http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2008/04/07/who-voted-for-these-top-blogs.html Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:13:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2008/04/07/who-voted-for-these-top-blogs.html/comment-page-1#comment-2902 Monday Night Thoughts: Google Apps, Why We Blog, A-Lists, and a Hardware Upgrade : The Last Podcast Tue, 08 Apr 2008 06:01:02 +0000 http://www.sarahintampa.com/sarah/2008/04/07/who-voted-for-these-top-blogs.html#comment-2902 [...] Personal A-lists: The Time.com list of Top 25 blogs as votes for by their readers is, as so many of these lists, based on what blog managed to get as many of its readers as possible to vote for it. Far more interesting to me is the meme of publishing personal A-lists, such as Sarah’s, Steven Hodson’s recent A-list additions, Louis Gray’s etc. (I’m always humbled to see my name on those lists, by the way, I consider myself a C-lister at best who gets to play with the B-listers sometimes).For me, the great thing about the net is that there are no gatekeepers who decided what we should/can read - I love Techmeme because I get a quick view of where the general discussion is going, but my Google Reader feeds point into a very different direction. [...] [...] Personal A-lists: The Time.com list of Top 25 blogs as votes for by their readers is, as so many of these lists, based on what blog managed to get as many of its readers as possible to vote for it. Far more interesting to me is the meme of publishing personal A-lists, such as Sarah’s, Steven Hodson’s recent A-list additions, Louis Gray’s etc. (I’m always humbled to see my name on those lists, by the way, I consider myself a C-lister at best who gets to play with the B-listers sometimes).For me, the great thing about the net is that there are no gatekeepers who decided what we should/can read – I love Techmeme because I get a quick view of where the general discussion is going, but my Google Reader feeds point into a very different direction. [...]

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