Hey, I've almost made it off the bottom! I can't wait until I can go back to insulting lists that include things that are only there because of duty-bound links to toolmakers (Blogger, MT, GeoURL, Haloscan, me, seems like almost every top-linked-list has a bunch).

Another thing that would (have been|be) interesting to track, if a little subjective: the percentage of the most-watched who have a really awful RSS feed. Just offhand I'd say around a third of the ones there now are unreadable through RSS, so you might as well track them through blo.gs. I wonder whether more favorites lists are being used as a web-viewed update list, rather than the as a blogroll that first put me there, since along with awful RSS, there seem to be a lot of designer sites that you're more likely to want to read in person than through RSS.

one thing that has surprised me by the list is how it differs so much from most other top-n lists of blogs. it’s definitely more of a design-oriented crowd than the usual warblogging or techblogging crowds.

i get the sense that more people use the site for tracking blogs that they want to read than for building a blogroll for their site. (there’s some that use it for both, of course. like me.)