A-Listers Criticized by Non A-Listers

Posted on January 31, 2006

Here is a roundup of some of the latest criticism of some of the A-list bloggers.

My Name is Kate blasts posts by a-list bloggers Shel Israel and One by One Media for attacking the new McDonald's Blog that recently launched:

Holy crap. Will people just get over themselves? If they had hired B.L. Ochman or Hugh from Gaping Void would you then cut them some slack? If they ordered copied of Naked Conversations for everyone would that change your opinion?
Have any of you ever worked for a company larger than your little consulting firm or start-up? No big corporate entity is going to do it RIGHT the first time out. Or the second. Or maybe even the third. But they are trying and they will contribute to the evolution of the blogosphere.

Blue Fish Networkon the Blogonomics cruise: "So, I'm afraid the thought of spending five days on a cruise ship with some A-listers fills me with dread! Yes, I'm being brutally honest here folks. Maybe as an independent network owner I should be spending more time attending events like this - but personally I'd prefer to use those five days to build my network relationships, and produce and encourage great content."

Media Orchard is critical of Steve Rubels post about how he gets a lot of "please 'link to me' emails" like Robert Scoble and his advice for getting noticed by the "top-tier blogs" by using "the smaller blogs as stepping stones that help you get 'coverage' on the larger ones."

Know More Media has a blog called AListReviewbut it needs a writer. The blog plans to create an a-list of its own: "We will be maintaining our own list, but we will be making that list from sites such as Blogebrity - The List or Technorati's Top 100 Blogs."

The biggest period of a-lister criticism was last summer during the Blogher conference when it was noted by several blogs that the A-lists contain few women bloggers.