In my lifetime I doubt I’ll ever see anything become as momentous as blogging. In just a few years, blogging has impacted government, commerce, and mainstream media in ways that neither will ever forget. As a blogging advocate who loves the power of the new medium and the act of blogging itself, I’m excited about the still unimaginable possibilities.

New York Magazine has a cover story called Blogs to Riches: The Haves and Have-Nots of the Blogging Boom that is supposedly causing controversy. The article is about the rise of blogging in general, with a focus on blog networks and gossip blogs and scant coverage of political or business blogging, my domains.

Business blogger Steve Rubel had some bad experiences with the “A-list, B-list” meme, and asks, Can We Stop with the A,B,Cs Already?:

The fact is that one reason this so-called inequity is covered ad infinitum is because marketers and media (bloggers included) still rely on old-school approaches to measuring the impact of this new medium. We’re trained as humans to look for the biggest apes in the jungle. However, that’s not how this Cluetrain world always works.

First of all there are bloggers that can come out of nowhere and join the so-called elite group of top-ranked bloggers. Look at TechCrunch. It is rapidly rising up the charts.

Second, a blogger with two readers can become a reader with thousands in an instant and then fall back down to zero and then back to thousands again two months from now - or never again. Does that mean he/she is unimportant? Not.

Finally, this so-called A-list changes constantly. Go back to 2002 and look at the list of top blogs. Many of these are no longer on the list. Does this mean they failed? Hogwash. We all live in the same yellow submarine and that’s the Court of Google - our judge and jury.

So, here’s a secret. The list doesn’t matter.