I’m always telling a pal of mine about the discussions about A-List Bloggers.
Today Terry of Kineda wrote to me about a little widget inspired by Dave Sifry?s State of the Blogosphere.

And here are the results (drumroll please):

Check your status and post below with your celebrity status.

I haven’t been very active in the Indian Blogosphere and so missed the entire discussion over Kiruba being the No. 1 blogger in India (according to Blogstreet).

Patrix has expressed his opinion on Popularity in the Indian Blogosphere. He goes on to list several Indian blogs (including mine) according to their Technorati Ranking.

His post did get me thinking.

Popularity can be defined as the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after.

But, how does this translate in the WWW? How do we measure popularity? What are the various methods today? Are they reliable?

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