24/7 Wall Street has an interesting run down of the 25 most valuable blogs. Like all lists, it’s entertaining. I disagree big most of the rankings but agree that Gawker Media is clearly the #1 blog-based publishing company, at least in the Western world (I am sure there must be very valuable Asian, European and South American blog empires).
More interestingly, the list is a mish-mash of technology, celebrity, finance, etc., blogs… which I think makes the list a bit noisy. While I understand diversification makes sense, lumping different publications together in a list, just because they happen to be powered by blogging software, is a bit odd. That’s basically like having a list of sites powered by a given CMS… who cares?
It would be better to see top 5 finance blogs, top 5 tech blogs, top 5 celeb blogs… you know, to compare apples with apples.
Then again, I am biased: here’s a rundown of the Eight Elite Technology Blogs.
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March 27th, 2008 at 7:16 am
Ashkan,
To put it more bluntly: such a list is not very useful to the users.
I contend that an apple specialist would be well placed to post an overview (or a ranking) of the most meaningful apple websites. ReadWriteWeb does that from time to time for their domain.
You did that for tech networks. It was very analytical, enriching and useful. I will eagerly watch for your next article on ‘Stand-alone blogs’.
In my plain manner, I also run a ranking of sites about wine. I comment on the rankings but the bulk of the results is cold data.