While the Blog Performance Indicator (BPI) Team is getting ready for an updated version of The BPI Top 40 Urban Blogs, they recently created a metric that measures how fast a blog is growing relative to month over month growth. Due to a potential patent, they would not share with me the exact formula but I did ask them to run it for urban blogs. The results are as follows based on urban blogs created in the past year.

So here are the BPI Urban Blog Heat Seekers...The Top 10 newest, hottest urban blogs who are less than a year old and are burning it up in terms of growth and momentum. This list does not measure overall traffic or inbound links like the BPI Top 40, but rather focuses on how fast a blog is growing month over month. For example, Highbrid Nation has less traffic and inbound links than A Hot Mess, but Highbrid Nation's metrics are growing at a faster in the past four months than A Hot Mess. So The Heat Seekers are all about growth. Get it? Good. Take a look at the chart in detail after the jump...

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