Liverpool beats the blogs
Champions League tonight: Liverpool vs. Arsenal. How good is it going to be? Well, how about "massive"? So says Arseblog, anyway. The web being the web, one comes across stuff serendipitously, and we came across this table of "Soccer Team Valuations" compiled by Forbes magazine last year. As you can see, Liverpool was valued at $454 million, far behind Arsenal, but keep that $454 million in mind when reading this article, which purports to present the "The Twenty-Five Most Valuable Blogs".
If you add them all up, what do you get? Not even $400 million, which makes the Liverpool FC valuation look good and the blog hype embarrassing. But it's even worse. David Galbraith has looked at the numbers and concluded that the list of "the supposed 25 most valuable blogs aint worth a dime". Ouch! The article is worthless, says Galbraith, and the blogs may be worth less, too.
Equally hollow was the list titled "The world's 50 most powerful blogs" published by the Observer at the beginning of March. The best thing about it is the added apology at the top. Otherwise, it's simply a lazy recycling and halving of Technorati's top 100 blogs. The Sunday Telegraph was on more solid ground when it published "The 101 most useful websites" at the weekend. The term "useful" is, at least, less ridiculous than "valuable" when applied badly to blogs and more, well, "useful" than "powerful" when applied carelessly to blogs. Let's see how useful Fernando Torres will be tonight. He is valuable and powerful, too.
