More ‘best blogs’ craziness

Over 100 million blogs and a staff of 10 editors is going to ‘find quality blogs that you would have unlikely found?’

Yes. Thank God we’ll have Blogged.com to save us from discovering blogs and publishers we may find of interest, but that fail to score a 9.something on a scale of 1 to 10. Hundreds of thousands, if not a million niches covered by blogs, and the all knowing 10 will decide what’s ‘satisfactory based on look, writing style, and relevancy to a particular topic area.’

The ABA Journal couldn’t even do that good of a job identifying the best law blogs, and they had some domain expertise. Here we have 10 editors whose identity, experience, education, and expertise isn’t disclosed. And these editors are going to tell people who have far greater expertise in niche areas what blogs are worth following?

There’s really no good resource for people to simply find quality and useful blogs says the company’s co-founder.

How about Google and doing a search on the subject and adding the term blog? How about Google Blog Search subscribing to keywords and key phrases? How about looking at the blogs referenced in the blogs you subscribe to?

How did we manage so well without Blogged.com? Because finding blogs of personal interest is incredibly easy.

What’s the best blog? What’s the best highway? It depends on where you want to go.

We all have niche interests that we want to follow, explore, and discover. Which blogs we choose to follow is a personal decision based on our interests, likes, and tastes. Some of us will be turned on by a particular blog author, while others with the same interest will choose to follow another blogger.

These ‘best of blogs’ contests and websites are being run by people who do not understand blogs or are motivated by their own interests – to draw attention to themselves, usually for advertising dollars.