Here I sought to correct for this longevity bias by reporting the number of followers GAINED over the last 19 days. This is a fairer analysis because it reflects the RATE at which readers are being added over an equal time span in the current blogosphere. With 240+ old school RPG blogs currently online there is a lot of competition for readers' attention. I think rate-of-follower-accumulation is probably the best indicator of how hot a blog is (at least the best I can do with publicly available data).
Congratulations to Scott (HUGE RUINED PILE) and James (GROGNARDIA) for a tie at the top of the list with 28 followers gained! No surprise here, these are both spectacularly great blogs. I am sure you all read GROGNARDIA, but if you haven't checked out HRP go there immediately - it is purely awesome in terms of both quality and quantity of creative output!
I am shocked and flabbergasted that Cyclopeatron made second place! I feel like this is the fluffiest blog in town! Well, I'll enjoy it while it lasts... Thanks everyone!
Before showing the whole list, I want to be clear about the problems with my analysis:
1. I can only retrieve follower numbers for blogger.com blogs. Therefore, blogs using Wordpress or other platforms are not included in the analysis.
2. This list only includes 60 out of the 240 blogs I am aware of. Therefore a lot of great blogs are sadly missing. The reason for this is that my Sept 11 data only include blogs from this list of blogs with 50+ followers. I am now keeping a better spreadsheet of historical data, so for my next comparison I should have 220+ blogs included. Please accept my apologies if your blog is not on the list - if it is listed here it will be in the next comparison!
Followers | Followers | Follower | ||
Rank | Blog | 11-Sep | 30-Sep | Gain |
1 | GROGNARDIA | 628 | 656 | 28 |
1 | HUGE RUINED PILE | 53 | 81 | 28 |
2 | Cyclopeatron | 96 | 123 | 27 |
3 | Playing D&D With Porn Stars | 504 | 522 | 18 |
4 | Jeffs Gameblog | 366 | 380 | 14 |
5 | LotFP: RPG | 250 | 263 | 13 |
6 | A Paladin In Citadel | 164 | 176 | 12 |
6 | From the Sorcerer's Skull | 73 | 85 | 12 |
7 | Destination Unknown | 81 | 92 | 11 |
8 | Sickly Purple Death Ray | 57 | 67 | 10 |
9 | B/X BLACKRAZOR | 161 | 170 | 9 |
9 | Akratic Wizardry | 106 | 115 | 9 |
10 | The Society of Torch, Pole and Rope | 178 | 186 | 8 |
10 | Dungeons and Digressions | 158 | 166 | 8 |
10 | The Underdark Gazette | 145 | 153 | 8 |
10 | Risus Monkey | 52 | 60 | 8 |
11 | Beyond the Black Gate | 221 | 228 | 7 |
11 | Telecanter's Receding Rules | 92 | 99 | 7 |
11 | The Other Side blog | 79 | 86 | 7 |
11 | Dungeonmum | 70 | 77 | 7 |
11 | THE LAND OF NOD | 69 | 76 | 7 |
12 | Bat in the Attic | 146 | 152 | 6 |
12 | Trollsmyth | 143 | 149 | 6 |
12 | Greyhawk Grognard | 141 | 147 | 6 |
12 | Ode to Black Dougal | 117 | 123 | 6 |
12 | Green Skeleton Gaming Guild | 75 | 81 | 6 |
13 | Tankards & Broadswords | 112 | 117 | 5 |
13 | Daddy Grognard | 96 | 101 | 5 |
13 | The Warlock's Home Brew | 83 | 88 | 5 |
13 | Delta's D&D Hotspot | 73 | 78 | 5 |
13 | Axe & Hammer | 64 | 69 | 5 |
13 | Weird Worlds of Geoffrey McKinney | 52 | 57 | 5 |
14 | ChicagoWiz's RPG Blog | 218 | 222 | 4 |
14 | Swords Against the Outer Dark | 126 | 130 | 4 |
14 | How to Start a Revolution in 21 Days or Less | 109 | 113 | 4 |
14 | PLANET ALGOL | 90 | 94 | 4 |
14 | "It's okay; Gary sent us." | 72 | 76 | 4 |
14 | Aeons & Augauries | 59 | 63 | 4 |
15 | Monsters and Manuals | 173 | 176 | 3 |
15 | The Hopeless Gamer | 152 | 155 | 3 |
15 | Gothridge Manor | 88 | 91 | 3 |
15 | Havards Blackmoor Blog | 79 | 82 | 3 |
15 | Dungeonskull Mountain | 62 | 65 | 3 |
15 | Warning - Mutagenic Substance | 58 | 61 | 3 |
15 | Dungeon Mistress | 55 | 58 | 3 |
16 | Lord of the Green Dragons | 212 | 214 | 2 |
16 | The Grand Tapestry | 118 | 120 | 2 |
16 | TEMPLE OF DEMOGORGON | 109 | 111 | 2 |
16 | OEF | 105 | 107 | 2 |
16 | Sham's Grog 'n Blog | 99 | 101 | 2 |
16 | Joethelawyer's Wondrous Imaginings | 93 | 95 | 2 |
16 | Uhluht'c Awakens | 74 | 76 | 2 |
16 | Vaults of Nagoh | 61 | 63 | 2 |
17 | The Savage AfterWorld | 91 | 92 | 1 |
17 | Save Vs. Poison | 70 | 71 | 1 |
17 | Bite The Bulette | 50 | 51 | 1 |
18 | Troll and Flame | 70 | 70 | 0 |
18 | Grimmhaus | 62 | 62 | 0 |
