Comments on: the bester on the bestof

the bester on the bestof

progosk — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:07:13 -0800

Unlike the time you gave up on Slashdot, you eventually came back to Metafilter.

By: slimepuppy

slimepuppy — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:10:55 -0800

This should probably be in MetaTalk which strangely enough never appears on any of these Top X lists...

By: rxrfrx

rxrfrx — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:11:04 -0800

Ugh, their #1 Blog isn't even a blog. Yes, you can host your cartoons on Blogspot and still have it not be a blog.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:42:00 -0800

Does it have to be a personal-diary-type-thing to be a blog? Or does it have to be text? Or is posting just images in a reverse-chronological-order sufficient? I agree with your point that indexed doesn't seem to have bloginess, but I couldn't really tell you what I think the rules are.

By: Malor

Malor — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:54:13 -0800

While I don't read Slashdot anymore, I'm apparently not cool enough to have given up on Metafilter yet.

By: furtive

furtive — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 04:57:11 -0800

Metafilter: Not as good as that blog about buttons.

By: Hildegarde

Hildegarde — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:04:51 -0800

I've never given up on Metafilter, what's wrong with this guy?!

By: The God Complex

The God Complex — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:06:33 -0800

Plutor, it's a web log, which denotes--at least in my estimation--textual communication. The reasons for this textual communication could vary, but I've always thought of a "blog" as being some kind of interface by which you are exposed to the personality of the person or people behind the website. Indexed, while interesting, doesn't seem to be a log, per se, so much as a series of images--a project, if you will. In much the same way, if someone were to just post a serial novel on blogtspot, with one new part every week, it likely wouldn't fall under the strictest "blog" headline. That said, more and more, the popularized usage of "blog" seems, quite simply, to be a personal website that is updated with some frequency. I can't say I care much to argue about it, either. On an entirely different note, does anyone actually believe this guy really reads five hundred different blogs? And if he does, how much time does he spend on each? Doing some quick math, if he did a five-day cycle (one hundred blogs every day for five days) and spent eight hours a day doing nothing except reading blogs, that would be less than five minutes per blog that he "reads". If his cycle was slower, allowing more time for each visit, the amount of information for him to catch up on--even to maintain a cursory knowledge of the blog--would increase dramatically. In short, I could have dismissed his absurd claim with a short sentence instead of a paragraph, but I'm delirious for lack of sleep.

By: stbalbach

stbalbach — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:24:34 -0800

Great list added one to my feed. December is the month of the "best of".

By: localhuman

localhuman — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:35:49 -0800

18. See also: Ask.Metafilter, the real reason this site deserves to be here.) See also: fimoculous.com, the real reason these comments deserve to be here 8. I'm as surprised as you that a USA Today blog makes this list But you made the list!!!! How can what you've written surprise you so much?

By: MrGuilt

MrGuilt — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:37:04 -0800

Odd--I read many of those.

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:40:05 -0800

The God Complex: "Plutor, it's a web log, which denotes--at least in my estimation--textual communication. The reasons for this textual communication could vary, but I've always thought of a "blog" as being some kind of interface by which you are exposed to the personality of the person or people behind the website. Indexed, while interesting, doesn't seem to be a log, per se, so much as a series of images--a project, if you will. In much the same way, if someone were to just post a serial novel on blogtspot, with one new part every week, it likely wouldn't fall under the strictest "blog" headline." Would a fictional blog still be called a blog? If so, where is the line drawn between a fictional blog and a "normal" novel in first-person that is posted serially online? If not, where is the line between truth and fiction? (If I embellish, exaggerate, and change names, is my blog still a blog?) Does indexed not expose you to the personality of the artist? Are you arguing that a picture (or in this case, illustration) is not worth a thousand words? If indexed was a website that described the observations in question instead of illustrating them, would that meet your definition of a blog?

By: jack_mo

jack_mo — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:06:12 -0800

Odd--I read many of those. Same here. How depressing to find that our tastes are so common!

By: Pastabagel

Pastabagel — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:07:56 -0800

God, that list is crap. Metafilter is pretty much the only site on the internet where you could learn new things of depth and substance on a regular basis just by reading the comments. Metafilter does not always have what's new on the internet first, but when it shows up here, it's framed in the proper context as to engender some intelligent discussion. A more interesting list would be blogs you stopped when you discovered metafilter.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:22:05 -0800

While I don't read Slashdot anymore, I'm apparently not cool enough to have given up on Metafilter yet. Oh, but you did—asleep one night, fever dreams and sweat-slicked brow, you viz'd a great blue gorilla with flashing green eyes and grey tongue menacing you, and then drawing back, menacing, drawing back; and when at last you found that as you retreated in the glomming fog of the field on which this chase occurred and the ape no longer followed, in your heart was a stirring of regret and longing. And so you returned, arms wide and forgiving, to that lurking bluehair, and were crushed by its embrace, noticing only at the last that it had been wearing lipstick the whole time.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:32:27 -0800

MetaFilter: I wish I knew how to quit you.

By: johnny novak

johnny novak — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:41:27 -0800

no one quits, they just pay their 5 bucks and come back with better user names.

By: caddis

caddis — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:51:25 -0800

Most of the sites on that list are pretty pathetic, at least to my tastes. Tastes differ.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:58:54 -0800

God, that list is crap. On the contrary, it's a great list of newish and little known niche blogs. Frankly, MeFi is the weird outlier on the list. I haven't heard of half the blogs listed and I ended up subscribing to 3 or 4 new blogs.

By: crispynubbins

crispynubbins — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 06:59:50 -0800

Embarrassing to be a reader of a site that's included in a list that values corporate coffee gossip, filling that small space between "Snark Market" and "why Mamaduke is funny". I've gotta get out and surf more.

By: davy

davy — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:20:11 -0800

Why should anybody care about this list or the entries on it?

By: cillit bang

cillit bang — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:22:34 -0800

I like how they've got rid of the clutter around our logo to it make it more twopointohey.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:24:44 -0800

would that meet your definition of a blog? How 'bout my blog about the novelization of the movie Tron? I'd say it's "some kind of interface by which you are exposed to the personality of the person or people behind the website," like Chewbacca Blogs and Cats That Look Like Hitler.

By: blue_beetle

blue_beetle — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:25:19 -0800

Metafilter, I just can't quit you.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:51:12 -0800

"This should probably be in MetaTalk" Flagged as YouN00bFilter.

By: mediareport

mediareport — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 07:58:44 -0800

Better than most of these things; the presence of Pruned and We Make Money Not Art are great signs that make me want to check out the others I don't know. crispynubbins: a list that values corporate coffee gossip That's a bit of a mischaracterization of the Starbucks thing; it is from Romenesko, after all, and the tagline is "Monitoring America's favorite drug dealer." It's an odd combination of news reports about the company, official PR, manager/employee gossip and ordinary joes griping and praising - a strange mix, but I can see how "non-corporate coffee" folks would enjoy it. Plus, now I know how to make a ghetto latte.

By: Devils Rancher

Devils Rancher — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:04:06 -0800

Any blog list without Neddie Jingo on it is pure crap.

By: adamgreenfield

adamgreenfield — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 08:25:03 -0800

Typically, I am a "see also" - thus confirming my lifelong fear that I am personally a "see also." Sigh.

By: Alvy Ampersand

Alvy Ampersand — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:01:33 -0800

On the contrary, it's a great list of newish and little known niche blogs. -mathowie Aw, you're just saying that because he links to you in the 22nd entry. I honestly don't know how people can keep up with so many blogs - yes, even with the miracle of RSS. After I do my 'Filterverse rounds, there really aren't any other "must see" sites or blogs that compel me to visit regularly.

By: monju_bosatsu

monju_bosatsu — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:21:38 -0800

A little late there, blue_beetle.

By: ninjew

ninjew — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:33:24 -0800

I give up on MetaFilter at least 3 times. A day.

By: Navelgazer

Navelgazer — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 09:58:40 -0800

Meta-Metafilter

By: namespan

namespan — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:20:11 -0800

I went back to slashdot, too.

By: daq

daq — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 11:05:47 -0800

I still can't go back to slashdot. Namely because if there's ever anything interesting there, it gets on digg, and every macfanboi site on the net. Either that or one of my plethora of linux geek friends send me a link in a pgp encrypted e-mail. Which makes me smack them. How many people have internet burnout?

By: Smedleyman

Smedleyman — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:02:16 -0800

"Unlike the time you gave up on Slashdot, you eventually came back to Metafilter." = "If it weren't for my horse, I wouldn't have spent that year in college."

By: FissionChips

FissionChips — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 13:04:17 -0800

"How many people have internet burnout?" I get it regularly. Each time, the site that gets me hooked again is MetaFilter. I'm not sure what that says about my pattern of addiction.

By: Sparx

Sparx — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 16:22:46 -0800

Slashdot and /koffPlastic/koff lost me when $5 sign-ups began. Serves you right, matthowie, that's what happens when you ignore the forces of karma.

By: rex

rex — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 19:02:43 -0800

You silly Metafilterites. I list Metafilter every year on this list -- it's sorta like my in-joke to include the first online community where I started to really get it, and it was a big influence on other sites I started. And every year, there's always a snarkfest that follows. See ya next year!

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 21:51:22 -0800

We can't help but revel, rex. We get so few chances.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 22:54:10 -0800

Oldschoolers add that zesty tang to the internet, without which we'd all be, well, less zesty. And tangy.

By: Bael'Gar

Bael'Gar — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 07:59:43 -0800

[this is good]

By: meehawl

meehawl — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 19:57:33 -0800

How many people have internet burnout? I got that when the AOLers arrived. And then those green card bastards made it worse. Topical ointment relieves the burning.