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May 11, 2006

what’s an a-lister

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1. Paul Fabretti says:

   May 11, 2006 at 2:00 PM

   What’s an A-lister? Try the bloody OPML lis­tings doing the rounds. It’s just what we need, another list where, if traf­fic is money, the rich are get­ting richer and the poor just type and watch.
   Maybe I am mis­sing the point about sha­red OPML, but what bene­fit does another list bring other than to make the most famous, more famous?
   Anyone, PLEASE shed some light on this!
2. Eugen says:

   May 11, 2006 at 2:23 PM

   dude wtf hap­pe­ned to your blog title?! “make money online” — are you goin kasino?
3. Hugh MacLeod says:

   May 11, 2006 at 4:42 PM

   Eugen, I was won­de­ring how long that would be up there before some­body spot­ted the joke…
4. Mack Collier says:

   May 11, 2006 at 5:59 PM

   Paul I was telling someone this just yes­ter­day, but what I do from time to time is use Tech­no­rati to sort the mar­ke­ting blogs, and start rea­ding them FROM THE BOTTOM. You would be ama­zed at how many inc­re­dibly smart blog­gers are out there that you have never heard of, simply because they don’t play the net­wor­king game of going to all the con­fe­ren­ces. I’ve found about 10 of my favo­rite blogs this way, all have less than 20 links, and I would have likely never found any of them if I had relied on the ‘A-Lister’ blo­grolls to tell me who I should be reading.
5. my Mega Stores says:

   May 11, 2006 at 6:02 PM

   who cares if you are an a blog­ger if you arn’t able to make money off that. this link is veri­fied by trus­ted sour­ces and is good, it will show you how to make money. please report scams to us
   — — –my sig —  —  — -
   http://www.mymegastores.com < – for peo­ple who want to make money or bet­ter them­sel­ves… if you aren’t one of these peo­ple. then go away!
6. Brooks Moses says:

   May 11, 2006 at 7:28 PM

   By that mea­su­re­ment, you’re all A-listers! ALL of you!
   (I just read an entry in Desert­Light jour­nal [http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/whats_next__aid_to_dependent_bloggers_an_open_letter_to_doc_.htm ] tal­king about being so far out on the long tail as to be somewhere past Z into the greek let­ters, and in the same entry tal­king about get­ting 500 hits/day and get­ting seve­ral spea­king invi­ta­tions as a result of the blog. If that’s out beyond Z, where does that put me, I ask you?)
   Mack, I have to say I like your plan, and not just because it means peo­ple who follow it more are likely to find my blog. There are, indeed, a tre­men­dous num­ber of inte­lli­gent blog­gers out there in the long tail.
7. Sonal says:

   May 12, 2006 at 5:50 AM

   Jst came across your site.I have one of your drawings/ scrib­blings int he form of Bar­camp iden­tity card.. and its real good. a new form of expres­sion and humour. Loo­king for­ward for more of them.
8. Stephen Hamilton says:

   May 12, 2006 at 7:03 AM

   Hey Hugh,
   You foo­ling around with the title of your feed really threw me for a bit. Total Qua­lity Gaping­Void? The funny thing is that in 10 – 20 years a lot of the best stuff writ­ten here will be co-opted by aca­de­mia, dilu­ted and taught to mar­ke­ting stu­dents, and this may actually become a ‘pro­per’ term. Heh.
9. Paul Fabretti says:

   May 12, 2006 at 8:44 AM

   I did won­der about the title Hugh. Another typi­cally subtle piece of humour! Nice one! I actually thought it was a cle­ver piece of SEO, but then I noti­ced today’s hea­der too!
   Methinks there is an awful lot of poten­tial in Priate Eye-style “solutions-watch” or Colemanballs!
10. Paul Fabretti says:

    May 12, 2006 at 8:49 AM

    Hey Mack, I also got into a con­ver­sa­tion abotu this yes­ter­day and conc­lu­ded that often the best opi­nions and most insight­ful views come from the com­ments that follow a pos­ting.
    Michael Arring­ton on Techc­runch must receive around 40 com­ments per pos­ting and there are often some very, very good com­ments in there spot­ting things that Michael him­self does not.
    The pro­blem though is con­sis­tency. One good com­ment does not a good blog make unfortunately.
11. Mack Collier says:

    May 13, 2006 at 11:15 PM

    “Hey Mack, I also got into a con­ver­sa­tion abotu this yes­ter­day and conc­lu­ded that often the best opi­nions and most insight­ful views come from the com­ments that follow a pos­ting.“
    Bingo! This is spe­ci­fi­cally why I don’t use Blo­gli­nes, I want to visit each blog and READ the com­ments. Usually, as you say, there’s nug­gets of wis­dom buried in the com­ments that you’ll miss if you don’t look for them.
12. Ali says:

    May 14, 2006 at 6:37 PM

    While the page was loa­ding in, I noti­ced that the name of the jpeg file is good for an unin­ten­tio­nal laugh.
    What *is* anal ister, anyhow?