The Linking Olympics

Which weblogs are the most popular? The Technorati site compiles a real-time list of the top 100 blogs, based on the number of links they receive from other blogs. The champion? To no one's surprise, Slashdot stands atop the rankings with links from nearly 2,000 other sites, followed by the Scripting News, Boing Boing and Instapundit. The Technorati site tracks more than 133,000 weblogs. See this page for a listing of other tools that seek to rank the popularity and/or importance of widely-read weblogs.