FIC Blog

It is at the moment anyway. So says blognetnews.com, which lists us as Connecticut’s 5th most influential political blog–and none of the top 4 are conservative. Of course by the time you click on the link it may say something different. In fact, by the time I’m done typing this it may say something different. The rating changes frequently and the formula used by blognetnews for arriving at those numbers is a mystery:

BNN’s Connecticut Blogosphere Influence Rating combines a variety of data sets to determine which blogs are most powerfully influencing the direction of the Connecticut political blogosphere. The exact method BNN uses to calculate influence scores must remain proprietary in order to prevent attempts to game the system. BNN’s methodology takes into account the fact that all Internet data is profoundly limited in its reliability by using multiple data sets that, when combined, reveal a fair picture of activity in the blogosphere.

I’d be more confident in BNN if it was not still using FIC Blog’s old name. Still, Connecticut’s overwhelmingly liberal blogospere has a habit of engaging FIC Blog more than it does the state’s other conservative blogs. That and a few other things may indicate that BNN’s assessment of FIC Blog’s influence is fairly accurate.