Comments on: Conspicuous by his absence

By: Danny Yee

Danny Yee — Wed, 31 Mar 2004 03:29:37 +0000

I’m rather amused that the Forbes competition page has the filename “bestblogslander” – does the winner of the best blog slander competition get a lawsuit as a prize?

By: Stephen Kirchner

Stephen Kirchner — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 04:41:59 +0000

The article and poll both went up on 20 March 2003 and the poll has stayed open since. This accounts for the out of date links and the absence of some obvious candidates, like Marginal Revolution, who weren’t around then and the high “none of the above response.”

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:26:57 +0000

Yes, I’m pretty sure they ran something similar a year or two ago. Stephen Kirchner’s Institutional Economics site got some sort of award. It looks as if whoever is running the poll has just taken Forbes’ choices from that time and asked readers to vote on them.

By: daithi mac mhaolmhuaidh

daithi mac mhaolmhuaidh — Tue, 30 Mar 2004 01:16:35 +0000

Isn’t that feature ancient? I seem to recall Daily Kos posting about it in the last year to eighteen months.

By: Henry

Henry — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:53:37 +0000

Yeah, I noticed that they’d linked to Lynne’s old blogspot site too (still the best of the bunch imo).

By: John Quiggin

John Quiggin — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 23:44:51 +0000

This is a pretty slack exercise. I’ve never heard of two of the entrants, and the link for Lynne Kiesling is six months out of date.

By: PZ Myers

PZ Myers — Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:39:54 +0000

Who cares about economics blogs? They don’t even include a category for science or academic blogs, and they left Victor Van Hee off the medical blogs. Screw ‘em.