nz blogosphere rankings : May survey release

Full list rankings have been released for the nz blogosphere May 2009 survey. There are 218 blogs currently on the list - the most ever.

Traffic was up a bit in the afterwash of the Veitch case, the cranking up of the Mt Albert by-election and the budget. Comments were also up over the 20 mark for many blogs. After last year's election a number of bloggers quit (some to join the new government) but there seems to be a momentum six months or so after that game-changing event that has increased interest in blogging and reinforced growing audience numbers. Some very fine blogs have debuted in the rankings for May.

The June survey is underway now - please send your blog stats (preferably with a screen grab or image of the unique visitor numbers) to:
editor (at) tumeke.org.

Thanks to all the bloggers participating. To assure those bloggers who are perhaps reticent: I have never, nor will I ever, email bloggers to demand their stats or send reminders out via email. The only notifications or nags anyone will receive is a general one via a post, like this. Once your blog traffic has been verified it will stay at that level for a month or so before being gradually reduced (as an estimate) if you do not send in your traffic. This is a method of incentivising disclosure of traffic without getting into the awkwardness and bureaucracy of hassling large numbers of often busy people for details they may consider trivial. Please also note the privacy provisions relating to the safeguarding of anonymous/pseudonymous authors at the end of the list: if you have not identified yourself publicly as the author your real name will not be listed.

Please put the url of any blogs that should be on the list in the comments section so they can be assessed for June. For example:
http://bkdrinkwater.blogspot.com/