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I ran across a blog which listed 100 Top Bloggers and I figured this might be a good opportunity to find some good content. I clicked on each blog and glanced at the headlines and a few articles for each blog. I categorized each blog into one of six categories (eight actually because of two rogue blogs) which were:

Frugalists - Bloggers who primarily write about saving money, clipping coupons, getting free products/services, etc.

Headliners - Bloggers who primarily “borrow” news headlines and blog about the headline/article.

Debtors - Bloggers who primarily blog about their debt and journey to escape debt hell.

Finance 101 - Bloggers who blog about general and basic finance topics

Capitalist Level 1 - Bloggers who have moved beyond frugalism, debt, and finance 101 and now focus on earning money (usually credit card arbitrage, opening bank accounts bonuses, prosper lending,  investing in mutual funds, etc.)

Capitalist Level 2 - Bloggers after serious money with interesting, innovative, aggressive and/or conservative investments (real estate, option/equity traders, dividends, commodities, etc). I consider at least 25k in play the starting level for this group but there can be exceptions.

As I went through I put each blog into one of these categories but there were a couple that didn’t fit such as Pfblogs.org and one blog dedicated to credit card blogging which didn’t quite fit. I created this chart in Excel to illustrate the breakdown.

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As the chart illustrates, there were:

3 - Level 2 Capitalist blogs

9 - Level 1 Capitalist blogs

51 - Finance 101 Blogs

11 - Frugalist Blogs

8 - Headliner Blogs

11 - Debtor Blogs

1 - Credit Blog and 1 aggregator
The list actually contained 95 blogs not 100.

The first thing that popped into my mind as I saw the result was the famous “bell curve” and my goal wasn’t to do graphs or charts to illustrate that point - I was simply trying to find Level 2 Capitalist bloggers.

If you take the headliners, frugalists and finance 101 bloggers and lump them together you get a perfect 70 which represents 73.68% of the group. This was totally unintentional on my part!

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Research often shows that like minded people tend to want to group with each other and perhaps my unscientific review illustrates that point but I did happen to find a few blogs that I did like and I’ll review them more thoroughly before adding them to my Capitalist Blogroll.

By the way….which would YOU consider the “A” students, the “B” students, the “C” students and the “D” students?