We were thrilled to see several WordPress.com blogs — Eat Like a Girl, James Ramsden, Inspector Gadget, and Stilettoed Socialist — make the list of The Times article “40 bloggers who really count.”
On Eat Like a Girl, The Times noted the blog’s unique approach to cooking, stating “if you’re after a recipe for slow-roast wild boar belly, look no further.” The newspaper also praised fellow food blogger James Ramsden for writing about “cooking handsomely on a budget.”
Inspector Gadget was dubbed “invaluable” for providing “insight into life on the policing front line in 2010” and Stilletoed Socialist was hailed as the “poster girl for political social networking.”
Additionally, two WordPress VIP blogs were honored: Guido Fawkes’ blog and TechCrunch.
Congratulations to all of you, and keep up the great work! (And of course, we think ALL our bloggers count, but we’re always happy for these special accolades nonetheless.)
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That’s it, I’m firing my press agent!
Wow, congratulations to the four! 😀 Keep up the great work!
Congrats to these awsome people
HIM
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Congratulations!!! *Drum-roll*
Wonderful,Wonderful! My congratulations to all the winners.
One day, I might make it into the top 40, if I ever get out of Ikea and get write another post…. *sighs whilst trying to find a yellow shirted helper’
I was hoping my name would be there too 😛
Congratulations!!!
It is really outstanding to see how fast and how big this community gets every day !
Congratulations !
CONGRATS!
I’m sssssssssooooooooo envious. I wish I had interesting sex, a weird job, or enlightening ways to fix the planet to write about…ho, hum!
This is great!!! Really something to be proud of!
That’s wonderful! Congrats to each of them 🙂
wow congrats! by golly id love to make that list next year!
That is awesome news. Congrats to the 4 and I wish them continued success! Keep up the great work. I just want to say that I wish everyone great success in wordpress.com not just the featured people. We all have a great story to tell!!
There’s no list for bilingual/bicultural bloggers out there. I (ahem, WE) want to be represented too!
Wow, that’s awesome! Congrats to those bloggers. They really deserve it!
I’d like to do this…. Great!
Ok, I’m a little jealous of the cool kids, but proud to be a classmate!
Nice! Go WordPress! Congrats Everyone!
That’s so great! Congrats to the winners!
It is a good news indeed. I am proud to be associated with WordPress. Congratulation to the Four current flag carriers for WordPress…Cheers!!!
Congrats to the awesome bloggers!!
Congratulations people. I’m still new to this, but I’m pretty sure the full potential of blogging isn’t even close to being utilized yet. People like you broaden the rest of our horizons.:-)
Woo!Hoo! Congratulations to these bloggers. I’ll have to check these out.
Thanks to you all for the kind comments, and thanks to WP for giving me the platform for my work.
I second that; “Congratulations to all of you, and keep up the great work!”
Hmmm I hate to be the grouch here, but perhaps detachment is a bit more in order. Do the rest of our blogs cease to matter just because they lack the popularity, oddity, or influence of these select few? I don’t think so. Blogging shouldn’t be a race. I like what Adrian Laurentiu said: we should instead celebrate WordPress as a community.
I must find a way to get my message across, through the medium of cookery. The best way would still appear to be through the belly.
Congratulations to the winners. And I am very happy to be part of the WordPress community.
I have had endless hours of laughter and fun since taking up blogging. Thankyou WordPress.
Hmmm . . . Either everyone really counts . . . Or no one does.
Wow! Thats great! Congrats to all of them 😉
That is pretty awesome! I admit I am a fan of TechCrunch. Congrats to all!
Pretty impressive stuff. There’s a lot to be learned here, thanks!
That’s incredible and so wonderful! Congratulations. Here’s to the power and influence of WordPress.com.
I guess the rest of us should work a little harder on improving our writing!
Congrats!! I’m jealous!! xoxo
Congrats to them all!
Congrats indeed to them all.
But congrats also to all the other bloggers out there who many have smaller readerships but keep on writing.
Thank you so much to WordPress. I am a teacher and you make it so easy for me to provide information to my students.
Something to aim for!!
Congratulations, with shades of admiration and jealousy, are surely required! We should all aspire to be so relevant!
Excellent! Well done, those blogs!
That’s awesome! Congrats to those bloggers. Something for all of us to aspire to one day. I love that there is an entire community of people with an endless supply of stories to tell.
Congrats !!!!
I’m still hoping to make Mad Magazine’s Top 40.
congratz 🙂
Congratulations to you bloggers. This inspires us to make our blog even better!!!:)
I’m all a-tingle just having a similar URL to these people! Congratulations.
it’s a bit sad to see the triumph of trivia – of these 40 selected blogs (respect for the few exceptions, one of them – inspector gadget). if these were the blogs that matter, that would have been quite an insult on the human dignity.
Congratulations you guys! You are an inspiration to us all!
These people keep raising the bar for the rest of us… jerks!
Just joking, congrats to those four. I hope they have many more great years of blogging.
~Sara
Awesome news… I’m rather chuffed that I moved to this community recently.. .congratulations to ALL of you!
Very great Grats to everyone. You had to work very hard to come to the honor bestowed on you and your works.
I hope you received some money, or at least a plaque.
Blog On!
Thanks so much all & thanks WP for posting! Chuffed.
Thanks for the inspiration…! I am proud to be a WordPress blogger as well. I’m doing my best to live up to their standard. I also like the cool kid / classmate analogy…!
I’m going to be on that list one day.
Nice. Sooooo jealous!!!!!
Well done all of the above! Love TechCrunch 🙂
Cheers to all WordPress bloggers!! It’s always great to see colleagues recognized!!
Supercool, congratulations!!
Congratulations all of you!
Good luck to people across the pond that work WordPress!…….
Congrats to you all! I hope to be on that list one day =)
I’m glad to have become a part of the WordPress excitement! This has been a great experience so far! Can’t wait to see what happens next!
Naomi Klein is a chef?
Congratulations to all & an inspiration to the rest of us.
I am very new to the wonderful world of blogging! I love to write about just about anything, just not real up on new trends, yet. Hope to change that soon, I am sure that I will by reading some of the posts on WordPress. Thanks everyone for getting this thing going so well.
Thanks for letting us all know, that is inspiring. Blessings, Elena
Something ELSE to aspire to!!
How exciting. It would be fun to be recognized. Maybe someday. I’ll be sure to check all of those blogs out!
Thats wonderful! CONGRATULATIONS.
And of course, the rest of us do NOT count.
no offense to those who made the list
Congratulations….
Excellent Work! Way to go to everyone…..!
Congratulations to all the mentioned bloggers 🙂 And an encouraging well done and pat on the back to every WordPress user to keep on blogging!
Nice Work!
Congrats, guys! Keep up the great work!
Congrats…. WordPress is best platform for bloggers….
Time to set up the typewriter, I must find a way onto this list! XD
Congratulations to the four WordPress bloggers to be named “bloggers who count.”
Although I’ve worked with language all my life, until recently I’ve never been able to confidently type these nine letters:
I – A-M – W-R-I-T-E-R
Unpublished as yet but working on building a platform through my blog. I have learned a lot in the six weeks I’ve been using WordPress.
Joanna
It is really outstanding to see how fast and how big this community gets every day !
Congratulations !
Congratulations bloggers! Also much thanks to WordPress for a great platform to post our views and our passions with the world.
Congratulations, I’m proud to use WordPress. 😉
I wonder how many hits they get on a daily basis?
Well….congratulations and all that stuff…
Wow! Congratulations, guys! You deserve the recognition. Keep it up! 😀
Impressive – I should visit these blogs as I don’t think I have yet.
That’s really wonderful and encouraging. Congrats to them.
Congratulations… Hopefully I will make this list one day!
Wow! Congratulations to you four. Praying to be one of you soon 🙂
That’s Fantastic! Congratulations!
Congratulations to all the winners!! 🙂
Congrats to these awsome people. I love them.
Great job. Congratulations. Keep writing like this.
What? My blog about has-been 80’s Hair Bands didn’t make the list? Unacceptable! 🙂 Congratulations to the winners. Keep up the good work.
I guess I can’t make a list like that with 10 hits per day, huh? 😉
Aw! I wanna be in it! Oh well, we can’t have everything. ;D
Great Job to all the winners.
Congrats to these! That is incredibly exciting for them!!
Wow, wonderful, congrats!