Shadow Report: Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs Nov 08

December 2nd, 2008 by Madeleine

The following shows how October’s Top 10 NZ Christian Blogs (public discourse) fare on Half Done’s Nov stats compared to Tumeke’s Oct stats:

[1] NZ Conservative 9 (23)
[2] Something Should Go Here, Maybe Later 19 (34)
[3] The Briefing Room 25 (35)
[4] MandM 31 (50)
[8] Put up Thy Sword 43 (114)
[5] Samuel Dennis 55 (79)
[9] Contra Celsum 71 (125)
[6] Kiwi Polemicist 82 (92)
[7] Gavin Knight 87 (95)
[N] Section 59 Blog 116 (155)

Top 10 Half Done [Top 10 Tumeke] name of blog Half Done rank (Tumeke rank)

Of Note:

All but one Top 10 Christian blog improved on Half Done’s formula/their November performance.
NZ Conservative crack the top 10 in the country – well deserved.
No change in the top 4 spots.
Impressive improvement for Andrew Chesswas’s Put up Thy Sword.
Very good gains for Samuel Dennis, Contra Celsum and Section 59 too.

Other Christian blogs making the top 200 NZ blogs on Public Discourse but outside the top 10:

[10] Say Hello to my Little Friend (a.k.a Beretta Blog) 128 (126)
[O] NZ Debate 164 (156)
[O] Definitive 166 (181)
[O] The Voice of Reason NZ N/A (184)

Note: This list does not include Christians who blog but whose blogs are not identifiably Christian and is based on Tumeke’s classification and ranking methods.If you think your blog should be on the rankings click here.

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3 responses so far ↓

A. J. Chesswas
Dec 2, 2008 at 12:19 pm

I think the fact I actually wrote some posts in November, after a quiet early spring, must have helped!

And my handy Election 08 post which I happened to link to on a communal email i sent hehe…

Well done Zen & Lucyna…
Liz
Dec 2, 2008 at 6:02 pm

Where are your RSS feeds?
MandM
Dec 2, 2008 at 11:37 pm

On the far right column or use this url http://www.mandm.org.nz/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss.