It is not going to pick up the subject matter expert – the math teacher, the AP English teacher, the physics teacher or the teacher who is just using their blog to communicate in a personal way with their student’s parents. For big picture policy or big picture ed/tech bloggers perhaps it has some more value. The audience is larger and the number of people in the space is larger.

Scott’s list is interesting but may not really be important. Sure he gets more links when he posts such a list but I think the real value, if not to him but to the education blogosphere in general is the discussions these lists generate.

I mean, thanks.

Tick, tock. Tick, tock.

But at least I’m a gas at parties (here’s hoping you didn’t mean ether).

I’ve never been one to equate blogging with some sort of pseudo-fantasy baseball statistical orgy.

I’m just gonna go teach.

Rock on, you high-ranking writers. You’re in my emotional blogroll.

You are partially right about us being first-movers. Almost all of the student bloggers at Students 2.0 are some of the first edubloggers out there. But none of our individual blogs enjoy anywhere near the same level of popularity Students 2.0 has, despite having been around almost 2 years before Students 2.0 was founded. And we certainly aren’t the first teens to blog. :P

I would say we have some degree of free time. However, I wouldn’t say it’s any more than anyone else on the list (the edublogesphere for that matter). We have almost exactly the same “work” hours as other edubloggers, except we’ve got 3 hours of homework, sports, extra-curriculars, and part-time jobs which cut into that free time.

@Bill, just so I haven’t misrepresented myself, yeah, there are a lot of ways that list-making is trivial and irrelevant to the actual aims of blogging, but the idea that those at the top of these lists aren’t worth emulating to some extent (whether their writing or depth of thought or community leadership) that they’ve merely gamed some system is an blithely irresponsible stance for educators to take.

@Jethro, your definition of “consultant” needs work, but you’re probably right about “first-movers” and right, to an extent, about free time. The exception doesn’t make the rule, though. How would the cynics explain the presence of garden variety, single-credentialed, workaday teachers on the list? How have they gamed the system?