Google
"History Blog" or anything similar and links to "Top 100 History
Blogs" or something similar will show high up in the search rankings. Investigate a top blog in such a listing and
find that their latest post was done months and years ago. Not always but too often. Is it too much to ask that one of the
criteria for judging a blog to be "top" is that it is still active?
Two
suggestions to improve "top history blog" listings: (1) disclose selection criteria and (2) set
an "as of" date, such as "Top History Blogs of 2015".
These top
lists reflect badly on history blogging in general as well as history groups in
social media. Contrary to the impression
given by those top sites, there are many fine history blogs going on.
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