The Top 10 Top Ten Lists

5 Responses | January 18th, 2007

Ok, can we all agree that everyone is tired of Top 10 lists already?  It was the K-Fed of Internet Trends.  Its 15 minutes are up and now it needs to go chill wherever old trends wait for VH1 to call them in 10 years.

To do my part to finally bury the List Post, one of my favorite Social Media tools of all time, I am going to reveal The Most Authoritative Top 10 List.  Ever.

You can’t argue that one.  200+ really smart PhD’s have scoured the entire crawlable Internet and brought you this list based upon the authority conferred upon it via YOUR citations. 

R.I.P. stupid list posts.  The Ultimate Guide is the new you. 

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  1. Commented by Cameron Olthuis at 18th January 2007, 7:18 pm

    I dunno, there was a lot of people claiming the death of the top 10 list last year, but if you look at the digg homepage on any given day they still clutter it.

    Personally I’m sick of them too, but I still see the occasional one that peaks my interest. I think they’ll be around for awhile.

  2. Commented by Brian Clark at 18th January 2007, 9:23 pm

    The list format has been around since your grandpa, and will still be around when you’ve got your own grandkids. :)

    And I think I may have started the “ultimate guide” thing… Andy Hagans took that one to heart and ran with it.

  3. Commented by TropicalSEO at 19th January 2007, 12:30 am

    A good artist borrows

    A great artist steals

  4. Commented by Hawaii SEO at 19th January 2007, 2:52 am

    Clever ;^)

  5. Commented by markus941 at 24th January 2007, 5:13 pm

    I’m with Brian. Top 10 lists were not created out of nor will they die with the Interweb or any “trend” therein like social media.

    In 5,000 BC cavemen used top 10 lists to lure other caveman so that they could eat them.

    In 2020 Letterman3000 will still beam “Top 10 ways to score gangledorfs from Suri Cruise” into our brains using Google waves(TM).

    We’re only somewhere in between.

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