Oranjepan analyses Berkshire blogosphere
The prolific political blogger Oranjepan has published an interesting (and unique, I believe) analysis of the Berkshire blogosphere.
Oranjepan compiled a list of most influential Berkshire blogs in June 2009 (based on Wikio rankings), with John Redwood’s Diary in top position. The other titles in the top 5 were listed as Boulton & Co., Mark Reckons, Richard Willis’s Blog and Redlands Libdems. Oranjepan’s own blog (Reading List) occupied 6th place.
Other influential blogs such as Scary Duck, MuckspReading (now discontinued) and Jane’s the one (now moved) were mentioned in the analysis, and Oranjepan concluded by summing up the local political blog landscape as follows:
In total Reading List records 9 Conservative bloggers, 8 Liberal Democrat, 5 Green Party, 2 Libertarian, 1 Liberty & Solidarity Party, 1 Common Sense Party and 1 Independent blogger in addition to the 4 ‘celebrity’, 4 ‘comedy’ and other unaffiliated, non-partisan sites. Reading List also claims two national journalist sites which fit the description of a blog.