Heather Green of Blogspotting.net has a post discussing an analysis of A-List bloggers by TNL.net. After calculating the posts and word counts of five top blogs for a single day TNL.net writes:
The data became clearer. On that particular day, the top five bloggers created an average of 30 entries, with each entry being under 150 words. This reminds me of something Phillip Greenspun, another A-list blogger, had said about why he liked blogs:
It allows me to experiments with the three paragraph form
Considering the size of the average entry from this, it seems very clear that an entry should be brief.
However, going beyond that is the number of entries that come in on a day. Looking at this, the average Top 5 A-list blogger wrote an average of almost 30 entries. Think about it for a second or two. 30 entries! It's a huge number for a single day.
There are a lot of posts on these blogs but the interesting thing is that four of these five blogs have posts from multiple people. There are five people listed on Boing Boing. Engadget lists a full staff for its technology blog. Gizmodo says, "This site is written primarily by Joel Johnson, along with a rotating line-up of guest editors—and occasionally our trusty intern when our whisky has been properly topped off." And DailyKos has several contributors in addition to blog owner Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Only Instapundit is a solo blog by Glenn Reynolds. So four or five of these blogs are team efforts. Four out of five of these blogs are successful -- not because of one individual blogger -- but because they have a team of bloggers each contributing posts during the day.
