Besting RCP -- awesome! Congrats.

Congrats Steve, very well deserved. I'd have put you higher but it's still pretty impressive that you bested most of the traditional media's blogs. Keep up the good work.

I have looked at most of the blogs on the top 50 list at one time or another. The Washington Note is far better than any of the other blogs on the list. The posts are usually smarter and the comments are usually smarter.

Many of the blogs on the list are just bad. Some like the Huffington Post, Kos and the Daily Dish are actually contemptible.

Steve shouldn't be just be proud at making the list, he should be annoyed that so many terrible blogs ranked above his.

But no matter, anyone who visits any of these sites regularly knows the truth; the Washington Note is number 1!

Thanks Tahoe, Karl, WigWag, and the rest -- I wouldn't call it
besting...but it still feels good.

As I said, I like all good blogs -- and am just happy that this has
made it on some radar screens.

More later -- I'll be watching Bush at 9.

Suggestion: You'll move even further up the rankings if you fire your (acting) webmaster and get a professional design with a functioning mechanism that doesn't make us repeat crapchas all day long. Go on. Upgrade yourself. You (and we) deserve it.

Well, Steve, I wouldn't worry too much about your ranking, given the apparent values of the people who made up that list.

The Huffington Post doesn't even seem like a genuine "blog" to me. It's more like an online tabloid newspaper, filled with infotrash, entertainment news and celebrity hijinks. The commentary mostly seems recycled from other places, in the same way opinion pieces are run off the wire at a newspaper, and a large percentage of those pieces are at a low, thoughtless, hack level.

I prefer blogs like yours, where I might actually learn something from people who have expertise in what they post about, whether that means you yourself or some of your excellent guests and associates.

The blogosphere, or at least the large mass of most-visited sites at the top of the blogospheric food chain, is a pretty dismal and debased place these days. There are very few blogs that are using the capabilities of the medium responsibly to advance the cause of human reason and knowledge. Most of it is an ugly, noisy wasteland. As someone who used to depend heavily on the blogosphere as a place to find viewpoints that were well informed, vital alternatives to the insipid conformity of the mainstream media, I now find myself clicking aimlessly from site to site to find something worth spending time on.

You may not have the graphics nor the quantity but you still manage to contribute clear, singular thoughts amid the growing clamor.

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I have to say though that while top ten would be better -- and congrats to Josh Marshall, Matthew Yglesias, Andrew Sullivan, Olliver Willis, Arianna Huffington, Henry Farrell and many others -- top 50 is still fantastic in my book.

I have looked at most of the blogs on the top 50 list at one time or another. The Washington Note is far better than any of the other blogs on the list. The posts are usually smarter and the comments are usually smarter.