5 Most Overrated Blogs by TIME
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When I first saw this I could not believe what I read. It made me laugh and at the same time think about these 5 Most Overrated Blogs by TIME magazine.
Read this:
1.Techcrunch
Launched by lawyer and tech investor Michael Arrington in 2005, TechCrunch became one of the world’s most popular blogs by reporting on the movers and shakers of Silicon Valley. But take a look at the Valley these days: Nothing’s moving. Nothing’s shaking. Born of a boom that’s long since gone bust, TechCrunch now seems irrelevant. Recent headlines such as “Box.net Hones In On Businesses With New Social Features” aren’t helping. Stick a fork in this one ? it’s done.
2. Gawker
Gawker made its name by dishing dirt on high-flying Manhattan media and business titans. But the economic downturn and the near-collapse of Wall Street has made Gawker’s snarky worldview seem not only cruel but pointless. Why kick someone that’s already dead? All that’s left for Gawker is to report on its own demise.
3.Jim Cramer’s
Jim Cramer’s name will go down in financial history, though not for the reasons he had hoped. Wall Street’s loudest and most obnoxious cheerleader during the boom is now left holding tattered pom-poms while his stock picks tank all around him. Cramer’s once-popular blog has now, incredibly, become a paid site available only to RealMoney suckers, er, subscribers.
4.PerezHilton
This highly trafficked gossip blog, written by sometimes actor and fulltime celebrity hound Mario Lavandeira, mines the usual Jessica Simpson/Brad Pitt/Jennifer Anniston territory. But blog rivals like TMZ.com do a much better job at uncovering real celeb scoops and providing original video and documents. Leaving PerezHilton to serve up the stalest dish of all: yesterday’s celebrity news.
5.Daily Kos
Markos Moulitsas ? alias “Kos” ? created Daily Kos in 2002, a time he describes as “dark days when an oppressive and war-crazed administration suppressed all dissent as unpatriotic and treasonous.” Be careful what you wish for. With the Bush years now just a memory, Kos’s blog has lost its mission, and its increasingly rudderless posts read like talking points from the Democratic National Committee.
I am still laughing and thinking about these 5 blogs as TIME described “Most Overrated Blogs” and to be honest it’s true. When did you last time see some other blog not so known as the above make news or promoted by other Top Sites as well as TV?
Read my next blog post tomorrow AM? about 25 top blogs in 2009!
