BMEWS is conspicuously absent
on 03/14/2008 at 05:04 PM
Icanhascheezburger is a fun place. I can usually find one or two really great LOLcatz pics there each week.
HuffPo is #1? Bah. What happened to Kos and the Freepers?
I think a better web rating would include more places than just blogs. But it would be drepressing to read ...
Ranks #1 to #300,000 - porn sites in all their myriad flavors
#300,001 to #300,200 - news sites,hollywood gossip sites, bollywood gossip sites
#300,201 to #301,000 - video game sites
#301,001 to #1,000,000 - music sites, gadget and hi-tech sites, how-to sites, reference sites
#1,000,001 to #1,250,000 - sports sitessomewhere down around #2,750,000 you might just start the blogs. The gossip sites see several million hits a day. Good news sites see a million hits a day. A killer blog might get what, about 50,000 hits? Even if it’s 500K, the gossip sites just slaughter the blogs in terms of sheer numbers.
Nope, BMEWS just struggles along with somewhere between 500-1200 visitors a day. But we’ve got good visitors, not the usual collection of ding dongs. I’m happy with that.
I read through a part of the list - being a homemaker (since I can’t keep any temp job I get) you would think I’d visit some of the lower lurking blogs - can’t do it. Which is one reason I don’t start one of my own. To realize that I have enough of a life not to go to some of those sites at all, let alone daily, gives me great relief.
Drew - remember the Tortise and the Hare and of course David and Goliath - it is not always biggest or fastest who wins in the end.
In this day and age - being able to think, reason and shoot straight - just might get us all through.
Gee.. How many of those are really ‘Blogs’?? A Blog is a personal journal, or diary. Reporting gossip is NOT a blog, and regardless of how cute the LOLKittehs are, THAT IS NOT A BLOG. Neither are reviews of movies, pictures of attractive females, etc. etc. etc, ad nauseum. If you strip all the glorified forums, “pRon of the weke” sites, and gossip sites, they would have listed, at max, 63, maybe 64..
And I do agree with you Drew, it’s the quality, not the quantity. Unless BMEW turns into a Hooray Barak, Go go Billary, or We does ebil thingz to doze pore pore Iraquis site, you will not get 100,000 hits per day, however, as long as you don’t, you will have returning visitors. as opposed to brain-dead “Iz not j00 lam0rz/ iz 2, j00 n00b” threads.
If you read a lot of these sites, you will see that the comprehension levels are usually 3rd grade, and the literacy levels are also abysmal.
I think that I would be embarrassed to be highlighted on one of these lists.Just my $.02
BillWell, I have to say I like the #30, the GoFugYourself site. Being such a fashion maven myself ( as if ). They do write a bit about the pictures, and it’s usually kinda funny.
But Doctor DETH does bring up a good point ... the line between website and blog has been blurred - nuanced? - perhaps too much. Just because the site gets lots of updates does not make it a blog. So we need a new term. Call them a Fresh Site, or a Dynamic Webpage, or something coolish sounding that means “not a blog, but a place that gets a lot of updates”.
[hippy mode] OTOH, who are we to think we can set rules on the internet? Resist the Man, man!
It’s, like, a digital paraphrase of that little Humpty dude from Alice In Wonderland, right, like, “A blog is exactly what I say a blog is, whenever I say it, neither more nor less.” 
[/hippy mode]
And I think the definition got rather blurred because so many people visit websites, but so few of them actually know what a blog is. Like he said, little kids in 3rd grade. People can’t tell whether their own politicians are Republicans or Democrats these days from the way they act. The only way we actually know they’re Democrats is when they get in the newspaper and the paper neglects to mention their political party! So how is the average mouse clicker expected to master the subleties ... and does it really matter?
So if Dlisted, KindGirls, and VacuumWizard want to call themselves blogs, it doesn’t really hurt anything. Besides, are you really going to place a lot of faith in a World’s Greatest Blogs ranking that shows up in a newspaper???
Blog: n. A place where internet users announce whether they are or are not a “danger to society”, which is defined as “not stupid enough to be led by Madison Avenue style propaganda tactics”. The most dangerous of these may even have a college reading comprehension level, or worse, may have an education (formal or otherwise) in logic and rhetoric.
I like icanhascheezeburger, but I don’t consider it a blog.
