What, More Rankings?

Arrington and Scoble are amassing lists (manually, of all things) of various blogs subscribers at Google Reader.

I am (momentarily) at 43.

Rubel points out (via Twitter) that as more stats of the old media crowd pour in, the ‘pee wee league’ bloggers will be pushed out. Steve also makes the sensible observation that the long tail will rapidly be discerned (surprise), and that it might be more interesting to verticalize blogs, instead of lumping them all together.

My take: it’s just another go at the same thing. Yesterday we were talking about the meaningfulness of the the Techmeme Leaderboard, and Gabe scrambled to establish that that Top 100 List was legitimate, and the source of legitimacy is Google, leading to… another Top 100 List. Which will have more or less the same 100 sources on it.

Yawn.