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Beggin for Love in the Blogosphere
Author: Jenn, Category: Work
It seems it’s time for nominations to Michael Stelzner’s list of the “top ten blogs for writers.” This stuff always makes me cringe.
Let me preface the bitching with this:
I love Stelzner to bits. He’s one of very few people I ever defended over at NakedPR.com after a little incident of comment censorship. Looking back at that post (where you’ll find my disdain of top ten blog lists is nothing new), I suppose this post is my “choosing to cast stones later.”
On to business…
In this post I’m not going to rip into Michael (What can I say? The guy got lucky again!). Instead, I’m going to rip into all of the little me-me-me BS posts coming from the bloggers in the writing niche (one that I’m very active in myself, so I take it personally when I see otherwise decent bloggers slumming it up).
What royally pisses me off is when these “nominate your favorite blah f*ity blah” things come up, and bloggers in the niche (big and small) start coming right out and asking their readers to nominate them.
IT’S PATHETIC!!!!!!!
The funny thing is that most of the ones doing it that I’ve seen already don’t need to! But it’s like a game - since so many of them share the same reader base it’s a matter of who can whore themselves out with the “Look at me! Look at me!” crap to the most eyes before anyone else (since readers can only nominate one blog).
I don’t know. I’m so annoyed by the behavior from folks I actually respect - no, I’m disgusted - that I can’t even rant properly anymore - probably because this is right on the heels of the most ass-backwards bullshit PRWeek blog competition. In that case, I lost respect for someone I was finally starting to appreciate (he’s back on my industry shit list for now), gained more respect for someone I’ve loved in the industry since college, and was at least thoroughly amused by the self-promotion and false modesty of two of the worst drunkards in the PR blog party. But that my friends is not for here and now (god I miss my PR blog).
If you want to know more about my thoughts on rankings, you can read more about the various types that I’ve ripped to shreds (or at least poked some holes in with a blunt object) here:
- Blog Censorship: Where do You Draw the Line?
- Social Media Index is a Joke
- Alexa and the Power 150: What are they Thinking?
Things like this make me feel like the entire blogosphere really just deserves to implode. I think all the inflated egos kill any shot of that happening.
And I thought the politicians were bad….
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