1) Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish: 7,203
2) Instapundit: 9,228
3) Poynter Institute: 9.973
4) James Lileks: 14,740
5) Little Green Footballs: 17,484
6) Talking Points Memo: 19,193
7) The Agonist: 19,444
8) The Smirking Chimp: 21,486
9) The Command Post:
10) Daily Kos: 26,404
11) The USS Clueless: 29,934
12) Blogs Of War: 35,245
13) Dean's World: 36,210
14) Scrappleface: 36,277
15) Howard Dean for America: 37,052
16) Lt. Smash: 37,486
17) Jim Romenesko's Obscure Store & Reading Room: 39,903
18) Right Wing News: 42,802
19) This Modern World: 43,879
20) Maxspeak: 49,274
21) Nick Denton: 55,259
22) Stand Down: 57,756
23) Buzz Machine: 58,426
24) Matthew Yglesias: 59,599
25) The Semi-Daily Journal of Economist Brad DeLong: 59,935
26) Taegan Goddard's Political Wire: 61,223
27) The Truth Laid Bear: 62,166
28) Spinsanity: 63,680
29) Matt Welch: 68,220
30) Talk Left: 72,312
31) Cold Fury: 72,485
32) Oliver Willis: 72,774
33) Samizdata: 75,067
34) Warblogs:CC: 75,182
35) Sgt. Stryker's Daily Briefing: 75,195
36) A Small Victory: 76,482
37) Vodkapundit: 80,019
38) Ken Layne: 82,306
39) Moxie: 82,688
40) Virginia Postrel: 89,783
41) Asymmetrical Information: 90,134
42) Winds Of Change: 90,308
43) Rachel Lucas: 97,302
44) Rantburg: 99,742
45) Overlawyered: 104,341
46) Tacitus: 107,176
47) Amish Tech Support: 109,438
48) Gary Hart: 118,274
49) The Volokh Conspiracy: 136,650
50) Unqualified Offerings:136,929

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Conservative Blogs

 

 

Big Pig - Site for posting and discussing news headlines of interest to conservatives. Includes a listing of conservative sites.

 

ConservaBabes ConservaChat - Offers streaming audio and political discussion forums.

 

The Conservative Cafe - For discussing conservative thinkers, writers, and leaders, as well as conservatism's philosophical foundations.

 

 

Conservative Underground - Provides editorial commentary, cartoons, and discussion forum on current issues, as well as news links.

 

 

Conservative's Chat Room - Chat room for American conservatives to discuss current news events; includes related links.

 

ConservativeX - Venue for young conservatives to voice issues, discuss topics in a moderated forum, and get conservative news without the mainstream media spin.

 

C-POL - E-mail discussion list where political, cultural and religious issues are highlighted from a conservative, constitutionalist perspective. Site also provides related links.

 

Free Conservatives - Political debate message board, with a collection of conservative links.

 

Free Republic - Online message boards for independent, grass-roots conservatism on the web. Gather at Free Republic to check notes, plan strategy, and talk about the issues of the day.

 

 

Lucianne.com - Conservative forum for posting and discussion of current news items of a political focus. Includes selections by columnist Lucianne Goldberg.

 

 

Politisite.com - Politics from the RIGHT Side of the Web.  Fighting against the vast left-wing conspiracy to replace faith in God with Dependence in Government

 

 

Rant Forum - Conservative online forum for discussion of political issues, media bias, and other trends in today's society.

 

RedState -

 

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Citizen Journalism

 

 

Backfence.com - Citizen journalism site for posting news, information and events. Currently covering California, Illinois, Maryland and Virginia.

 

BMark.it - Register to vote and discuss items listed in news directory.

 

BrooWaha - Project enabling people to write about news events in their U.S. city. Contributors' input ranked according to popularity.

 

 

CNN: I-Reports - Accepts video, photos and audio from a computer or cell phone. A compilation of news items submitted by citizen journalism.

 

 

The Daily Acts - User-generated citizen journalism site. Does not accept opinion pieces, only news items.

 

Global Voices - A focal point for citizens’ media. Providing training, online tutorials, and free open-source tools for people around the world to use safely to express themselves. Offers weblog, wiki, and aggregator of international weblogs.

 

Hypergene MediaBlog - Dealing with participatory journalism, and how audiences shape tomorrow's news. Written by media design consultants Chris Willis and Shayne Bowman.

 

iTalkNews - Register and follow step-by-step instructions to submit news stories and pictures. Earned pointed used to aggregate placement of items on front page. Reader donations entirely directly to authors.

 

mixeye - A platform for public journalism. Submit insights and opinions, news and events.

 

MyTown - Virtual town square for users to post community news, events, photos and weblogs. Sort by Colorado town name or topic. Create a group of common interest. Submissions vetted by staff at The Daily Camera.

 

NewsCloud - A community directory for sharing and commenting on news. Creates tiny url shortcuts for emailing friends about uploaded content. Join to submit stories, videos and weblog posts from around the web.

 

Newsvine - Register to add a news story, comment or write a column. Open source, community news service, which lets members customize the news viewed.

 

NowPublic - Vancouver-based platform for participatory news-gathering. Global posts of news, photos, and video.

 

OhmyNews International - Online newspaper with the motto "every citizen is a reporter". The majority of articles are written by freelance contributors.

 

 

Sportingo - Register and write articles on any sports-related event. Vote, discuss and set the forum's agenda.

 

SpyderWeb News - Post stories and vote on their ranking. User-posted content, tag cloud, and list of most active members.

 

Wikinews:Wikinews needs you! - Explains the basics of writing articles for the Wikinews community, how to edit a page, plus links to the newsroom and tips on how to ask for help.

 

Your Hub - Community site to share stories and photos, events, weblog items and classifieds among USA-based neighborhoods.

 

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Political Polling Agencies

 

Abacus Associates - international public opinion and strategic research firm providing consulting services for advocacy organizations, political candidates, political parties, government officials, labor unions, and corporations.

 

Ayres, McHenry & Associates, Inc. -- Strategic Opinion Research - metropolitan Atlanta firm that specializes in providing quality research and strategic advice to corporations, associations, and Republican political candidates.

 

Data Associates - a marketing research and political polling serving Alabama, Georgia, and the Southeast United States.

 

The Gallup Brain - searchable databases of poll data since 1935 on a fee basis.

The Gallup Organization - Provides market research and consulting services around the world. Publisher of the Gallup Poll, a widely recognized barometer of American opinion.

Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research - Public opinion and strategic research for companies, political campaigns, and issue organizations.

 

Hill Research Consultants - A national firm that has provided accurate and cost-effective public opinion polling and market research since 1988 to political campaigns, corporations, schools, law firms, and associations.

 

Mason-Dixon Polling and Research - A major US political polling firm specializing in state polls.

 

Opinion Dynamics Corporation - Full-service market research firm in energy/utility, associations, ballot measure, health care, education, and other areas.

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The Polling Company - A full-service market research, public affairs and political consulting firm with offices in Washington and San Francisco.

 

Research 2000 - Olney, Maryland-based polling and research firm specializing in U.S. state and local elections. Staff and company profiles, op-eds, media citations, and poll result archives included.

 

Southern Opinion Research - A survey research company specializing in political and election surveys, litigation services, church and religious organizational surveys and media research.

 

SurveyUSA - Conducts interactive, fast-turn, affordable public opinion polls and private market research for the nation's most discriminating clients.

 

Zogby International - A leading polling firms in the United States and the official North American and South American political polling agency for Reuters.