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Bloglines 3/05

Top 50 RSS feeds of those over 5,000 subscribers on Bloglines
March 2005
1. Slashdot
2. Wired News
3. Boing Boing
4. Dilbert
5. Gizmodo
6. Google's Blog
7. Engadget
8. The New York Times (Main Page)
9. Joel on Software
10. Quote of the Day
11. CNet News
12. Scientific American
13. The Register
14. A List Apart
15. Salon
16. BBC News (World Edition)
17. Kuro5hin
18. Techdirt
19. BBC News (Technology)
20. The New York Times (Technology)
21. Slate Magazine
22. Snopes
23. PC Magazine (New Products)
24. Cool Tools
25. Dictionary.com's Word of the Day
26. Google's Blog Live
27. Lessig's Blog
28. Zeldman
29. Scobleizer
30. Ars Technica
31. Metafilter

Biggest Gainer: Engadget rose from #8 to #7
Biggest Faller: Zeldman fell from #26 to #28
Top Ten Trends: Engadget climbs again for the third straight month this time displacing the New York Times.  Joel on Software again rises to #9, now ahead of Quotes of the Day.
Biggest Debut: #26 Google's Blog Live
Another good month for tech blogs. 4 out of the 5 debuts are by industry insiders and the like.  Only "Best of the Web" Metafilter represents something other than tech focused blogs.
Gainers: Engadget, Joel on Software, Scientific American, A List Apart, Slate and Cool Tools. (4 tech blogs and 2 general interest)
Losers: New York Times, Quotes of the Day, The Register, Salon, Snopes, Dictionary.com Word of the Day and Zeldman. (2 tech blogs and 5 general interest.)

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine by Jimmie Rodgers (#8 in 1957)

With thanks to John Sams. An OK country/rock 50s song except for the preposterous lyrics. Where in the Bio book does it say:

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine => Twins or Four Children or Eight Grandchildren

?

This song spans in under 2:30 from a young lad never been kissed (and how does he know what wine tastes like then? Communion?) to and old man at the end of his life. I think the real secret to these kisses lies in their ability to compress time and space. There's probably a sci-fi movie there.

Great Balls Of Fire by Jerry Lee Lewis (#2 in 1958)

Jerry Lee Lewis was supposed the inherit the kingship from Elvis before Jerry's little mishap. First, he wrote his own stuff. Second, he was a southern boy. Third, he recorded three of the most blistering workouts of early rock. Aaah, but he got into trouble when rock didn’t need scandal. And instead the next big thing was Ricky Nelson. Good gracious, I don’t need to tell you that this song is so good. You almost can’t keep up with Jerry just singing. Classic and the grandfather of every “Baby/Crazy” ever.

Baby/Crazy

At The Hop by Danny & The Juniors (#1 in 1958)

This song connects the first movement of rock and roll (close harmony groups like The Crew Cuts and The Silhouettes) with the second movement (defined as the “Stupid Dance Movement” that includes Chubby Checker and The Orlons and their ilk). It provides the perfect bridge. So perfect in fact that Danny & The Juniors were never heard from in the top ten again. A great song that’s about nothing but dancing, which is fine but imagine a song today about “In Da Club” or something. I mean it just wouldn’t work...