Thanks again Ann! Like I told you, I started out the list for my own enjoyment mainly, if anyone else can get some benefit/enjoyment out of it as well, all the better!

I've been very impressed with the PASSION that you have to make Daily Fix grow, and the time you spend actually going out to other blogs and connecting with other bloggers. This is SUCH an important step that so many bloggers never consider, but it works wonders.

And your passion is contagious! Thanks again for the kind words and the opportunity to be here!

Why I remember Mack from back in the day! He and I would trade links on this that or the other thing. Then this young whipper-snapper goes and gets himself a job HERE and gets all full of himself.

Seriously, Mack's lists have been more interesting to read than the stock tickers. I think it's a real snapshot of who's guiding the conversations and, as you say, is a far site better than Technorati.

And Chris fails to mention that he's the one getting all the free swag from movie studios and invitations to pen columns for the LA Times!

BTW I noticed that Alexa has finally figured out that Movie Marketing Madness moved to its own domain, and they have started ranking MMM. I'm sure it will only be a few weeks before it's up in the Top 25 as well!

Where it belongs, of course!

A bit off topic, but vaguely related. A friend of mine who is a corporate attorney had this observation after reading a few advertising blogs:

"I've notice that overall your industry's sites are better written than most. But you guys spend an awful lot of time attacking each other. Why so bitter?"

Kind of scary coming from the legal profession.

Wow—excellent resource. I love the top 25 idea (good work Mack). And it's so true about bloggers making online connections. It certainly opens up new worlds and helps broaden perspectives. Thanks for this piece Ann.

David that's been the huge benefit of blogging for me, the chance to meet and get to know so many simply amazing people that I would otherwise likely never get the chance to talk to. I don't think people that aren't bloggers understand just how much of a vibrant community the 'blogosphere' really is.

Mack said: "I don't think people that aren't bloggers understand just how much of a vibrant community the 'blogosphere' really is."

That's the value of Mackey's "top 25" list, since it offers a starting point. And by the way, I'd count myself in that bunch of non-bloggers, a mere few months ago. The truth is that it's a rich and vibrant community; the challenge is that we don't just talk to each other -- but reach a wider audience.

Wow, in only a week, I have stumbled across Ann and Mack more times than any time int he last year!

You must be doing something right the both of you!

Mack, congrats on the ever-increasing popularity of the blog and Ann, keep it going with the Marketingprofs...it is now an essential daily read for me now (giving me even LESS time in the day to actually do something which contrbutes to my income!!!)

Mack, see you on gapingvoid!

LOL! Hey Paul, I'll look for you at GP, and maybe I'll see you here, or at The Viral Garden, heck I might even see you at Blending the Mix ;)

Hi Paul -- Funny meeting you here...!

Mack is like MasterCard -- he's *everywhere* you want to be...

: )

Thanks for the kudos; much appreciated.

I don't want to miss out on this Mack love-fest; I owe a great deal of my traffic to the links that he gives me, so it's safe to call me a big fan.

Over at BMA and now recently on the Viral Garden, he's done a great job of uniting his readers and commenters, and getting all of us to discover each other's blogs, favorite one another, etc.

It takes a lot of work, as does a top 25 list- and he does two a week.

If marketing bloggers are ever forced to unionize, my vote is Mack for President.

For as long as he's a contributor here, I'll be a subscriber.

Nice work! I don't think I would have found the original series if it weren't for this post.

Personally, I'd become sick & tired of "top 10" lists. People saw it as an easy way to grab a foothold on something and soon thereafter I found myself inundated with lists to read. Go big or go home, I say.

What's the answer? A top 25! Mack, that's a seriously dangerous list, as just going through the first couple caused me to "donate" at least a good 45 minutes of my workday.

Keep it up!

Ann said "The truth is that it's a rich and vibrant community; the challenge is that we don't just talk to each other -- but reach a wider audience."

And that is a real problem - we have to make sure not to become too incestuous. The mere fact that I'm commenting here, after a comment from Ann on my blog, about Mack's blog, where I commented.... you see where this is heading.

I love the community-feeling...and I'm addicted to the Alexa-rankings, especially as we're having great tailwind (top 10, here we come). But the real value to us are our feedburner stats - how many people actually bother to subscribe, and then click on an article. That's the value we're trying to generate.

And those numbers are lower then our Alexa-ratings would indicate. Mind you, as we know that it's pretty much 100% overlap with our target-audience, we're deliriously happy with what we achieved in less then three months.

But we (and now I mean all of us) have to make sure not to get caught up in mutual backpatting while the real world moves past our windows.

That wont stop me from commenting of course :)

"But we (and now I mean all of us) have to make sure not to get caught up in mutual backpatting while the real world moves past our windows."

Stefan I would hope that the competitive types would see being ranked as say....#21, would give them the motivation for push for the Top 15, then Top 10....

And not everyone cares about being the Top 25, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's like the chicken/egg question, which comes first, the community, or the Top 25 ranking? I can think of several blogs, such as Jordan's, that aren't yet in the Top 25, but already have the communities in place.

I think if you can find a way to give your visitors a reason to become readers, everything else will take care of itself.