nz blogosphere rankings : May 2009 summary

NZ blogosphere May 2009 survey will be released tomorrow (Thursday) - this is the summary. The only thing expanding in this recession seems to be the NZ blogosphere : traffic is up, blog numbers are up. Maybe it's all the newly unemployed starting blogs? There were more comments in May than any month I can remember due in part to the inclusion of some new blogs - six of them appearing in the top 100. Cactus Kate declared her traffic after drifting down the rankings - that was the major change for the top 20. June survey is now underway - see note at end of post.

Changes from last month (April) in brackets.

Top 100:

[new] this survey:
#28 (new) Red Alert : www.blog.labour.org.nz
05/2009+ "Labour MPs on issues that we care about"

#33 (new) Being Frank : www.beingfrank.co.nz
07/2006+ "Seven 20-something New Zealand Catholics"

#48 (new) Sustain:if:able Kiwi : www.emergentkiwi.org.nz
11/2003+ "seeking a sustain-if-able spirituality with God/self/people/place/culture"

#51 (new) Editing the Herald : www.editingtheherald.blogspot.com
01/2009+ "Inventing and perpetuating news-rage journalism"

#61 (new) Life and Politics : www.lifeandpolitics.wordpress.com
04/2009+ "Occasional comment on politics and the media in New Zealand"

#80 (new) And Slaters Go Plop : www.damian.peterson.net.nz
03/2007+ "The Bloggery"

[+] significant ranking moves up:
#6 (+3) Dim Post
#9 (+11) Cactus Kate
#19 (+4) Offsetting Behaviour
#20 (+7) Poneke’s Weblog : www.poneke.wordpress.com
#39 (+18) Hitting Metal With A Hammer
#49 (+15) TBR.cc (The Briefing Room)
#59 (+10) G.blog
#79 (+19) Brian Edwards Media

[-] significant ranking moves down:
#18 (-4) The Visible Hand in Economics
#24 (-6) In a strange land
#26 (-7) Open Parachute
#35 (-9) MandM
#40 (-11) The Persuader
#44 (-11) Radical cross stitch
#55 (-16) Capitalism bad, Tree pretty
#64 (-11) Kotare | The strategist
#68 (-13) Just Left
#69 (-17) Monkeys with Typewriters
#81 (-11) Aotearoa: a wider perspective
#84 (-10) Silent Running
#90 (-12) Ideologically Impure
#93 (-17) Kiwi Polemicist
#98 (-39) Media Fetish

[Posts] Average per week:
140 (-) Whoar
60 (-10) Kiwiblog
55 (n/a) Inquiring Mind
50 (+15) Home Paddock
45 (+5) Standard
35 (+5) TUMEKE!
35 (+5) Keeping Stock
30 (-25) Whaleoil
30 (-5) No Minister
30 (-) Not PC
30 (+5) No Right Turn
30 (+5) Hand Mirror
20 (-10) Roar Prawn
20 (n/a) Frogblog
20 (new) Red Alert

[Comments] Average highest post per week:
510 (+55) Public Address
185 (+40) Frogblog
165 (-20) Kiwiblog
105 (+10) Standard
75 (new) Being Frank
60 (n/a) TBR.cc
55 (+20) Dim Post
45 (n/a) Not PC
40 (+10) Hand Mirror
40 (+5) NZ Conservative
40 (new) Red Alert
35 (new) Editing the Herald
35 (-) Kiwipolitico
30 (+5) TUMEKE!
30 (+5) Cactus Kate
30 (-) TVHE
30 (-) Whaleoil
30 (+5) No Minister
25 (-30) Open Parachute
25 (-10) Hot Topic
25 (-5) In a Stranage Land
25 (+5) Reading the Maps
20 (n/a) New Zeal
20 (-5) Eye of the Fish
20 (n/a) Workers Party
20 (n/a) Brian Edwards Media
20 (-40) MandM
20 (n/a) Object Dart

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Thanks to all those bloggers who have sent in their stats (editor (at) tumeke.org) and to those about to send them in for June.