TIME Magazine today released a list of top 25 blogs which they say are the best blogs in the world for 2008 - good read and worth saving to your del.icio.us bookmarks.
Though the TIME’s list includes most usual suspects like TechCrunch, Lifehacker, Post Secret, Engadget, etc, you may disover other awesome blogs that are still not in your reading list like Web 2.Oh or this dull blog.
What also deserves attention is this second list of Most Overrated Blogs for which the TIME editors found no "no explanation for popularity":
Ars Technica - "too much technology. Hardly any art. And lose the fruity name."
Slashdot - Reading Slashdot these days is like visiting the IT guy at work. He’s infuriatingly smug and cares passionately about stuff you don’t care about. Thanks Brian Solis.
Related: Top Bloggers in India
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/time-most-overrated-blogs-slashdot-ars-technica/2858/
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Reader Comments
Is there such a thing as too much technology for a technology blog? STUPID!
Written by Kevin Doyle on 04.07.08
For one, Ars Technica is a very quality website exclusively for tech and scientific news. It’s not the audience for the artsy types.
Written by someone on 04.07.08
Shows you what the editors of Time know.
Slashdot is still a mainstay for anyone interested in technology. Complaining about Ars Technica having too much “technology” is like complaining that water is wet. Both of those sites are better than than the swill Time pimps.
Written by Dice on 04.07.08
Cool collection of top blogs.Amit i would feel happy may be the next year your blog come on top of the world.Hey you post some very good posts yaar.
Written by Khaja Moinuddin on 04.07.08
I go with Lifehacker always with its good old motto “Don’t live to geek; geek to live”
Written by Sara on 04.08.08
cool list . Does someone list top Indian bloggers ??
I hope that your blog would be there by next year !!
God bless !!
Written by ArpitNext on 04.08.08
haha, and I can swear that the TIME “editors” had these things in their criteria for the top blogs:
1. It has to look good
2. They should be able to understand atleast “some” content. (A few lines from the post titles would be enough)
3. It has to look good.
But, I must say that they failed to deliver on their own criteria as well..
Written by Shantanu Goel on 04.08.08
They’re idiots. Slashdot isn’t a blog. Slashdot existed in essentially its current for before there were blogs.
Not every site which changes daily is a blog.
A newsletter isn’t a blog, even if you put it on the web.
Blog is short for weblog, and a weblog is something like a diary. Someone’s boring crap that in the good old days would have been kept in a private notebook.
Written by Dude on 12.19.08