March 1, 2006
more a-listy goodness…
A new hierarchy has emerged: “The Blog 50″: The top 50 most influential bloggers. Or something. Updated weekly.
As of now, there is no A-List. There is no B-List. There is only The Blog 50, and only The Blog 50 matters. Tell your friends. Tell your loved ones. Tell Dave Winer, so he can tell everyone else that he invented it. But, for Peter Rojas sake, tell someone7 Responses to “more a-listy goodness…”
Hugh, speaking of hierarchies, will you be participating in John Scott’s blogosphere contest announced today:
“So I propose a change in blogging. I challenge every blogger to post links to new blogs, unknown blogs and blogs not in the Technorati’s Top 100. And I’ll pay out a total of $10,000 to those who participate.”
Getting me to change my M.O. would cost WAY MORE than $10K.
Link Bait — don’t you just love it? (and for my next trick…)
I think Link Bribery is more appropriate a term for what Scott is up to — it was bait when he first announced he would give away 10K for something or other, but, now we’re into the bribing phase — especially with paying out 70 runner-up prizes of $100 each — he practically guarantees he’ll be linked all the way into Technorati’s Top 100 himself (even though links aren’t required). He’s not getting my vote though, because his blog isn’t good enough — and neither is mine.
I’ve been linking to ‘unknown’ blogs from Day One at BMA. Not because they are ‘unknown’, but because they have the best content. Most of the so-called ‘A-lister’ blogs have gotten slow and fat, while the newbies are eating their lunch.
The A-Listers will decide to get with the program and pay attention to them once the newbies get enough links to make it ‘worth their while’. Course by then they’ll have missed the boat.
Being popular
Publication of the A-list, top 50 blogs and other such food-chain things has led to some interesting conversations on what it takes to get, and stay ‘Made.’
For example, you have Steph considering the idea
…it’s normal that the mos…
Multiple Tipping Points?
I recently sent a pitch for an article to Wired Magazine, in which I plan to entertain the rather unfashionable concept that blogging hadn’t ‘tipped’ YET, to use Malcolm’s terminology. My argument centres around an interdiscipli…