All change for the A list

I wrote the other day that for as long as I could remember the top gun as far as blogs were concerned was Boing Boing. For some reason the Technorati popular blogs page appeared on Techmeme today so, whilst my plan this weekend includes culling some of the blogs I read because I feel obliged to read them rather than because I'm truly interested, I thought I'd check out the current Top 100 list to see what was going on in the world of the A list.

I got one major surprise from looking at the current list - Boing Boing has lost it's mojo. It's no longer the most linked to blog. Engadget has stolen the top slot!

I noted that TechCrunch has basically come out of nowhere and joined the Top 10 in a little over a year. Congratulations to Mike Arrington, even though I have to confess that TechCrunch is top of my hit list for the weekend cull of my subscriptions.

I further noted that leaving Microsoft hasn't harmed the Scobleizer's mojo, at least so far.

I'm curious why gapingvoid isn't higher up the list. I'm a great fan of Hugh MacLeod's work.

Dave Winer looks like he's about to fall from the A list, he's currently hanging on in there at number 100, but I fear that he'll have to hand over his key to the gate before too long.

I counted up that I read 5 of the top 10 blogs and 19 of the Top 100. Looking over the current list the only blog that stood out as one I should consider subscribing to is ze frank. We could all do with more laughter in our lives, no?

Tags: Technorati, Top+100, blogs, blogging