Weblogswork has posted a wiki with the 43 best blogs. I like the list because it is editable by anyone (it’s a wiki).
Welcome to the 43 Best Blogs Wiki. The following 43 blogs are simply the best. Other ‘best of’ blog lists offer 50 or even 100 ‘best’ blogs, but after painstaking research we have deteremined that there are really only 43 decent blogs at any one time.
Feel free to edit, add, remove or reorder any blog listed on this site.
How do we know that we have the right 43 blogs listed at any one time? Easy, you are the “we” at 43 Best. We are you. You spin me right round. Other lists depend on the work of one or two individuals. See your blog on the list? Grab the 43 Best Blog badge and put it on your site. Congratulations to the winners!
Lots of other best of lists there as well.
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it’s not quite a wiki - you need to wait for them to approve the urls.
So how did TechCrunch not make the list? And how is Malcolm Gladwell’s blog already at top 43 blog…I think he is great writer but he just started blogging last week! I am glad it is a wiki - since it could use a few adjustments.
This is funny - I think a perfect showcase of what you can NOT achieve using a wiki. Just look at the history of changes. A digg-like voting system would mean something, but when anyone can change it anytime, all you get is a random snapshot. I could have my 5 minutes of fame by putting myself on line#1
That is a very good point Zoli. It will be “Your Name In Lights” central…what a mess! :0
Well I guess it’s just a prank to get attention…
Frank - you can approve the URLs - just click approve.
Zoli - actually it is a perfect showcase of how useful ‘best of blogs’ lists are. My favorite is the 43 Best Prsidents list:
http://43best.weblogswork.com/pmwiki.php?n=Main.43BestPresidents
Well, I’d like to see No. 44 on that President list:-)
This is true Zoli and sticking with the numbers theme, number 44 is a number that has been worn by some great athletes like baseball legend Hank Aaron and basketball star Jerry West. Michael Jordan wore number 45 for a short time, while flame throwing pitcher, Pedro Martinez, still wears it today. Though these numbers I have mentioned do have some meaning, to someone, somewhere, I guess 43 is as good a number as any to cap the top blog list. Not to mention the two digits add up to 7 which was worn by New York Yankee great Mickey Mantle.
[...] Last night Alex decided that he would create his own ‘best blogs’ list. Too often these ‘best blogs’ lists are merely transparent attempts to generate traffic. Especially in the case of bloggers who will immediately blog about the fact that they were listed as one of the top blogs on the internet. He mentioned that he was going to have one of the developers put the list together today and I really didn’t get it. As soon as I saw that it was a wiki based list I got it. Here is the intro fom the wiki: Welcome to the 43 Best Blogs Wiki. The following 43 blogs are simply the best. Other ‘best of’ blog lists offer 50 or even 100 ‘best’ blogs, but after painstaking research we have deteremined that there are really only 43 decent blogs at any one time. Feel free to edit, add, remove or reorder any blog listed on this site How do we know that we have the right 43 blogs listed at any one time? Easy, you are the "we" at 43 Best. We are you. You spin me right round. Other lists depend on the work of one or two individuals.Jeff Clavier was really the first person to get the joke: Let me tell you: who is actually on the list does not matter, what is actually hilarious is to read through the history page since all edits are logged. As a blogger who wants in, you have to make a conscious decision of which of the 43 names you are going to “nuke”, and which spot you are going to claim. I had an easy task: a Polish dude had claimed three spots so I took one for myself and one for Hornik (as sign of deference to the grand father of VC blogging). But I really LOL’ed when I saw that David Weinberger nuked TechCrunch (not that I mean single out David, who I respect) and a few other interesting “replacements”. A very interesting social experiment indeed Alex.Other links include: Supr.c.ilio.us and CrunchNotes. (he even made it on the frontpage of tech.memeorandum) [...]
It seems like a cool idea at first, but I just took a look and it’s been screwed up by some idiot that wanted to add only his link and managed to bungle the code while he was doing it.
[...] Ok, so it’s really Alex Muse’s idea, check out his story. They set up and CrunchNotes announced the 43 Best Blogs page, which is open for anyone to edit. Of course Ross typically ends up selling [...]