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About an hour ago, Glenn Reynolds posted, “HEY, I JUST NOTICED that I was nominated for a Weblog Award.“ His vote total has more than tripled.
It’s the same one for which OTB is nominated, so we’re falling even further behind. Better, I guess, than losing to a mommy blog or one that consists entirely of postcards.
Look at it this way, James; You got nominated.
A huge accomplishment of itself, the way I see it from down here.
It’s been a few years. Part of the problem is that my “authority” is much larger than my readership. I’m clearly not in the same class as Instapundit, or, apparently, the mommy blog in question in terms of traffic. We’re a hard blog to characterize, for that matter, in that we’re neither hard right nor even a purely political blog.
Political stance aside, I don’t get how Instapundit gained that level of recognition when he doesn’t even write anything.
Timing is important but that’s not the only reason. The high quality automated aggregators (like memeorandum) are actually pretty recent. Before those there were link aggregator bloggers and Glenn is the leader of that pack in the political blogosphere.
Instapundit is only popular because it was both very active and very early. If you started a blog now where 20 times a day you posted a talking point straight from Karl Rove, and then wrote “Heh, Indeed.” underneath it you’d get hardly any attention at all. It’s a really poor blog. Much lower quality than Washington Monthly, Kevin Drum, Dispatches from the Culture Wars, Balko, Andrew Sullivan, etc.
