Do These Lists Even Mean Anything?

Sunday March 9, 2008 

The UK’s Guardian has released it’s list of the 50 Most Powerful Blogs, and while I haven’t read enough of the top 50 to take exception with some of their choices, what’s more refreshing is that it doesn’t assume that all bloggers are white, American, male geeks.   In fact, in the whole list, there’s really only about three that I would really consider ‘tech’ blogs - Boing Boing (#2), TechCrunch (#3), and Engadget (#16).  The rest seem to be a balance of political, celebrity and personal blogs, with the odd sports blog thrown in.

I’m a little surprised that Digg wasn’t included, but it’s possible that it doesn’t meet the Guardian’s criteria to be defined as a blog.  What I find to be an even bigger surprise is that a number of the political blogs focus specifically on the upcoming U.S. election - what are they going to be doing after the election in November?  Start planning for 2012?

Anyway, after perusing this list, I thought I’d detail a few that I’d probably pick up.  I’m already subscribed to Boing Boing and Engadget, and wouldn’t go near TechCrunch, so what you’ll get here are non-geek blogs:

  • Kottke.org - an old time blog that goes back to the late nineties.  It’s one that I’ve always heard of, but never took the time to follow.
  • icanhascheezburger.com - As wildly popular as the lolcats have been, I never really checked into it to see what the appeal was.  I’ve since changed my mind, because there’s some pretty funny stuff on there. 
  • CopyBlogger - okay, maybe this qualifies as more of a geek blog, but it doesn’t really cover the tech world so much as how to write about it, or anything else for that matter.  A blog about writing online.  Subscribed.  Because I can use the help ;)

Oh, and the title of this post?  In the long run, I think the best reason for having lists such as these is to help introduce you to sites that you might not have heard of otherwise.  So, yeah, they do serve a purpose.

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