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?

Problem: Many of us don’t use LDB for our regularly read blogs (your records will show that I came here from my Feeds page on DW).

We’ve noticed in the Golden Dozen that the known-to-be better read blogs appear less than the lesser known blogs, pretty sure that’s because a lot of people subscribe directly to the blogs they really like.

The only metric I could think of that’d be fairly reliable would be if Will et al at Cowley St could release a page views analysis of the campaign buttons, but that’d exclude me and Jennie (who can’t use them), yourself and others who chose not to use them, etc.

Personally, I care not–I actually prefer Wikio to an extent because it’s quality of readership to an extent–other people that can be bothered to run their own blog value your opinion.

But ultimately my target audience is tiny, and I know I’ve got their attention when I need it.

Yes, it can be gamed, and I’m tracking many different ways that seem to be effective, but anything can be gamed, if you want to check readers, put the tracking image into your feed so it displays on everyone’s feed, etc…

In terms of what I read, I would say I hang on to every single word that Costigan, James and Jennie write, cos even when I don’t agree with them, they’re brilliant, and most words that everyone else in the top ten writes.

I am surprised that Liberal Burblings isn’t in there, either cos he’s really good ditto for Sara Bedford and Cicero’s Songs because I consider all of those must read.