edited by: Douglas Welch,
Illinois Editor
| Rank | Blog | Prev |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stix Blog | 2 |
| 2 | Clout St | 3 |
| 3 | BackyardConservative | 6 |
| 4 | Capitol Fax | 4 |
| 5 | Turning Left | 9 |
| 6 | The Swamp | 10 |
| 7 | Marathon Pundit | 8 |
| 8 | PrairieStateBlue | 18 |
| 9 | Progress Illinois - | 1 |
| 10 | Extreme Wisdom | - |
| 11 | Change of Subject | 12 |
| 12 | . . . With Both Hands | 7 |
| 13 | Thoughts of a Regular Guy | 17 |
| 14 | Where there's a Will, there's a way | - |
| 15 | Second City Cop | 14 |
| 16 | IlliniPundit.com | - |
| 17 | illinoisreview | 5 |
| 18 | sweet | 18 |
| 19 | Wilmette | - |
| 20 | Team America's 10th District Blog | - |
BlogNetNews' Blogosphere Influence Rating combines a variety of data sets to determine which blogs are most powerfully influencing the direction of the Illinois political blogosphere. The exact method BNN uses to calculate influence scores must remain proprietary in order to prevent attempts to game the system. BNN's methodology takes into account the fact that all Internet data is profoundly limited in its reliability by using multiple data sets that, when combined, reveal a fair picture of activity in the blogosphere.
