Time’s 25 Best Blogs of 2009

27 Responses to “Time’s 25 Best Blogs of 2009”

1. Rarst on February 17th, 2009 7:27 am

   I think those should be called “The list of usual blogs considered to be best”. Take top of technorati, praise few, bash few… I hope media will get bored with recipe in the future.

2. Britalian on February 17th, 2009 7:33 am

   These lists are usually pointless, but techcrunch is still relevant.

   It covers development in tech companies per se, not those just in the start up phase.

   I am afraid it is just fashionable at the moment to bash those people whose profiles were pumped up during the last five years.

3. SATISH -- Technotip.org on February 17th, 2009 7:35 am

   I think, main stream Media trying to show its dominance over the blogs.. Trying to rate the blogs and show themselves as a standard
   Hope it doesn’t help any more, because regular readers of blogs know what to read and what not to.

4. Hendry Lee on February 17th, 2009 7:44 am

   When Forbes list their top x richest man in the US, they also do the same one entry per page thing.

   As you said, it is a page-view-generator, perhaps to generate more pageviews per eyeballs they so desperately want to increase.

5. Ken Barnes on February 17th, 2009 7:58 am

   “They spread 25 results in 25 different pages…. That is not a list, it is a page-view-generator.”

   Yup, and you looked at every one of them. Works, doesn’t it? As for TIME being overrated, well, you’re reporting on them here, are you not?

6. Adam Singer on February 17th, 2009 10:17 am

   Same stuff, different year. ~yawn~

7. Erwin Chua on February 17th, 2009 11:06 am

   Hello!

   Maybe they should consider a more fresh topic than the top 25 best blogs. How bout the 25 most unusual blogs?

   All the best!

   Erwin Chua
   htttp://winning2win.com

8. Ben on February 17th, 2009 11:06 am

   I agree completely with your take. Maybe they did some actual work and provided some value their product would still be relevant today.

9. Daryn St. Pierre on February 17th, 2009 11:50 am

   25 BEST blogs is too predictable. I like Erwin’s idea of ‘most unusual’ better. Time strikes me as the last ones to ever be involved with social media or anything of the sort.

10. Danny Brown on February 17th, 2009 12:50 pm

    It may be a page view generator, but it’s a print magazine – page view generators are what it needs.

    Is it any different from pimping a blog post via Twitter, Digg, Stumbleupon, Facebook, and any number of social and blog networks? Not really.

    And they’re right in one thing – Techcrunch is way over-rated and becoming less relevant every day.

11. Aravind Jose T. on February 17th, 2009 12:50 pm

    Mainstream media still needs to get a clue of what is going on the interwebs.

    Exactly.

    They’ve no idea about the real stuff. All their works are biased, sadly enough.

    Who does the better job ?
    One who put online the content they’ve prepared for the newspaper.
    Or the ones who publish content only on web, and still have the same readership ?

    Cheers.

12. Matej on February 17th, 2009 1:05 pm

    I read TechCrunch couple of times a day but they started to get on my nerves with these “playing victim” posts … Some are interesting and true but some are just childish … I never understood BoingBoing as well

    Gawker media blogs are always interesting to read, i09 is the one I really like reading just for fun.

13. odtaa on February 17th, 2009 2:41 pm

    Well I agree the Times list is a good example of how to irritate people. I packed it in after reading about 4 items. Then I started thinking why am I wasting my time reading this list.

    The list is fairly obvious – their comments – more so.

    What would be interesting is a list of the blogs that are becoming more influential and with the credit crunch etc the whole game has changed. I suspect there will be a whole raft of new influential blogs emerging in the next couple of years.

    Keep those keyboard hot folks.

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15. Vijay on February 17th, 2009 4:01 pm

    I agree.
    Mainstream media is striving to survive now ..

16. Pet Snakes on February 17th, 2009 4:42 pm

    I actually agree with Time’s assessment of Tech Crunch being overrated. It’s really become an issue of over saturation with technically oriented blogs.

    To be relevant in the high tech field you have to break news that no one else is and I don’t really see Tech Crunch doing that. They’re basically a news aggregator and there’s a lot of them sitting at the table at this point in the game.

    As far as blogs like Perez Hilton go, they’ve been over rated since the day they were conceived. But the real shame is the people who frequent them day by day. For whatever reason celebrity will always draw people. I don’t know, maybe people like to escape reality for a little bit and read those kind of blogs.

    One thing I don’t agree with is their position on Daily Kos. It has always been a “liberal” e-hack “mag”. While Bush was in office it’s job was to point out how woefully inept the US government was. He’s gone now so that means Daily Kos will reinvent itself as a cheerleader for the government. It hasn’t lost it’s mission, it has just been reassigned to a new battle field.

17. Niche Blog on February 17th, 2009 5:37 pm

    I wonder what their criteria are for choosing these as the best blogs

18. Jaan Kanellis on February 17th, 2009 5:41 pm

    Looks like Time’s best effort at controversial link bait.

19. Sheila Atwood on February 17th, 2009 6:09 pm

    Ditto @Rarst.

    Time is overrated. They sold out to vested interests years ago.

20. susan on February 17th, 2009 6:48 pm

    Thanks for recapping the list. I got so annoyed at having to click through each one, I stopped after the second page.

21. Jonk on February 17th, 2009 9:38 pm

    Good post, especially the reference to The Time’s page view generating tactics.

    I’m seeing this a bit on news websites where they annoyingly spread articles over 3 or 4 pages to boost revenue.

22. Nags on February 17th, 2009 11:18 pm

    I agree! I went to check out the list and got tired after clicking through to the first 4. And I love techcrunch. It still seems valid to me whether silicon valley is shaking or not.

    Was quite disappointed with the whole article.

23. Snugd - Tech News on February 18th, 2009 1:48 am

    I agree with Erwin. Blogosphere is expanding…. what’s the point of seeing the same in all the lists. Bring out the hidden gems.

    As in real life, those so called popular ones have an unfair advantage (because of the Google’s back link algo)

24. Meraj Khattak on February 18th, 2009 3:11 am

    Daniel very well said about Time. This is one of the problem because of which I don’t visit these main stream media websites.

25. Kevin Kelly on February 21st, 2009 8:16 am

    Regardless of the source always nice to get an inside track on best practice – remember even the most annoying of people can be your best teacher. Embracing this truism can ignite personal potential.

26. Misohoni on March 8th, 2009 3:07 am

    But most of those are like corporate blogs, with more than one person working on them…

27. Kayla on July 8th, 2009 6:06 pm

    I have been reading Techcrunch for a while, and it’s pretty good.

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