New York Magazine on blogs

We're picking this one up partly because Engadget mainman Pete Rojas is on the cover (congrats, Pete!) and partly because of an interesting Technorati-sourced ranking of the current top 50 blogs.

Two points about the ranking: (1) There are nine blogs in "Japanese" (and more in Chinese; see below) in the top 50. Describing all of these that lack immediate visual clues as simply "In Japanese" or "In Chinese" is pitiful. Given that the top blogs in Chinese and Japanese are more popular than Kottke and Fark, why not ask someone with ability in the relevant language for a brief summary rather than dismiss? Also, guys, guessing the language that things are written in is equally shoddy; numbers 25, 27 and 33 are in Chinese, not Japanese.

(2) Manabe Kaori (or Kawori, as she'd have it), supposedly Japan's most popular blogger, looks to have been ousted from the top spot to more like 4th.

[New York Magazine: Linkology - How the Most-Linked-To Blogs Relate