actual party members at the moment!
However, if I am not welcome into the fold, then also happy to be disregarded as a Lib Dem blogger, and you guys can have only so-called “top 50″ “political blogger”. Your choice
Heh, I have no problem with Mark setting that criteria, but there’re going to be those who think it should just be actual members. There’s an easy answer to that distinction though David:
https://www.libdems.org.uk/join_us.aspx