Pop quiz: Do you read these top-50 blogs?
I stumbled across this March 2008 post from The Guardian on the top-50 blogs on the Web. (Spoiler: The Open Road isn't one of them. :-) I'm proud to say that I only read one of them: TechCrunch.
Why proud? Well, because my primary interest is in digging up what's not already "popular." Unfortunately, I'm as guilty as anyone of recycling "news," but real traffic comes from breaking new ground, and I find that by scouring Digg and much lesser-known blogs.
Granted, most of the 50 are popular because they're either political or simply in-your-face opinionated on popular culture. I like government - most of my pre-tech background was in politics and political science - but I find that I have little patience for petty politics anymore. As for in-your-face, well, I get enough of that from myself to need to abuse from someone else.
On that note, it's interesting how few of the top-50 blogs are devoted to technology. We do a lot of navel-gazing in the technology world, but apparently few others care to gaze at our navels. Does this suggest that the future of technology news should be more accessible to non-techies, the way that TechCrunch often is?
Regardless, no Drudge Report for me. Instead I'll be reading OpenDotDotDot and other "lesser" blogs. Hopefully this will keep translating into rising Open Road readership in 2009. Maybe we'll break the top-5,000,000 by 2012. One can dream....
Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
I don't read any of those except through aggregators (e.g., TechCrunch via Techmeme), but I'm surprised at how many I've never even heard of. I'm curious how these 50 were determined to be the "most powerful" blogs.
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Thank you very much for your great post and for the info on open-source and Linux
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by botchagalupe
December 31, 2008 3:07 AM PST
- I have over 150 blogs in my google reader and I aggregate probably over 1000 with other tools. I only have one of those listed in my reader and two total that I recognize from that list.
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