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The World of Blogebrities
Jeremy writes "The folks at Blogebrity have a unique take on the blog scene. Drawing a parallel to the glitz and glam of Hollywood stars, they've divided some of the better-known bloggers into A-, B-, and C-lists. Slashdot favorite Wil Wheaton is featured on the A-list, while some lesser-known bloggers such as Bruce Sterling made it to the B-list, and most of the non-geeks like comedian Margaret Cho can't seem to break out of the C-list. What does the slashdot crowd think of their choices?"
Does somebody want to do my homework and see if the person who sent this to Slashdot is the same as the domain owner?
"Even for Slashdot, that was a very obscure reference!" - Anonymous Coward
Blogebrity is one of the entries in that stupid viral-marketing contest. And it's not like I'm the one who broke this story, either. Aren't there any press releases to post today?
Isn't this website part of the Contagious Media Showdown that was posted a few days ago?! WTF? Isn't this considered cheating?
This story was submitted as an attempt to gain clicks. The site itself is probably meant as a joke, but it is certainly an entry in the "Contagious Media Showdown." The showdown is "a competition to create the most viral website, as measured by the number of unique visitors from now until June 9th."
Getting it submitted to Slashdot probably won it for those guys. Seems like ballot stuffing to me, though.
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face, it's just a goddamned piece of paper!" - George W. Bush Nov. 2005
Somewhat related, I saw earlier today that http://talkingpointsmemo.com/ (a progressive political blog) is going to have a special guest blogger next week in the form of Senator John Edwards (John Kerry's right-hand man last fall); ought to make an interesting read.
Where's Seth Finkelstein?
My favorite blog at the moment has to be boingboing.net
...they're all smart, funny and cool. If my best friends had time to get together and make a blog, it would look like this.
It's a collaborative blog from the likes of:
- Cory Doctorow, one of the best voices in contemporary SF, and a co-founder (iirc) of the EFF.
- Xeni Jardin, tech culture journalist and regular contributer to Wired and NPR. (oh, and not that it matters, but she's spectacularly cute)
- Mark Frauenfelder, writer and illustrator.
- David Pescovitz, well-known science and tech writer.
- John Battelle, web search pundit.
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You catch enchiladas by picking them up behind the head and holding them underwater until they don't kick anymore -VeGas
Juan Cole was listed as a "B-list" blogger, but he should be on the A-list.
For the uninformed, Juan is a University of Michigan professor who collects information from various Arab Web sites and posts them in his blog. If you want to take a read at what's really happening in the Middle East, check out his blog http://www.juancole.com/.
He's definitely against the U.S. involvement in Iraq, so he's definitely biased. And I would prefer he stop some of the partisan crap that spews from both sides (his recent Photoshop pic of Cheney on a body-builders' body comes to mind), but the information he provides is well worth reading.
I agree with you. I clicked on some of the "A List" links and found mostly news aggregation sites. One of the random "A List" clicks had the top posting as a link to The Onion, the second link on the same page to a CNN type story. Why does an amateur news aggregation site make "A list" while people who are making original material like Bruce Sterling and Maddox get delegated to the B list? The list doesn't even include Robert X. Cringely Robert X. Cringely, one of the original bloggers who blogged on the internet before these people who wrote this crappy list ever even knew what the internet was. I guess it doesn't matter because Cringely, Maddox and Sterling will keep writing their original material about relevant things while "Blogebrity" and it's "A list" keep writing about their toothpaste woes, or what brand of shoes they like, hoping for some venture capital so they can sell out without ever having contributed one iota of anything, original thought or otherwise, to society.
Or as Maddox would say, "It doesn't matter, bag my groceries"