Despite charges that it simply wants to grab web traffic, Time.com has bravely gone ahead with its second annual list of the Top 25 blogs on the web. And guess who made the list? Yep. For the second straight year. We’d like to thank the Academy …
Seriously, we are flattered and thankful. Thanks especially to our excellent contributors and our readers, who are as engaged and engaging as any online readers I’ve come across. Here’s the complete list of Time.com’s top blogs and, at the end, its list of the five most overrated blogs. Would love to hear what you all think of these lists, especially from devotees of the “overrated” blogs.
Time.com’s Top 25 Blogs:
Talking Points Memo
The Huffington Post
Lifehacker
MetaFilter
The Daily Dish
Freakonomics
BoingBoing
Got2BeGreen
Zen Habits
The Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman
Crooks and Liars
Generación Y
Mashable
Slashfood
Official Google Blog
synthesis
bleat
/Film
Seth Godin’s Blog
Deadspin: Sports News without Access, Favor, or Discretion
Dooce
Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
Said the Gramophone
Detention Slip
Bad Astronomy
Most Overrated:
TechCrunch
Gawker
Jim Cramer’s Blog
PerezHilton.com
Daily Kos: State of the Nation
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Well, I certainly have to agree with Time for including my blog, http://feedme.typepad.com. Oh, wait. They didn’t. Grumble.
Congratulations to Freakonomics!
On a more serious note, I think this is pretty cool because blogs ar actucally doing what they are supposed to do, giving non-mainstream interests a forum. The list contains thoughtful, intelligent authors with something to say beyond what Britney and Paris are doing.
Hi…Allow me to throw a quick wrench into the machine….why are most of the sites listed by the publication left of center and some FAR left of center? And here is a scary grab from the front page of the top blog according to TIME:
These are TPM’s Approved Blogs…..(I didn’t realize I needed to have a stamp of approval for a way of thinking)…
Altercation
Andrew Sullivan
Carpetbagger Report
Conason
DailyKos
DemStrategist
Eschaton
JuanCole
JamesWolcott
MattYglesias
Kausfiles.com
ProPublica
TNR
WashMonthly
WashingtonNote
I voted for Dems since 1972, so don’t kill the messenger, but does the blogging community only have one way thought?
The top 25 blogs are not exactly a bastion of give and take. I like a debate on my politics, and not one way bashing.
Please let me know what I am missing.
I may or may not know IT employees who look at browsing histories on machines they work on. These people may or may not claim that every single woman in her twenties goes to PerezHilton.com on their work machine every single day. If you’re not the target audience, it probably seems overrated, but for them, it seems like lifeblood.
Clyde post #2-
You’re missing a coherent right-wing blog.. I wish there was an example I could give, but the vast majority are of the Freeper persuasion.. Not exactly something Time.com can willingly send its readers to.
Loved the book and didn’t know about the blog. I’m glad Time’s list directed me here.
Clyde,
I’d hesitate to say most of the blogs listed are left of center. A lot of them deal with hobbies and lifestyle, rather than politics.
But the reason you see stuff like HuffPo and TPM up there rather than right-wing blogs is that those blogs aren’t very good.
And that TPM recommends other blogs that share its political stance? Hardly surprising.
Are you kidding? I’m *ecstatic* that none of the far-right sites got so much as mentioned. And, there’s a reason for it, too. If you read them for a couple of days, you really will see that the overall level of discourse on those sites is really, really low. People don’t debate there, they engage in crusades.
I kind of wish that there actually was a skilled and informed opposition to the left. Good debate is what steers democratic decisions to the best expectable equilibrium. Unfortunately, we just don’t have that today.
If a right-wing blog wants a place in the awards, let them earn it. They’ve got a ways to go yet.
Where is This Is Why You’re Fat on this list? Come on Time, and try to keep up.