Stephen Baker of BusinessWeek online has an interesting take on the A-list blogs controversy. Don't know what this is? Representative sample. In Mark Cuban: Create a different A list, Baker proposes creating a new blogging top-line to address the imbalance found in A-list blog rankings, caused by the many thousands of links built up by top blogs over the years. All we need now is a TV commercial: "I know - let's get Marky! He'll fix anything!" It helps if you have several billion to work with (plus a load of talent).
My take: If there is a market for such a service, someone will do it. In fact, it's already been done in the seedier side of the net industry. It might be nice to see a little more competitive oopmh in Western information markets, so maybe Cuban will take up the challenge.
I can't help noting that a huge portion of the A-list probably aren't blogs in the traditional sense - they're message boards, marketing sites, group publishing houses, and the like. As Cuban points out, not a bad thing - just different. The market will decide.
How does Baker's proposal differ from blogrolls, anyway?
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