{"id":1525,"date":"2007-07-05T15:41:58","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T19:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/05\/the-a-list-twas-ever-thus\/"},"modified":"2007-07-05T15:41:58","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T19:41:58","slug":"the-a-list-twas-ever-thus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/07\/05\/the-a-list-twas-ever-thus\/","title":{"rendered":"The “A-list” \u2014 ’twas ever thus"},"content":{"rendered":"

snipshot_e4cr3te6kb5.jpgHugh MacLeod of Gaping Void touched off a small avalanche of blogosphere debate with his post about the “death of the A-list”<\/a> today — an avalanche that was helped along by my blog pal Kent Newsome (who has written in the past about being on the “M-list”) with his hilarious “Declaration of Blogging Independence”<\/a>. Other thoughts on the topic include those from Rex Hammock<\/a> and Ben Yoskovitz<\/a>, as well as The Last Podcast<\/a>. But the best comments by far come from my friend Tony Hung at Deep Jive Interests, who makes the point that an A-list will always exist<\/a> — it’s just human nature (Tony has also posted some further thoughts on the subject over at The Blog Herald<\/a>). And it’s worth reading the comments on Tony’s DJI post and the ones at Hugh’s post as well. I think Hugh’s point is somewhat different than his headline implied. And if you need a succinct and, well… uncensored take on the whole issue, you could do worse than to check out Loren’s video<\/a> at 1938media.<\/p>\n

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Hugh MacLeod of Gaping Void touched off a small avalanche of blogosphere debate with his post about the “death of the A-list” today — an avalanche that was helped along by my blog pal Kent Newsome (who has written in the past about being on the “M-list”) with his hilarious “Declaration of Blogging Independence”. Other … <\/p>\n

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