In the world of the blogosphere, link love it rampant. It's not surprising, therefore to see that bloggers typically link to other bloggers when making references. According to Technorati, when bloggers were asked who influences their writing, blogs were in the lead at 61%, followed by non-blog Web content.
Technorati put together a list of the mainstream media sites that bloggers voted influential through their links.
It's interesting to note that YouTube - just born in 2006 - was considered mainstream and topped the entire list.
Here are the top 50 mainstream sites:
YouTube
New York Times
BBC News
CNN.com
MSN
guardian.co.uk
Washington Post
Yahoo! News
Reuters
Los Angeles Times
Telegraph.co.uk
MSNBC
The Wall Street Journal
Time
Wired
USA Today
boston.com
FOX News
Daily Mail
ESPN
CBS News
Financial Times
Forbes
San Francisco Chronicle
Chicago Tribune
The White House
New York Post
New York Daily News
International Herald Tribune
PBS
Salon.com
BusinessWeek
Slate
Newsweek
New York Magazine
Economist.com
CBC.ca
San Francisco Examiner
MarketWatch
Chicago Sun-Times
US News & World Report
Houston Chronicle
Yahoo! Sports
Entertainment Weekly
Seattle Times
E! Online
People
Science Daily
Style.com
The Christian Science Monitor
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