Time magazine created a complete list about the most relevant blogs of 2010, not only the most valuable but also the “essentials”, and the “overrated” ones.
I’m pretty sure we can find a blog that was left out in any of these three lists, and some others that did not belong here; but definitely we can find here some of the references in the “blogosphere”.
In the essentials we can find some really cool examples like TechCrunch; but the interesting are the overrated ones, the mentions were for Perez Hilton (totally agree), Fail blog, and a surprisingly Mashable.
Here are the lists:
Best Blogs
- Zenhabits
- PostSecret
- Climate Progress
- HiLobrow
- Hipster Runoff
- Kottke.org
- Cake Wrecks
- The Oatmeal
- S___ My Kids Ruined
- Deadline Hollywood
- Everything Everywhere
- The Sartorialist
- Information Is Beautiful
- The Daily Kitten
- Shorpy
- Apartment Therapy
- Double X
- Strobist
- Roger Ebert’s Journal
- The Awl
- GeekDad
- Engadget
- The Washington Note
- The Consumerist
- Pitchfork
Essential Blogs
- The Daily Wh.at
- TechCrunch
- Gawker
- Politico’s Ben Smith
- Boing Boing
Overrated Blogs
- FAIL Blog
- The Big Lead
- Perez Hilton
- Mashable
- Daily Kos
Can you make your own Top 5?
Twitter lists is really starting to take off. Just yesterday we talked about how releasing a widget was going to bring the blogosphere and Twitter ever closer. Now Twitter lists is helping to bring populations closer – thanks to SimplyZesty.
The company have created lists for entire populations of countries to join. The first one was build by hand for Ireland with the UK version following a few hours later. Users must manually join the Irish list. For the UK they simply have to tweet #TwitterLondon (replacing London with wherever they live).
Following the rapid success of these lists they decided to launch a US version that is fully automated. It has been programmed to add users when they tweet about the homeland such as ‘#newyork’.
I think that we’re kind of straying away from what lists were originally intended for but hey, Twitter is what you make of it.
Make sure you join the Crenk list here.
So Twitter lists launched last week and over the weekend we all the the chance to take a look see, make a few lists and figure out just what it was all for. As it happens it’s a pretty cool feature which connects you with more people of the same interests giving Twitter even more of a social feel without taking away from the whole ‘Get it off your chest aspect’.
Now, the weekend has come and gone and the Twitter developers have plopped a Lists Widget into our laps for us to play with on our sites and blogs. Here’s what it looks like.
Basically, it works in the same way as other Twitter widgets except instead of showing the tweets of just one person is shows the tweets of everyone who is in that list. I can see this being a massive hit in the blogosphere because building community and adding new features to blogs are two of the most important things for a blogger to consider – well the list widget hits the nail on the head.
I tested it out and while it looks good and gets the job done the widget can be a little slow or sluggish but that’s to be expected seeing as it’s only out a single day. I’m sure the developers are on to it – they’ve had enough practice to know what to do when something is down, broken, sluggish or ‘over capacity’.
Get the Twitter lists widget for your blog right here.
