Technorati's Highest Ranked Educational Blogs

I've decided that I want to do a review of "popular blogs" as a component of the literature section of my dissertation. The only problem is when somebody uses the term "popular blogs" what does he/she mean? Are "popular blogs" those with the highest number of subscribers? What about those with the largest number of incoming links? What about those that are read by the most people? (The Lede, a New York Times blog likely has a large readership but have those readers subscribed and/or posted links to the blog?)

Simply writing the term "popular blogs" appears to vague. So, I've decided to review the ten educational blogs that are highest ranked on Technoratti. These include:

1. Stephen Downes
2. 2 Cents
3. History is Elementary
4. Cool Cat Teacher
5. The Fisch Bowl
6. Speed of Creativity
7. Education Wonks
8. MS Teacher
9. Educating Mom
10. Joanne Jacobs

Does anybody notice anything interesting about this list? Where is Will Richardson?

Will's absence on this list either demonstrates that I did something wrong or for some reason he is not listed on Technorati. Is it possible that he has not submitted his blog to Technorati? If so, why not? Is it possible that Will's blog does not belong in the top ten? (I don't think so.)

My ultimate goal in reviewing these blogs and other literature written by these blog authors is that I hope to write something intelligent about how they consider the relationship between technology, content and pedagogy. I'm thinking of writing to these authors, some of whom I believe read my blog and asking them if there is anything specific that they'd suggest I look at in this regard.

Please bear in mind that in order to develop this list, I had to discount numerous homeschool blogs and irrelevant blogs that came up in the top list of blogs.

I'll keep writing as I continue doing the research.

By the way, one of the things that I'm really looking forward to in my dissertation research is getting advice from my blog readers, so please comments.

Thanks!!