Media Socialist is a blog about, and a testing ground for, social media online.

That means we're gluttons for blogs, social networks, social bookmarks, wikis, user-generated video, photo-sharing, and everything Web 2.0.

Top Social Networks Here and Abroad 2008

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

Click here for 2009 Rankings I've compiled a large list of popular social networks in the U.S. and around the world, and using the most recent Alexa rankings, I've made a list of the most popular social networks here and abroad. "Global rank" and "U.S. rank" represent web traffic compared to every ...

I love stats & graphs: Top Blogs

Thursday, June 19th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

I've been messing around with different web traffic stats sources, as I begin to look at the most influential bloggers. Blogs are starting to rival traditional sources of news and information, so from a public relations standpoint, it's important to know where the loudest voices are, because maybe you can get ...

Top 30 Social Bookmarkers

Monday, June 9th, 2008 by Griffin Hammond

A statistical analysis by eBizMBA ranks 30 social bookmarkers, or smarkers (as I like to call them), in order of popularity. Perhaps this gives me a nice gague for which ones to try out, and in what order. Here are the top 6: Digg (I've tried) Technorati (I use as a social media ...