Here is how The Palgrave Econolog ranks the top economics blogs as of this writing:
- Marginal Revolution
- Paul Krugman
- Econbrowser
- Econlog
- Portfolio.com: Market Movers
- Economist's View
- Megan McArdle
- Macroblog
- Brad DeLong
- Dealbook
- Worthwhile Canadian Initiative
Wow. How did that happen?
Congrats!
Posted by: brendon | January 04, 2009 at 03:28 AM
"How did that happen?"
It happened because you write a great blog.
Posted by: Toro | January 04, 2009 at 07:09 AM
Congratulations indeed. Some hints as to "how it happened" are at this page on the Econolog site.
The rank seems to be based on incoming links from other blogs in their database. Your posts are evidently provoking some discussion. Poor Greg Mankiw is down at number 333...
Posted by: Leigh Caldwell | January 04, 2009 at 09:59 AM
And now we're at #15.
I think you're right about the incoming links criterion, but it's hard to see how Greg Mankiw could be at 333. Weird.
Posted by: Stephen Gordon | January 04, 2009 at 10:18 AM
Yes, it is odd. There are some technical reasons why it could happen [for geeks: they use the URLs from the blog's RSS feed to compare with incoming links. If the RSS feed does not use the same link format as the people making the links (e.g. http://feedburner.com/yourblog/post1.html instead of http://yourblog.com/post1.html), then it won't count as a link.]
However they have a specific exception for Feedburner which Mankiw's blog uses, so I would expect it to still work. It may be that his Feedburner configuration is slightly different than the standard - I get a different type of display when clicking on his RSS feed than my own.
OK, off now to submit my own blog (http://www.knowingandmaking.com/) to Econolog so I can join the competition!
Posted by: Leigh Caldwell | January 04, 2009 at 12:37 PM
Congrats. Unfortunately the fact that Megan McArdle is in the list casts a lot of doubt on the process.
Posted by: Kent | January 08, 2009 at 05:27 PM
Kent beat me to it: on that list you're #8 among economics blogs, disqualifying Felix (MarketMovers) and DealBook (NYT finance reporters) and McMegan (economics-free education).
Re: Mankiw. There's no reason to link to him; he provides no marginal utility.
Posted by: Ken Houghton | January 09, 2009 at 11:13 PM