TechCrunch has taken the Techmeme Leaderboard and extracted the top authors since the beginning of this year. Not surprisingly, Mike Arrington of TechCrunch is #1 with Erick and Duncan of TechCrunch coming in at #2 and #4 respectively.

The rest of the top 10 is filled with likes of people I read everyday. Dignan, Blodget, Kirkpatrick, Ricker, Ingram, Savitz, and Stern.

My colleague Eric Eldon at VentureBeat comes in at #29 while Matt Marshall comes in at #71. Dean Takahashi (now with VentureBeat) also comes in at #62 with his work from his previous site.

You might recognize the guy coming in at #34 AND #38. I’ll just note that when you add his stats together, he comes in at #7. Right behind Kirkpatrick, right ahead of Ricker. [update below]

I kind of like the dual listing though. It’s like Cate Blanchett getting nominated for two Oscars this year for two different pieces of work.

[UPDATE]: Henry Work, the author of the article, is recalculating the list to account for authors on multiple sites. And it looks like I’ll be coming in at #8 as Caroline McCarthy is actually on the list three times. Impressive.

[UPDATE 2]: With the post not even up an hour yet, Gabe Rivera has already predicted this as the new Bitchmeme. I am positive he will be right.

[UPDATE 3]: And upon further review, Henry says I get no love, I will remain a on the list twice as two separate people. Though accounting for ties, they have moved my #39 ranking for ParisLemon up to #38.

[UPDATE 4]: And as Gabe thought, this meme is now the #1 on Techmeme. I even have my own new shiny headline right under the TC post, which I believe puts me in sole position of the #38 spot – take that Paul Miller!