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To be honest, I am not really a “top this and that” kind-a-guy, but recently I wandered how popular mobile blogs (bloggers writing about mobile & wireless technology and lifestyle) are in the overall blogosphere. We all know there is a Technorati TOP 100, not that’s it’s completely accurate - here today, gone tomorrow, but I think it gives a good overview based on the number of links people make to a blog, which is ‘a’ measure of popularity of course. I just want you to know that this is not an intend for an official top but rather a personal evaluation I wanted to share with you.

The Technorati top currently is crowded by (now classic) blogs such as EnGadget, Boing Boing, Gizmodo and a lot of blogs reporting on web 2.0, including tech writers such as Michael Arrington (TechCrunch), Scobleizer and Om Malik, just to name a few out of all the other great blogs out there.

I was actually surpised finding Smart Mobs just out of the TOP 1.000 (!), which made me think there are a lot of sites inbetween the 100 and the 1.000 that think mobile is not so important to write on, or mobile blogs are maybe just too boring for many readers - apart from the gadget sites, and/or maybe they are just too specialised? Yes, the ‘good old boys’ in the TOP 100 are writing about mobile too once in a while of course and for sure, the mobile lifestyle as we report on regularely isn’t mass market just yet. I can see easily however my dear mobile bloggers collegues becoming more and more popular as mobile will become more important in our day-to-day lifestyle in the near future.

So, here are the popular mobile blog sites, according Technorati.

1. Smart Mobs - rank: 1,033 (4,755 links from 1,081 blogs)
2. textually.org - rank: 1,181 (3,213 links from 1,009 blogs)
3. MobileBurn - rank: 1,868 (5,609 links from 766 blogs)
4. All About Symbian - rank: 2,833 (1,864 links from 589 blogs)
5. MobileCrunch - rank: 3,465 (1,538 links from 508 blogs)
6. MobHappy - rank: 4,920 (1,344 links from 390 blogs)
7. pasta and vinegar - rank: 6,187 (1,145 links from 332 blogs)
8. The Mobile Technology Weblog - rank: 7,928 (2,565 links from 262 blogs)
9. Mopocket rank: N/A (569 links to this URL sorted)
10. Open Gardens - rank: 9,230 (510 links from 232 blogs)
11. Mobile Mentalism - rank: 11,626 (465 links from 189 blogs)
12. Techdirt Wireless - rank: 12,632 (434 links from 175 blogs)
13. Darla Mack - rank: 13,125 (859 links from 169 blogs)
14. Communities Dominate Brands - rank: 13,203 (446 links from 166 blogs)
15. m-trends.org - rank: 17,238 (435 links from 132 blogs)
16. mobile jones - rank: 18,012 (343 links from 127 blogs)
17. The 3G Portal - rank: 18,195 (352 links from 126 blogs)
18. The Pondering Primate - rank: 19,256 (255 links from 120 blogs)
19. gotomobile.com - rank: 22,255 (226 links from 106 blogs)
20. Mobile Opportunity - rank: 23,427 (229 links from 101 blogs)

If you think it makes sence keeping such a top and even extend it, give me a wink and I’ll think to keep this updated every now and then. Please note that this is just my personal check on mobile blogs I’m most familiar with, if I should have left somebody out, please contact me so I can correct if I’m completely missing the ball here.

Note that these figures and ranking are updated nearly daily at Technorati, so if you read this in a couple of days, the numbers will probably have changed.

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