TIME’s Best Blogs of 2009
With millions of blogs in the blogosphere, it wasn’t a huge shock (note: sarcastic tone) that the 360PR Blog didn’t make it to TIME’s Best Blogs of 2009 list. As much as the team enjoys posting to our own blog, we revel in reading a variety of other blogs on a daily basis. So, while we didn’t make it to the list, it was great to see that some of our favorite blogs did. Below is the full list with links to TIME’s description of each:
TIME’s Top 25 Blogs of 2009:
- Talking Points Memo
- The Huffington Post
- Lifehacker
- Metafilter
- The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan
- Freakonomics
- BoingBoing
- Got2BeGreen
- Zen Habits
- The Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman
- Crooks and Liars
- Generación Y
- Mashable
- Slashfood
- Official Google Blog
- synthesis
- bleat
- /Film
- Seth Godin’s Blog
- Deadspin: Sports News without Access, Favor, or Discretion
- Dooce
- Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
- Said the Gramophone
- Detention Slip
- Bad Astronomy
It may be in the print version and just not on TIME.com, but it would have been great to see an explanation of what the editors were looking for when determining the top blogs. They’ve clearly chosen blogs with a lot of traffic, but I wonder how deeply elements such as community/comments and uniqueness were considered compared to other factors? I also wonder how many editors were involved in determining the list? Was it a collaborative effort?
It shocks me that Dooce makes lists like this only because she doesn’t allow blog comments and she isn’t a blogger that is very social as far as following people back on Twitter or commenting on others blogs.
That just doesn’t represent a TRUE “mom blogger” to me.