Blogging popularity contest?

I found a couple of interesting references to the Irish Blogs topsite/list I launched the other day via technorati
Some people are very positive about my latest little project, whereas others seem to think it a waste of time 🙂
Youngirelander seems to be missing the point entirely. Nobody ever said it was intended to be a list of every single Irish blog and nobody is going to lay any doubt on how popular some blogs maybe.
If you don’t have the tracking code how is anybody meant to know how popular your blog is?
There is no universal way to rank any website’s popularity using a uniform third party system.
Alexa, for example, can give some information, but it is restricted to reporting information reported by users of their plugin.
Maybe some of us seem to have a fixation with Google PR, technorati and other things, but that might be because we work in an industry where those things count.
If you aren’t interested in them and don’t want your site listed then nobody is going to force you.
As I’ve already pointed out the toplist cannot track certain things at present, such as RSS feeds.
Does that render it worthless? I don’t think so, but you are entitled to your own opinion.
I think my original post announcing the site explains why I set it up.