» The AdAge Power150 Needs Serious Rethinking
Ok, ok. You’re probably on the Top 150 list that AdAge started publishing a few months ago. It’s supposedly a “who’s who” of Communications bloggers based on a ranking system — a metric, if you will. And like any other metric you have to ask “What are we trying to measure?” and then “What is the purpose is of measuring?”.
Let’s answer the first question first:
If it’s only to point out the top blogs based on a few manipulatable metrics like Google PageRank, Bloglines feed subscribers and,…