August blog rankings

Robert Jago's monthly ranking of Canadian political blogs is out, with a clarified ranking methodology and a few new sites added to the pool.

I'm number six, slightly down from last month. I can't say I perfectly understand the new rules, because my "Alexa" traffic ranking -- I'm the 165,281st most popular site in the world! -- seems to be the highest on the list. I'll have to figure out how to increase my Google page rank, too (I assume that measures number of searches, not traffic).

Michael Geist's blog is the new top site. It's a beautifully laid out page, with very smart commentary. I wouldn't call it a political blog so much, but it does cover policy issues, mainly those revolving around intellectual property ideas and the Internet.

What's amazing to me is that, despite being on a break for more than a month, Mark Steyn's site is still the third most popular according to Jago's rankings. That's reader loyalty -- I think it's thousands of people like me checking every day to see when he comes back!

I like these monthly rankings, because it's a satisfying affirmation that my blog's main focus -- freedom of speech, the separation of mosque and state, and the useful idiots in the human rights commissions -- is shared by many other people. I also find it gratifying that most of the blogs on the list, especially near the top, are from a similar philosophy.