Awards Are Meaningless Except When They're Not

Despite charges that it simply wants to grab web traffic, Time.com has bravely gone ahead with its second annual list of the Top 25 blogs on the web. And guess who made the list? Yep. For the second straight year. We’d like to thank the Academy …
Seriously, we are flattered and thankful. Thanks especially to our excellent contributors and our readers, who are as engaged and engaging as any online readers I’ve come across. Here’s the complete list of Time.com’s top blogs and, at the end, its list of the five most overrated blogs. Would love to hear what you all think of these lists, especially from devotees of the “overrated” blogs.

Time.com’s Top 25 Blogs:
Talking Points Memo
The Huffington Post
Lifehacker
MetaFilter
The Daily Dish
Freakonomics
BoingBoing
Got2BeGreen
Zen Habits
The Conscience of a Liberal: Paul Krugman
Crooks and Liars
Generación Y
Mashable
Slashfood
Official Google Blog
synthesis
bleat
/Film
Seth Godin’s Blog
Deadspin: Sports News without Access, Favor, or Discretion
Dooce
Confessions of a Pioneer Woman
Said the Gramophone
Detention Slip
Bad Astronomy
Most Overrated:
TechCrunch
Gawker
Jim Cramer’s Blog
PerezHilton.com
Daily Kos: State of the Nation