About this guide: This is an effort which was suggested for me by fellow blogger G.A. Harrison and patterned on a similar guide in Delaware. But because of the sheer number of websites that eminate from the Free State, I had to establish some parameters which limited those listed to blogs and bloggers who I considered serious about their craft in that they’ve taken the time to post on a regular basis (averaging twice a week or more for a period of time) and built up a reader base of 1,000 or more readers a month based on empirical data acquired from a metering service or the authors themselves.
Unfortunately, many blogs I enjoy and read on at least an occasional basis failed in one or both criteria, and this may be something I revisit for the next Guide. In short, I consider this a work in progress.
To that end, I’ve truncated this original post and will now simply refer readers to the page on this site. That will be where errata and additions will be placed until later this year when work on the 2010 Guide will begin.
What is your definition of readers? If you are suggesting that some of these blogs have 1000 unique visitors per month, then I question your statistics.
Thanks. I just got back from a week off – in Florida, where the weather sure was nicer – and Monoblogue was my first stop on the web.
Thoughtful and thought provoking; this post shows a great deal of hard work and will prove an asset when time allows for broadening one’s reading horizons. Happy New Year. Looking forward to another year for Maryland – Delmarva blogs making a difference.
Thanks for that very interesting piece of information Kevin.
That’s pretty in depth. Neat! Kudos!
I’d still like to hear your explanation of how some of these blogs meet your 1000 reader standard.
Here’s one you missed. It puts many of your top 50 to shame.
http://www.aparentinsilverspring.com/
Hi Mike,
Thanks for NOT including Maryland Politics Today (http://www.marylandpolitics.us) in your 2009 blogging guide this year. I guess averaging over 10,000 hits the week leading into this year’s election and the fact that there were a number of slow news stretches in the last part of the year (plus the fact that I was wrapped up into the final weeks of the fall semester) means that I am not serious blogger based on your standards.
Whatever!