The February rankings - belatedly - got a lot of attention. A new record for the list actually - 6,000 hits.

I doubt this list will get nearly as much traffic - but the attention and commentary that one got brought a few things to my attention. So I have made one revision to how the list is made.

First the revision. The Alexa rankings are old. By their nature, they show the popularity of a blog over time - 3 months to be precise. I thought that was fine, because I temper those with the Google Page Ranks. But when I was explaining what the Google PR was, it occurred to me that they’re old too.

Rather than have one old measure of influence, and another current measure of popularity - I ended up with two old measures that weren’t saying enough about what things are popular or hot or worthy or whatever they are now.

If you look on Alexa, you’ll also find weekly rankings. For this list I’ve begun to use those weekly rankings.

Another thing - not a change but an explanation. No one seems to know what Google Page Rank is and why it’s important. Google PR measures the influence of a blog, not just in shear number of links, but in the quality of those links.

This is how Google describes it:

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.

Or put in layman’s terms:

Well that’s cleared up.

Here are the listings for March - if I missed any blogs, tell me in the comments. Feel free to steal any graphics etc…