Thanks for your comments.

Your assumption about Bloglines is correct; it’s a matter of data availability. Bloglines subscriber info is public, whereas a blog’s total subscribers are only made available by the choice of individual bloggers.

Good point about the ads. If I can’t come up with an automated way to address that, perhaps it can be addressed in eDrugSearch Points.

I’m curious aboutyour choice of bloglines versus other services. According to feedburner, I have many more subscribers from Google Reader and “Windows RSS Platform, which I presume is IE7. Perhaps it is data availability?

I also agree with a previous poster that you should factor in the presence or absence of ads. Given your criteria, sites with ads will automatically rank higher, even if they are not better, more widely read, or even reliable.

Regardless of what you decide to do, thanks for taking the time to create this list.

Adam

It might be worthwhile to consider some brief narratives on each site based on your own evaluation. Your evaluation should take into account the Healthcare Blogger Code of Ethics or something similar beyond the HON Code (which is helpful but not complete in terms of conflict of interest).

Notice that many of the top blogs in the list are dot.com sites and they are selling things, products and this issue of ethics becomes even more important in that regard. I submit this post in a spirit of open debate. best regards

Dean Giustini
OM Blog
blog.openmedicine.ca

I am sure you saw my comments on Pharma Blogosphere:

“Now we have a new way to learn which [healthcare] blogs deliver the best value to readers.”

Feel free to quote that.