This is more specifically about blogging but really could relate to anything.
10. Top Ten lists are narrow in scope.
There are various points of view, methods of approach, writing styles, etc, to choose ten requires too narrow a focus.
9. Top Ten lists focus on too few issues
There are so many issues (politics, gender issues, aid, policy, parenting) to create a top ten requires ignoring issues
8. Top Ten lists are often made up of friends or sucking up
7. Top Ten lists are like High School Cool Kids Klubs
6. Top Ten lists are boring ( well not this one 😉 )
5. Top Ten lists are like being invited to a Smörgåsbord and eating only the ten dishes in the middle.
4. Top Ten lists are only good for humour ( see David Letterman ) and silly memes ( what 10 CDs would you take if stranded on a deserted island…and how would you power the player professor? With coconuts? )
3. Top Ten lists make you sound presumptuous. After all why are you so important we should care what you think make a Top Ten.
2. Top Ten lists are lazy writing.
and the Number One reason Top Ten lists suck…..
Because they really don’t mean a damn thing.
There is also the very male thing of “mine is bigger than yours”.
hee.. yes there is that. 😀
Agreed. Now Top 12 lists, those kick ass!
eggs-actly! :p
BCer in T.O., I’m :rotfl:
File this one under ironing 😉
You are totally forgetting one of the principle tenants of blogging as given to us by Saskboy … “Blogging is not hard. It’s about finding things that don’t matter, and writing about them anyway.”
Gawd Bless Top 10 Lists!!!!!
True but then will Kinsella respect you in the morning? 😉
Are you hinting that you don’t want to end up on my top ten list? 😉