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The world's 50 most powerful blogs

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The Huffpo is influential? They just seem like the average of every left-of-center editorial I've ever read.

Can anyone tell me any stories they've broken? Has anyone ever read anything on the Huffpo that they felt like quoting later? That changed their views in any way? I have trouble imagining this.

This article keeps getting weirder. Michelle Malkin is not very influential among conservatives -- Glenn Reynolds or the Powerline guys or the LGF guys have done a lot more to shape conservatives' web presence. Samizdata should rank below them. I don't see Lew Rockwell or Brussels Journal, who have both gotten far-right fringes (anarcho-capitalists and anti-EU isolationists) a lot more attention.

Also, no business blogs? No economics blogs? To the extent that valueinvestorsclub.com is a blog, it's more influential than all of these put together, since it's caused measurable multi-million dollar changes in stock and bond valuations. And no peak oil blogs? Where would peak oil be without blogs? How many people routinely chat with petroleum geologists?

Lew Rockwell did a lot more to kill attention seeing as he was outed as the ghost-author of the [person we aren't allowed to talk about here]'s controversial newsletters.

After reading the list, finding that I've never read the majority of them, I feel better. I still don't understand the appeal of kottke.org "home of fine hypertext products"

Kottke is a collection of good links. Kind of like news.yc or reddit, only picked by one guy who is much better at picking links than your average reddit or news.yc contributor.

Thanks. The stories linked to on Kottke.org seem very diverse. Arts, photography, journalism.

Via kottke.org, I just read a disturbing but fascinating article on a photojournalist's ill-fated love affair with a Colombian assassin.

I stopped reading at #8... Icanhascheezburger. Funny and entertaining, yes. Powerful though?

Yes.

Surely they mean English-speaking world's 50 most powerful blogs.

It's like the "World Series": The best in America is the best in the world.

But seriously, they do include a number of blogs from countries whose main language is not English.

Oh, please, everyone knows Achewood and homestarrunner are both more powerful than the icanhascheezburger and Gaping Void.

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