MoPo 2007

Michiel van Raaij, aka Eikongraphia, has just posted the 25 Most Popular Architecture Blogs of this moment, or MoPo 2007, and this page manages to break the top five, clocking in at number four. Not surprisingly the fantastic, bar-raising BLDGBLOG tops the list, which "measures the popularity of architecture blogs by linking blogs (Technorati), subscribers (Bloglines), and hits (Google, and Google Images)." Link-heavy (and one of my favorite sources) Things Magazine comes in second place, with the lately-stagnant Pruned in third place, and New York-centered Tropolism rounding out the top five below me.

1. BLDGBLOG
2. Things Magazine
3. Pruned
4. Archidose
5. Tropolism
6. Dezeen
7. Edgar Gonzalez
8. Subtopia
9. Eikongraphia
10. Anarchitecture
11. Noticias Arquitectura
12. Mirage Studio 7
13. Brand Avenue
14. Architecture.mnp
15. Archispass
16. Archinect News
17. Architechnophilia
18. Bird to the North
19. Dezain
20. ecAr 2.0
21. PartIV
22. Blog Like You Give A Damn
23. Death by Architecture
24. Progressive Reactionary
25. Life by Design

Some comments on the list:

I'm surprised that my page is so high at #4, given that during my one-year graduate school "excursion" my posts are more rehash than original content, though I think this points to the value of persistence when it comes to measuring traffic and popularity (not necessarily goals of mine but the naming of this page has inadvertently led to this).

Michiel expects Dezeen (#6) to be on the top of the list next year. That blog, which just started this year, is already immensely popular, partly due to its mix of architecture, gadgets, and art. Raaij's comment also points to the glut of new blogs that will supplant this page and others next year, especially if the list expands its focus to incorporate other pages that feature architecture as well as other design topics, like PingMag, and green blogs like Jetson Green. Just take a look at my sidebar to see the ever-growing list of links under the blogs category.

While some pages that I'd expect didn't make the list, there's a few blogs in there that are new to me, and they will be added to the sidebar under blogs::architecture, including #7 Edgar Gonzalez, #14 Architecture.mnp (my ninja please), #18 Bird of the North (which will be added to blogs::urban), and #25 Life by Design (added to blogs::design+technology).

Lastly, a thanks to Michiel for the effort to put this list together.