Blogdaughter Boudicca of Boudicca's Voice said

What has this blog come to that IÂ’m carpet blogging? I am sure it is truly the most pathetic blogging around...

Most people put cat-blogging at the bottom.

Which makes me wonder... what IS the "quality blogging" hierarchy?

I'll take a stab at it. From highest to lowest:

1) Original news - breaking a story before the MSM
2) Competing news - covering stories that the MSM is ignoring
3) Original opinion - finding an angle on a news story that no one else has
4) Helpful advice - posting a piece containing a solution to a problem
5) Essay blogging - sharing a common opinion, but doing so in uncommonly good style
6) Story blogging - well-written original fiction
7) Life blogging - well-written true-life stories
Original humor - just making stuff up to make people laugh
9) Forwarded humor - re-posting something funny you found elsewhere
10) Hey! Look at this! - linking something interesting you found elsewhere
11) Memes
12) Quizzes
13) 24
14) American Idol
15) Carpets
16) Kids/Cats/Dogs/Hamsters/Ferrets and other critters that mess up carpets
17) WTF! OMG! RU serious? - Live Journal teen angst diary-posting heavily laced with IM abbreviations and/or dark, introspective poems about how painful life is.

Which is not to say that any of these are - by definition - not interesting. I'm just talking about perceptions of status.

You may bicker & second-guess in the comments.

Posted by: Harvey at 09:40 AM | Comments (16) | Add Comment
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1 Where does photo blogging rate?

Posted by: oddybobo at February 27, 2006 10:06 AM (6Gm0j)

2 American Idol - popular amongst Americans because it's a sure fire bet that an American will win. Winter Olympics - unpopular amongst Americans (and Brits) due to the Russians and Europeans winning everything. Hence AI trouncing Turin-a-thon in your ratings?

Posted by: Alex at February 27, 2006 10:50 AM (7vhJl)

3 Eh, well, I suck. All my blogging falls between #7 and 16... hamster blogging. But I happen to like some of my hamster blogging best as it usually involves some sort of chaotic mess that results in a pseudo funeral service with my handling a shovel in our pet cemetary. ;-)

Posted by: Bou at February 27, 2006 11:42 AM (iHxT3)

4 Nice list. I was feeling pretty good about myself (and averaging a 4) and even getting pretty smug about the fact that I've never mentioned either 24 or American Idol on the Yak until I hit #15 and 16 and realized that for a short time I blogged a few entries containing both the words "carpet" and "cat puke." At least I've never let the "send" button go down on my angst. Then again, yaks aren't exactly known for suffering from angst.

Posted by: The Random Yak at February 27, 2006 12:07 PM (H4MUq)

5 .. wait.. where do I fit in?... oh, and you left out drunk-blogging...

Posted by: Eric at February 27, 2006 02:04 PM (r5XsL)

6 Hmmm. Wonder what this says about your spawn? Since a few of us fit close to the bottom (though not the very bottom). ;-)

Posted by: vw bug at February 27, 2006 03:16 PM (wEbEm)

7 Eric... is... an... ellisis... blogger....

Posted by: Madfish Willie at February 27, 2006 05:11 PM (D2pBz)

8 ELLIPSIS.... fucking dumbass retarded typing finger!

Posted by: Madfish Willie at February 27, 2006 05:13 PM (D2pBz)

9 ... damn, Madfish.... Heidi Vodka..

Posted by: Eric at February 27, 2006 05:24 PM (r5XsL)

10 So how does cursing your own body parts rank on this list of blogging? *sidelong glace at Madfish Willie*

Posted by: ktreva at February 27, 2006 06:33 PM (e8b4J)

11 Ha! Gunblogging is at the very top of the list. Click.

Posted by: Peter at February 27, 2006 06:49 PM (Ffvoi)

12 Well sh*t, I didn't even make it on the list. :-)

Posted by: MathCog Idiocy at February 27, 2006 08:46 PM (fF4La)

13 WTF? Y U h8? Life sucks, so Y not blog?

Posted by: Ogre at February 28, 2006 09:40 AM (/k+l4)

14 Crap blogging!!! Has to be in the top five PS: Carpet is way more interesting than American Idol (except for the tryouts with all the really horrible people. That's some funny shit)

Posted by: Graumagus at February 28, 2006 01:34 PM (5u5N6)

15 Crap blogging kinda goes with "critters that mess up carpets"

Posted by: Harvey at February 28, 2006 02:55 PM (ubhj8)

16 American Idol needs to be moved up. I live to see who Simon makes cry each week. Kids and dogs need to be removed from ANYTHING that has the word cat in it. It's just not right. Well, especially the dogs. ROTFLOLPIMP!!! OMG at the Live Journal reference.

Posted by: Moogie at March 01, 2006 02:49 PM (wEYaf)

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