The power of an individual blogger’s link

LINK: jm90403.com ➚ | Posted by: Joshua Benton | March 14, 2012

Lots of tech sites have been writing about new conversational-blogging startup Branch. But a few individual bloggers — like MG Siegler, Dave Winer, and Anil Dash — drove far more traffic than outlets like All Things D, CNET, The Telegraph, and TechCrunch. (And Twitter traffic blasted past all of them, natch.)

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