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I just wrote a post about this very issue. I even make a suggestion as to what I think could be done. A list for the rest of us, that is minus the "A-List" factor.
See the post here:
http://roostersrail.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/top-blogs-on-wordpress/
Even Scoble has something to say about it:
http://scobleizer.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/vote-for-david-gray-for-top-wordpresscom-blog-today/
I think this is an even better solution. The ability to act as a community to choose the best posts using reddit.com
Direct link to the request on reddit.com, you can vote it up by creating an account at reddit
Another thing to join? Isn't Techorati, TLB, Pingoat, and WordPress enough?
I think "most viewed" speaks for itself. Viewing IS voting. Evaluating quality isn't something I think a large group is good at; if that were the case, the New Yorker would outsell US Weekly. Large groups are good at evaluating popularity. Small groups are called committees and aren't good at anything, in my extensive committee-serving experience.
When it comes to evaluating quality, I prefer a strongly opinionated, critical individual.
IMO the top blogs are in no way endangered or even affected by a second popularity poll being introduced or by randomization. That's not the point and never has been. The "most viewed" blogs are the most viewed by the blogosphere and public at large. The "most popular blogs/posts as determined by wordpress bloggers" would be just that - so, where's the rub?
I place absolutely no faith in popularity polls. If I did I would have to believe:
(1) the habitual purchasers of the National Enquirer are really only buying it for the excellent photography;
(2) the habitual purchasers of porno magazines are really only buying them to read the articles.
Sensationalism, sex, bathroom humour, and gutter language are all things that speak to the "lower man". I have witnessed all of these in wordpress.com blogs that racked up high enough statistics to put them into the most popular or top blogs but that doesn't make them "quality" publications in my eyes. The most outstanding example I can think of is the two line post with the link to porno tube that racked up stats for weeks on end. More recent examples I've witnessed are a top blog that consists entirely of mediocre photographs of big breasted women, another that consists primarily of youtube embeds, and a third written by a person who used the *f* word in so many different ways in the titles in his listed most recent and top posts that I didn't bother to read any of his blog posts.
That's why I don't support a second wordpress popularity poll any more than I support the one that already exists.
Frankly my dear bloggers [she said with a mischieveous grin] "I don't give a damn what you may say, I'm gonna keep blogging any old way."
So I went and got a community voting site created. Let's see what happens.
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