Writing a blog that continually receives a high number of viewers requires consistently publishing posts that are read and spread through the Internet by the readers.
Top blogs all provide the same core tenets of top journalism – news worthiness, excellent writing, useful information and human interest.
As you will see the top blog sites have grown into aggregation sites focused around themes that are of interest to the blogger. Aggregation is a way for the blogger to share a world with their readers beyond their own writing.
Settle back and let’s take a tour of the top blog sites, according to most viewed statistics. And, the worst blog site will also get a high viewer rating – once – and remain on the top worst blogs list.
The best journalism blog posts during of 2008 according to Christopher Wink.
The 2008/2009 winners of the ‘Top 10 blogs for writers‘.
Top blogs according to viewer stats by top blog aggregation sites:
Bloglines – http://www.bloglines.com/topblogs
Technorati –http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/
Blogs On Top – BOT – http://www.blogsontop.com/
WordPress – http://botd.wordpress.com/
Top 100 Bloggers – http://www.top100bloggers.com/
Wikio – http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top
Fimoculous – 30 Most Notable Blogs of 2008
http://www.fimoculous.com/archive/post-5554.cfm
Guardian – And the most powerful blogs accoring to the Guardian – http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/mar/09/blogs
Journalism and Blogging 
Interesting to see that, but I think they should divide it in two sections such as popular news organizations’ blogs and popular individual or common man blogs.
Personally, I like to read individual blogs because they are more personal whereas blogs by companies and news organizations don’t seem to have that character (there are exceptions). I too feel excellent and engaging writing and graphics are important in making a blog popular. Thanks for the info.
Great information John. Out of your list of selections, I enjoyed reading the “Top 10 blogs for writers” and WordPress the most. Thanks.
Janice