Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon
Let’s agree here; finding your way on the blogosphere can be a taxing affair. That’s why I think that this chart, by Vanity Fair, is an awesome idea.
What they’ve done is illustrated the most noteworthy blogs about politics, gossip, Hollywood, and media, in a very clever manner.
So if you’ve ever wondered who are some of the people who are worth reading on the Internet, now you know. As Juan says, “Journalism caviar!”
Click here to view Vanity Fair’s Blogopticon.
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Comments
good find.
I wonder how many people have set that page as their homepage.. I think they’ve missed a trick in not adding a “Set as homepage” link.
justBcoz: Here’s hoping one of our local skilled designers picks this up and creates a local version!
thescott: totally! it would even be cool to allow users to add their own favourites. there’s room to grow the idea, even - as justBcoz suggests - for local usage.
[...] Gino Cosme commented on his blog last week that the blogopticon chart by Vanity Fair is ‘an awesome idea’. I agree. It’s often hard to tell whether a blog is based on news or opinion. VF’s blog chart basically divides America’s most widely-read blogs based on politics, the media and celeb gossip into four basic segments: scurrilous news; scurrilous opinion; earnest news; and earnest opinion. This makes it easy for the American public to determine whether the blogs they read contain a grain of truth, or whether they should simply be laughed off as an entertaining read. [...]
Very useful!
Would be nice to have a South African version of this …