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Social Experiment: 43 Best Blogs

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)

Posted by admin | February 28, 2006 - 11:17pm2 Comments
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