List of top 30 Feminist blogs, according to linkfluence

I (unfortunately) wasn’t at the Fem 2.0 conference, but I saw a recent post about the happenings over there. A really interesting group called Linkfluence (they visually mapped the sphere of influence of progressive and conservative blogs during the election) presented on the their visual map of the feminist web and made a list of the top 30 feminist blogs (according to their methodology).

Here’s background, the list and a password to see the map. And Sarah Granger over at Personal Democracy Forum gives us more background on why a map like this is useful and what it tells us.

When the data is compared with the political web, mashed up with it, it’s apparent how embedded within the progressive blogosphere the feminist web is, although it is definitely its own community as well, and how it’s more centrist than fringe on the map. Part of the discussion at Fem 2.0 was about how to reach out and get more traction on issues on other sites not necessarily considered “feminist” by their statistics, and the data shows that these sites dedicated to the discussion for and by women are not operating in an echo chamber.

Once you get to the map, you should click on the different dots (they represent individual blogs. The colored lines represent how the different sites are connecting to each other.
Red lines = who’s linking into that site.
Yellow lines = who that site is linking to
Green lines = mutual links

Check it out. It’s extremely interesting. Any blogs you’re surprised to see? What blogs are you surprised NOT to see?