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One of the things many bloggers have long believed is that weblogs are able to influence public opinion, despite not receiving massive amounts of traffic, because large numbers of influential people read blogs. In other words, blogger influence comes mostly from "the who", not the "how many". So, in order to test that hypothesis, I decided to poll more than a 100 prominent conservatives to see if they read blogs. Here are 28 people who responded (5 chose to remain anonymous)...
Participants: Anonymous x5, Jed Babbin, Tom Bevan, Mona Charen, Linda Chavez, Vox Day, John Derbyshire, Joseph Farah, Jonah Goldberg, Lucianne Goldberg, Binyamin L. Jolkovsky, John Leo, Donald Luskin, Michelle Malkin, Michael Medved, Geoff Metcalf, Charles Murray, Jesse Lee Peterson, John Podhoretz, Burt Prelutsky, Michael Rubin, Catherine Seipp, Adam Sparks, Mark Steyn
The key question they were asked to answer was of course: "Do you read blogs other than those associated with a publication you work or write for?" 19 out of 28 people who responded (68%), said "yes".
While that was certainly useful information, there was another important piece of information that I wanted to gather: which blogs do these conservative opinion makers actually read? In order to find that out, I asked the 18 respondents who did read weblogs to list their favorite blogs. They were allowed to make as many (or as few) selections as they liked, 6 of them decided to keep their selections anonymous, and I dropped choices that were ambiguous or that were not blogs. With that being said, here are the blogs they chose...
Anonymous x 6 -- Sheila A-Stray's Redheaded Ramblings, Asymmetrical Information, Belmont Club, Best Of The Web Today, Tim Blair, Brothers Judd Blogg, The Corner, Daily Pundit, Daimnation!, Dynamist Blog, Ellisblog, Hugh Hewitt, Inkless Wells, Instapundit x 2, Kausfiles x 2, James Lileks. Little Green Footballs x 2, Mossback's Lunch, OxBlog, Pejmanesque, Ranting And Roaring, Relapsed Catholic, Cathy Seipp, Roger L. Simon x 2, Natalie Solent, Andrew Sullivan x 2, Terry Teachout, The Volokh Conspiracy x2
Tom Bevan -- Daily Kos, Eschaton, Hugh Hewitt, Instapundit, Powerline, Andrew Sullivan, Taegan Goddard's Political Wire, Talking Points Memo, The Washington Monthly
Mona Charen -- David Frum's Diary, Kausfiles, Andrew Sullivan
Vox Day -- Charlie's Diary, The Corner, The Evangelical Outpost, Fraters Libertas
John Derbyshire -- Gideon's Blog, Jerry Pournelle, Steve Sailer, View From The Right
Jonah Goldberg -- Instapundit, Kausfiles, Andrew Sullivan, Tapped, The Volokh Conspiracy, The Washington Monthly
Lucianne Goldberg -- Belmont Club, BuzzMachine, The Corner, Gawker, Instapundit, Roger L. Simon, Wonkette
John Leo -- Asymmetrical Information, Clayton Cramer's Blog, Instapundit, Kausfiles, Little Green Footballs, OxBlog, RealClearPolitics, Spinsanity, Andrew Sullivan, The Volokh Conspiracy
Donald Luskin -- EconoPundit, Knowledge Problem, TrendMacro Talking Points
Michelle Malkin -- AtlanticBlog, Blackfive - The Paratrooper of Love, The Command Post, The Corner, Dust In The Light, Israpundit, Joanne Jacobs, Jihad Watch, Kausfiles, KellyJaneTorrance, Little Green Footballs, Medpundit, Powerline, Steve Sailer, Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing, Shark Blog, Andrew Sullivan, Tacitus, View from the Right
Charles Murray -- The Corner, Instapundit, Andrew Sullivan
John Podhoretz -- Apt. 11D, Daniel W. Drezner, Gideon's Blog, Healing Iraq, Hugh Hewitt, Instapundit, Kausfiles, RealClearPolitics, Roger L. Simon, Andrew Sullivan, Talking Points Memo, Terry Teachout, VodkaPundit, Wonkette
Cathy Seipp -- The Daily Bread, Instapundit, Kausfiles, LA Observed, Little Green Footballs, Right Wing News, Samizdata, Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing, Roger L. Simon, Sky Watching My World (My Daughter), The Volokh Conspiracy, Matt Welch
Adam Sparks -- Best Of The Web Today
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