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 someone — and keep checking back, because you never know when you’ll make The 50.
Heh. At least they have a sense of humor about it.

Posted by hugh macleod at March 1, 2006 8:57 AM | TrackBack
Comments

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."

Posted by: Liam at March 1, 2006 9:50 AM

Getting me to change my M.O. would cost WAY MORE than $10K.

Posted by: Hugh MacLeod at March 1, 2006 9:57 AM

Link Bait - don't you just love it? (and for my next trick...)

Posted by: Dennis Howlett at March 1, 2006 2:47 PM

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.

Posted by: Liam at March 1, 2006 5:32 PM

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.

Posted by: Mack Collier at March 2, 2006 11:54 PM