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The 10 RSS Whores of the Blogosphere

Posted by hts | January 4, 2008 .


The following is a list with the blogs which have the most RSS subscribers on the blogosphere. If you add up the readers of these 10 blogs alone, they would inhabit a city bigger than Los Angeles.

Notes: click on the name of each blog to go to their homepage, click on the “chicklet” image to subscribe to their feed.

Also, please note that the numbers of RSS readers are automatically generated from FeedBurner stats and will most certainly change. If the ranking of a blog would also change due to this, please let me know so I can update the top. Thanks.

Now, here’s the list:

  1. Engadget


    2. With almost a million and a half readers, Engadget is the biggest blog on the Internet in terms of RSS readership.
    Engadget is a blog about, duh, gadgets and consumer electronics, with daily posts about everything new in this area.
    Engadget belongs to the WebInc network of blogs, now owned by AOL (who bought it from Jason Calacanis)

  2. Techcrunch


    3. The 2nd spot is occupied by Techcrunch - a blog coedited by Michael Arrington and Erick Schonfeld. Founded on June 11, 2005, Techcrunch writes about new Internet products and companies. Besides, they tell you about the big players on the new web space. A must-read.

  3. Simply Recipes


    4. This blog makes you hungry by presenting hundreds of tested recipes, gathered over the time by the family and friends of the writer of the blog, Elise Bauer (which, by the way, is sexy+geekish+great cook=perfect wife). Amazingly, the 3rd spot is occupied by a non-geeky blog.

  4. Boing Boing


    5. The direct competitor of Engadget, Boing Boing is a blog about gadgets, electronics, technology stuff, spiced up by some humour. They write an avalanche of posts/day, so be prepared if you subscribe to their feed.

  5. Daily Kos


    6. Daily Kos is the premier political community in the United States, with traffic of about 600,000 daily visits. Among luminaries posting diaries on the site are President Jimmy Carter, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and dozens of other senators, congressmen, and governors. So if you are into any politics, this is a must-have.

  6. Free iTunes Songs


    7. The 6th spot is taken by a blogspot-hosted blog, which offers free songs to download for iTunes. In fact, the songs are the ones from the Apple store - the blog just lists the free ones. It seems there are sooo many mac-fanboys out there.

  7. Frekonomics


    8. This seems to be a very popular blog on nytimes site. As you can learn from their logo, they write about “everything” (well, the hidden side of it, but still…everything). Some kind of hybrid: newspaper-blog. Anyway, it has a huge number of RSS readers, so it deserves the 7th spot.

  8. Read/Write Web


    9. Coming only few thousands subscribers behind, Read/Write Web gets the 8th spot, providing Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It is a good source for news on the latest Web 2.0 developments, so go ahead and subscribe if you are into this.

  9. Duct Tape Marketing


    10. Duct Tape Marketing Blog was chosen as a Forbes favorite for small business and marketing and is a Harvard Business School featured marketing site. This blog was also chosen as “Best Small Business Marketing Blog” in 2004, 2005 and 2006. You must read this blog if you are a marketer - no matter what kind of.

  10. Mashable


    11. With in excess of 5 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the world’s largest blog on social networking. If you’re launching a new social network, Mashable wants to know! So, wait you’re waiting for? Hire a top-notch programmer team, create the next MySpace and let them know about your achievement.

So, this is it. The blogs with the biggest readers base in the world. If I missed a blog (yours?), please let me know and I’ll make the necessary updates.

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  1. RatingBurner - top of blogs by RSS numbers | imbaDev January 31, 2008 6:59 pm

    […] this is a nice list, it seems highly inaccurate, right from the beginning. As you can see in the Top 10 RSS “whores” of the blogosphere I’ve compiled previously, TechCrunch is not on the first spot, being outnumbered by Engadget. […]