Top 100 Engineering Blogs

Rank	Name					Total
1	Cooking for Engineers	44	39	44	44	171
2	Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog	42	44	40	33	159
3	Women in Science	43	39	38	33	153
	Scientists & Engineers for America Action Fund	40	41	37	35	153
5	iMechanica	41	39	39	33	152
6	CCIE Pursuit Blog	37	39	30	42	148
7	eContent	36	39	34	38	147
8	CCIE Blog	39	39	32	33	143
9	UrbanWorkbench	31	43	28	40	142
10	Rants of a Feminist Engineer	34	39	35	33	141
11	ardenpackeer.com	38	39	29	33	139
12	The Energy Blog	10	39	43	43	135
	Engineering Science	22	39	41	33	135
14	Chemical Engineering World	29	39	33	33	134
15	Rands In Repose	10	39	42	41	132
16	The Art of Engineering	27	39	31	33	130
17	Faraday's Cage is where you put Schroedinger's Cat	35	39	22	33	129
18	CCIE Journey	30	39	23	33	125
19	Richard Bannister’s CCIE Blog	27	39	21	37	124
	The Mind of Dr. Pion	24	40	27	33	124
21	CCIE Candidate	34	39	16	33	122
22	blinkdagger	32	39	17	33	121
23	Candid Engineer in Academia	29	39	19	33	120
24	Wireless Sensor Networks Blog	27	39	20	33	119
	The Learning Diary of an Israeli Water Engineer	23	39	24	33	119
	Cell Tech Hub	21	39	26	33	119
27	Space Prizes	10	39	36	33	118
28	Aurelie Thiele	21	39	13	36	109
29	www.bitbucketblog.com	10	39	25	33	107
30	Software Engineering - Best Practices	21	39	11	33	104
31	We Know Engineers	17	39	14	33	103
32	Software Engineering Matters	21	39	9	33	102
33	Engineering & …	10	39	18	33	100
34	Ocean Engineering Blog	12	42	10	33	97
	Cisco Network Engineer	10	39	15	33	97
36	Chris Gammell's Analog Life	15	39	3	39	96
37	Engineering Ethics Blog	17	39	6	33	95
38	The Farming Engineers	14	39	8	33	94
	Journeys of an Academic	10	39	12	33	94
40	All About Flexible Macroelectronics	14	39	5	33	91
41	Engineering Education	10	39	7	34	90
42	Machine Vision 4 Users	12	39	2	33	86
	ETHOSagapes	10	39	4	33	86
44	Aircraft Designers Engineers and Notables	10	39	1	33	83

Last Updated August 12, 2008

Methodology

We currently combine four different measurements to rank the top engineering blogs:

	- Technorati's Authority rating
	- The number of feed subscribers reported by Bloglines
	- The number of inbound links reported by Yahoo!
	- The number of monthly visitors reported by Quantcast

The blogs are ranked for each measurement and then receive a score based on their ranking, with the maximum possible score being equal to the number of blogs in the list.

For a list of 100 engineering blogs, for example, the blog with the most Bloglines subscribers would receive 100 points, the next would receive 99 points, etc. The scores for each measurement are then combined to get the total score.

Show Off Your Ranking

We have two different badges you can add to your site to show off your ranking. Click your blog's Total to get the code for your site.

How Do I Improve My Ranking?

Right now we only have traffic data for a very small percentage of these blogs, causing a jam at the bottom of that category. By simply signing up with Quantcast and adding their code to your site, you'll automatically jump ahead of the blogs who haven't when Quantcast starts reporting your numbers.

Additionally, Quantcast tends to drastically underestimate traffic for sites that they aren't tracking directly, so even if they do have stats for your blog, those stats could double if you add their code.

How Do I Add a Blog to the Top 100?

If you know of a blog that meets these criteria, we'd love to have it in this list:

• Focused primarily on engineering.
• Posted to regularly for at least the last two months.
• Hosted on a dedicated domain or subdomain. (Regrettably, we can't accurately calculate traffic for blogs in a subdirectory.)

Just email us at topblogs@engineerjobs.com, and we'll get it added right away!