What top blogs?

Okay,  I'll bet you always wanted to know the top blogs on the web.  You know the absolute best, most read, most talked about, most everything blogs.   And, I'll bet you thought they were about earth shattering topics -life, love, death, and the pursuit of happiness, that sort of thing?

Well, it's my sad task to tell you that of the top 10 blogs, by number of fans, all but one is about technology or making money on the web.  The 10th is actually kind of interesting.  It's the one by a fellow who gets post cards sent to him, from people all over the world with secrets on them.  The cards are sent anonymously, and they can be funny, sad, scary or just plain silly.  He then posts them on the web, puts them in a book, and runs around the country doing book signing lectures and showing them off.  Fellows name is Frank Warren, and if you've got a secret you too can become famously anonymous. 

Now, if, instead, you rank them based on 'authority' which is the number of links into a site, then surprise, surprise Arianna Huffington's news site comes out number 1, followed by all those technology blogs, a political blog or two, and one about cat photos.

What's a bit odd is that Arianna is one of only a few women (and some Republicans dispute her sex) to reach the top.  That's strange because women now make up more than half of the web surfers, and, according to the latest Internet wisdom, are more likely to read and write blogs.  But, it's not so strange when you realize that the vast majority of the online mainstream audience don't have access to blogging tools.  And by access I mean a sort of psychological access - don't know what websites to go to, don't really trust it all that much, and are discouraged to find out that the tools are all a pain in the neck.  

So, for now we'll have to suffer through reading all about the latest technology by a bunch of white guys.   By the way, want to know the 100th blog, the last one, the one with nowhere to go but up?  It's called VentureBeat and it's about venture capitalism.ooh, that's fun.

Just so I don't leave you on a downer,  or have y ou believe I can't include the cute thing, here's the cat blog -cat pictures with captions.

I mean mainstream media gets criticized for not being more relevant, sure can't ding the blogosphere