Congratulations to Our ‘Bloggers Who Really Count’
We were thrilled to see several WordPress.com blogs — Eat Like a Girl, James Ramsden, Inspector Gadget, and Stilettoed Socialist — make the list of The Times article “40 bloggers who really count.”
On Eat Like a Girl, The Times noted the blog’s unique approach to cooking, stating “if you’re after a recipe for slow-roast wild boar belly, look no further.” The newspaper also praised fellow food blogger James Ramsden for writing about “cooking handsomely on a budget.”
Inspector Gadget was dubbed “invaluable” for providing “insight into life on the policing front line in 2010″ and Stilletoed Socialist was hailed as the “poster girl for political social networking.”
Additionally, two WordPress VIP blogs were honored: Guido Fawkes’ blog and TechCrunch.
Congratulations to all of you, and keep up the great work! (And of course, we think ALL our bloggers count, but we’re always happy for these special accolades nonetheless.)
May 14th, 2010 at 3:41 am
wow, congratulations to everyone!
it’s worth the hard work building up your blog, I think, haha~ XD
and this also encourage me to work more on my blog…! ^__^
May 14th, 2010 at 4:03 am
Wow, good stuff!!! Congrats all around!
May 14th, 2010 at 4:29 am
Congrats to the 4 and I wish them continued success!
May 14th, 2010 at 4:29 am
Congratulations to all winners! You should be proud!
May 14th, 2010 at 4:41 am
Are you searching in other dailies around the world that published articles from wordpress.com? I was wondering if a new category can be pondered upon such as “Most steady blog” and the required corresponding criteria such as minimum weekly posts published and minimum daily hits or a combination of both and other criteria. I am sincerely interested to read steady bloggers since they read a lot to be able to publish steady.
May 14th, 2010 at 4:58 am
Totally awesome! Well done, all.
May 14th, 2010 at 5:06 am
Congratulations all!!!…gives us something to shoot for!
May 14th, 2010 at 5:16 am
Wow guys. Congratulations, that’s terrific!
May 14th, 2010 at 5:18 am
It’ll be a bigger number if you consider other countries. Congrats WordPress. ^_^
May 14th, 2010 at 5:23 am
Congratulations! Nice news. WordPress is powerful technological platform…
and Thanks Team for the support to those Bloggers.-
May 14th, 2010 at 5:26 am
Keep up the good work. Congrats!
May 14th, 2010 at 5:26 am
It is a pity that only English blogs were considered. Please remember many bloggers who are not using English also count.
May 14th, 2010 at 5:34 am
Congratulations to you all, you must be very proud of your work.
May 14th, 2010 at 5:44 am
That’s amazing! Congratulations to you all!
May 14th, 2010 at 5:52 am
CONGRATULATIONS!!!
I’ll get there someday…watch out for me
JK – Good Job Guys!
May 14th, 2010 at 6:14 am
Thats amazing, I hope to be on a list like that someday. <3
May 14th, 2010 at 6:30 am
Congratulations to all 6 of you awesome bloggers! Keep up your good work. I might check them out one day when I have the time.
Congratulations to WordPress too for making their (and the thousands of others) come true
May 14th, 2010 at 6:38 am
Wow, awesome.
Congratulation guys…
Keep blogging and sharing
May 14th, 2010 at 6:41 am
awesome your great guys… share what you’ve got.. that makes your self proud to us…
May 14th, 2010 at 6:42 am
Congrats to the blog owners on their hard work and dedication. I’d like to make that list, one day, myself.
Again, congratulations to all involved.
Regards,
WonderGoon
May 14th, 2010 at 6:45 am
Congratulations to all including the WordPress Team for this wonderful achievement.
May 14th, 2010 at 6:50 am
BRAVO TO ALL !!
May 14th, 2010 at 6:56 am
I thought the world revolved around me. Oh well.
May 14th, 2010 at 7:13 am
@ Raincoaster. Sorry, I’ll try harder in future if you give me another chance.
May 14th, 2010 at 7:29 am
This is inspiring!
Congratulations!
May 14th, 2010 at 7:32 am
I hear Time’s coming out with an article next week called Bloggers Who Don’t Count at All. It’ll be a thousand pages thick and I’m top of the list.
May 14th, 2010 at 7:48 am
Wow how wonderful. Congrats
May 14th, 2010 at 8:27 am
congratulations i’m happy for you !!!
May 14th, 2010 at 8:29 am
Congrats! x
May 14th, 2010 at 8:39 am
Congrats to all 4 above! From the heart! Also I think it’s time to start considering on giving the same opportunities to Spanish speaking bloggers, too!
May 14th, 2010 at 9:10 am
This is great recognition, but by extension the Times article suggests that the rest of us don’t really count. We all count – we all make our contribution in one way or another. I second Tracy Leigh Ball when she wishes “everyone great success in wordpress.com not just the featured people.” After all, as she say, “We all have a great story to tell!!”
May 14th, 2010 at 9:18 am
Great! congrats
May 14th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Congratulations and thanks to WordPress.com for providing such a wonderful platform and community. ’tis a good place to belong.
Djr
May 14th, 2010 at 9:48 am
Congrats all four of you!! Keep up the good work and keep rocking!!
Happy to be a fellow blogger at WP and to know that WP has made it to the Time list of bloggers!!
Cheers everyone!
May 14th, 2010 at 9:59 am
congrats guys!
May 14th, 2010 at 10:04 am
Glad to hear it… WP is still the best and truly innovative blogging platform!
May 14th, 2010 at 10:08 am
That’s awesome. Congrats to these bloggers for getting some well-earned recognition.
May 14th, 2010 at 10:42 am
congratulations, nice to see that they’re being appreciated!
May 14th, 2010 at 11:19 am
Congratulations to all! I can’t wait to check out these amazing blogs!!!
May 14th, 2010 at 11:25 am
congrats! Can you tell what are criterias to be “BLoggers who really count”?? Thanks
May 14th, 2010 at 11:27 am
That is so huge an honor.. Congratulations to all of you.. Blogging is usually associated with Ranting (yeah I am serious). Its really wonderful to see everyone making an effort to scrape off the myth..
I am a newbie and yet wish to reach there someday soon..
Cheers..
May 14th, 2010 at 11:45 am
congrats for the four !
May 14th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Nice job! Your hard work and creativity paid off! Really liked the theme for the James Ramsden one and will try it out on my own blog.
May 14th, 2010 at 11:57 am
Congrats guys, awesome blogs. Keep up the great work.
May 14th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
wow congratulations to these fellow wordpress bloggers! i really admire talented writers!
May 14th, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Well my blog might not be among the top 40 in The Times, but at least it has made it into the Top 15 Bioinformatics Blogs in 2010
May 14th, 2010 at 12:56 pm
Congratulations! Great accomplishment.
May 14th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Congrats, that’s a great achievement!!!
May 14th, 2010 at 1:05 pm
Fantastic news! Congratulations to all of you. Perhaps your good luck will rub off on some of us who are in this to raise money for a good cause, like the Christopher Reeve Foundation. Keep up the good work!
May 14th, 2010 at 1:21 pm
Well, hats off to you all… I know, as well as the umpteen number of other bloggers, how difficult it can be at times to keep up a good blog. For me, it’s just making my target of 1000+ words per day (personal goal). I commend everyone. Maybe one day, it’ll be my turn to shine!
May 14th, 2010 at 1:29 pm
Congrats! WordPress is indeed a great place.
May 14th, 2010 at 1:50 pm
Sad to see that there are only 40
I am sure there are more and even better ones, but the noise to signal ratio on the web is too high to detect these.
May 14th, 2010 at 1:58 pm
Blogging is a liberal form of the media come to stay and to impress.
May 14th, 2010 at 2:16 pm
Keep the good work! I love wordpress!!
May 14th, 2010 at 2:46 pm
Congratulations….
This is very encouraging for all those who think: “A Free Blog provided by wordpress.com is useless” This perception should be changed after seeing this newsletter.
Again Congratulations on appearing in the Top 40.
Kind regards,
The PMP Guru
May 14th, 2010 at 2:55 pm
Great work!
May 14th, 2010 at 2:59 pm
This is super! Congratulations to the “lucky winners”!
May 14th, 2010 at 3:14 pm
That is amazing, and congratulations to these bloggers! It’s wonderful to see that when folks follow their passions, great things happen!
jane
May 14th, 2010 at 3:48 pm
Congrats to the winners and thanks Joy to connect with them.
May 14th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Oh fantastic well done guys!!!
I love blogging and all that comes with it!
May 14th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
another example of why WordPress is best!
May 14th, 2010 at 4:40 pm
Ah, nice to know. Congratulations
May 14th, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Congrats to those bloggers!! Awesome!!
May 14th, 2010 at 4:53 pm
Joy Victory, I think you could have delicately pointed out that “The Times” is a um, well . . a British publication. I think our bloggers count for a little more here in the US of A, don’t you?
May 14th, 2010 at 5:08 pm
Good on them, good on us, good on wordpress.com
May 14th, 2010 at 5:42 pm
Yes, great work. Congrats to all. Only been on wordpress for a few days but already my eyes are being opened. Cheers!
May 14th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Thats awesome! Congratulations on a job well done.We want to do more because of you.
May 14th, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I hope I can make it up there soon!!!
May 14th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
Great! How did we live before blogging?
May 14th, 2010 at 7:55 pm
Wow, that’s awesome! Congrats to those bloggers.
May 14th, 2010 at 8:05 pm
Congratulations to these writers. Glad to “rub shoulders” with them.
May 14th, 2010 at 8:22 pm
Congrats Fellow Bloggers! =D
May 14th, 2010 at 8:35 pm
Very Cool. Congrats!
May 14th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
big ups to all great and not so great bloggers
we all do as much as we can! keep it up!
May 14th, 2010 at 10:38 pm
So many great blogs, so little time to read them. Being a specialist Amateur Radio blogger my readership will never match these mainstreamers but WP can give anyone their 15 minutes of frame. Carry on blogging! Well done to those that are a cut above the rest.
May 14th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
I smell book deal for EAT LIKE A GIRL… Good show !
May 14th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
Wow! CAN I HAVE YOUR AUTOGRAPH? *ahem* Congrats!
May 14th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
rock on fellow wordpressers!!!
May 14th, 2010 at 11:44 pm
Awesome! Kudos! And a great big thanks to WordPress for providing a forum for us bloggers.
May 15th, 2010 at 12:34 am
That’s awesome! Congratulations all.
I’ve only been blogging for about a month and I have to say that, “I love being a part of this entire world of shared knowledge and stories that just 6 weeks ago I knew nothing about. It’s been an honest-to-God trip down the rabbit hole.
May 15th, 2010 at 1:30 am
I love this Blogging community. Its not about competition it’s about sharing and learning and helping everyone achieve their individual goals. Congrats to those at the top for being leaders.
May 15th, 2010 at 8:48 am
Your auspicious journey amplifies my spirit.. Now I am hankering to be wielded here
May 15th, 2010 at 9:13 am
Thanks to you all for the kind comments
May 15th, 2010 at 9:51 am
Congratulations! I hope I could join these ranks one day
May 15th, 2010 at 9:55 am
Congratulations to those who were recognized. You are examples to the rest of us.
May 15th, 2010 at 12:22 pm
Yet another reason why I think WordPress rocks! Congrats to all of these amazing bloggers
May 15th, 2010 at 12:36 pm
Does that mean the rest of us don’t count…?
May 15th, 2010 at 1:31 pm
Hehhe, I agree with Staci, I am jealous but glad to be part of the blogging community.
May 15th, 2010 at 2:04 pm
I am happy when I receive a positive comment on my blog, so I can only imagine what you are feeling since the four of you were chosen. I am sure your blogs deserved it. Congrats!
May 15th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
congratulations you all…we know what this sort of a praise means to a blogger…keep up the good work
May 15th, 2010 at 2:10 pm
That is really great! Congratulations to all of them!
May 15th, 2010 at 2:13 pm
Congratulations! Wonderful job!
May 15th, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Dude, I count too… no matter what TIME says -.-
May 15th, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Time’s “40 bloggers who really count.” isn’t a comprehensible list so no need to celebrate according to me “Scripting News” by Dave Winer and “louisgray.com” by Louis Gray are best blogs!
and hey there folks do Time have enough expertise to just doll out a list from thousands of blogs! it’s time we should stop celebrating the brand names and just focus on quality!
though congratulations to those who have been noticed and celebrated!
It would be rude if i didn’t say something nice about selection of these wordpress bloggers and their blogs!
May 15th, 2010 at 3:49 pm
That is inspiring. Just a little more effort, David and you can reach for the stars…..
May 15th, 2010 at 3:51 pm
Congrats to all! And thanks to WP for providing a great place for us to “show and tell”!
May 15th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Congradulations to you four! I need to try harder on all my blogs. You guys r awesome! LOL XD!!!
bye bye! 
May 15th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
Congratulations! What I wanna know is “how do they do it?” I can’t even get my own family to view my blogs
)
May 15th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
Ok! I’m changing the name of my blog to:
Eat like a Guy!
perhaps appropriately:
Eat like a Pig!
lets see if that helps!
