According to The Guardian. See here.
Something’s not right here. Icanhascheezburger isn’t number one.
#18 is Chez Pim, the website of a London-based Thai lady who blogs about Thai, and other, food. I started a separate thread for her here in Cafe Society.
By “powerful”, do they mean “least obscure”?
Perhaps it’s some sort of British use of “powerful”?
As usual with these types of lists, there are literally dozens of other candidates that could reasonably have been included, and a few that, objectively, should be on there.
In the latter category, i’d have to place Daily Kos. I don’t read the thing, but it’s hard to argue against its importance on the liberal end of the internet. Hell, the constant references to it by conservative bloggers are also a testament to its influence.
Also, the development of the internet in general, and of “blogging” in particular, has made the distinction between blogs and regular websites (whatever they are) virtually meaningless. Plenty of the blogs on that list are no different from any other media websites in terms of their level of organization and content provision. The fact that they use a blogging format does not really make them, in some cases, much different from CNN or some local news station.
The top blog on the list, The Huffington Post, has dozens of authors writing about a wide variety of different topics, and the layout is virtually indistinguishable from regular news and media sites. I’m not arguing that this is a good thing or a bad thing, but making a distinction between blogs and other websites often ignores the fact that blogs themselves comprise a vast array of different styles and sizes. It’s really rather pointless to compare The Huffington Post or The Drudge Report or The Daily Kos to small blogs with content provided by one or two people.
Such lists are a point of departure. Sure, there are blogs – or movies, or books, or whatever other items are often listed – that others will think should have been included. But this is this newspaper’s take, and it has some interesting offerings. Someone else’s list may include different ones.
On the flip side of that coin, I was surprised that Little Green Footballs wasn’t on the list either.
Slate is rather similar from what I’ve seen, if HP made the list then Slate should have too, or is it disqualified because it’s an “online magazine”.