Blogosphere Authority Index

January 29, 2012

The Blogosphere Authority Index (BAI) is an aggregation system for separate rankings of blog authority.

Blogosphere Authority Index - Quick Overview
BAI	The raw NCS, HAS, STS, and CAS scores are combined, adding the three best scores together and dropping the fourth from the study, and then ranked to get the final BAI score.
NCS	The Network Centrality Score gathers applied sociometric data based on appearance in progressive blogrolls.
HAS	The Hyperlink Authority Score is a measure of a site's Authority among political bloggers using link patterns, as measured by Technorati^©.
STS	The Site Traffic Score measures visits per day statistics as measured by a combination of Sitememter^© and Alexa^© traffic rankings.
CAS	The Community Activity Score measures interactive participation as measured by total blog comments.

Progressive Blogs Combined Rank		BAI Rank	Conservative Blogs Combined Rank
Huffington Post	1	1	Hot Air	3
DailyKos	2	2	Big Government	7
Talking Points Memo	4	3	Ace Of Spades HQ	9
Crooks And Liars	5	4	Newsbusters	12
Atrios	6	5	Michelle Malkin	13
Firedoglake	8	6	Ann Althouse	15
Think Progress	10	7	Gateway Pundit	17
Balloon Juice	11	8	Volokh Conspiracy	18
Digby	14	9	Townhall	19
Juan Cole	15	10	Outside The Beltway	19
Truthdig	21	11	Patterico's Pontifications	23
America Blog	21	12	Little Green Footballs	26
Pandagon	24	13	Jihad Watch	26
Crooked Timber	25	14	Memeorandum	26
Glen Greenwald	29	15	American Thinker	30
Talk Left	31	16	Red State	31
Washington Monthly	33	17	Wizbang Blog	37
Lawyers, Guns, and Money	33	18	Just One Minute	38
Democratic Underground	35	19	Instapundit	42
Ezra Klein	35	20	Jawa Report	45
Five Thirty Eight	39	21	American Digest	46
Sadly, No!	40	22	IMAO	47
Shakespeares Sister	41	23	Betsy's Page	48
Mother Talkers	43	24	Professor Bainbridge	49
Taylor Marsh	44	25	Black Five	49

Number of Blogs In The Progressive Neighborhood: 25
Date Calculated: 1/29/2012

Blogosphere Authority Index Progressive Blogs
Blog		Component Score
Name	BAI	NCS	HAS	STS	CAS
Huffington Post	1	11	1	1	1
DailyKos	2	1	3	3	2
Talking Points Memo	3	4	5	4	4
Atrios	4	3	9	17	3
Crooks And Liars	5	4	4	9	13
Firedoglake	6	2	13	10	6
Think Progress	7	32	2	6	11
Balloon Juice	8	11	6	11	5
Digby	9	4	8	19	23
Juan Cole	10	9	10	14	30
America Blog	11	11	11	18	16
Talk Left	12	11	18	27	12
Truthdig	13	32	7	7	28
Pandagon	14	8	40	16	21
Crooked Timber	15	18	12	20	20
Washington Monthly	16	26	38	12	15
Democratic Underground	17	44	30	5	19
Ezra Klein	18	18	29		8
Glen Greenwald	19	7	41		9
Lawyers, Guns, and Money	19	26	31	24	7
Shakespeares Sister	21	32	26	22	10
Five Thirty Eight	22	32	35	2	25
Sadly, No!	23	26	20	29	14
Mother Talkers	24	11	32	40	18
Taylor Marsh	24	32	14	23	24

Number of Blogs In The Conservative Neighborhood: 26
Date Calculated: 1/29/2012

Blogosphere Authority Index Conservative Blogs
Blog		Component Score
Name	BAI	NCS	HAS	STS	CAS
Hot Air	1	1	1	1	1
Big Government	2	42	2	6	5
Ace Of Spades HQ	2	4	25	7	2
Newsbusters	4	20	7	3	10
Michelle Malkin	5	3	5	38	15
Gateway Pundit	5	9	24	8	6
Outside The Beltway	7	7	4	13	16
Ann Althouse	7	16	6	11	7
Volokh Conspiracy	9	12	3	12	12
Townhall	10	24	35	2	3
Patterico's Pontifications	11	9	11	42	11
Memeorandum	11	12	9	10	46
Little Green Footballs	13	31	17	14	4
Jihad Watch	13	24	8	9	18
Wizbang Blog	13	6	12	43	17
American Thinker	16	20	26	4	13
Just One Minute	17	31	14	17	9
Red State	18	31	40	5	8
Jawa Report	19	9	33	15	21
American Digest	20	27	10	18	29
IMAO	20	16	19	20	25
Professor Bainbridge	22	20	13	23	31
Betsy's Page	23	16	18	24	32
Black Five	24	31	15	16	28
Instapundit	25	2	23	35	38
PoliPundit	25	15	27	22	23

Number of Blogs In The Combined Neighborhood: 51
Date Calculated: 1/29/2012

Blogosphere Authority Index - Combined Blogs
Blog		Component Score
Name	BAI	NCS	HAS	STS	CAS
Huffington Post	1	16	1	1	1
DailyKos	2	1	4	3	2
Hot Air	3	7	3	7	3
Talking Points Memo	4	6	8	4	7
Crooks And Liars	5	5	6	15	28
Atrios	6	3	18	23	6
Big Government	7	51	5	13	10
Firedoglake	8	2	24	17	11
Ace Of Spades HQ	9	13	38	14	4
Think Progress	10	37	2	6	24
Balloon Juice	11	15	11	18	9
Newsbusters	12	40	14	10	16
Michelle Malkin	13	11	10	47	25
Digby	14	4	15	28	40
Ann Althouse	15	34	13	26	13
Juan Cole	15	12	19	21	45
Gateway Pundit	17	25	37	16	12
Volokh Conspiracy	18	29	7	27	21
Townhall	19	44	51	8	5
Outside The Beltway	19	22	9	30	26
America Blog	21	14	20	25	31
Truthdig	21	38	12	9	44
Patterico's Pontifications	23	24	23	49	20
Pandagon	24	10	47	22	37
Crooked Timber	25	20	21	29	36
Little Green Footballs	26	48	32	31	8
Memeorandum	26	30	17	24
Jihad Watch	26	43	16	20	35
Glen Greenwald	29	8	46		19
American Thinker	30	41	41	11	22
Red State	31	50	49	12	14
Talk Left	31	18	30	37	27
Lawyers, Guns, and Money	33	26	42	34	17
Washington Monthly	33	28	50	19	30
Democratic Underground	35	46	40	5	33
Ezra Klein	35	21	39		18
Wizbang Blog	37	19	27	48	34
Just One Minute	38	49	28	38	15
Five Thirty Eight	39	39	45	2	42
Sadly, No!	40	27	31	40	29
Shakespeares Sister	41	35	33	32	23
Instapundit	42	9	36	46
Mother Talkers	43	17	44	45	32
Taylor Marsh	44	36	25	33	41
Jawa Report	45	23	48	35	38
American Digest	46	45	22	39	47
IMAO	47	33	35	41	43
Betsy's Page	48	32	34	44	49
Black Five	49	47	29	36	46
Professor Bainbridge	49	42	26	43	48
PoliPundit	51	31	43	42	39