According to The Times of London today anyway. A big disappointment for me was the lack of UK bloggers in here, especially in the technology section. No surprise to see Scoble still gets in there but there are some great UK & Ireland tech bloggers who I'd expect to see in the list from a UK paper.
They called out a lot of great blogs like Seth Godin, Richard Edelman and FakeSteve but the sign here for me is that more UK bloggers are needed from the blue chips and funnily enough I had this exact conversation with Rachel Elnaugh today. If I'd been advising Lord Browne of BP recently, I'd have told him to get a blog and use that to react back to the public mauling he took every week in the press. In that forum you have little opportunity to have your say but in the blogosphere, you can react back and tell your side of the story.
Come on Britain, lets not have to put up with a list that includes great blogs from Wal Mart, Dell, and General Motors. Surely our executives have something to say?
Who would you add to the list?
I'd add me :)
spot on Jamie - can't believe they didn't have you down!
It is a damned shame but I think the story will be different in 12 months time.
I'm seeing a lot more traction and desire to embrace both "web2.0/3.0/whatever" concepts and the use of blogging as an authority, trust and collaboration tool from our customers.
Its slow, frustratingly slow, but its gaining momentum and it would be interesting to explore how many "internal blogs" there are in organisations where people havent quite got the balls to go public yet...?
It's great to have the list to browse. At the same time, it has to be said, as the teacher used to write on report cards, The Times, at least its sub-editor header writers, can do better.
Evidently we have to infer the writer's assumptions and criteria for judging "best". This is the first such list I've seen where the process of judging and/or the criteria are not stated. I suppose The Times can do that :)
Just at random, for consistent, quality posts written in plain English so you don't have to be a geek to understand, it would be hard to beat Ireland's Krishna De's blog http://www.krishnade.com/blog/ Also, not from your region, but most lists I've seen where professional bloggers and keen blog readers get to vote feature Australia's Darren Rowse - http://www.problogger.net
And for an authoritative, well-written blog by one of the best-informed continental Europeans, it would be hard to go past Philippe Borremans' Conversation Blog - http://www.conversationblog.com/
And that's just blogs in English. What research has been done on blogs in German, Flemish, French, Chinese, Korean? I believe the answer is "not much at all".
Des - totally agree on ProBlogger. great site
off to check out Krishna's now
Steve