It’s the 2007 Top Blog Lists Awards Dec 18, 2007

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Blogs are totally awesome. Here are some of my favorite (top) lists from this year that I stumbled upon this year:

1. 5 Tips to Make Firefox Faster

   In this masterful blog item you’ll find awesomely unrelevant information that makes Firefox act faster. If you still use a version old enough. And are asshole enough not to realize even the minority of Firefox users bombing a server with excess requests is kinda lame.

   I think this is a bit like that urban legend about coloring the sides of a CD green. People like rituals.

2. Firefox Make Faster Tip 5

   More tips… no wait, it’s the same list of tips (or rather one tip in a few steps) from 2004.

3. Top 50 Firefox Extensions

   Now we are getting to something vaguely useful. Though, if you just went to http://addons.mozilla.com/ and looked at the most downloaded add-ons or something, you’d get the same list. You can copy the descriptions too.

4. Faster 5 Make Tip Firefox

   Sometimes I wonder if there’s a depository you can sell a blog post idea and from which some blogwhore can buy posts. Or, does the seedy underbelly of teh blogosphere just copy?

5. Firefox Faster 5: Tip Make

   Yes?

6. Top 100 Firefox Extensions

   Ok, this list takes a bit more effort. However, these kinds of lists are still stupid: they’re mostly subjective and also list mostly very well-known extensions. They should instead try to make some effort to group the extensions into something a subgroup of Firefox users would find useful. Just a thought.

7. 5 Foxfire Tip! Faster Make: The Video

   Great. The same tip but with video quality so low you don’t have any idea what is happening. At least there is some effort.

Ok, I’ll stop writing the list here. A whole complete category are near-useless tips for various software that basically are copied from the documentation. While I can always appreciate education, it’s merely lame to do so for cash.

The funny thing is that while I routinely thumb these down on SU, they just keep coming. It’s probably because there are about million of these “written” every day. Which means it’s profitable. Which means probably a ton of people blindly follow the advice. Which sounds a bit dangerous.

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