Daypop Top Weblogs
I've put up a new page with the Top Weblogs ranked by Citations and by Daypop Score. There's an explanation of how the Daypop Score is calculated on that page.
There's a lot of overlap between the two ranking systems but there are a few standout weblogs that have a high score/citation ratio. Cmdrtaco.net has a score of 103 with only 2 citations, Slashdot being one of them. Much of Slashdot's weight or importance, in this case, is therefore transfered to Cmdrtaco.net. I'm not sure if this is a good measurement of "importance" (an arbitrary designation, really, to a ranking function) of that weblog... I may also change the Daypop Score calculation to take into account the number of citations to try and alleviate these kinds of situations. What I'm afraid of is that then there'd be even more overlap between the two lists.
One thing to note, is that some sites which are indexed as weblogs on Daypop are not included when ranking weblogs. They were removed because they were weblog tools or somehow affected the rankings adversely. One example is Blogger.com which has a recently updated list of blogs. Since Blogger.com has a very high Daypop Score, it confered a lot of its weight to blogs on its recently updated list. This has the effect of giving random blogs high scores, dependent on the time that Blogger.com was spidered.
Update: It does sound like circular logic, the explanation on the Top Weblog page. The way to think about how Daypop scores the weblogs is like this: a blog's score is proportional to the probability that a weblog reader randomly hopping from blog to blog will hit that weblog.
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Hmmm RSS has the top 1k
I didn't realize that there was an RSS feed for the list and that it had so many more entries. I'll have to take a look. Hopefully I'm high enough on the list to show up 
Top 1000
The RSS feed for the Top Weblogs page has the Top 1000 weblogs ranked by citation. I'm thinking about creating some way to query the statistics on a particular weblog.
Check your own score
Assuming that you are not luckyt enough to make the top 100 list is there a way to check out your weblog's score/ranking?
Displaying Scores
Since the blogs under 'Ranked by Daypop Score' also list the number of citations, why not list the Daypop Score on the blogs under 'Ranked by Citations'? In addition to being informative, it would also even up the column lengths
