Comments on: Bloglines Top 1000 Blogs Launched

By: bLuefRogX

bLuefRogX — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:04:01 +0000

I’ll be a long long time before I ever hit one of these lists :P Doesn’t stop me from trying though.

By: Irfan

Irfan — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:07:18 +0000

I know of a company who owns more then 2000 blogs. In terms of size(number of blogs) the owners of moguling.com own over 2000 blog and i guess they are one among the largest blog networks and marketers..

By: Sara East

Sara East — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:43:25 +0000

Lists. Again more lists. There is a list for everything these days. Lists can teach a lot, yes they can, but they can also be skewed very easy. I pay little attention to lists.

I will be more impressed when there is a Nobel Prize for blogging.

By: tallfreak

tallfreak — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:54:58 +0000

I use bloglines Darren! :)

By: Brian Fitzpatrick

Brian Fitzpatrick — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 17:19:49 +0000

BlogLines is interesting as another RSS aggregator. But except for its top 1000 list, I’m not seeing it as much other than another way for readers to find your topics. Other RSS readers are cleaner (like Google or OWL). But it’s good to “spread the wealth” and make sure that it’s easy for your readers to find you using whatever tools they want to use.

Like Caroline mentioned in an earlier comment, the fact that feeds are duplicated (you can find 5-10 copies of certain ones) just shows how much this is still in beta form. They’re going to have to do more cleanup before it’s really useful.

By: Blog Opinion

Blog Opinion — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:59:04 +0000

Bloglines is encouraging bloggers to use bloglines. I like those Top 1000 … :)

By: Caroline Middlebrook

Caroline Middlebrook — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 11:53:39 +0000

I had a look at the list and I actually found it really confusing. Why is Lifehacker in the list like a dozen times? Do they have a whole bunch of different feeds or something? Also, it didn’t feel accurate at all because many well known blogs were coming up at strange positions in the list so as your other readers pointed out, Bloglines is only used by a section of blog readers, and I think it varies wildly.

By: chetan

chetan — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 10:31:11 +0000

I think top 100 would have been a perfect list.
Top 1000 is!!!!

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:58:45 +0000

I agree, its difficult. But it sure does make for a good read. There are so many blogs out there, so you almost have to digest a top 1000 to get a good perspective on the general health and awareness of the blogosphere and their respective topics. I truly find this list extremely useful.

By: Max Powers at http://ConsumerFight.com

Max Powers at http://ConsumerFight.com — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:41:04 +0000

A top 1,000 list seems a little large to me. When I see a “top anything list” I like to check them all out, but 1,000 is too much to digest at one sitting.

By: Garry Conn

Garry Conn — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:08:41 +0000

You know what? Reviewing this list can really give you a good visual awareness of the certain topics that are really hot and which ones are not. I plan on reviewing this a lot closer, but for now, thanks for finding it. :)

By: jsanderz

jsanderz — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:05:03 +0000

Darren,
Thank you for the info and link, I am fairly new to blogging and up until now I had never heard of Bloglines.

This is one for my Netvibes page.
Regards.

By: Missy

Missy — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:00:56 +0000

That metric is so useless, the bloglines feed reader is not a highly used reader. Maybe i would feel differently if i were on the list. (lol. never mind)

I’m sure the list will go viral, though.

By: Jorge Camoes

Jorge Camoes — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:51:56 +0000

Darren, just to say that the “little graph” is called a “sparkline”, was proposed by Edward Tufte, you can see it, for example, in Google Analytics and is purpose it exactly to show trends, outliers, etc.

By: Référencement Design et Cie

Référencement Design et Cie — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:50:24 +0000

Thanks for the info. A nice thing is that you can also see the rank of the feed even if you are not in the top 1000.

Exemple for my own (rank 6716) : http://beta.bloglines.com/b/preview?siteid=1010557

By: Markus

Markus — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 08:38:51 +0000

This is really cool! I like the beta version of Bloglines but Google Reader is still too good to change to Bloglines.