The World’s 50 Most Powerful Blogs?

Published by Stephen | Filed under Blogging

A few weeks ago the Observer Magazine ran an interesting article detailing the world’s 50 most important blogs and the people behind them. The magazine has been sitting on my desk since then. The cover star is Nick Denton of Gawker Media fame. Nick was listed in last years Sunday Times Rich List at number 502, with a personal fortune of £140m. On the cover of the Observer Magazine Nick is pictured relaxing, shoeless, on a black leather sofa. Each time I see the picture my eyes are drawn to his grey socks and I know not why! But the time has come for me to clean up my desk, so it is time to transpose the list from the magazine to the site and remove the image of Nick Denton’s grey socks from my memory bank!

The World’s 50 Most Powerful Blogs (according to The Observer Magazine)

1. The Huffington Post
2. Boing Boing
3. Techcrunch
4. kottke
5. dooce
6. Perez Hilton
7. Talking Points Memo
8. icanhasacheezburger
9. Beppe Grillo
10. Gawker
11. The Drudge Report
12. XU Jinglei
13. Treehugger
14. Microsiervos
15. TMZ
16. Engadget
17. marbury
18. chez pim
19. Basic Thinking
20. The Sartorialist
21. Students For A Free Tibet
22. Jezebel
23. Gigazine
24. Girl With A One Track Mind
25. Mashable
26. Greek Tragedy
27. Holy Moly
28. Michelle Malkin
29. Cranky Flier
30. Go Fug Yourself
31. Gaping Void
32. DirtyDirtyDancing
33. Crooked Timber
34. Beansprouts
35. The Offside
36. Petite Anglaise
37. Crooks And Liars
38. Chocolate And Zucchini
39. Samizdata
40. The Daily Dish
41. The F Word
42. Johnny B’s Private Secret Diary
43. Pop Justice
44. Waiter Rant
45. Hecklerspray
46. WOW Insider
47. Angry Black Bitch
48. Style Bubble
49. After Ellen
50. copyblogger

Click here to read the full article (which details the people behind the blogs).