I am sick and tired of seeing a new list of the “A-List Bloggers” every time I get Online. It seems like everybody and their grandmother has done this to death now. The question I have is, who really cares? Some might say the people on the list care, but they are the same folks that get the highlight each and every time it is turned on. If somebody has already made a list of the “most read” folks out there, why not do something different? Because that is hard work. Instead we see Web site after Web site re-branding the whole “blogebrity” idea and it just makes me even more angry.
Why? Some might say, “Well Mitch, you are a bitter little man, aren’t you?”.
No I am not. I could care less what list I make it onto or don’t make it onto. The fact of the matter is I would just like to see something different come out there. Why not highlight the newest blogs? The blogs with the funniest content? The blogs that make you think? Why? That would be actual work there. You’d have to get a person or a team of people going through and reading blog after blog. Why not try to highlight who might be the “Next big thing?”. Why? That would be too hard. Instead lets just give the same old pat on the back to the same old folks over and over again.
I have nothing against these so-called “trendsetters“. I’ll even admit to having a few in my RSS reader. Folks like Eric Rice and Chris Pirillo are entertaining, informative and fun.
You can only milk that cow so long before it runs dry. How many more lists can we go through before people want to be entertained by something new? different? Exciting? Outside of the box?
Here is my list of blogs that will probably never make it onto a “high class” list but are damn worthy of being mentioned. Maybe this list will inspire a few folks to think outside the box for a change instead of falling into the same old patterns over and over again.
Swisher’s Untitled Blog Project
Now how hard was that? Know somebody else that isn’t getting the “blogging respect” that they deserve? Let me know!
