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Welcome to the C list

I had never head of Blogebrity, a blog devoted to the “celebrity” culture of blogs. That sounds waaaay too navel-gazing and meta for words, but since the whole project seems pretty tongue-in-cheek, I’m assuming the creators are doing it with a wink and a nod. The thing is, using some metric — I’m not sure which — they’ve created an “A List” of the most important bloggers, such as Andrew Sullivan, Clay Shirky and Ana Marie Cox. It’s sort of interesting reading the list, since it’s a combination of people who are famous for blogging, and people who were already famous and then decided to blog — which shows that the old media ain’t dead yet.

The Blogebrity folks also created “B” and “C” lists of less and less famous bloggers, and the whole reason I heard about the site is that this morning a friend discovered that I myself appear on the “C” list.

Does this mean I get to hang out with Tara Reid and shit?

UPDATE: I’ve just been informed that Blogebrity is not actually a real site, but a concoction designed to win the Contagious Media award. In which case I actually think it’s clever as hell!

(Thanks to Maura for this one!)


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I'm Clive Thompson, a writer on science, technology, and culture. This blog collects bits of offbeat research I'm running into, and musings thereon.

Currently, I'm a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine and a columnist for Wired magazine. I also write for Fast Company and Wired magazine's web site, among other places. Email or AOL IM me (pomeranian99) to say hi or send in something strange!

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July 28, 2010 » 07:35 AM
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July 06, 2010 » 10:05 AM

My Xbox broke, and I was trying to Google some possible technical solutions, when I noticed that Google appears to be encouraging me to make a typo. I suppose it’s possible that Google’s algorithms know that typing “wont” instead of “won’t” would produce better results.

June 29, 2010 » 05:00 PM

On the other hand, when I tried the test for multitasking, I was pretty abysmal. I performed worse than people who identify themselves as heavy multitaskers, and those who identify as low multitaskers.

June 29, 2010 » 04:58 PM

I finally got around to trying out the interactive “test your distractability and multitasking” page at the New York Times, which they put up alongside their story earlier this month about how computer distractions are eroding our lives. 

According to the test, I guess I have good focus — I’m not very distractable! 

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