NowPublic is one of the fastest growing participatory news networks in the world. Time Magazine voted it last year one of the top 50 websites and The Guardian UK declared it's one of the top 5 most resourceful news sites in the world.

They have come up with a way to measure "news influence" on the web. They insinuated that traffic to one's site and/or blog is not one of the lead indicators, but how the people listed are connected to others (especially other influencers) through social media like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, Facebook and others.

I honestly don't know what to makeof this list. I am at the same time amused and disturbed.

For one, Arianna Huffington comes in at #2 but I thought she lived in California, not New York City. Then there's the grand daddy of the New York blogeratti, Nick Denton, coming in at #34. Yet the most disturbing data point of this list is that I come in at #9.

Yup.

I am, as per NowPublic, one of the "top ten" news influencers in the New York new media market.

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Every week we get requests from 'the new blogger on the block' to include them on our blogroll. The blogroll is tarting to get too long and unruly to the point that I am thinking of making some big changes on that department. But before I hear any rending of shirts and gnashing of teeth, I would like to propose a different sort of blogrolling.

In the next coming weeks, I will be experimenting with the new syndication feature I have here at The Daily Gotham.

Right now we have a small newswire service running in the back end. We use it to aggregate all the blogs from the culturekitchen Media network and some events blogs. What I will be experimenting with is more than a newswire.

In my effort to have more local content broadcasted over the nets, I will start promoting to the front page posts found on other people's blogs and syndicated through their feeds. These posts will be branded with the blogs logo and have links back to the original sites and blog entry.