Over the course of the several hundred posts here, I’ve made little attempt to keep my lack of interest in things like the A-list or the Technorati Top 100 a secret. I find them to be of little utility generally, as most of the conversations I’m interested in tracking are further out the Tail from the mainstream musings of the blogging elite. <\/p>\n
I was, however, very pleased when Friend of RedMonk Alex King<\/a> checked in at #104 on the Feedster 500<\/a>, right behind Jeremy Zawodny and three spots behind Larry Lessig, because it’s great to see the smart folks you know get recognized. <\/p>\n But imagine my surprise when I followed a link from Mini-Microsoft<\/a> this morning and discovered this<\/a>. I’m a bit unclear on how I ended up on a Top 100 list given my subject matter, but I appreciate the honor anyhow. Talk about august company; Bray, Mini-Microsoft, Schneier, Udell? All I can think is “I’m not worthy.” Here’s hoping the News.com folks don’t figure that out \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n Anyhow, this might not change my thoughts on the usefulness of these lists, but I’m sure not going to complain about this one.<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>: Forgot to say thanks to the News.com gang, so “Thanks!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Over the course of the several hundred posts here, I’ve made little attempt to keep my lack of interest in things like the A-list or the Technorati Top 100 a secret. I find them to be of little utility generally, as most of the conversations I’m interested in tracking are further out the Tail from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redmonk-miscellaneous"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/sogrady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}