Comments on: TechMeme Top 100 is ‘Top 100′ of what, exactly?

By: Laurentios

Laurentios — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:28:12 +0000

Interesting…

By: Techmeme Leaderboard Launches: Who Does It Serve? | A View from the Isle

Techmeme Leaderboard Launches: Who Does It Serve? | A View from the Isle — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 23:49:35 +0000

[…] lead, the list, you have to wonder…what does the list represent and who does it really serve? Ben Metcalfe suggests that since Techmeme is, essentially, built up just from bloggers linking to each other […]

By: David Scott Lewis (Zytech Solar, a Going Green 100 Winner)

David Scott Lewis (Zytech Solar, a Going Green 100 Winner) — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:53:56 +0000

It’s really a list of the top 100 RSS news feeds, some of which are blogs, others are not.

By: maths

maths — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 09:45:52 +0000

Is the shoe on the other foot now with regards to Big Media and do I detect a sniff of contempt for the “non-blogs”, and how dare these lesser entities be breathing the same rarefied air as us Bloggers on this list?
As Yuvi pointed out, these are “news sources” - with a focus on technology.
More significantly, Big Media will probably be looking at the TechMeme Top 100 with worry as their audience is now being diluted by the preponderance of influential blogs and “blogs”. And with the eyeball drain, the ad dollars go too.
So Ben, this list is more significant than you imagined. We can be pedantic about the nature of the beast - blog or non-blog, but to the average reader, it is all just a news source that they spend time on, and that is where the value is.
Whether the list is authorative or not is open to debate and it’s a recognition that market adoption, especially by the influential ones the list is favorable to, can bestow. That’s how all lists eventually get their authority.

By: Mathew Ingram

Mathew Ingram — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:38:27 +0000

Well dammit, I’m a “real” blogger — I just wish I didn’t come in below both Dave Winer and Nick Carr

By: Frank Gruber

Frank Gruber — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:15:42 +0000

I am a big fan of Gabe and his work on Techmeme too. I think you hit the nail on the head with your analysis Ben. It also brings to question, when is a blog no longer a blog? But we can save that conversation for another day over a drink or something.

By: Yuvi

Yuvi — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 20:06:03 +0000

I don’t really think it is supposed to be a list of hot “blogs”. I think it’s supposed to be a list of hot “news sources”, which are quite a bit different.

Oh, and thanks for generating this list: I just compared this with Top 100 in Technorati and Top 100 sites to make it to the Digg frontpage.(http://blog.yuvisense.net/2007/10/01/mini-statbot-leaderboard-vs-technorati-top-100-and-digg-top-100/) This list has more in common with the Digg Frontpage than Technorati, so I think this is not competition to Technorati. Technorati measures popularity, this one doesn’t.

By: Todd Defren

Todd Defren — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:04:26 +0000

Bravo. Totally agree.

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:59:09 +0000

Without wishing to sound snarky - isn’t the reality this list is really Gabe’s Faves rather than a meaningful listing? That’s speaking as a ZDNet blogger (and yes they ARE blogs under Dave Winer’s definition albeit with a rotten comment wall we all know sux.)

By: Dave Winer

Dave Winer — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:47:08 +0000

I pointed this out in my write up too. And in what sense are Engadget, TechCrunch, GigaOm and ReadWriteWeb blogs? Because they use Wordpress? As if that mattered somehow. I think if it’s not the “unedited voice of a person” it really isn’t a blog.