Feedster has come up with a Top 500 blogs list arranged by incoming links in response to Jason’s call for such a list.

I’m not a big believer in lists and rankings of blogs except that they give some indication of what is happening in the blogosphere. To me it’s less about which blog is best but more about trends that might be observable both in the list at any point in time but also what happens to the list over time.

Not sure if that makes much sense, it’s been a long day, but I’m interested in what people notice about the list? See any themes or trends? See any blogs or types of blogs missing?

One last note on the list – the press release announcing it says its a list of the ‘most interesting and important blogs in the US’.

In addition to this being a pretty arrogant statement (as if anyone could say the most interesting and important blog could be contained in any list of 500 blogs – the fact is that quite a few blogs in the list are not US blogs – I can see a few, including this ProBlogger.

Maybe it’s time that there was a press release that blogs outside of the US exist and can be important and interesting too. Anyway – interested in others thoughts and if I have anything more sensible to say tomorrow after a good night’s sleep I’ll update this post.

Update: Yep – I did notice that they’ve included my comments RSS feed in the list – go figure! Weird.

Update II – I’ve just spoken to a Feedster person – Scott Johnson – the one who authored the code behind the list- and he said that the press release was poorly worded and should not have mentioned ‘US Blogs’ but rather is a measure of ‘blogs written in English’.

Update III – Buzz Machine isn’t too impressed by the list:

‘Making a universal top n00 list, however it is made, continues to engage in old-media thing, big-media, mass-market think: The guys on top win.

No, in this new world of choice and control at the edges, it’s the niches, and those who can pull them together, who win. And it’s those who can demonstrate influence and engagement who will win — as soon as somebody figures out how to demonstrate it.’

Blog Herald has a good post on Understanding Blog and Ping - I’ll leave it to Duncan to explain:

‘The last six months has seen a massive rise in content theft blogs and spam blogs, and there’s one thing these blogs usually have in common, and that’s the whole “Blog and Ping” thing, but if you don’t know what Blog and Ping is, don’t feel bad, because most people don’t.

But before I start a word of advice: don’t do it. Knowing and understanding your enemy is important in formulating ways of overcoming and defeating them. People who create these blogs are leeches who deserve nothing less than being banned from the search engines they so desperately seek to be included in.’

Jen from Jensense.com is making me green from head to toe in envy as she talks about her personalized tour of the Googleplex after a meet and greet event at SES – at the end of the tour she ended up having a relaxed chat about Adsense and other topics with Larry and Sergey.

‘After the private behind-the-scenes tour, we ended up sitting outside a microkitchen chatting on some sofas. After sitting for a few hours chatting about anything and everything Google, who wandered down to join us at 1:30am but the original Google Guys themselves, Larry and Sergey. Larry stayed for about half an hour, while Sergey chatted with us for well over an hour.

Yes, AdSense was one of the many subjects discussed, but the entire conversation was off-the-record, so I can’t go into specifics. But it was definitely one of those once-in-a-lifetime opportunities!’

What a night – I’m most jealous – most jealous indeed. If only she could share that conversation.

Dave Naylor also writes of his perspective on SES and the intimate Googleplex tour.

OneStat reports that Wednesdays are the day that post people surf the web around the world. Not surprisingly the weekend are the days with least traffic.

1. Wednesday – 16.87%
2. Monday - 15.78%
3. Tuesday - 15.28%
4. Thursday – 14.92%
5. Friday – 14.08%
6. Sunday – 11.85%
7. Saturday – 11.22%

Many bloggers have noticed this trend and mirror it in their posting making more posts midweek than on weekends. When do you post most? If it’s mid week is it because you are trying to time it for midweek readers or because you yourself are just not online on the weekends?