Here We Go Again: The Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs 2008

May 7, 2008

Last year, I have written about how the Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs in 2007 is a failure because most of the blogs in the list are not influential—they are merely popular. In other words, what was supposed to be a search for informative, credible, authoritative and (yes, the implicit, but not the only qualification) popular blogs which the Philippine blogging community could be proud of has become bastardized into a token popularity contest. The final list contained blogs with vapid and utterly useless content but with healthy traffic obtained from enthusiastic blogwhoring. If this is influence, I don’t know what a blog is.

 

The Top Ten Emerging Influential Blogs 2008 contest by Janette Toral has been officially launched this month. Correct me if I am wrong, but the same mistakes from last year have been committed.

 
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