This is a public service announcement on behalf of the Blogosphere: The Wikio Top 20 “Most Influential” blogs in the UK blogosphere.  Something odd appears to have happened this month for Wikio – The political charts shows absolutely no changes at all in the Top 30. He’s said it’s happened in a few charts and they don’t quite know why. We’ll have to see what happens with that.

Political blogs still dominating, it seems.

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Update: Had word from Dan at Wikio. Looks like there really has been some kind of problem, that this chart is probably wrong. No idea what the actual problem is, but they say they’ve fixed it and are drawing up new charts now. Least they’ve had the courage to be open about it. Will update again as and when the revised charts come in.

Update 2: Here’s the real chart for this month:

Here’s the sneak preview of August’s UK blog rankings, provided by those kind people at Wikio. This is the overall ranking, although typically political blogs still dominate.

No change in the top two, again, but then Iain’s much better at generating incoming links than Guido. A shake-up of technology blogs means Boing Boing and Engadget jump to 3 and 4, and Blah! Blah! Technology drops out of the top 10.

Further down it looks like my (very) brief stint as Lib Dem number two is at an end. I’d better update my sidebar. Congrats to Mark Thompson of the ‘Mark Reckons’ blog who can now lay claim to be one of the very few Lib Dems ever to set foot inside the Top 20. Obviously it’s only because Mark’s a man. I’m telling Harriet Harman on you, Mark! Just you see if I don’t!

New Wikio Blog Rankings out today. Wikio measure the number of links within RSS feeds over the last 10 months (with more recent links being more ‘valuable’ so to speak.

Like last month, I thought I’d list the Top 10 Lib Dem blogs that make it into the Top 100. Barnstorming new entry into the Top 100 for Mark Reckons, who has had an insanely good month making a huge splash on the blogosphere very quickly.  Jonathan Calder sneaks back into the Top 30. In general a great month for Lib Dem blogs, no doubt in large part due to the very Wikio Friendly activities of Lib Dem Voice recently (Daily 2×2 posts and Sunday Memes).

In other Wikio news, Jennie Rigg’s new blog is starting to overtake her old blog, too – about time too – I suspect she should get them merged into one so she can get back into this Lib Dem Top 10!

I also seem to have had a pretty good month myself, which is nice. I’d like to say thank you!

*I regret to say that I missed out Stephen Linlithgow’s blog last month. No excuse. Sorry Stephen.