Ranking

Vedomosti (a Russian business daily) published the "First Ranking of Socio-Political and Business Blogs." The top ten looks like this: 1. ksonin 2. dolboeb 3. onexim_group 4. lipkovichea 5. md_prokhorov 6. another_kashin 7. navalny 8. m_gaidar 9. maratguelman 10. v_milov The full ranking is here. Of course, I'm very flattered to be in seventh place, but it would be interesting to know the evaluation methodology. I assumed the rankings were given to people who post links to Vedomosti ))). I have plenty of those, but Kashin, who is in sixth place, said he hasn't posted a single one. Interesting, in short. Update Everything has been clarified: Viktor Saxon, head of internet technologies at the newspaper Vedomosti, told Webplanet that three factors were taken into account when calculating a blog's score: the number of posts with links to Vedomosti that the robot added to the article (not all posts are added; there is a special selection methodology), as well as the number of clicks on each link and the total number of visits coming from the blog as a whole. http://webplanet.ru/news/life/2008/09/22/lj_politicians.html