Okay, so we inserted the word 'ever', so it sounds like one of those dreaded Top 100 countdown shows loved so much by Channel 4 and Five here in the UK.
But the Telegraph website has today produced a list of the best 25 travel blogs on the web.
Good bits:
Well done to Travel Rants for making the list. No stopping the lad at the moment.
And, of course, to some of the other smaller, independent bloggers such as Brett Snyder (Crankyflier) and Paul Johnson (A Luxury Travel Blog).
Rubbish bits:
Well, in summary, it's either poor research or...something. Anyway...
Youtube is not a blog (the Telegraph calls it a videoblog).
Oh, and neither is Tripadvisor.
Or Cruisecritic.
The same goes for Wayn.com (which is primarily a social network)
I suppose it's a good idea for travellers to be aware of more travel sites but this is just irritating.
Travolution is devising a special chart for Christmas.
Top Ten Lazy Lists on National Newspaper Websites in 2008.
Argh, and they clean forgot Travellerspoint in the 'most popular sites where you can start a travel blog' list. Yet they included at least two really strange choices there (one of them being totally unknown)....
Of course I'm happy to be included, but I did think adding WAYN and You Tube was a little bizarre.
Yes, we mustn't take away from your achievement. But the rest of it, well.........
Not to mention the Lack of Travel Agency and Tour Operators Blogs on the list Kevin or even .........erm..........ohhh errr.........TWGroup Blogs.
Congratulations to Darren and Paul for flying the Flag. Mind you, best Travel Blogs in the World, Just how many millions did they visit?, and how long did it take them to read every one?
I've yet to read the best blog in the world, just as I've yet to discover the perfect destination in the World, although if it's South of Dover it's heading in the right direction.
Nice post...
Could I suggest:
Top Ten Useless Press Releases from Dumb Travel PRs who know nothing about the industry or their client please? :-)
Any other useless lists anyone??!
These Best Travel Blogs list are humorous to me, if there is one thing I have learned in 10 years of perpetual travels, there is other language than English. To use the word "World" it an title I feel we need to say, "English," or "German" or "French," however I am sure "Japan," and "Korea" have some great ones also. I do have to admit, about 80 percent of the world cannot travel because of Visa problems, however I know a person from Sweden who wrote a good Bike Blog, the maps alone made it interesting. Oh well, give readers a way to find interesting blogs. Thanks from Andy of HoboTraveler.com in Guatemala Travel Blog and Hotels
I don't think so that travel blog list is useless. Because some of them are very informative but not all.
Mohammad Zohaib Khan from Atlanta
This list has not been well researched and i agree that youtube and wayn cannot be ranked as blogs...... surely there must be a ranking for video blogs and social networks where these websites can ranked accordingly
I've yet to read the best blog in the world, just as I've yet to discover the perfect destination in the World, although if it's South of Dover it's heading in the right direction.
For the reasons above, the list is not worth a lot. Funny that it attracts other non-bloggers to post their non-blog's URL in a non-linked comment.
I will stick with the list on travel-rants.com, which is how I got here.
If they are rating the "blogs" on Tripadvisor or Wayn for the content they contain and how well they have been written then i dont really see the problem. Just because you don't host the site yourself or have control over the site styling doesn't mean it's not of value or worthy of merit.....
Just my two pennies worth