| Rank | Blog | Prev |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South DaCola | - |
| 2 | Dakota Voice | - |
| 3 | Voices Carry | - |
| 4 | South Dakota War College | - |
| 5 | Sibby Online | - |
| 6 | Newsmonger | - |
| 7 | A Progressive on the Prairie | - |
| 8 | Madville Times | - |
| 9 | Red, Blue & Purple | - |
| 10 | Constant Conservative | - |
| 11 | School-of-Thought | - |
| 12 | South Dakota Humanist | - |
| 13 | RadioActive Chief | - |
| 14 | Republic Insider | - |
| 15 | South Dakota Politics | - |
| 16 | Rant-a-Bit by Scott Hudson | - |
| 17 | Dakota Today | - |
| 18 | The MinusCar Project | - |
| 19 | Black Marks on Wood Pulp / by Corey Vilhauer | - |
| 20 | The Decorum Forum | - |
BlogNetNews' Blogosphere Influence Rating combines a variety of data sets to determine which blogs are most powerfully influencing the direction of the South Dakota 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.
