Imagine If Technoratis Top 100 Stopped Blogging for a Month

No posts for a whole month. Not one. Not even a follow-up comment on theirs or any other blog.
Could you imagine it? The Technorati 100, the blogosphere’s most popular blogs all taking a break from blogging for 1 complete month.

What would happen? Would they still remain in the Top 100 or will they have been replaced because we found time to seek out some different reading material.

Without a doubt, a million (probably an under-estimation) …maybe a gazillion smaller bloggers would take the opportunity to spruik their wares hoping to attract the bored and restless. Hoping to make the list themselves many would chase links faster than a rabid hyena amidst a herd of frightened gazelle.

Yet, would they be able to achieve a spot in the Top 100 in a leadership vacuum over 30 days?

If you take the average number of new blogs linking to Engadget (Ranked #1) everyday (approx. 24) and multiplied that by 31 days in the month, you would only have 744 new links to increase your rating. Not bad if your blog is sitting just below the Top 100 but not enough if you’re a newcomer.

Even Cute Overload’s daily linking from new blogs (running about 11 per day) shouldn’t usurp their 100th ranked spot.

However, the interesting dilemma is that readers may have just created a new blog reading habit over the past 30 days and may not return when the Top 100 begin re-posting.

Or, are they just that good? Would we pine for their return as we do for the next season of Lost?