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Time.com's Top 25 Blogs -- the one-page-version

As easy on editors as mindless lists are in print, they're even better online. Time.com has perfected the art with its "first annual blog index," cashing in the magazine's tastemaking reputation on a crassly effective pageview-generating effort. We're mostly jealous we didn't do it first. Fark.com's Drew Curtis sums it up: "That's the point — pick shit people don't agree with, generate controversy, SPREAD THE FUCKING THING OVER 50 PAGES WITH NO INDEX, profit." We suspect if Fark actually showed up on the list — nah, Curtis would still tell 'em they were hosers. Here, we'll make it easy for both you and Drew. Rather than clicking "next" two dozen times on Time's page, just read our one-page version below. That seems easier.

The Top 25 Blogs

The 5 Most Overrated Blogs

12:20 PM on Mon Apr 7 2008
By Jordan Golson
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Gabe Rivera at 12:41 PM on 04/07/08
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I Can Has Cheezburger is underrated.
categorically at 12:42 PM on 04/07/08
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Is this what happens when Time.com runs out of things to write about? Talk about blogging? Isn't there strife in Africa or some election to talk about instead. Morons.
$Image of Oh No I Di\'n\'t.$ Oh No I Di'n't. at 01:27 PM on 04/07/08
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Wait, so what's the basis for this list?
Tator Tot at 01:36 PM on 04/07/08
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Seriously, pull some blogs out of your ass, be sure to have some big named one's in there, and finish her off with a "reverse cowgirl." lame
Fidel on the Roof at 01:53 PM on 04/07/08
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@Oh No I Di'n't.: Seriously.

I guess if it were up to Time and their metrics, Wal-Mart would be the best store and Leno the funniest and smartest comedian.
Patricia2 at 02:46 PM on 04/07/08
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Time is so boring.
blue_j at 02:57 PM on 04/07/08
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I'm sure I could be convinced that I Can Has Cheezburger is overrated, Slashdot too. I don't think I could be convinced that either of them are blogs, though.
$Image of Oh No I Di\'n\'t.$ Oh No I Di'n't. at 03:20 PM on 04/07/08
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@Fidel on the Roof: Did Time magazine even use any metrics besides their ass (from whence they pulled this list from).
Rick at 07:28 PM on 04/07/08
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WIN, I don't read any of those
raincoaster at 07:57 PM on 04/07/08
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How can you overrate icanhascheezburger? I mean, who expects it to be the dialogues of Plato?
OaklandTechie at 09:21 PM on 04/07/08
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@raincoaster: I think you mean Socrates, but... yes.
OaklandTechie at 09:25 PM on 04/07/08
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@OaklandTechie: Oh never mind, the Plato Dialogs are about his conversations with Socrates.
Amit Agarwal at 09:50 PM on 04/07/08
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Why the double work when TIME itself published a one-page version of their list that also has average ratings for every blog.
shatteredmindofbob at 10:34 PM on 04/07/08
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I don't why people are so shocked that Time's readership would pick these. Most of the blogs on the list receive a big chunk of mainstream media attention, so they're the ones Time readers know about...
nat lyon at 08:25 AM on 04/08/08
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What? No Fleshbot?