Blogs Eligible For Inclusion In The S&F Top 50 — 1st Qtr 2008

[NOTE: If you know of any classical music blog(s) that should be included in this list but isn’t, please leave the name and link of that blog(s) in the comments section below. Comments and recommendations will be reviewed at the close of the next quarter. Accepted recommendations will be included in the Eligible Blogs list for that quarter.]

A View from the Podium
Adaptistration
An Unamplified Voice
Aworks
Classical Convert
Classical Music
Daily Observations
Deceptively Simple
Dial “M” for Musicology
Fandango: Homo Camp
Felsenmusick
Holde Kunst
Intermezzo
Ionarts
Jason Heath's Double Bass Blog
Jessica Duchen’s Classical Music Blog
Letter V
Listen
Mad Musings of Me
Mahler Owes Me Ten Bucks
Most Of The Shebang
Mostly Music in the Midlands
Mostly Opera
Musical Assumptions
Musical Perceptions
My Favorite Intermissions
Mysteries Abysmal
Night after Night
NY Opera Fanatic
Oboeinsight
On a Pacific Aisle
On an Overgrown Path
On The Record
Opera Chic
Out West Arts
Parterre Box
PostClassic
Prima La Musica poi le parole
Renewable Music
Sandow
Sieglinde’s Diaries
Slipped Disc
Soho the Dog
Sounds & Fury
Sounds Like Now
The Concert
The Iron Tongue of Midnight
The Omniscient Mussel
The Penitent Wagnerite
The Rambler
The Rest is Noise
The Short Road to Nirvana
The Standing Room
The Well-Tempered Blog
Think Denk
Twang Twang Twang
Vilaine fille
WagnerBlog
Wellsung

Comments

[Chris]

A few months back, I made a small project of tracking all the blogs in the classical music blogosophere. From the link below, check out the bookmark widget on the Classical Music Blogs Pagecast--you can see that there are around 220 blogs about classical music. You should probably check all of them to see that your results are accurate.

http://www.pageflakes.com/chrisfoley/14649039

[A.C. Douglas]

Chris: I'm aware of Pageflakes, and a very impressive site it is, too. In my "seed" list above I've included all the cm blogs known to me personally. Others are free to leave in this comments section the names of other cm blogs they think belong on this eligibility list. As explained in detail both above and in this quarter's S&F Top 50 listing, if accepted, the blog(s) will be incorporated in the eligibility list, and included in the run for rankings for the next quarter.

ACD

[Chris]

Yes, please include the Collaborative Piano Blog in next quarter's eligibility.

Some stats as of April 2: Google 531, Technorati 74, 236 feed subscribers (via Feedburner), with an average of 352 daily visitors for the last week (via Sitemeter)

[jodru]

ANABlog
http://www.analogartsensemble.net/blog.html

It's a group blog, but just like Ionarts, I post the vast majority of its content.

[Tim Munro]

Hello ACD,

Please include "thirteen ways", eighth blackbird's blog, in future rankings.

http://www.eighthblackbird.com/blog/

Thanks!
Tim

[Lisa Hirsch]

I have a list of more than a dozen blogs that ought to have been evaluated, of which the most surprising omission is Notes from the Kelp, composer Alex (Not Mr.) Shapiro's blog. I'm collecting the URLs and will post them here.

[A.C. Douglas]

Lisa: I think you know that Alex is a favorite of mine, but Notes From The Kelp is NOT a classical music blog. I even had to exclude it from S&F's Culture Blogs listing. She mostly doesn't talk about classical music. She mostly talks about nature and other personal nature-connected stuff. Only rarely does she actually discuss classical music; ergo, the exclusion of Notes From The Kelp from eligibility for the S&F Top 50 rankings.

ACD

[Lisa Hirsch]

Okay - it's your ranking!

I submitted a list of other blogs as a comment and it got held for moderation as possible spam. :) I will email you the list and links.

[A.C. Douglas]

Lisa: I just OK'd the "spam" comment. Stupid TypePad didn't notify me it was holding a comment that was possibly spam (it should have notified me via eMail).

Thanks for the links. Will look at them all during the next month, and those that belong on the eligibility list will be added.

ACD

[Lisa Hirsch]

Excellent; thank you for posting the list. Have fun investigating!

[Sergio]

I woukld be remiss and you would you if you didn't include http://africlassical.blogspot.com

on you top 50 list. is is an excellent website

[Caleb Deupree]

Please consider Classical-Drone in your list of classical music blogs. Not all the music I consider is classical, and I haven't posted much on music written between Bach and WWII, but I have posted articles recently on Cage and Takemitsu, as well as reviews of some of the classical concerts here in Tucson.

[James Bash]

Please include Northwest Reverb in your survey. You can find it at
northwestreverb.blogspot.com.

Thanks!

[Pete Matthews]

Hey A.C.,

Please be sure to include Feast of Music in your next tally.

Best,
Pete

[Andrew Patner]

The View from Here by Chicago critic Andrew Patner.

Thanks.

[Andrew Patner]

Whoops:

http://viewfromhere.typepad.com

[Mr. Bacon]

Please include Sound and Space in future listings/rankings. While I deal with all mediums of art, it's predominantly classical music criticism.
Thanks--
Baco

[Philo]

NicoMuhly.com (technorati rating 118) is missing.