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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I think your ‘overrated’ list got truncated, as Ars Technica should be on there — I mean ‘should’ in the sense of ‘Time put it on the list,’ not that it belongs there.
Congrats, although I’m not surprised.
Show me a website that doesn’t “simply want to grab web traffic” and I’ll show you a dead newspaper.
Clyde,
Also note that the Dems are fundraising well on the net. As a registered Democrat, I am proud to belong to a party that thinks of the future, uses the latest medium, reaching out to more people.
The net is incorporated into the Democratic party’s grassroot machine and they have been very much at the forefront of using the internet to get their messages out. So no surprise who owns the best blogs.
It’s not the blogging community that has one-way thought, it’s Time magazine.
This is the only one of their top 25 that I read regularly, and I wouldn’t consider this one of the top 25 blogs that I read.
No Corner? No Hit N Run? No Volokh Conspiracy?
And of all the Atlantic bloggers, only Sullivan?
Really, Time magazine? Really?
Funny — Slashdot this year made it into the top list, last year it was one of the 5 most overrated. Jim Cramer’s wall-street cheerleading blog made the overrated for the second time
I refuse to acknowledge any list that doesn’t recognize the brilliance of Stuff White People Like.
Clyde/#2:
Actually I frequent most of those blogs TPM lists (have for years) and you’re kind of mistaken. TPM is one of the “old guard” blogs that’s been around before the blogging boom. Same with Andrew Sullivan and Kausfiles. These guys helped start it all, and gave it credibility when it had none. Same with the likes of Dan Drezner, or the Plank. My point is, the “old guard” started off providing a favorites list to eachother, and the ones that stayed alive are still there, linked to one another. The old hands just “approve” the old hands the way they always have–regardless of politics. Check out Andrew Sullivan’s or Kaus’ list if you don’t believe me. They’re hardly left or left of center.
I’d like to also defend Gawker as an “overrated blog”. While I’ve never been a fan of the actual site “Gawker”, what TIME fails to mention is that Deadspin and Lifehacker (two of their Top 25) are both GAWKER MEDIA sites. A lot of their updates, visuals and writing are driven in part of the Gawker Media engine. To say that Gawker is outdated or overrated is to overlook that Gawker is essentially a blog that’s grown into a multi-headed hydra that includes other interesting sites like Gizmodo, Kotaku i09 and Jalopnik. All of which are fairly quality (and booming) blogs.