Tech bloggers and readers are quite familiar with Techmeme and the site's accompanying leaderboard, which tracks the top 100 sources to the popular news-tracking site over the previous thirty days. Since the leaderboard was initiated, Michael Arrington's TechCrunch has held the top position, accounting for between 5 and 8 percent of all stories. As of Friday night, TechCrunch represented 7.03% of Techmeme's stories in the last 30 days. As a subscriber to the Techmeme Firehose feed in my Google Reader, I see 3,162 items reached Techmeme in the last 30 days, meaning TechCrunch's share was somewhere north of 200 items. But Google Reader does more than show me the items I've received, it also shows me the items I've shared, and the most often shared sources, in effect, giving me the option to record and display my own leaderboard of the top 40 sources that I've shared on my Google Reader shared items blog.Anybody who uses Google Reader as their RSS feed reader of choice, and who shares items to a link blog can make their own personal leaderboard. While I won't be updating mine multiple times daily, as Gabe Rivera does on Techmeme, and I can only show 40 items, instead of 100, I will, starting tonight, be posting my own LG Leaderboard, for the previous 30 days, and will update this list every month, on the 26th of the month.
First, the dataset:
According to Google Reader, from my 336 subscriptions, over the last 30 days I read 16,386 items and shared 919 items.
Second: The leaders for July of 2008:
Like Techmeme, my #1 shared blog was TechCrunch, thanks to their frequent posting and high number of stories I believe those who follow my link blog would be interested in. Similarly, given my own bias, this blog is in the #2 position. I'd remove it from the leaderboard, but don't want to skew the statistics. Duncan Riley's The Inquisitr has made a strong showing at the #3 position, followed byRead/Write Web at #4 and Silicon Alley Insider at #5. All percentages shown are the result of taking the number of shares in the month per source, divided by the total number of shares. (In this case N/919)
| Position | Blog | % of Shares |
| 1. | TechCrunch | 6.52% |
| 2. | louisgray.com | 4.46% |
| 3. | The Inquisitr | 4.14% |
| 4. | Read/Write Web | 3.59% |
| 5. | Silicon Alley Insider | 3.48% |
| 6. | Profy.com | 3.26% |
| 7. | Mashable! | 2.72% |
| 8. | Scripting News | 2.50% |
| 9. | WinExtra | 2.18% |
| 10. | CenterNetworks | 1.52% |
| 11. | Why Does Everything Suck? | 1.41% |
| 12. | GigaOM | 1.41% |
| 13. | I'm Not Actually a Geek | 1.41% |
| 14. | Robert Scoble's Shared Link Blog | 1.31% |
| 15. | Scobleizer | 1.31% |
| 16. | Webware.com | 1.20% |
| 17. | Online Media Cultist | 1.20% |
| 18. | Stay N' Alive | 1.20% |
| 19. | CodingExperiments.com | 1.09% |
| 20. | MichaelFruchter.com | 1.09% |
| 21. | Sarah In Tampa | 1.09% |
| 22. | TechCrunchIT | 1.09% |
| 23. | PaidContent | 1.09% |
| 24. | Broadcasting Brain | 0.98% |
| 25. | Deep Jive Interests | 0.98% |
| 26. | Furrier.org | 0.98% |
| 27. | David Risley | 0.98% |
| 28. | /Message | 0.87% |
| 29. | Mathew Ingram | 0.87% |
| 30. | SheGeeks | 0.87% |
| 31. | Scribkin | 0.87% |
| 32. | BoomTown | 0.87% |
| 33. | Colin Walker | 0.87% |
| 34. | VentureFiles | 0.87% |
| 35. | A VC | 0.76% |
| 36. | Engadget | 0.76% |
| 37. | The Unofficial Apple Weblog | 0.76% |
| 38. | SEO and Tech Daily | 0.76% |
| 39. | Jeremy Toeman's LIVEdigitally | 0.76% |
| 40. | Regular Geek | 0.65% |
All told, these top 40 sources accounted for 595 of the 919 shares over the last 30 days, or 64.7% of the total, meaning the other 296 sources accounted for 324 total shares, or 35.3% of the total. Everybody's leaderboard will be vastly different, for sure. Contrasted with the Techmeme leaderboard, the flagship for measurements like this, I lack a number of more mainstream feeds, like the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Reuters and Forbes, but in its place, you see a lot more individual bloggers who bring me the news I find interesting. I'll be posting these regularly, and if you would do the same, send me a link in the comments to your list. Could be a great way to find new blogs and news sources. Also, if you think you belong here, add your blog in the comments, and there's a chance you'll be on the leaderboard next month!
You can find my Google Reader shared items link blog here, or see them included in my FriendFeed.