In order from most favorite to least favorite:

1. Jezebel: Our soul sisters 4-life.

2. Gawker: Where Emily Gould got born. Gawker ‘changed the world.’

Riese: “Bloggorrhea was the quickest way to get like 4,000 new visitors to your blog in the mid-to-late ’00s.”

3. Lifehacker: Lifehacker is the internet’s best-kept secret that sometimes feels like a friendly neighbor and sometimes feels like a reminder of all the ways your life could be more efficient if you weren’t such a lazy fuck-up.

4. i09: We like Star Trek: The Next Generation.

5. Fleshbot: Sex.

6. Gizmodo: Seems “important.”

7. Kotaku:

Riese: what is kotaku

Rachel: i think kotaku is probably about japanese stuff

8. Deadspin: Better than Jalopnik because of the WNBA.

Rachel: i think jalopnik is about cars, therefore worse than deadspin
Riese: yes, worse
Rachel: deadspin could theoretically cover the wbna
Riese: i care more about basketball than about a fucking car. what is there to talk about with cars. just drive it.

9. Jalopnik:

Riese: Jalopnik is basically a blog about a product we can’t afford.

(“Listicle Without Commentary” title stolen from The Awl, then adapted for our own purposes.)

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