Comments on: Timber, Bookshelves, World Domination, Etc.

By: Blogcosm

Blogcosm — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 12:30:37 +0000

Observing reactions to The Observer’s list…

Surprisingly, very few of the “world’s 50 most powerful blogs” mentioned the article. Here’s what we found.

6. PerezHilton.com

Perezzers has just been named #6 on the U.K.’s Observer’s …

By: Eamonn Fitzgerald

Eamonn Fitzgerald — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 09:14:55 +0000

Right. Sure. But, on the other hand, it looks as if the Graun just picked 50 blogs from Technorati’s top 100 (http://technorati.com/pop/blogs/?page=1) and added a few lines of liberal boilerplate. To keep the faithful happy, they put Huff at the top and threw in Crooked Timber to make up the numbers. Congratulations!

By: tim

tim — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:32:07 +0000

Congratulations Crooked Timber! Thanks to The Guardian, I’ve now found you. They got it wrong – you should be number one.

By: michael e sullivan

michael e sullivan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:17:23 +0000

7: It must be Blog Week in the MSM.

Does this mean it’s pretty much over. Blogging is dead. What has killed it, anybody know?

By: michael e sullivan

michael e sullivan — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:14:39 +0000

I can’t believe that no one has beaten me to this horrid joke:

These items are all made by hand from actual crooked timber.

It’s people! It’s made of PEOPLE!

By: matt

matt — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 01:07:52 +0000

Scott, thanks sincerely.

And kudos to philosophical thinktank-ers.

By: Kenny Easwaran

Kenny Easwaran — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:48:32 +0000

Yeah, the absence of DailyKos really seemed weird. I could see about 10 or 15 of those blogs being listed as powerful, but a lot of them would have done much better on a list of “blogs to watch” or “interesting blogs” or something like that.

By: Sock Puppet of the Great Satan

Sock Puppet of the Great Satan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:42:59 +0000

That was a weird ranking. Malkin, but not DailyKos? There’s a good argument that DailyKos swung the U.S. Senate with its activism & fundraising, and has U.S. representatives blogging on it. DailyKos isn’t always my cup of tea, but can’t see why it didn’t make the top 50.

By: rea

rea — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:38:26 +0000

The Guardian did teach me that Berlin had plagiarized Kant.

Well, it’s beyond reasonable dispute that Berlin plagerized the lyrics of Immanuel’s Ragtime band from Kant, althought the music was original.

Come on along
Come on along
Let me take you by the hand
Up to the man
Up to the man
Who’s the leader of the band

And if you care to hear the Critique of Pure Reason played in ragtime
Come on and hear
Come on and hear
Immanuel’s ragtime band

By: chris y

chris y — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:46:20 +0000

7. True, it just tells monumental pork pies on purpose.

What I don’t understand about the brain of the person who compiled this list is how it concluded that lolcats is powerful. I mean culturally pervasive, sure, but it’s not exactly as if “Ceiling cat sez all your NY governors are belong to me” is a huge scoop.

By: Zarquon

Zarquon — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:52:40 +0000

Having Michael Bérubé on board makes you the world’s most dangerous blog, though.

By: Ingrid Robeyns

Ingrid Robeyns — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 06:47:52 +0000

john emerson: we did reveal that Berlin plagiarism here before href=”http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/25/aus-krummem-holze/” rel=”nofollow”>http://crookedtimber.org/2006/08/25/aus-krummem-holze/

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:51:05 +0000

The Guardian did teach me that Berlin had plagiarized Kant.

By: John Emerson

John Emerson — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:47:22 +0000

On the other hand, Unfogged was mentioned by a newspaper which, in sharp contrast to the hapless Guardian, never makes mistakes accidentally and seldom makes small, inconsequential mistakes.

It must be Blog Week in the MSM. “Edge of the American West” made the Chronicle.

By: Colin Danby

Colin Danby — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 02:56:17 +0000

Making up for the lolcat humiliation, you all crushed Andrew Sullivan.