New Wikio Blog Rankings are out. Wikio doesn’t measure how many visitors a website has – it measures the number of reactions they get from the rest of the blogosphere. It’s odd being marked as ‘more influential’ than the BBC’s Nick Robinson, but that simply suggests that excluding readership gives very strange results indeed.

It’s becoming sort of traditional for me to extract the Lib Dem blogs from their list to see how well we’re doing in ‘reaching out.’

As a side note, we’ll have to see if Nick Clegg’s piece in Labour List is a good example of “reaching out” – he did promise to do exactly that when he ran for the leadership, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise when it happens.  I had a chat with Matthew Hanney, Nick’s political advisor, to find out what was going on – was reassured that it’s not the end of “equidistance” and that Nick would write a piece for Conservative Home too, if they’d have him. Personally I find any sort of association with Labour pretty hard to stomach, but then as we’ve all established I’m not a politician.

I don’t need to spell out that any sign of a coalition with Labour would be the end of my relationship with this party though.

This months Wikio rankings show good progress for some – especially relatively new blogger Mark Thompson who’s showing a very canny knack of growing his blog very quickly through rather cunning use of social networking (and being prolific and energetic, which always helps!). In fact this month marks a bit of an upset to the Lib Dem ‘Top 3′ that’s been fixed ever since the Wikio Rankings started.

I certainly don’t think this list reflects the ‘Top 10′ blogs in terms of what exclusively Lib Dems read and enjoy – something, perhaps, for Ryan over on LibDemBlogs.co.uk to think about while he’s scraping all our feeds?