The Wikio Science Blog Rankings for May

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1 Wired Science - Wired Blog 2 Watts Up With That? 3 Climate Progress 4 Environmental Capital 5 Dispatches from the Culture Wars 6 TierneyLab - New York Times blog 7 Gristmill 8 Respectful Insolence 9 Effect Measure 10 The Frontal Cortex 11 Next Generation Science 12…
It's not easy keeping track of all the ScienceBlogs. Take four dozen witty and prolific science writers, some of whom post more than once a day, spread them out across a wide range of disciplines and sub-specialties, and what you'll have yourself is a big, tangly embarrassment of riches. What's a…
The blogroll toward the bottom of the sidebar on the left displays 15 random links from the list below. 10,000 Birds 3 Quarks Daily Abu Aardvark Acephalous Ad Hominin Advances in the History of Psychology All in the Mind Anna's Bones The Annotated Budak Bad Astronomy Bad Science…
I know I'm sure as hell having a hard time keeping up with all the comings and goings. If anything, the impression is probably that the lights are practically out and we're all singing Old Lang Syne. This, of course, is far from the case. The lights are still on, we're most of us blogging away.…

From the Wikio info page:


    The position of a blog in the Wikio ranking depends on the number and weight of the incoming links from other blogs. Our algorithm accords a greater value to links from blogs placed higher up in the ranking. [...]
    Only links found in RSS feeds are counted. Blogrolls are not taken into account.

So this is basically a measure of how much "buzz" a given blog generates. Which explains why 3 of the top 4 are climate blogs (and why Anthony Watts is #2 while Ed Yong is #15...)