nz blogosphere Top 20

After coffee overdosing and monitor fatigue from the project team (ie. me) the full survey of the nz blogosphere rankings for July are within a few hours of release. I would rather be a little bit late - and correct, than on time and wrong. I had a late minute addition of Winston's blog to do as well, since he started blogging in July. (It sounds like him - the rambling, ranting, accusatory, paranoid writing - but the man has rather too much on his bauble platter to be really churning out that much material.)

I have now put the top ranked 20 in the sidebar.

The Standard has overtaken Whale Oil. Both have sent me their traffic stats. To pre-empt the inevitable: I have verified that both of them have rendered accurate accounts. I have also removed the max.100 cap on comments and posts as this was arbitrary and more of a reflection of my laziness in counting than it was for any methodologically sound reasoning (this did not affect the outcome between 3 & 4 however).

Apart from the bronze, the top dozen are rather static. The big movers seem to be the more right wing blogs that have picked up their traffic count and content output - the latter driving the former most likely: Keeping Stock, NZ Conservative and Home Paddock helping to displace left Labour blogs of Jordan Carter and Tony Milne.