Blogs abound on Italy – ranging from food and wine, to culture, travel, language, cycling, gardening, daily life, and many other topics, they provide an endless insight in to all things Italian. Written by funny, zany, intelligent and knowledgeable people, they cover the length and breadth of Italy.
With so many sources of information, which ones should one read? Obviously, subject will dictate one’s first choice, but how do you decide on the best? With huge difficulty is the answer.
The Index of Top Blogs for Lovers of Italy is a quantitative measure of how a blog performs. It is driven by publicly-available measures that include Technorati’s Authority Score, adjusted by Google blog hit scores, Google blog hit scores over the past month, and influenced by IceRocket scores. It does not measure the quality of what a blog says, how often it is updated, or who links to it. It aims to show the popularity, or authority, of a blog. If other people are linking to it a lot, one must presume that it has some interesting content.
The blogs included in the overall rating were chosen from my own list of blogs, which I believe to be the most comprehensive and up-to-date available in this area. I have excluded the political commentators. The index is my own work and was inspired by similar indexes that deal with other topics. The index is still in its development stage – the plan is for a more graphical and transparent display of the scores used to compile the index and also to expand the number of blogs in the index.
I have done my best to ensure that the ranking is as accurate as you can make this type of thing. However, this is not an exact science, and you will find there are different ways of measuring influence. Mine is just one, so please feel free to disagree with it, or ignore it. Do let me know if you have ideas on how I can improve it.
So here it is, the first Index of Top Blogs for Lovers of Italy based on influence:
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I have done my best to ensure that the ranking is as accurate as you can make this type of thing. However, this is not an exact science, and you will find there are different ways of measuring influence. Mine is just one, so please feel free to disagree with it, or ignore it. Do let me know if you have ideas on how I can improve it.
Thanks for the mention!
Great list. My blog is about Italy and France…but mostly Italy because that is my true love!
Very interesting. Thanks for mentioning My Bella Vita.
Wow, my little blog…number 5? How exciting! Thanks for including me on your list!
*whew* Made the cut.
How exciting to have made the cut! Thanks for this and for keeping track of all of us!
Delighted to be included. Thank you.
I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader.
thanks for mentioning me and including me among some great blogs. tanti Saluti – Joe
This is a great list, I have followed a few of them for a while, and great to see Ilva up at 2 and Rowena up there too, and oh yes my friend from sicily scene too!! In fact I read seven of those blogs
See Cherrye is there as well.