I’m too busy.  The system needs tinkering and I don’t have a minute to do it.  I’ve got a new business, it makes money, it’s fun, I just opened our downtown office etc… etc…

If I have a spare minute, I try and spend it at home with Cathy, catching up with old friends, or more likely than anything else – drumming up new business.

So until I do eventually find some time (or interest) to re-launch that list thing – it will be on indeffinite hiatus.  If you are wondering who was on the list for October – I don’t know.

This is the second anniversary of this list thing.  I may procrastinate, but you can’t say that I’m a quitter.

The summer has ended with about 50 fast rising blogs just barely above an Alexa rank of 1,000,000 – meaning that at least 3 or 4 of them are set to crack the list next month, which should give a bit more diversity to what we see here.

Anyhow here is the list – feel free to steal the graphics etc… .  FYI – I suspect I’ll be revising the methodology for next month.

1. Michael Geist PR7      Alexa:173,171
2. Matthew Good PR6      Alexa:250,715
3. The Shotgun Blog PR6      Alexa:263,670
4. James Bow PR6      Alexa:318,218
5. Colby Cosh PR6      Alexa:732,022
6. Steyn Online PR5      Alexa:106,044
7. Ghost of a Flea PR5      Alexa:158,225
8. Calgary Grit PR5      Alexa:217,868
9. Ezra Levant PR5      Alexa:249,144
10. Five Feet of Fury PR5      Alexa:271,748
11. Warren Kinsella PR5      Alexa:367,467
12. GenXat40 PR5      Alexa:404,529
13. Blazing Cat Fur PR5      Alexa:468,891
14. MADinosaur PR5      Alexa:470,894
15. SlapUpsidetheHead PR5      Alexa:487,091
16. Quebec Politique PR5      Alexa:631,390
17. Stephen Taylor PR5      Alexa:649,059
18. Canadian Cynic PR5      Alexa:669,488
19. Jay Currie PR5      Alexa:747,995
20. BeneDiction Blogs On PR5      Alexa:847,534
21. Vive Le Canada PR5      Alexa:850,069
22. Dr Dawg PR5      Alexa:870,782
23. Law is Cool PR5      Alexa:882,802
24. David Akin PR5      Alexa:937,333
25. Free Canuckistan PR5 Alexa:965,165
26. Small Dead Animals PR4      Alexa:150,055
27. Chinese in Vancouver PR4      Alexa:382,940
28. Maple Leaf Web PR4      Alexa:416,980
29. April Reign PR4      Alexa:599,998
30. StageLeft PR4      Alexa:765,009
etc…

I lost last month’s rankings on Cathy’s Mac.  So this is the ‘Summer’ edition for July and August.  No comment, no pretty formatting – as I type this it is … 12:51 am. I have a meeting in Richmond at 10:30am tomorrow.  So there you go:

1. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ – pr7 – 182,020
2. http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/ – pr6 – 169,602
3. http://westernstandard.blogs.com/ – pr6 – 266,842
4. http://www.bowjamesbow.ca/blog.shtml – pr6 – 407,334
5. http://eaves.ca/ – pr6 – 497,336
6. http://www.steynonline.com/content/blogsection/14/128/ – pr5 – 113,788
7. http://www.ghostofaflea.com/ – pr5 – 187,193
8. http://ezralevant.com/ – pr5 – 233,767
9. http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/ – pr5 – 257,639
10. http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/ – pr5 – 297,502
11. http://www.genx40.com/ – pr5 – 396,743
12. http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/ – pr5 – 423,669
13. http://www.warrenkinsella.com/ – pr5 – 459,838
14. http://www.slapupsidethehead.com/ – pr5 – 469,717
15. http://smalldeadanimals.com/ – pr4 – 146,236
16. http://mitchieville.com/ – pr4 – 364,324
17. http://www.chineseinvancouver.ca/ – pr4 – 413,946
18. http://blazingcatfur.blogspot.com/ – pr5 – 562,358
19. http://www.quebecpolitique.com/ – pr5 – 618,950
20. http://www.stephentaylor.ca/ – pr5 – 656,682
21. http://canadiancynic.blogspot.com/ – pr5 – 737,860
22. http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/ – pr5 – 825,913
23. http://lawiscool.com/ – pr5 – 874,663
24. http://www.benedictionblogson.com/ – pr5 – 929,232
25. http://www.vivelecanada.ca/ – pr5 – 988,928

Exit question – is this political enough for the list?  http://shamelessmag.com/blog/

I’m busy, very very busy, so it’s been hard to find time to do this.  But here you go.  The is the 22nd or 23rd edition of Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs …

FYI – help yourself to the top 25 logo.

1.  Michael Geist.ca – pr7 – 226086
2.  The Hook - pr6 – 141889
3.  Small Dead Animals.com – pr6 – 179209
4.  Western Standard Shotgun Blog – pr6 – 318564
5.  Eaves.ca – pr6 – 416174
6.  SteynOnLine – pr5 – 125051
7.  GhostofaFlea.com – pr5 – 238884
8.  Ezra Levant.com – pr5 – 269320
9.  Five Feet of Fury – pr5 – 309254
10. Marginalized Action Dinosaur – pr5 – 318601
11. Calgary Grit – pr5 – 337609
12. Warren Kinsella.com – pr5 – 350603
13. GenXat40 – pr5 – 464021
14. Mitchieville – pr5 – 465699
15. Slap Upside the Head – pr5 – 479510
16. Quebec Politique.com – pr5 – 601125
17. Abandoned Stuff.com – pr5 – 616313
18. David Akin’s On The Hill – pr5 – 619074
19. Stephen Taylor.com – pr5 – 760713
20. Law is Cool – pr5 – 903533
21. Jay Currie – pr5 – 910380
22. Bene Diction Blogs On – pr5 – 915627
23. Vive Le Canada – pr5 – 980962
24. Blazing Cat Fur – pr5 – 996009
25. Chinese in Vancouver – pr4 – 524005

This is the 20th edition of this list thing.  I’ve changed the way I do this a little bit – I’ve stopped using Alexa weeklies, and am just sticking with the quarterlies.  It’ll make a slight difference, but I don’t have enough time to allow me to do otherwise.

1 – Michael Geist – 256178 – pr7
2 – The Hook - 138177 – pr6
3 – Small Dead Animals – 188614 -  pr6
4 – Ghost of a flea – 237800 – pr6
5 – Western Standard – 287077 – pr6
6 – Matthew Good – 292103 – pr6
7 – Eaves.ca – 419696 – pr6
8 – SteynOnline – 128811 – pr5
9 – Ezra Levant – 261742 – pr5
10 – Calgary Grit - 267425 – pr5
11 – Warren Kinsella – 268169 – pr5
12 – FiveFeet of Fury – 272211 – pr5
13 – NoLibs.com – 361801 – pr5
14 – Marginalized Action Dinosaur – 367316 – pr5
15 – David Akin – 475873 – pr5
16 – Abandoned Stuff - 478635 – pr5
17 – Quebec Politique – 608101 – pr5
18 – Stephen Taylor – 817469 – pr5
19 – Jay Currie – 834640 – pr5
20 – Bene Diction Blogs On – 885965 – pr5
21 – Red Tory – 918522 – pr5
22 – MapleLeafWeb – 207762 – pr4
23 – Genxat40 – 490304 – pr4
24 – Mitchieville – 501443 – pr4
25 – Blazing CatFur – 770843 – pr4

The list is late as usual.  I’ll skip the preamble, here are the numbers

[nb. one small mistake in the order of the rankings.  No Libs moved up to 15th from 17th place.  Everything else bumped back a bit.  Fixed.]:

1.   Michael Geist – pr7 – 339,391
2.   The Hook – pr6 – 147,382
3.   Small Dead Animals – pr6 – 206,967
4.   Western Standard – pr6 – 250,498
5.   Matthew Good – pr6 – 366,987
6.   Ghost of a Flea – pr6 – 382,870
7.   Eaves – pr6 – 460,346
8.   Steyn on Line – pr5 – 127,071
9.   Calgary Grit – PR5 – 193,600
10. Warren Kinsella – pr5 – 341,583
11. MADionsaur – pr5 – 346,443
12. Ezra Levant – pr5 – 349,366
13. David Akin – pr5 – 368,765
14. Five Feet of Fury – pr5 – 377,908
15. No-Libs – pr5 – 576,141
16. Québec Politique – pr5 – 604,036
17. Abandoned Stuff – pr5 – 674,748
18. Red Tory – pr5 – 895,048
19. BeneDiction – pr5 – 915,087
20. Jay Currie – pr5 – 935,035
21. Buck Dog – pr5 – 945,080
22. Free Canuckistan – pr5 – 956,172
23. Maple Leaf Web – pr4 – 138,746
24. Genxat40 – pr4 – 427,100
25. Mitchieville – pr4 – 584,222

Here is the belated rankings for Canada’s Top25 Political Blogs.  I cross checked the rankings with whatever available stats I was able to find, a bit of triangulation involved which I don’t show in the rankings, but it’s there.

There’s also a new logo.  With Canada’s Top 25 Business Blogs, and Top 25 Political Blogs both up and running, I’ve standardized the logo between the two.

Feel free to steal it if you like.

1 – Michael Geist - PR7 – 203,429
2 – The Hook – PR6 – 168,279
3 - Small Dead Animals – PR6 – 171,791
4 – Ghost of a Flea – PR6 – 191,904
5 – Ezra Levant – PR6 – 274,258
6 – Matthew Good - PR6 – 315,549
7 – Eaves.ca – PR7 – 319,586*
8 – The Western Standard – PR6 – 335,619
9 – Daimnation – PR6 – 477,981
10 - SteynOnLine – PR5 – 121,597
11 – Warren Kinsella – PR5 – 192,082
12 – Five Feet of Fury -PR5 – 254,569
13 – Blazing Cat Fur – PR5 – 357,720
14 – David Akin – PR5 – 476,504
15 – MADinosaur – PR5 – 484,578
16 – Jay Currie - PR5 -  511,361
17 – Stephen Taylor - PR6 – 515,781*
18 – April Reign – PR 5 – 643,680
19 – QuebecPolitique.com – PR5 – 732,371
20 – Abandoned Stuff – PR5 – 778,930
21 – GenX at 40 – PR5 – 794,167
22 – Buckdog – PR5 – 800,000*
23 – Bow. James Bow – PR5 – 834,961
24 – MyBlahg – PR5 – 998,816
25 – MapleLeafWeb – PR4 – 145,098

The Top 25 from previous months can be found here:

10-07 | 11-07 | 12-07 | 01-08 | 02-08 | 03-08 | 04-08 | 05-08 |  06-08 | 07-08 | 08-08 | 09-08 |  10-08 |  11-08 |  12-08 | 01-09 | 02-09 | 03-09

There are a couple new additions to the list.  One of them, I don’t know – it’s iffy for me.  The DeSomgBlog was dropped this month.  If there isn’t a single post on Canadian politics on the start page, I skip it and move on.  Garth Turner retired from blogging this month, so he was also dropped from the list.

Besides that, mostly the same big names.

One bit of news: I’ll be adding a Top 25 Canadian Business Blogs ranking to my site.  It will launch next Monday.  I find I’m reading the business sites as much as the political sites.  From time to time I’ve found some really good business advice on those sites and I’d like to draw more attention to them.  If you know of any good business blogs, please let me know in the comments.

For now, here are the Top 25 Political Blogs for the month of February:

1.    Michael Geist |  PR 7  | Alexa 199,809
2.    The Hook | PR 6  |  Alexa  118,096
3.    Small Dead Animals |  PR 6  |  Alexa  144,069
4.    Ghost of a Flea |  PR 6  |  Alexa  205,942
5.   The Shotgun Blog |  PR 6  |  Alexa  243,245
6.    Matthew Good |  PR 6  |  Alexa  270,768
7.    Eaves |  PR 7  | Alexa   343,351*
8.    Ezra Levant |  PR 6  | Alexa  363,400
9.    Steyn On Line |  PR 5  | Alexa   124,257
10.    Five Feet of Fury |  PR 5  |  Alexa  190,256
11.    DavidAkin |  PR 5  |  Alexa  334,875
12.    April Reign |  PR 5  |  Alexa  418,849
13.    Bow. James Bow |  PR 5  | Alexa  424,732
14.    Warren Kinsella |  PR 5  |  Alexa  478,232
15.   Canadian Cynic |  PR 5  |  Alexa  512,186
16.    Abandoned Stuff |  PR 5  |  Alexa  538,270
17.    Slap Upside the Head |  PR 5  |  Alexa  580,340
18.    Stephen Taylor |  PR 6 |   Alexa  654,155*
19.    Gen X at 40 |  PR 5 |   Alexa  692,991
20.    M.A.Dinosaur |  PR 5    Alexa  739,405
21.    Dawg’s Blog | PR 5  |  Alexa  774,398
22.    Quebec Politique |  PR 5  |  Alexa  813,553
23.    Blazing Cat Fur |  PR 5  |  Alexa  826,001
24.    Jay Currie |  PR 5  |  Alexa  848,596
25.    Maple Leaf Web |  PR 5  |  Alexa  175,495

The Top 25 from previous months can be found here:

10-07 | 11-07 | 12-07 | 01-08 | 02-08 | 03-08 | 04-08 | 05-08 |  06-08 | 07-08 | 08-08 | 09-08 |  10-08 |  11-08 |  12-08 | 01-09 | 02-09

Here are January’s Top25 blogs.  Quite a lot of math this time, hence the asterisks.

1. Small Dead Animals -   PR6   -   Alexa: 168,029
2. Ghost of a Flea -   PR6   -   Alexa:207,410
3. The Hook -   PR6   -   Alexa: 265,349
4. Desmogblog -   PR7   -   Alexa:313,462*
5. Eaves -   PR7   -   Alexa:377,650*
6. Ezra Levant -   PR6   -   Alexa:394,761
7. Matthew Good -   PR6   -   Alexa:429,837
8. Western Standard -   PR6   -   Alexa:472,369
9. SteynOnline -   PR5   -   Alexa:128,222
10. Five Feet of Fury -   PR5   -   Alexa:298,495
11. Bow. James Bow -   PR5   -   Alexa:324,550
12. Warren Kinsella -   PR5   -   Alexa:377,105
13. Bene Diction -   PR5   -   Alexa:415,966
14. Michael Geist -   PR7   -   Alexa:525,814*
15. Genxat40 -   PR5   -   Alexa:534,037
16. Colby Cosh -  PR6   -  Alexa:535,722*
17. Stageleft -   PR5   -   Alexa:625,611
18. Damian Penny -   PR6   -   Alexa:649,680*
19. Canadian Cynic -   PR5   -   Alexa:706,789
20. Stephen Taylor -   PR6   -   Alexa:719,488*
21. Saskboy -   PR5   -   Alexa:846,489
22. Red Tory -   PR5   -   Alexa:949,124
23. My Blahg -   PR5   -   Alexa:957,657
24. Devin Johnson -   PR5   -   Alexa:969,269
25. MapleLeafWeb -   PR4   -   Alexa:544,859

The Western Standard is number one this month.  At least it got more traffic and respect than any other blog in the past 30 days.  That said it is true that if you add up the traffic and inbound links from Canadian Cynic, Scott’s Diatribes, and Buckdog into a … ‘coalition’, if you will, they easily outnumber what the Standard got.  So what I’m saying is that Canada’s real first choice is Werner Patels. Congrats Werner.

1 – Western Standard
http://westernstandard.blogs.com/
pr 6
169,957

2 – SmallDeadAnimals
http://smalldeadanimals.com/
pr 6
244,440

3 – Ghost of a Flea
http://ghostofaflea.com/
PR6
260,237

4 – Matthew Good
http://www.matthewgood.org/
PR6
280,004

5 – Ezra Levant
http://ezralevant.com/
pr 6
292,114

6 – Steynonline
http://www.steynonline.com/
pr5
102,932

7 – Maple Leaf Web
http://www.mapleleafweb.com/blog
PR 5
193,118

8 – Five Feet of Fury
http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/
pr 5
206,500

9 – Warren Kinsella
http://warrenkinsella.com/
Pr 5
259,814

10 – Bow. James Bow
http://www.bowjamesbow.ca/blog.shtml
pr 5
267,586

11 – Genxat40
http://www.genx40.com/
pr 5
351,683

12 – Canadian Cynic
http://canadiancynic.blogspot.com/
pr 5
460,509

13 – Abandoned Stuff
http://www.abandonedstuff.com/
pr 5
499,249

14 – Garth Turner
http://www.garth.ca/weblog/
PR 5
526,800

15 – Stephen Taylor
http://www.stephentaylor.ca/
pr 5
535,020

16 – David Akin
http://davidakin.blogware.com/
pr 5
560,268

17 – MADinosaur
http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/
PR5
623,360

18 – Eaves.ca
http://eaves.ca/
pr 6
653,067*

19 – Daimnation
http://www.damianpenny.com/
PR 6
690,666*

20 – Red Tory
http://redtory.wordpress.com/
pr 5
680,382

21 – Jay Currie
http://jaycurrie.info-syn.com/
pr 5
701,507

22 – A dime a dozen political blog
http://rjjago.wordpress.com/
pr 5
749,546

23 – Calgary Grit
PR5
http://calgarygrit.blogspot.com/
777,921

24 – Buckdog
http://buckdogpolitics.blogspot.com/
pr 5
800,216

25 – Dr Dawg
http://drdawgsblawg.blogspot.com/
pr 5
815,141

I checked 350 blogs for this thing.  According to the CBC that’s half of what’s out there.  It’s always possible I missed your site.  It’s not a conspiracy – just send me your URL and I’ll include you next time.

Alexa numbers are weeklies not quarterlies, so they are different from what you see in your Alexa toolbar. This is done to reduce the impact of Digg and Reddit swarms.   PR’s now cut off at 5 – if you’re below that, you don’t make the list.  Other details are in the Top 25 link at the top of the page.

1. PR 7    http://www.michaelgeist.ca/ 328,839
2. PR 6    http://www.steynonline.com/ 149,753
3. PR 6    http://smalldeadanimals.com/ 192,050
4. PR 6    http://westernstandard.blogs.com/ 198,607
5. PR 6    http://ghostofaflea.com/ 204,835
6. PR 6    http://www.matthewgood.org/ 308,093
7. PR 6    http://ezralevant.com/ 328,302
8. PR 5    http://www.fivefeetoffury.com/ 202,231
9. PR 5    http://warrenkinsella.com/ 243,962
10. PR 5    http://www.genx40.com/ 281,192
11. PR 5    http://marginalizedactiondinosaur.net/ 308,872
12. PR 5    http://www.bowjamesbow.ca/blog.shtml 381,916
13. PR 5    http://www.mapleleafweb.com/blog 394,180
14. PR 5    http://aprilreign.breadnroses.ca/ 420,814
15. PR 5    http://www.abandonedstuff.com/ 498,697
16. PR 6    http://www.damianpenny.com/ 543,884*
17. PR 5    http://rjjago.wordpress.com/ 585,560
18. PR 5    http://www.stephentaylor.ca/ 610,321
19. PR 5    http://davidakin.blogware.com/ 756,031
20. PR 5    http://www.garth.ca/weblog/ 862,147
21. PR 5    http://girlontheright.com/ 899,564
22. PR 5    http://plawiuk.blogspot.com/ 911,974
23. PR 5    http://www.vivelecanada.ca/ 950,564
24. PR 5    http://redtory.wordpress.com/ 969,035
25. PR 5    http://canadiancynic.blogspot.com/ 985,445

Below you will find Canada’s Top 25 Political Blogs for October. These are ranked according to a combination of influence and web traffic. You can read the specifics of that here.

I have de-politicized the sidebar of my blog for a few days to allow people from other parties to link over without hesitation.  Huge changes on the list, especially with both Steyn and Levant on hiatus, and my dropping of a certain prominent single issue blog from the list.

If there’s something I left out – please let me know in the comments section below.

Current Rank Site Google Page Rank Alexa Traffic Rank September Rank

1. Western Standard Shotgun Blog | Google PR6 | Alexa 143475 | SR 6|
2. Small Dead Animals | Google PR6 | Alexa 155608 | SR 2 |
3. Ghost of a Flea | Google PR6 | Alexa 186545 | SR 8 |
4. Matthew Good| Google PR6 | Alexa 202928 | SR 3 |
5. Daimnation! | Google PR6 | Alexa 417858 | SR 5 |
6. Five Feet of Fury | Google PR5 | Alexa: 170082 | SR 7 |
7. Warren Kinsella | Google PR5 | Alexa: 193163 | SR 16 |
8. A Dime a Dozen etc… | Google PR5 | Alexa: 278832 | SR 14 |
9. Bow. James Bow | Google PR5 | Alexa: 332255 | SR 10 |
10. Garth Turner | Google PR5 | Alexa: 338235 | SR 11 |
11. David Akin | Google PR5 | Alexa: 342361 | SR 20 |
12. Dr. Dawg | Google PR5 | Alexa: 367099 | SR 18 |
13. Jason Cherniak | Google PR5 | Alexa: 372684 | SR 24 |
14. Blazing Cat Fur | Google PR5 | Alexa: 375281 | SR — |
15. Canadian Cynic | Google PR5 | Alexa: 378392 | SR 12 |
16. Marginalized Action Dinosaur | Google PR5 | Alexa: 389305 | SR — |
17. Stephen Taylor | Google PR5 | Alexa 411700 | SR — |
18. Abandoned Stuff | Google PR5 | Alexa: 434797 | SR 15 |
19. Steynian | Google PR5 | Alexa: 468083 | SR 19 |
20. Jay Currie | Google PR5 | Alexa: 476695 | SR 25 |
21. Galloping Beaver | Google PR6 | Alexa: 520409* | SR 22 |
22. GenXat40 | Google PR5 | Alexa: 533083 | SR 17 |
23. Right Girl | Google PR5 | Alexa: 560481 | SR –|
24. Steve Janke | Google PR5 | Alexa: 567055 | SR — |
25. Big City Lib | Google PR5 | Alexa: 636756 | SR 21 |

WEBMASTERS: Go ahead and steal any ‘Top 25′ graphics.

Before you ask, RedTory, StageLeft, CalgaryGrit, Scott Tribe finished 26-29 respectively.  Beyond that, I don’t remember.