Top 100 SharePoint Blogs of Spring 2008

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Joel Oleson

Joel’s Top 100 SharePoint Blogs (Spring 2008) Ordered by Technorati Rating

	URL	Author	MVP?	Cate- gory	Blogs In	Links In	Technorati Rating	Google Page Rank	Bloglines Subs	Google Reader Subs	Avg Posts per Week
1	http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepoint	SP Team	MS	ALL	512	1295	9,907	7	283	2506	4
2	http://weblogs.asp.net/bsimser	Bil Simser	MVP	DEV	250	1303	26,043	5	245	686	5.1
3	http://blogs.msdn.com/joelo	Joel Oleson		IT	202	515	34,741	6	107	931	4.7
4	http://andrewconnell.com/blog	AndrewConnell	MVP	DEV	194	495	36,939	5	242	995	2.3
5	http://blah.winsmarts.com	Sahil Malik	MVP	DEV	108	364	75,992	5	178	793	3.7
6	http://heathersolomon.com/blog	Heather Solomon	MVP	DES	107	179	76,867	5	172	727	.5
7	http://weblogs.asp.net/jan	Jan Tielens	MVP	DEV	95	244	89,650	4	21	545
8	http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blogs/mikeg	Mike Gannotti	MS	DEV	84		104,521	4	20	126	10.3
9	http://blog.thekid.me.uk	Vincent Rothwell	MVP	DEV	63	547	104,744
*	http://blogs.msdn.com/sharepointdesigner	Designer Team	MS	DES	80	127	110,846	6	73	1101	.7
10	http://blogs.msdn.com/pandrew	Paul Andrew	MS	DEV	77	140	115,970	6	20	466	3.3
11	http://blogs.technet.com/wbaer	William Baer	MS	IT	68	123	134,181	6	43	152	3
12	http://jopx.blogspot.com	Joris Poelmans	MVP	DEV	61	122	152,199	5	70	146	3.7
13	http://blogs.developpeur.org/themit/default.aspx (French)	Renaud Comte	MVP	DEV	61	402	152,199	5		45	2.1
14	http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner	Stefan Gossner	MS	ALL	65	144	153,341	5	164	328	.2
15	http://bobfox.securespsite.com/foxblog	Bob Fox	MVP	IT	60		155,116	4
16	http://www.thorprojects.com/blog/	Robert Bogue	MVP	ALL	58	103	161,307	5	65	303	2.1
17	http://blogs.msdn.com/roberdan (English/Italian)	Roberto D’Angelo	MS	DEV	56	168	167,741	5	3	53	1.6
18	http://blogs.devleap.com/romeopruno (Italian/English)	Romeo Pruno		DEV	56	69	167,741	4
19	http://blogs.msdn.com/ecm	SP Team	MS	DEV		426	173,132	6	103
20	http://blogs.msdn.com/arpans	Arpan Shah	MS	BDM	53	223	178,151	6	331	457	1.4
21	http://blogs.msdn.com/cjohnson	Chris Johnson	MS	DEV	53	98	178,151	5	155
22	http://sharepointnutsandbolts.com	Chris O’Brien	MVP	DEV	51	97	186,136	0	0
23	http://www.sharepoint-tips.com	Ishai Sagi	MVP	DEV	48	130	199,227	4	32
24	http://blogs.msdn.com/harsh	Harsh Chiplonkar	MS	DEV	47	50	203,839	6	1
25	http://blogs.developpeur.org/phil (French)	Philippe Sentenec	MVP	DEV	46	513	208,647	4	2
26	http://www.endusersharepoint.com	Mark Miller		IW	46		208,647
27	http://markharrison.co.uk/blog	Mark Harrison	MS	BDM	44	152	218,928	5	174
28	http://blogs.msdn.com/erikaehrli	Erika Ehrli	MS	DEV	42	69	230,202	6	11
29	http://blogs.tamtam.nl/mart	Mark Muller	MVP	DEV	39	81	249,273	5	40
30	http://www.harbar.net	Spencer Harbar	MVP	IT	39	62	249,273	5	38
31	http://www.sharepointblogs.com/tbaginski	Todd Baginski	MVP	DEV	39	56	249,273	4	83
32	http://johnholliday.net	John Holiday	MVP	DEV	38	67	256,387	4	27
33	http://www.binarywave.com/blogs/eshupps	Eric Shupps	MVP	DEV	38		256,387	4	16
34	http://stsadm.blogspot.com	Gary Lapointe	MVP	IT	38	159	256,387	3	4
35	http://blogs.msdn.com/markarend	Mark Arend	MS	ALL	37	79	263,809	4	18
36	http://mindsharpblogs.com/Ben	Ben Curry	MVP	IT	37	51	263,809	0	7
37	http://www.msmvps.com/blogs/shane	Shane Young	MVP	IT		199	269,091	4	83
38	http://paulgalvin.spaces.live.com	Paul Galvin	MVP	IT	36	153	271,686	4	4
39	http://weblogs.asp.net/erobillard	Eli Robillard	MVP	DEV	36	67	271,686	4	47
40	http://www.chandima.net/Blog	Chandima Kulathilake	MVP	DES	36	159	271,686	4	7
41	http://www.sharepointjoel.com	Joel Oleson		IT	35	56	279,760	0	75
42	http://weblogs.asp.net/soever	Serge van den Oever	MVP		34	63	288,411	5	25
43	http://www.wssdemo.com/Blog	Ian Moorish	MS		33	101	297,412	4	7
44	http://www.helloitsliam.com	Liam Cleary	MVP		34		309,815
45	http://www.graphicalwonder.com	Shane Perran	MVP		30	39	328,547	5	93
46	http://www.21apps.com	Andrew Woodward	MVP		30	91	328,547	4	5
47	http://www.cleverworkarounds.com	Paul Culmsee			30	153	328,547	3	5
48	http://www.sharepointsecurity.com/blog	Adam Buenz	MVP	DEV	29	114	340,254	4	22
49	http://sharepointsolutions.blogspot.com	Tony, Asif + Solutions Team	MVP	ALL	28	45	352,668	5	55
50	http://www.cjvandyk.com/blog	Cornelius J. van Dyk	MVP	DEV	28	97	352,668	3	18
51	http://blog.u2u.info/DottextWeb/patrick	Patrick Tisseghem	MVP	DEV	28	86	376,449	5	201
52	http://www.bluedoglimited.com/SharePointThoughts	Maurice Prather	MVP	DEV	26	31	380,000	5	180
53	http://mindsharpblogs.com/bill	Bill English	MVP	IT	26	36	380,000	4	88
54	http://www.sharepointblogs.com/dustin	Dustin Miller	MVP	DES	24	36	411,621	4	126
55	http://daniellarson.spaces.live.com	Daniel Larson	MVP	DEV	24	45	411,621	4	39
56	http://blogs.catapultsystems.com/matthew	Matthew	MVP	IT	25	52	420,564	4
57	http://www.bobmixon.com/blog	Bob Mixon	MVP	BDM	23	60	429,461	5	33
58	http://blogs.msdn.com/recman	RM Team	MS	ALL	22	33	448,699	6	21
59	http://blogs.officezealot.com/mauro	Mauro Caurelli	MS	DEV	22	51	448,699	5	65
60	http://www.spsfaq.com	Stephen Cummings	MVP	IT			455,987	5	57
61	http://mindsharpblogs.com/penny	Penny Coventry	MVP	IT	21	26	469,745	3	13
62	http://blogs.msdn.com/mikefitz	Mike Fitz		DEV		253	475,774	6	192
63	http://blogs.msdn.com/mikewat	Mike Watson	MS	IT	20	36	492,178	5	1
64	http://weblogs.mysharepoint.de/mgreth (English/German)	Michael Greth	MVP	ALL	20	46	492,178	4
65	http://www.ideseg.com	Carlos Segura Sanz	MVP	DEV	20	53	492,178	4	4
66	http://www.sharepointblogs.com/ssa	S.S. Ahmed	MVP	DEV	19	48	516,960	5	27
67	http://weblogs.asp.net/wkriebel	Westin Kriebel		DEV	19	27	516,960	5	27
68	http://chrissyblanco.blogspot.com	Chrissy Blanco		DEV	19	32	516,960	4
69	http://blogs.msdn.com/williamcornwill	William Cornwill	MS	DEV	18	41	544,327	4	4
70	http://www.elumenotion.com/blog	Doug Ware		DEV	18		544,327	4	6
71	http://mindsharpblogs.com/todd	Todd Bleeker	MVP	DEV			546,134	5	114
72	http://www.sharepointblogs.com/jasonmedero	Jason Medero	MVP	IT	17	24	574,833	4	33
73	http://mikewalsh.bilsimser.com	Mike Walsh	MVP	IT	16	81	608,616	4	42
74	http://www.mannsoftware.com/Blog	David Mann	MVP	DEV	16	33	608,616	4	6
75	http://sharepointmx.mvps.org/blogs/ldusolier (spanish)	Luis du Soldier	MS	IT	15	26	646,322	4	24
76	http://community.zevenseas.com/Blogs/Daniel	Daniel McPherson	MVP	DEV	15	41	646,322	4	27
77	http://blogs.msdn.com/edhild	Ed Hild	MS	DEV			679,094	4
78	http://blogs.msdn.com/randalli	Randall Isenhour	MS	DEV	14	19	688,970	6	10
79	http://blogs.msdn.com/dwinter	Dan Winter	MS	IT	14	16	688,970	5
80	http://geekswithblogs.net/tariq	Tariq Ayad		DEV	14	21	688,970	4	84
81	http://glorix.blogspot.com	Robin Meure		DEV	14	159	688,970	4	3
82	http://www.beckybertram.com	Becky Bertram	MS	DEV	14	21	688,970	4	2
83	http://www.wildwires.com/Blog	Stacy Draper	MVP	DEV	14	19	688,970	4	27
84	http://blogs.sharepointguys.com/brendon	Brendon Schwartz	MVP	IT/DEV	14	103	688,970	3
85	http://blogs.devhorizon.com/reza	Reza Alirezaei	MVP	DEV	14	28	688,970	3	4
86	http://blogs.msdn.com/andrew_may	Andrew May	MVP	DEV		48	722,319	6	153
87	http://blogs.technet.com/corybu	Corey Burns	MS	IT	13	17	736,965	4	1
88	http://www.msftliveblogs.com/mhamilton	Mike Hamilton		IT/DEV	13	14	736,965	4	18
89	http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/itaysk (English/Hebrew)	Itay Shakury		DEV	13	27	736,965	3
90	http://mindsharpblogs.com/kathy	Kathy Hughes	MVP	IT	13	24	736,965	3	6
91	http://cregan.wordpress.com	Chris Regan		IT			770,942	4	8
92	http://www.zimmergren.net	Tobias Zimmer		DEV	12	39	790,971	3	0
93	http://weblogs.asp.net/avnerk	Avner Kashtan		DEV	11	24	854,202	5	75
94	http://meiyinglim.blogspot.com	Mei Ying Lim	MVP	DEV	11	15	854,202	5	20
95	http://wssdevelopment.blogspot.com	Chris		DEV	11	26	854,202	4	1
96	http://www.plijnaer.nl/weblog	Martijn Plijnaer		IT/DEV	11	42	854,202	3	1
97	http://blogs.msdn.com/kn	MS Team	MS	ALL	11		890,116	6	74
98	http://blog.krichie.com	Keith Richie	MVP	DEV	10	10	927,370	5	28
99	http://www.toddklindt.com/blog	Todd Klindt	MVP	IT	10	92	927,370	4	5
100	http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan	Zlatan Dzinic	MVP	DEV	10	40	927,370	3	2

I don’t want to miss anyone

If you have much more than 11 blogs based on Technorati that point to yours then give me a shout at joleson@yahoo.com

Blogs had to to rank in the top 900,000 blogs of more than 10 million and counting, to make the list. Bloglines data and was pulled on 5/19/2008 with Technorati on 5/16/2008. Any mistakes are my mistakes and not intentional. This list is generated for the purposes of ranking blogs to help improve the quality of original content and to reward those who are truly doing amazing work for the SharePoint community. (Truly for your enjoyment and for the betterment of the SharePoint community.)

A Joel’s "Top 100" and "Top 10 SharePoint Blog" badge will be coming soon…

Note: I’ve posted this post for comparative reasons with the previous post. Apologizes for any mistakes or missing blogs. Also please note that some blogs were removed that were considered aggregated feeds or didn’t primarily contain original content such as mirrors, news or republished links. Although this update may look like a major update, additional updates may be made over the course of the week with a refresh of blog listings around August/September 08.

About RSS and Subscriptions… Although some of the best indicators of blog popularity are unique blogs that point to your blog, and links that point to your blog… RSS subscribers are a very telling story. For this reason I’ve included some stats from Bloglines.com an online RSS reader. I assume these stats don’t account for even 5% of readership, but can give an indication of popularity. A more ideal number would be the actual feed statistics such as through feedburner.com. Unfortunately, these statistics are only available if they are published by the owner. I for example, as recent as May 14th had 3,516 subscribers to my feedburner feed, while looking at bloglines you see only 75 as online web based subscribers happening to be using the bloglines interface to subscribe (it’s amazing how many hundreds I can lose over a weekend). Another 29 are subscribed directly to the old feed of the archive site (hence the calculated number in the table).

According to Andrew Connell’s feedburner stats on his site he has around ~3200 subscriptions, while Bil Simser has ~2500. It’s fun to analyze. I hope you enjoy this data and understand this is all in good fun. Here’s an interesting break down by client consumption. You can see what small percentage (2%) is taken by bloglines with Outlook 2007 (28%) and Google Feedfetcher (27%) being the two most popular RSS clients for my feed (the very Pro already upgraded Office 2007 client with Outlook 2007). Very savy indeed.