Blogrolling Hot 500
Related entries in Blog software & tools, Social networkingTris was one of the lucky ones to break the release of the new Blogrolling Hot 500. This comes as a result of all the buzz about lists lately. Heck, I’ve even been buzzing myself.
Jason Calacanis set out asking for the top 500 blogs out there, and this is one of the contenders to win his load of cash.
The Hot 500 is a doable challenge out there for any blogger. You can make it on. And it’s not too hard. Those at the bottom only have one link - we can all get that!
I am not going to say this is the solution to the list issue. It’s not. It still contains bias and it still isn’t topic specific or with descriptive information to help you navigate. After all, the list is there for others to benefit from. It’s not enough any more to just listen to the “cool” people - we want useful, valuable content in the area we want to know about.
Anyway, have a scan of the list. It’s more useful in some ways than the Technorati Top 100.
Technorati Tags: lists, top 100, top 500, hot 500, blogrolling, calacanis
August 5th, 2005 at 9:14 pm
How does one get on the list?
August 5th, 2005 at 10:37 pm
From their site (http://news.blogrolling.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/5/1111021.html):
“This list of hot weblogs is generated based on the popularity of various Blogs according to the number of times that these blogs are linked to by Blogrolling.com’s subscribers. In order to get on this list, you must capture and keep the hearts and minds of tens of thousands of bloggers. You will see some well-known blogs on this list, and some not-so-well-known blogs on this list. I’ve been having a lot of fun going through the list looking for new gems to add to my aggregator.
This isn’t the final word either. Our first priority was simply to “get this out” but now that we have the basics in place, expect a few new features to be added over the coming days as well – “up and coming”, syndicated results and a few other coolio functions that you can only find at Blogrolling.com.”