2007 Best Blogs Awards: Huffington Post at 10/1 OddsThe 2007 Best Blogs Awards will be announced shortly and will be featured in Wired Magazine. Oddsmakers have popular political blog website The Huffington Post featured prominently on their own list.
"This is the one we here at Gambling911.com will be rooting for," commented G911 Senior Editor, Payton O'Brien.
The Huffington Post (often referred to on the Internet as HuffPo or HuffPost) is a politically liberal online news website (probably why Payton loves it so much) and aggregated weblog founded by Arianna Huffington and Kenneth Lerer, featuring hyperlinks to various news sources and columnists. The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005 as a news and commentary outlet. Its roster of bloggers includes many people from Arianna Huffington's extensive network of prominent "friends." As of August 8, 2006 it was the 5th most popular weblog overall as measured by web links
Oddsmakers will be also since the Huffington Post is not the favorite to win. They are ranked #6 out of 10 with 10 to 1 odds and a payout of $10 for every $1 bet.
Analysts at BetUS.com believe that Engadget.com will win and they've made this one a 1/2 favorite, paying $1 for every $2 bet (and you of course get your initial $2 back should Engadget.com win). Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics. Engadget was launched in March of 2004 in partnership with the Weblogs, Inc. Network (WIN). The site's Editor-in-Chief is Ryan Block (pictured right).
TechCrunch.com is listed with the 3rd best odds (3 to 1). TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. In addition to covering new companies, we profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the new web space.
"Tech related blogs are definitely 'in'," says O'Brien. But of interest also is Bashable.com, at 16/1 odds. This is the social networking blog. "It still manages to look like a tech blog and could very well be."
For Gambling911.com, blogs are very close to our heart. We incorporated the format back in 2001 before it was really en vogue. The site primarily consisted of news entries with some commentary in the blog format focusing exclusively on the Internet gambling community in Costa Rica, Curacao and Antigua. The platform soon became an overnight success. Gambling911.com later adapted a fresh news content format, very similar to Huffington in arrangement, while still applying the blog layout. 95 percent of Gambling911.com's content is produced in-house.
"This cool (betting) prop we’ve just posted is already getting big action," Reed Richards of BetUS.com told us.
As of September 2007, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 106 million blogs
BetUS.com Most Popular Blog of 2007 - Fri 11/30 10:00AM (EST)
(1) Engadget.com 1/2
(2) TechCrunch.com 3/1
(3) Boingboing.net 5/1
(4) Lifehacker.com 12/1
(5) Gizmodo.com 3/1
(6) Huffingtonpost.com 10/1
(7) Arstechnica.com 12/1
(8) Wordpress.org/development 14/1
(9) Mashable.com 16/1
(10) Beppegrillo.it 25/1
Graded as per Technorati.com ranking on 31-12-07
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Christopher Costigan, Publisher Gambling911.com
Originally published November 15, 2007 11:43 am ET
