Recovered from a dead backlink. This is the post that, more than anything else I wrote in the Gyaan Sutra era, is still cited across the web nearly two decades later, Wikipedia's Desicritics entry among them. The live page died along with the old blog, so I pulled it back from a 2009 Wayback Machine snapshot and I'm restoring the full ranking here, close to verbatim. A follow-up post a few weeks later automated the whole exercise as a tool called Ploterati.
The complete A-list of the Indian Blogosphere
Posted 27 March 2007
A list of Indian blogs ordered by Technorati ranks is now available on Ploterati. This list is not updated anymore, please head over to Ploterati.
It's an epic battle of biblical proportions in the blogosphere.
1,249,720 blogs have talked about India in the last 24 hours. Ever since internet started exploding in India in 2002, hundreds and thousands of people have taken to blogging. A million minds are speaking out together at the same time. So who is the one who is getting heard, who are the people listening to. This the question I set out to answer.
And the answer wasn't easy. Every blog community comes out with its own answers, but those are not the ones I was looking for. I was looking for an impartial barometer, which could tell me quantitatively, about where the wind was flowing, or as they say in the blogosphere, where the clicks were going.
When no single widget covers all of the Indian blogs, when no single Award could manage to draw even 0.005% of the online population, when no community catered for all the blogs that existed, I decided to choose that option which had the largest sample size. And that is how I turned to Alexa.
Humans are not perfect, so how can you expect programs made by them to be perfect. Yes, Alexa has its own flaws, but it does have access to the largest sample size in the Indian Blogosphere.
So after three days, of a massive hunt for the most widely recognized blogs on our terrain, I am finally here with my final list on Indian blogs, which I can conclusively say are the "A-list of the Indian Blogosphere".
So I bring to you, The Complete A-List of The Indian Blogosphere (based on the Alexa Rank for the last 3 months, dated 27 March 2007)
Now, for the ones at the top:
In the third place, is Quick Tips Online, your one stop shop for everything technology, blogging, software, and Web 2.0.
In the second place, is the Best Social Networking Site in India, IndianPad, who over the last one year have gotten rid of all the luggage which was taking them down. Life has been uphill for IndianPad since.
In the first place, is the one and only, the untiring Amit Agarwal. The best Indian Professional Blogger. With 2,240 links, he is also ranked 326 amongst 55 million blogs in Technorati.
The full ranking:
- 006,998 Digital Inspiration
- 007,732 IndianPad
- 013,154 Quick Online Tips
- 030,529 Tech Buzz
- 036,136 Content Sutra
- 045,388 Tech Whack
- 051,848 AlooTechie
- 051,900 Sepia Mutiny
- 057,602 Kamat
- 075,448 Anil Dash
- 083,592 Nandyala
- 091,923 Pixrat
- 097,747 Movalog
- 098,896 NaachGaana
- 099,051 VC Circle
- 116,511 Emergic
- 120,875 Go Nomad
- 125,496 Desicritics
- 175,813 Starupus.in
- 198,861 BotHack
- 202,114 WatBlog
- 205,432 IPatrix
- 212,174 WebYantra
- 224,486 Desi Pundit
- 225,613 India Marks
- 225,742 IndiaUncut (Blogger)
- 231,294 Gautam Ghosh
- 242,188 Great Bong
- 244,324 iFace Thoughts
- 244,971 Micheal Parekh on IT
- 248,068 Akshargram
- 263,385 Lazy Geek
- 264,149 Youth Curry
- 271,991 Venture Woods
- 277,097 Indiagram
- 285,567 IndiBloggies
- 299,422 Quick Online Tips (Older)
- 334,981 Swaroop CH
- 339,352 Indian Bytes
- 348,118 Infeedia
- 348,366 Goa Blog
- 357,108 Kiruba Shankar
- 361,717 Humsurfer
- 388,764 RamBhai
- 393,010 HumSabka
- 397,420 Put Vote
- 458,720 Indian Economy
- 465,769 Startup Duniya
- 468,992 Ultra Brown
- 494,054 Atanu Dey's Deesha.org
- 508,405 Gilli
- 513,603 Mutiny
- 513,711 Hooked on Heat
- 526,971 Ramdhanyk
- 536,330 Nanopolitan
- 580,056 Chinta
- 582,820 Kalyan Verma
- 612,860 Word Log
- 612,947 C Kunte
- 619,598 Mobile Pundit
- 622,997 Shripriya
- 630,246 Thoughts in Tamil
- 653,666 Within and Without
- 667,259 Sakshi Juneja
- 669,573 India Uncut (New)
- 673,428 Mallu Spice
- 686,250 Media Junk
- 675,299 Anita Bora
- 677,469 New Delhi Times
- 724,577 Sambhar Mafia
- 759,077 Kodakarapuranams
- 779,826 Turban Head
- 797,715 News Cola
- 820,471 Ouch My Toe
- 823,251 Recursive Hypocrisy
- 823,678 Madman's Web
- 845,402 Sampada
- 851,438 Vantage Point
- 855,929 Taekada
- 878,835 Jabberwock
Other Indian Blogs (You don't have to be A-list to Kick Ass):
- 026,083 JohnTP.com: Make money Online
- 050,874 Ajay Dsouza: On the road called life
- 064,574 Brajeshwar: Flash Platform Analyst
- 462,066 DesiTrain: The Oz
- 146,729 BinnyVA: DIY Technology
- 200,829 The Newspaper Blog
- 284,156 Deziner Folio: Everything Tech
- 933,456 Navin Kabra's Blog: the blog of a senior research scientist at Symantec
- 1,107,942 Vivek: On being in the A-List
- 1,927,873 Snap Judgement: India is my home country, America is my home town
That was long huh.
So now, where do we go from here?
I don't know about you, but I have all plans to keep updating this list every three weeks, based of course on Alexa. But if you have any better suggestions, please drop me a comment, or contact me here.
And what if you not on this list? I'm not going to make it too hard on myself. Only if your blog ranks amongst the top 5,00,000 on Alexa, link this post from your blog, and as soon as I see it here, I'll add you here.