这个研究有点意思：最热门的50个博客是如何互相链接的？

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《New York Magazine》对于博客来了一系列褒贬不一的深度分析文章，其中这个小文章很有意思。它画出了被链接最大的50个博客网站之间的互相链接图，可以大致窥视一下博客世界的相互关系。
这50个博客也很值得一读，时政、科技和娱乐等都有，堪称全球的“名人博客”。虽然号称全球，其实是美国的名人博客为主（也有几个日文和中文博客）。只不过，相比之下，目前国内爆炒的“名人博客”纯粹是一种自娱自乐，流于生活化、娱乐化，与现实世界的浮躁肤浅一脉相承，几乎没有知识含量。而美国的“名人博客”真正体现了名人的知识含量和知识素养，让人受益匪浅。我一直认为，美国和中国的普通博客没有多大区别（数量上占博客总量的99％以上），都是围绕日常生活。区别的主要是两国的名人博客，他们之间的差距一目了然。当然，这是题外话。
附录：50个热门博客名单
1.Boing Boing
A herald from the expanding fringe of Net culture: nerdy and fun.
2.Engadget
The Net’s premier tech blog and the flagship of the Weblogs, Inc., blog network. Pete Rojas, the brains behind the blog, specializes in product reviews and breaking news in gadget-land.
3.PostSecret
An online “art project” that allows people to read your deepest secrets on scanned anonymous postcards.
4.Daily Kos
Started by a U.S. Army veteran, Markos Moulitsas Zúniga, Daily Kos is the standard-bearer for liberal political blogs Netwide.
5.The Huffington Post
Famed national syndicated columnist, former California gubernatorial candidate, and former conservative Arianna Huffington gets on the blog bandwagon with a posse of famous friends in tow.
6.Gizmodo
Where Rojas used to work, before he jumped ship.
7.InstaPundit
University of Tennessee law prof Glenn Reynolds started spinning his libertarian-conservative punditry pre-9/11 and ranges freely among tech issues, law, politics, and the war on terror.
8.Thought Mechanics
A mishmash of Website design, code, music, and art.
9.Crooks and Liars
A lefty blog composed mostly of links to video clips from the MSM (that’s “mainstream media” to you).
10.spaces.msn.com/klcintw
The Horn Village Blog, in Chinese.
11.Michelle Malkin
Dubbed the Filipino Ann Coulter, Malkin writes about America-haters, illegal immigrants, and Democratic windbags.
12.SamZHU
In Chinese.
13.Dooce
The public suffering of a postpartum depressive. Mommies everywhere seem to relate.
14.Beppe Grillo Grillo, an Italian political satirist noted for packing stadiums in Italy and having giant wavy hair, writes an English/Italian blog peppered with strong anti-corruption, anti-globalization outrage and a pro-tech, pro-little-guy ethos. He knows his audience.
15.theme.blogfa.com
In Arabic.
16.Herramientas para Blogs
Madrid, Spain–based blogger Marcelino Madrigal writes in Spanish on music, graffiti, and whatever else he wants.
17.Lifehacker
Part of the Nick Denton blog empire, Lifehacker envisions a better world where computers make us more productive, rather than suck down our spare time.
18.locker2man
In Chinese.
19.Open Palm! silicn
In Japanese.
20.Think Progress
House organ of the Center for American Progress, a think tank led by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta.
21.Official Google Blog
As the name implies.
22.Kottke
Jason Kottke got his big break in 2000, when he was profiled by The New Yorker. Now he blogs full time.
23.Fark
A frenetic mix of Star Trek: The Next Generation tidbits and dorky Photoshop contests.
24.Gawker
The gossipy flagship of the Denton blog empire.
25.chattie555
What’s not to love about sketches of skinny adolescent Kimono-clad girls playing with hippos? In Japanese.
26.spaces.msn.com/gb2312
In Chinese.
27.spaces.msn.com/msn-sa
In Japanese.
28.lwhanz1981530
The blog of one pensive-looking Japanese boy with photos that highlight his six-pack and pecs. In Japanese.
29.Wonkette
Part of Denton’s empire, gossip for the D.C. set. Founding editor Ana Marie Cox handed over the reins in January, but it still dishes Cox-like ’tude.
30.shiraishi seesaa
In Japanese.
31.The Space Craft
Where Microsoft discusses its rather lame network of blog sites called Spaces.
32.Talking Points Memo
Josh Marshall has taken the blog form from couch-potato punditry to real journalism. He recently hired a reporter to muckrake full time.
33.spaces.msn.com/huangmj
More Japanese.
34.A List Apart
If the term liquid center makes you think of candy rather than a Web page, this site isn’t for you. Design tips and tricks for those in the business.
35.manabekawori
More Japanese.
36.spaces.msn.com/atiger
Welcome to “a Tiger’s Space.” In Chinese.
37.Power Line
A conservative political blog by three lawyers. The blog got famous during “Rathergate” for helping to prove that the docs used by CBS questioning Bush’s military record were fakes.
38.Weebl’s Stuff News
From the creators of Weebl and Bob, cartoon talking eggs who love, I mean love, pie. They’re Internet stars and were recently picked up by MTV UK.
39.Eschaton
Liberal pro-Dem political blog of Duncan Black (a.k.a. Atrios). Known for its serious, in-your-face invective.
40.Xiaxue
Self-absorbed travails of twentysomething lovelorn Wendy Cheng. Famous in Singapore, she has also been criticized as racist and xenophobic.
41.Joystiq
All things video-game related, and part of the Calacanis blog network that includes Engadget.
42.Little Green Footballs
A rabidly conservative war blog. The source of so much Net controversy that it spawned a watchdog, LGF.blogspot.com.
43.AMERICAblog
Lefty political blog famous for exposing Jeff Gannon, the male prostitute cleared to attend White House press conferences.
44.nosz50j
In Japanese.
45.Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky, CEO of a small New York–based software company, computer programmer, and book author, shares his coding tips.
46.spaces.msn.com/gouy2k
In Japanese.
47.princesscecicastle
Lots of blurry cam shots of 19-year-old Ceci and her friends in Toronto. In Chinese.
48.Google Blogoscoped
A Google gossip-watch site run from Stuttgart, Germany.
49.The Superficial
Maliciously funny celeb gossip that—along with the ubiquitous celebrity boob and butt shots—keeps you coming back for more.
50.Andrew Sullivan
A gay, Catholic war supporter, albeit one who is very critical of Bush. In January, he leased the site to Time Warner.
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