Recently I reported on the new Technorati Top 100, which held a lot of surprises for me.

The folks at Blogstreet have not been changing their algorithms nearly as aggressively, but they have kept spidering, and their most recent list also shows surprises, albeit slightly different ones.

The one thing both lists share is the fall of Glenn Reynolds' Instapundit. (That's him, linked from his own site.) He's still #3 at Blogstreet, while going off the list completely at Technorati, but even here the fall is dramatic.

Pressed for a theory as to why, I guess Reynolds has become predictable, in both style and outlook. Liberal-leaning bloggers have been dropping him aggressively and he has been unable to grow his audience in other directions. (The fall isn't because of his politics -- other conservative bloggers hold their place on both lists.) He's a one trick pony.

What else jumps out from the new Blogstreet Top 100?

• Brazilian sites are now first and second on the Blogstreet list. This might be because the pages in question are the main pages of large communities. Comparing communities to the work of individual bloggers is a bit unfair, but until we learn to segment these lists more rigorously it's an artifact we have to continue dealing with.
  
• Look at the list carefully, and you'll find just how international the blogging world is becoming. You will find Icelanders and Iranians and Japanese and more. I think this is important.
  
• The number of links needed to make the list continues to jump. The #100 blog on the current list has 288 incoming blogs on its roll.
  
• The identity of that "lowest-rating" blog is a big surprise.
  
  
• Instapundit's collapse is all the more surprising when you see difficult it has been for other bloggers to fall in the ratings. Kevin Drum's old location is still #68, although his new location has zoomed to #60. (That's Kevin, from his old blog home.)
  
• Two Iraqi blogs remain in the Top 100. Neither Daer Read nor Baghdad Burning has been updated in quite some time. But they're there. There is a lesson here.