Big new good report on blogs, netroots

The New Politics Institute, which is a project of the New Democratic Network Political Fund, released a report today on the emerging blogosphere that's definitely worth a look.

Written by Matt Stoller of BOPNews.com and Chris Bowers of MyDD.com, it's a very good primer of blogs, what are they, the numbers, etc. It also has a list (at the end) of the top blogs AND netroots sites, by rank, and I think we come in around 7, though among just blogs we're 4 or 5 depending how you count things.

And if you want to get issue specific, AMERICAblog is the number one blog devoted to taking on the religious right, and the number one gay rights blog as well, which is cool too.

Acros the board, a good place to be.

Anyway, Chris and Matt are great guys, so it's worth a read, and is a good resource for folks wanting to know more about these darn blogs and just what are they.