Posted on March 5, 2008 - by Steven Finch | Visited 126 times, 1 so far today

Z-Listers Who Want to be A-List Bloggers Within 6 Months

Chris Garret over at the Blog Herald had a very interesting post this morning. The post was about him listing the feeds that he actually reads in his feed readers. The majority on the list were actually what people are classing as A-listers. A-listers are the blogs that are very well known and are actually authorities in their field.

Chris always gets accused of propping up the A-list, but I think in this case there is something wrong with the lower level bloggers. In Australia we call it “tall poppy syndrome”, which means that the people at a lower level slag off the top people in their field, just because they are at the top and getting attention, and this definitely seems to be the case this time.

The blogs that are currently on the A-list have had to work very hard for a very long period of time to get to where they are today. Weblogs like Techcrunch and Read/Write Web have been going for a minimum for 3 years, and they have been very consistent over that entire period to get where they are.

This is a message to all bloggers who have just started and already want to be authorities in their field, please stop accusing people of favouritism and just get off your ass and work really hard to get somewhere. If you work hard enough over a year or more, im sure you will reap the rewards!

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