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?

Update: What Justin says.

We called it a while ago…
We’ve been following her rise on Countdown with Keith Olbermann…
We’ve seen the glowing articles and commentary about her increase….

And then in a surprise post yesterday, Mr. Olbermann jumped over the MSNBC flaks to announce to the world that Rachel Maddow is getting her own show!

A couple hours later, Mr. Olbermann interviewed Ms. Maddow on Countdown. Watch below.

I’m relieved to hear that Rachel is continuing her radio show on Air America. In this day and age, part and parcel of being a high-impact personality is being able to engage and move different audiences on a multiple-platform level.

Ok–so a couple questions.
1) Who are the producers that are going to be booking guests? Let’s get ahead of the game on this one! Anyone have any scoop?
2) Who are some of the top “individuals” in the prog. media world that we would recommend to be guests on the show to start building our new high-impact personalities? (Let’s breed them!)
3) With this new forum, what are some of the most important topics/issues that should be a priority for Ms. Maddow throughout the year? It doesn’t hurt to start giving our opinion now!

Congrats to Rachel, Keith and MSNBC for such a brilliant move! And congrats to the progressive audience (and even the conservative audience!) for getting to engage with a brilliant new television host!