edited by: Sally Jo Sorensen,
Minnesota Editor
This somewhat experimental measure attempts to distinguish tease out the difference between blogs that have a lot of impact, at least in part, because of the volume of posts they produce as opposed to blogs that post less often, but whose post have a greater individual impact on the state's blog conversation.
| Rank | Blog | Prev |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tild~ | 1 |
| 2 | City Hall Scoop | 2 |
| 3 | Nihilist In Golf Pants | 6 |
| 4 | Gavin Sullivan's page | 4 |
| 5 | EckerNet.Com | 10 |
| 6 | Smart Politics | 13 |
| 7 | Grizzly Groundswell | - |
| 8 | Minnesota 2020: Journal | 15 |
| 9 | The Deets - Ed Kohler's Blog | 3 |
| 10 | Savage Republican | 16 |
| 11 | Lloydletta's Nooz | - |
| 11 | Blog of the Moderate Left | 8 |
| 13 | Engage Minnesota | 12 |
| 14 | Preserving Freedom | - |
| 15 | The Curmudgeon | 13 |
| 15 | The Loyal Opposition | 5 |
| 17 | mnpACT! | - |
| 18 | Kowabunga | 11 |
| 19 | Barataria - the work of Erik Hare | 9 |
| 20 | America's Small City Mayor | 18 |
BlogNetNews' Blogosphere Influence Rating combines a variety of data sets to determine which blogs are most powerfully influencing the direction of the Minnesota 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.
