Cross posted from MyDD.
Here's a navel gazing story for us all.
Take a look at Dailykos traffic for September 8th, as of 11pm PST.
At the point when this picture was captured, Site Meter totaled 519,919 page views for Dailykos (the purple crest in the graphic). However, for thirteen of the hours recorded on September 8th, Dailykos surpassed 64,000 page views. Every time a site passes 64,000 page views in one hour, Site Meter resets the page views for that hour back to zero, and starts counting again. As you can see on the graphic, Dailykos reset back to zero page views for thirteen consecutive hours, from 7am PST to 7pm PST, inclusive. That means the site actually had another 832,000 page views that were not recorded in the main total. Overall, this means that with an hour left to count, Dailykos actually received more than 1.35 million page views on September 8th.
Considering that on weekends, blog traffic is usually about half of what it is during weekdays, it is possible to extrapolate total weekly page views for a blog by multiplying one weekday total by six. Using this metric, Dailykos is currently receiving around 8.3-8.4M page views per week. According to my latest survey of blog traffic, the top fifty conservative blogs combined for around 8.85M page views per week. That makes the audience of Dailykos roughly equal to the audience of the top fifty conservative blogs combined. In fact, Dailykos probably has a larger audience, since many people read more than one conservative blog a day. Conservatives even like to brag about how much they share their traffic with one another, which will make it difficult for them to deny this. And hey, Dailykos is growing much faster than the conservative blogosphere, so even if it isn't quite as large now, it will probably be soon.
Two years ago, Instapundit had an audience three times larger than Dailykos. Now, Dailykos is the equal of nearly the entire conservative blogosphere, and five other progressive blogs, Talking Points Memo, Eschaton, Crooks and Liars and AmericaBlog, all have audiences larger than Instapundit, which remains the largest conservative blog in terms of audience size.
In a media and political world dominated by conservatives, the blogosphere is emerging as a rising island--soon, perhaps, a continent--of total progressive dominance. As we progressives begin to turn the tide all over the country, it should be noted that the first place where the tide began to turn was on blogs. The revolution really wasn't televised after all.