Take Me Off Your Lists (continued)

Back in late June, I wrote a post called Take Me Off Your Lists Please in reaction to Blogebrity and the Technorati and Always On 100 list.

It didn't generate a lot of comments or track backs so I assumed that not many people cared about this issue.

Well I guess I was wrong.

Because lately, everyone is blogging about lists.

We've got more damn blogging lists that I know what to do with.

We've got the NY Times top 101 blogs.

We've got Forbes best blogs list.

We've got the Technorati Top 100.

We've got the Open Media 100.

We've got Blogebrity.

And surely we've got way more than that but I just don't know about them.

Earlier this week Jason Calacanis proposed a new list, the Blog 500.  Jason knows about lists, he's been doing them since the Silicon Alley Reporter days.

Karl Martino, "just a plain spoken guy from Philly", wrote a pretty interesting post on the whole "A list" issue that is at the heart of the list debate.

Then last night, Jeff Jarvis posted about being attacked at a conference for being on a list that others weren't on.

Here is my view about lists:

Most bloggers publish a blogroll.  That's a list.  A good list.  People who want to discover blogs should use the blogrolls, that's what I did.

When Forbes and the NY Times, and startups like Technorati and Weblogs, start publishing lists its just going to get people agitated.

And it's not necessary.

Comments

[Sam c]

I wrote the same thing on my blog. Aggregating the most popular sites over and over again only feeds the head of the long tail. I thought one of the great things of the blogosphere was to spread the link love and hear NEW voices...

When was the last time you saw anyone other than Boing Boing as the #1 site on Technorati.

[Michael Parekh]

good post fred...it's human nature to have top "something or the other" lists, and it drives traffic, just like "forbes 400" etc. sells magazines.

In the blogging world though, an alternative path would be to create top "something or the other" lists for lesser known blogs and sites, something I've tried to do, posted on, and added to my blog roll.

The whole thing is about helping people both old and new to blogging DISCOVER new blogs, and there's so much new to choose from.

Maybe there's a solution with tags that delicious and other sites could help popularise.

In the mean-time, your attitude on lists is commendable.

[jackson]

Here's a real short list for you:

Best Blog Ever - Savage Distortion (no contest really, I mean when did YOU last blog about sandwiches? I didn't think so.)

[Colleen]

Hmmmm...

As someone at the way, way, way end of the (very) long tail, I respectfully disagree.

I do understand your reluctance to feed the beast, and, especially given your position in the blogosphere, I find it commendable in that sense. Modesty is almost always becoming, and all the more so when the position is a genuine rather than vaunted one.

But come on, lists are fun. Fun, I tell you. And yes, I found the 10lists tag b/c I'm a fan of Jeff Jarvis who is kind of like the Oprah of the blogosphere (I mean that in a good way). But in addition to the human interest factor of finding what Jeff finds click-worthy, I've also had more than a bit of fun tumbling down the rabbit hole that Technorati tag provided.

As you so elegantly pointed out in your post, lists are really a just a tool. Like any tool, they can be used for good or evil. I like the serendipitous/ window-into-the-bloggy-soul aspects of lists. And yes, blogrolls do that beautifully. But is this little meme really so awful? Is this maybe an acoustic vs. electric situation? Seriously...I'm asking; maybe I'm missing something in this equation. (It wouldn't be the first time, and it is the end of a loooong week.)

Anyway, I enjoyed finding your blog. A thought-provoking stance/post AND a gigundo shoutout to the Cole Porter of our time. I might just have to add you to my...blogroll!

[Ed Daniel]

Ditto with a twist:

http://calacanis.weblogsinc.com/entry/1234000130052914/#c369139

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