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Blogging just got more interesting.

I enjoy blogs. I look at them as online columns. Everybody likes a good columnist. As a sports fan, I enjoy reading Rob Neyer slam the Kansas City Royals for inept baseball decisions. I like reading the blurbs and comments about the Jayhawks on phogblog.com. I even get a good laugh checking out some of the crazy comments on the kusports.com message boards.

But the simple truth is that most people are not reading blogs. One study shows that only 3 percent of Americans read blogs.

If that number holds true, how can there really be an A-list blogger?

In fact, Technorati's top blog page is a "Page not found" on MSNBC. Did I miss something here? Of course, the solid BoingBoing.net came in second (see past article). A pretty cool gadget site rounds out Tech's top 3.

I guess it is not real surprising that no news sites made the top three (Daily Kos did take number five). With American Idol invading roughly nine million more homes than 60 Minutes, the web should emulate the boob tube and have more people visiting entertainment sites than news pages.

And with so many people enamored with entertainment, there is a web site that meets their never ending thirst for celebrities. Gawker.com has its Stalker site. Want to know where Geraldo was driving his Bentley? Want to know where Mandy Moore just shopped? Did Johnny Damon really go to the Container Store? The answers to all of these award winning questions can be found on New York map. Consider this the Chicagocrime.org of celebrity sightings. Hooray!

Then again, maybe bloggers are bigger than we think. Tila Tequila was recently plastered on the cover of Stuff magazine. Tila didn't invent a longer lasting light bulb, a new type of post it, or save a kid from drowning. She didn't even come up with a new Tequila drink (she can't even drink tequila-she is allergic to alcohol). But she is one of the most popular draws at MySpace.com.

So there you have the blogosphere in a nutshell. A top rated page is an error message, a map that tells us where Mike Meyers ate a corn appetizer, and one of the most popular girls on the internet is named after a drink she can't ever have. If this is the A-list, what does it take to get on the B?