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The World of Blogebrities

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the welcome-to-the-z-list-baby dept.

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?"

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  1. Contagious Media Showdown by Webs+101 · · Score: 5, Informative
    Correct me if I'm wrong - and I'm sure you will - but isn't this site amother entry in the Contagious Media Showdown?

    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

  2. It's an entry in a viral-marketing contest. by kookbox · · Score: 3, Informative

    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?

  3. Juan Cole by WinkyN · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.

  4. Re:These people don't know what they're talking ab by category_five · · Score: 3, Informative
    "Clearly the list is fraudulent. Maddox is on the B list? I've never heard of most of the A list but I'd think getting a book deal off of having a well read blog would put you on the A list of blogging. Afterall, that's the point of having one."

    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"