Project Instapundit

I’ve been having so much fun with a little project I’m working on that I just had to share my first results with you. I’m doing a little network diagramming of Instapundit and the sites that Glenn links to. Just to see what kinds of relationships emerge. My early results are still a little rough but here goes.

One interesting note is that four sites account for about 10% of all of Glenn’s links.

For the month of September 2004 so far Glenn’s links look like this:

Total links 960
Total distinct sites 438
Sites linked to once 278
Sites linked to twice 76
Sites linked to three times 31

The detailed results follow.

Site Links
www.nationalreview.com 35
justoneminute.typepad.com 26
www.washingtonpost.com 16
hughhewitt.com 14
www.amazon.com 13
slate.msn.com 12
althouse.blogspot.com 11
belmontclub.blogspot.com 11
techcentralstation.com 11
volokh.com 11
www.techcentralstation.com 11
powerlineblog.com 10
www.nytimes.com 10
www.reason.com 10
www.strategypage.com 10
patterico.com 9
www.captainsquartersblog.com 9
www.msnbc.msn.com 9
www.nypost.com 9
www.opinionjournal.com 9
www.professorbainbridge.com 9
wizbangblog.com 8
www.belgraviadispatch.com 8
www.celluloid-wisdom.com 8
www.dynamist.com 8
beldar.blogs.com 7
www.donaldsensing.com 7
www.indcjournal.com 7
www.rogerlsimon.com 7
vodkapundit.com 6
www.command-post.org 6
www.lileks.com 6
www.suntimes.com 6
apnews.myway.com 5
images3.blogads.com 5
littlegreenfootballs.com 5
medienkritik.typepad.com 5
polipundit.com 5
www.corante.com 5
www.dailyrecycler.com 5
www.latimes.com 5
abcnews.go.com 4
andrewsullivan.com 4
weeklystandard.com 4
www.boston.com 4
www.imao.us 4
www.mudvillegazette.com 4
www.newsmax.com 4
www.powerlineblog.com 4
www.realclearpolitics.com 4
www.spectator.org 4
www.theaustralian.news.com.au 4
www.usatoday.com 4
bias.blogfodder.net 3
billhobbs.com 3
boifromtroy.com 3
brain-terminal.com 3
chrenkoff.blogspot.com 3
gaypatriot.blogspot.com 3
idleryet.blog-city.com 3
shapeofdays.typepad.com 3
timblair.spleenville.com 3
windsofchange.net 3
www.allahpundit.com 3
www.buzzmachine.com 3
www.chicagotribune.com 3
www.deadparrots.net 3
www.fightaging.org 3
www.flounder.com 3
www.google.com 3
www.hughhewitt.com 3
www.instapunk.com 3
www.musil.blogspot.com 3
www.newsday.com 3
www.nydailynews.com 3
www.reuters.com 3
www.rhsager.com 3
www.rockwoodcomic.com 3
www.salon.com 3
www.saysuncle.com 3
www.steveverdon.com 3
www.telegraph.co.uk 3
www.usnews.com 3
yglesias.typepad.com 3
128.255.244.60 2
ace.mu.nu 2
baseballcrank.com 2
blogcritics.org 2
brian.carnell.com 2
cicada.typepad.com 2
coldfury.com 2
copperlive.com 2
dalythoughts.com 2
daschlevthune.typepad.com 2
dbsoxblog.blogspot.com 2
drudgereport.com 3
froggyruminations.blogspot.com 2
galleyslaves.blogspot.com 2
images2.blogads.com 2
instapun.exposuremanager.com 2
iraqnow.blogspot.com 2
jimtreacher.com 2
journalism.nyu.edu 2
marketplace.publicradio.org 2
msnbc.msn.com 2
mysterypollster.typepad.com 2
nanobot.blogspot.com 2
nypost.com 2
oxblog.blogspot.com 2
qando.net 2
radio.weblogs.com 2
ratherbiased.com 2
realclearpolitics.com 2
simonworld.mu.nu 2
spinswimming.blogspot.com 2
story.news.yahoo.com 2
unclebrad.com 2
www.alphecca.com 2
www.americandigest.org 2
www.andrewsullivan.com 2
www.artsjournal.com 2
www.balloon-juice.com 2
www.beggingtodiffer.com 2
www.blogsforbush.com 2
www.brothersjudd.com 2
www.browning.com 2
www.chicagoboyz.net 2
www.cnsnews.com 2
www.creators.com 2
www.dailypundit.com 2
www.danieldrezner.com 2
www.drudgereport.com 2
www.foxnews.com 2
www.guncite.com 2
www.indepundit.com 2
www.instapundit.com 2
www.janegalt.net 2
www.jquinton.com 2
www.npr.org 2
www.oliverwillis.com 2
www.pbase.com 2
www.pollingreport.com 2
www.poynter.org 2
www.prospect.org 2
www.rathergate.com 2
www.scrappleface.com 2
www.sfgate.com 2
www.sitemeter.com 2
www.slate.com 2
www.stormcarib.com 2
www.tagorda.com 2
www.thespoonsexperience.com 2
www.time.com 2
www.townhall.com 2
www.tradesports.com 2
www.transterrestrial.com 2
www.venturpreneur.com 2
www.washtimes.com 2
www.weeklystandard.com 2
www.worldnetdaily.com 2
216.239.41.104 1
abigailbrayden.blogspot.com 1
acepilots.com 1
americandaughter.blogspot.com 1
ariagoesdown.blogspot.com 1
asia.news.yahoo.com 1
authorskeptics.blogspot.com 1
balkin.blogspot.com 1
barcepundit-english.blogspot.com 1
belledejour-uk.blogspot.com 1
biz.yahoo.com 1
blogborygmi.blogspot.com 1
blogfromonhigh.blogspot.com 1
blogs.salon.com 1
broadband.msnbc.com 1
browndailysqueal.com 1
bullmooserepublicans.com 1
byrddroppings.typepad.com 1
capwiz.com 1
cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au 1
christnu.org 1
ciceronianreview.typepad.com 1
cinemocracy.blogs.com 1
claytoncramer.com 1
comedian.blogspot.com 1
coxandforkum.com 1
custosmorum.blogspot.com 1
daily.nysun.com 1
daybydaycartoon.com 1
defeatjohnjohn.com 1
dislogue.dansch.net 1
dneiwert.blogspot.com 1
donatacom.com 1
dontdrinkthekoolaid.blogspot.com 1
evelynrodriguez.typepad.com 1
fidlerontheroof.blogspot.com 1
flyingspacemonkey.mu.nu 1
forums.dpreview.com 1
gbarto.com 1
glennreynolds.typepad.com 1
globetrotter.berkeley.edu 1
hatewhatihate.blogspot.com 1
hnn.us 1
hobbesian.blogspot.com 1
home.bellsouth.net 1
homepage.mac.com 1
hoystory.blogspot.com 1
hurryupharry.bloghouse.net 1
images.blogads.com 1
inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080 1
iowahawk.typepad.com 1
iraqpundit.blogspot.com 1
iraqthemodel.blogspot.com 1
iwf.org 1
johnellis.blogspot.com 1
johnnbrown.blogspot.com 1
jpundit.typepad.com 1
junkyardblog.transfinitum.net 1
large-regular.blogspot.com 1
lashawnbarber.com 1
libertyblog.com 1
lifeisgood.typepad.com 1
limeshurbet.blogspot.com 1
livingroomcandidate.movingimage.us 1
llamabutchers.mu.nu 1
magma.nationalgeographic.com 1
mellow-drama.blogspot.com 1
members.cox.net 1
michaeltotten.com 1
michellemalkin.com 1
minneapolisfed.org 1
moneycentral.msn.com 1
mongaimoments.blogspot.com 1
musil.blogspot.com 1
nathanf.blog-city.com 1
nationalreview.com 1
nerepublican.blogspot.com 1
neworleans.metblogs.com 1
newrome.blogspot.com 1
news.google.com.au 1
news.independent.co.uk 1
news.scotsman.com 1
news.yahoo.com 1
noquarters.blogspot.com 1
nothreeputts.blogspot.com 1
nramemberscouncils.com 1
nydailynews.com 1
observer.guardian.co.uk 1
obsidianwings.blogs.com 1
onefinejay.com 1
online.wsj.com 1
opinion.telegraph.co.uk 1
opinionjournal.com 1
overtaken.blogmosis.com 1
patriotparadox.mu.nu 1
paulboutin.weblogger.com 1
peaktalk.com 1
polipundit.blogspot.com 1
politics.slate.msn.com 1
possumblog.blogspot.com 1
powerandcontrol.blogspot.com 1
pqasb.pqarchiver.com 1
proudrepublican.blogspot.com 1
quote.bloomberg.com 1
rathergate.com 1
redcoyote.blogspot.com 1
rightothepoint.blogspot.com 1
rising-hegemon.blogspot.com 1
rogerlsimon.com 1
sandefur.typepad.com 1
sekimori.org 1
shannonlove.blogspot.com 1
shotsacrossthebow.com 1
silflayhraka.com 1
sinequanon.spleenville.com 1
site-essential.com 1
slashdot.org 1
slate.com 1
slingsnarrows.erudite-absurdity.com 1
sofiasideshow.com 1
sparsepundit.blogspot.com 1
staunchmoderate.blogspot.com 1
stormcarib.com 1
stuartbuck.blogspot.com 1
talkleft.com 1
taxprof.typepad.com 1
tennessean.com 1
themoderatevoice.typepad.com 1
theweeklystandard.com 1
uptime.netcraft.com 1
usmilitary.about.com 1
varifrank.typepad.com 1
voluntaryxchange.typepad.com 1
web.knoxnews.com 1
www.14wfie.com 1
www.1976design.com 1
www.abc.net.au 1
www.acme.com 1
www.aftenposten.no 1
www.aim.org 1
www.al.com 1
www.alarmingnews.com 1
www.americandaily.com 1
www.americanoutlook.org 1
www.americanprogress.org 1
www.americanthinker.com 1
www.arabnews.com 1
www.ashbrook.org 1
www.baltimoresun.com 1
www.battlebots.com 1
www.beldar.org 1
www.belowstreetlevel.com 1
www.bitpass.com 1
www.blank.org 1
www.brendanloy.com 1
www.burningannie.com 1
www.business-standard.com 1
www.caymannetnews.com 1
www.caymannetnews.com 1
www.cbsnews.com 1
www.cdharris.net 1
www.championshooters.com 1
www.chaos-faction.com 1
www.chicagosuntimes.com 1
www.cincypost.com 1
www.classicalvalues.com 1
www.claytoncramer.com 1
www.cnn.com 1
www.colbycosh.com 1
www.copperlive.com 1
www.crc4pr.com 1
www.crnano.org 1
www.cronaca.com 1
www.crushkerry.com 1
www.cybersocket.com 1
www.d-42.com 1
www.dailytexanonline.com 1
www.danrathermustgo.com 1
www.deanesmay.com 1
www.democraticunderground.com 1
www.detnews.com 1
www.dhogberg.com 1
www.dinocrat.com 1
www.drudgereport.com 1
www.dvorak.org 1
www.editorandpublisher.com 1
www.emailthis.clickability.com 1
www.enquirer.com 1
www.freerepublic.com 1
www.futurepundit.com 1
www.gallup.com 1
www.gideonsblog.blogspot.com 1
www.globalsecurity.org 1
www.globetechnology.com 1
www.gregpiper.com 1
www.guardian.co.uk 1
www.gunstuff.com 1
www.hillnews.com 1
www.hughhewitt.com” 1
www.ibiblio.org 1
www.ibpat.org 1
www.infidelcowboy.com 1
www.inkgrrl.com 1
www.intellectualconservative.com 1
www.internetnews.com 1
www.investors.com 1
www.isthatlegal.org 1
www.jayreding.com 1
www.jessicaswell.com 1
www.joannejacobs.com 1
www.johnkerry.com 1
www.jpost.com 1
www.jsonline.com 1
www.kansas.com 1
www.kansascity.com 1
www.kenrockwell.com 1
www.kentucky.com 1
www.ksg.harvard.edu 1
www.leanwrite.com 1
www.livejournal.com 1
www.local6.com 1
www.logicandsanity.com 1
www.madpony.com 1
www.mediaresearch.org 1
www.mercurynews.com 1
www.michaeltotten.com 1
www.microcontentnews.com 1
www.mournival.com 1
www.nbc4i.com 1
www.newsfeedonline.com 1
www.nhc.noaa.gov 1
www.nyobserver.com 1
www.nysun.com 1
www.oregonlive.com 1
www.ornery.org 1
www.papadoc.net 1
www.pavefrance.com 1
www.pcmag.com 1
www.pejmanesque.com 1
www.polidock.com 1
www.polipundit.com 1
www.qando.net 1
www.rapp.org 1
www.rightvoices.com 1
www.rion.nu 1
www.rishon-rishon.com 1
www.robinjones.us 1
www.robinjuhl.homelinux.net 1
www.rochesterwatch.com 1
www.rockabilly.nl 1
www.rooftopreport.com 1
www.russellwardlow.net 1
www.samizdata.net 1
www.slantpoint.com 1
www.snopes.com 1
www.spacetownusa.com 1
www.spiritofamerica.net 1
www.srv.net 1
www.talkingpointsmemo.com 1
www.theage.com.au 1
www.thenewatlantis.com 1
www.theunionleader.com 1
www.threeyearsofhell.com 1
www.tnr.com 1
www.truthlaidbear.com 1
www.usefulwork.com 1
www.volokh.com 1
www.volunteertv.com 1
www.vote-smart.org 1
www.wane.com 1
www.washingtonmonthly.com 1
www.wbap.com 1
www.whotendsthefires.us 1
www.wnbc.com 1
www.wunderkinder.org 1
www.yourish.com 1
xrlq.com 1
yclipse.typepad.com 1

UPDATE: Pursuant to a correction in my comments section, I’ve updated my stats.

8 comments… add one
  • Good work, but you missed one. My blog, DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS (christnu.org), was Insta-lanched on Septempber 14:

    http://instapundit.com/archives/017816.php

    (under: “ANOTHER UPDATE”)

    Steve Bragg
    DOUBLE TOOTHPICKS

  • Thanks, Steve, I’ll add it to my list. I didn’t do my data collection manually (I wrote a couple of scripts to do it) so it’s possible I have a bug or two.

  • He linked to me on September 3rd – and I will add that though you get a bunch of visitors over about a 3 day period, every time he has linked to the Carnival of the Recipes, I find that a week later, I may have another 20 regular visitors – so, in the long long long run, it is helpful.
    I get a lot of visitors from Dean Esmay, too.

  • The bloggers seeming to generate the most traffic are a bit like the Rolodex President, Bush 41. They make contacts and they’re lavish in their acknowledgements. Nothing wrong with that. They’re the creators and caretakers of a vast and growing cyber-community.

  • Mark, I believe that generating traffic is marketing and follows pretty much the rules of marketing. There’s no single way. Name recognition can catapult you immediately into the front of the pack (like Michelle Malkin). An Instalanche may be like an advertising spot on the Superbowl. Such a spot never created any products or companies. But it did propel companies that had products along.

    Blogs with a much smaller actual target marketplace may take quite some time and effort to reach that marketplace.

  • http://www.techcentral station and techcentral station are technially the same site.
    as are http://www.nationalreview.com and nationalreview.com
    as are http://www.hughhewitt.com and hughhewitt.com and http://www.hughhewitt.com
    as are http://www.andrewsullivan.com and andrewsullivan.com and so forth. Fyi.

  • You’re quite right, spacemonkey. I haven’t incorporated synonyms into my scanning program. I could easily strip out lead “www.” from domain names, however.

  • Mark in Rochester Link

    I have been checking out various sites from your list. Lots of interesting stuff, including one right in my backyard. http://www.rochesterwatch.com , which turns out to be quite cool, especially if you are local.

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