Comments on: A-List Google Reader Back-Slapping

By: Subscriber Stats, Summed Up | Cafe IPhone

Subscriber Stats, Summed Up | Cafe IPhone — Sun, 25 May 2008 15:22:11 +0000

[...] been a lot of discussion this weekend about the subscriber counts that have recently appeared in [...]

By: Web 2.0 News » Subscriber Stats, Summed Up

Web 2.0 News » Subscriber Stats, Summed Up — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:02:12 +0000

[...] been a lot of discussion this weekend about the subscriber counts that have recently appeared in [...]

By: Steven Bradley

Steven Bradley — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 04:20:20 +0000

Add me to the growing list of people tired of seeing the top blog lists. At this point can’t we already name them off the top of our heads. Do we really need another list to tell us who has the most subscribers?

By: Google Reader Stats are Bullshit (With Proof)

Google Reader Stats are Bullshit (With Proof) — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 18:00:12 +0000

[...] see Squash, Problogger, The Webpreneur, TimBray, Sam Harrelson, MarketingPilgrim, DataMining, Scoble, Stowe Boyd, Louis Gray, WinExtra, Technology Evangelist, Lee Odden, Matt [...]

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:13:39 +0000

@Brian – a list of “fastest growing” blogs would be something worth compiling.

By: Brian Chappell

Brian Chappell — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:37:34 +0000

I agree Andy. Top lists are garbage. I want to find the small man at the bottom of the barrel, that is trying to make his way up. Very focused, niche blogs are where its at.

Will those sort of blogs ever make a list, probably not. But does that mean there not worth reading, definitely not.

A list of potential blogs that have less than 50 readers, but have solid content. Now that would be worth seeing.

By: Music Software

Music Software — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:34:49 +0000

No, we do not need any more blog lists. Enough is enough!

By: William

William — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:39:26 +0000

Creating tops is useless.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:06:56 +0000

Toolbar? Are you jealous of our navigation?

By: the constant skeptic

the constant skeptic — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:00:20 +0000

btw, a big wad of hate at your red toolbar with uber cool lowercase letters.

By: the constant skeptic

the constant skeptic — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 03:58:35 +0000

Any a-lists or top ten lists do two things, they bring people to your site, and then generate lots of debate. Also, they usually require less effort than typing an actual full length blog post. So the only negative is really for those who don’t join in the debate, whether included in the list or not. Either gripe that you aren’t on it, or praise yourself that you have been included, but please do something. Actionable intelligible useful content generated by long tail users will be the basis for web 3.0, that and streaming live HDTV over broadband. CNN is finally listening to bloggers, look for other media outlets to do the same. They actually linked one of my posts.

By: Sam Harrelson » Narcissus Called… He Wants His Blogosphere Back

Sam Harrelson » Narcissus Called… He Wants His Blogosphere Back — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:21:38 +0000

[...] Andy Beal of Marketing Pilgrim has the right idea: Here’s some honesty. I love seeing Marketing Pilgrim on any list–like many bloggers–and I suggested MP be added to this new list. Guilty, as charged. But then I stopped and asked, “when will this blog-list insanity stop?” Do we really need to keep compiling lists of top blogs? [...]

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:16:20 +0000

I just made a list of blogs on my blog. But I was looking for other parenting blogs and asked the people that read my blog to add their own and the favorite one that they read. So it ended up being a nice little list of a lot of new blogs.

As for big lists of top bloggers making lists of all the top blogs, I never read them when they get posted. But I guess getting lists from people like Scoble would be good for SEO whether anybody clicks on the link or not.