I was working on some tweaks to a small research project here and made this handy little chart of blog posts that link to content at ESPN.com. It’s not a perfect tool, as it only captures links to stories on our major properties, but it gives a rough idea of the size of the sports blog universe as captured by Technorati. The data was captured using their developer API.

As you can see, there was a gap in data processing recently (hence the fact that I’m looking at this). I’m planning on exposing some of this data on the site. I think it’s a curiosity, more than anything else, but I’ve found some good blogs this way.

I’m leaving this fully expanded because my, “Holy F’ing Sh*t!” reaction should be seen by all. And you all know that I hate using profanity on FatMixx. Where do these people come from? Why do they need to blame all of their own problems on an imaginary boogeyman?