Alex Muse had a very amusing idea: mix the Top XXX blog list meme and the self (serving) editing of a wiki, hence offering all bloggers the ability to be in said Top XXX list. The result: 43Best Blogs, a wiki’ed list in which anyone can claim a spot. The rule: there can be only 43.
Let me tell you: who is actually on the list does not matter, what is actually hilarious is to read through the history page since all edits are logged.
As a blogger who wants in, you have to make a conscious decision of which of the 43 names you are going to “nuke”, and which spot you are going to claim. I had an easy task: a Polish dude had claimed three spots so I took one for myself and one for Hornik (as sign of deference to the grand father of VC blogging). But I really LOL’ed when I saw that David Weinberger nuked TechCrunch (not that I mean single out David, who I respect) and a few other interesting “replacements”.
A very interesting social experiment indeed Alex.
Whoops, sorry FactoryJoe, you just got nuked my friend.