We’ve been analyzing historical TechMeme data to dig a little deeper than the leaderboard information on the site that shows top blogs over the trailing 30 days. Mark McGranaghan and I are slicing the data in a number of ways and will publish it shortly on CrunchBase.
For now we thought we’d show a teaser – below are the top 100 tech bloggers/authors, based on the total number of headlines they have had on TechMeme from January 1, 2008 until today. The data isn’t 100% perfect as we’ve been grabbing it only once per hour, so a headline that was up for less than one hour may not be counted. But in terms of tracking the most popular bloggers, the data is meaningful. Since a lot of the top leaderboard blogs are multi-author, this helps to shake out who’s actually writing the popular stories.
Clarification: This list doesn’t take into consideration authors who write for multiple publications.
Full list is below:
| Rank | Author | Property | Num. Headlines |
| 1 | Michael Arrington | TechCrunch | 207 |
| 2 | Erick Schonfeld | TechCrunch | 126 |
| 3 | Larry Dignan | Between the Lines | 105 |
| 4 | Duncan Riley | TechCrunch | 88 |
| 5 | Marshall Kirkpatrick | ReadWriteWeb | 75 |
| Henry Blodget | Silicon Alley Insider | 75 | |
| 7 | Mike Masnick | Techdirt | 65 |
| 8 | Thomas Ricker | Engadget | 55 |
| 9 | Mathew | mathewingram.com/work | 54 |
| 10 | Eric Savitz | Tech Trader Daily | 53 |
| 11 | Allen Stern | CenterNetworks | 52 |
| 12 | Om Malik | GigaOM | 51 |
| 13 | Josh Catone | ReadWriteWeb | 50 |
| 14 | Mary Jo Foley | All about Microsoft | 47 |
| Ryan Block | Engadget | 47 | |
| 16 | Joseph Weisenthal | paidContent.org | 44 |
| 17 | Rafat Ali | paidContent.org | 43 |
| Ionut Alex Chitu | Google Operating System | 43 | |
| 19 | Eric Bangeman | Ars Technica | 39 |
| Kara Swisher | BoomTown | 39 | |
| 21 | Mark Hendrickson | TechCrunch | 37 |
| 22 | Robert Scoble | Scobleizer | 36 |
| 23 | Jacqui Cheng | Ars Technica | 34 |
| Arn | MacRumors | 34 | |
| Elinor Mills | CNET News.com | 34 | |
| 26 | Brad Linder | Download Squad | 33 |
| Sarah Perez | ReadWriteWeb | 33 | |
| Saul Hansell | Bits | 33 | |
| 29 | Ina Fried | CNET News.com | 32 |
| Caroline McCarthy | CNET News.com | 32 | |
| Eric Eldon | VentureBeat | 32 | |
| 32 | Joshua Topolsky | Engadget | 31 |
| Greg Sandoval | CNET News.com | 31 | |
| 34 | Todd Bishop | Todd Bishop’s Microsoft Blog | 30 |
| MG Siegler | VentureBeat | 30 | |
| 36 | Anne Broache | CNET News.com | 29 |
| Ernesto | TorrentFreak | 29 | |
| 38 | Paul Miller | Engadget | 28 |
| MG Siegler | ParisLemon | 28 | |
| 40 | Nate Anderson | Ars Technica | 27 |
| 41 | Philip Elmer-DeWitt | Apple 2.0 | 26 |
| Fred | A VC | 26 | |
| Philipp Lenssen | Google Blogoscoped | 26 | |
| Miguel Helft | New York Times | 26 | |
| 45 | Liz Gannes | NewTeeVee | 25 |
| Marguerite Reardon | CNET News.com | 25 | |
| 47 | Rafe Needleman | Webware.com | 24 |
| Martin LaMonica | CNET News.com | 24 | |
| Peter Kafka | Silicon Alley Insider | 24 | |
| David Kaplan | paidContent.org | 24 | |
| 51 | Nilay Patel | Engadget | 23 |
| Darren Murph | Engadget | 23 | |
| Owen Thomas | Valleywag | 23 | |
| 54 | Erica Ogg | CNET News.com | 22 |
| Matt Buchanan | Gizmodo | 22 | |
| Greg Sterling | Search Engine Land | 22 | |
| Richard MacManus | ReadWriteWeb | 22 | |
| Caroline McCarthy | The Social | 22 | |
| Barry Schwartz | Search Engine Land | 22 | |
| 60 | Scott Karp | Publishing 2.0 | 21 |
| Adrian Kingsley-Hughes | Hardware 2.0 | 21 | |
| 62 | Dean Takahashi | Tech Talk with Dean Takahashi | 20 |
| Ryan Paul | Ars Technica | 20 | |
| Danny Sullivan | Search Engine Land | 20 | |
| Stacey Higginbotham | GigaOM | 20 | |
| Tom Krazit | One More Thing | 20 | |
| 67 | Dave Winer | Scripting News | 19 |
| Jesus Diaz | Gizmodo | 19 | |
| John Markoff | New York Times | 19 | |
| 70 | Doug Aamoth | CrunchGear | 18 |
| 71 | Staci D. Kramer | paidContent.org | 17 |
| Dan Frommer | Silicon Alley Insider | 17 | |
| Dawn Kawamoto | CNET News.com | 17 | |
| Joel Hruska | Ars Technica | 17 | |
| Ken Fisher | Ars Technica | 17 | |
| Steven Hodson | WinExtra | 17 | |
| Dan Farber | Between the Lines | 17 | |
| Matt Marshall | VentureBeat | 17 | |
| 79 | Joe Wilcox | Microsoft Watch | 16 |
| Jacqui Cheng | Infinite Loop | 16 | |
| Jason Chen | Gizmodo | 16 | |
| Caroline McCarthy | Webware.com | 16 | |
| Wilson Rothman | Gizmodo | 16 | |
| David A. Utter | WebProNews | 16 | |
| 85 | Cade Metz | The Register | 15 |
| Karl | DSLreports | 15 | |
| Nick | Rough Type | 15 | |
| Stephen Shankland | CNET News.com | 15 | |
| 89 | Chris Williams | The Register | 14 |
| Peter Ha | CrunchGear | 14 | |
| Michael Learmonth | Silicon Alley Insider | 14 | |
| Brian Stelter | New York Times | 14 | |
| Enigmax | TorrentFreak | 14 | |
| Nicholas Carlson | Valleywag | 14 | |
| Betsy Schiffman | Epicenter | 14 | |
| Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | HipMojo.com | 14 | |
| 97 | Tom Krazit | CNET News.com | 13 |
| Chris Ziegler | Engadget | 13 | |
| Dan Goodin | The Register | 13 | |
| Mike Butcher | TechCrunch UK | 13 | |
| Jason Calacanis | The Jason Calacanis Weblog | 13 | |
| Adam Ostrow | Mashable! | 13 | |
| Stefanie Olsen | CNET News.com | 13 | |
| Michael Liedtke | Associated Press | 13 | |
| Larry Dignan | Zero Day | 13 |
