Talk about getting in under the wire! Joe Pulizzi and Junta42 just announced their inaugural list of the Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs - and wonder of wonders, The “A-Ha!” Blog came in at #42!

(Pulizzi must be a Douglas Adams fan - he picked the number 42 because of its significance in Adams’ Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series - more on that from Wikipedia).

I want to say a special thank you to Patsi Krakoff, one half of the dynamic Blog Squad, who nominated us for the award. Her Writing on the Web blog ranked in at #25, so she’s no slouch herself!
Here’s the full press release with more information:

Junta42-The Social Bookmarking Site Dedicated to Content Marketers-Celebrates Its Launch by Announcing The Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs

-Honors go to Millward Brown’s ‘Straight Talk with Nigel Hollis,’ David Meerman Scott’s ‘Web Ink Now,” ‘Copyblogger’ and Others -

Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) January 23, 2008 - Junta42, a “digg-like” social bookmarking site focusing on content marketing, custom publishing and branded content, celebrated its launch by announcing the “Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs“. The list, which was composed by comparing several blogs’ relation to content marketing, their post length/depth, regularity/frequency, overall content value and Google page rank, includes some of the best known marketing blogs, as well as up-and-comers on the verge of being discovered by the marketing community.

Junta42’s mission is to help businesses learn how to create better content, thus maximizing their overall communications initiatives. To do so, Junta42 has created a framework of content marketing articles, white papers, tutorials and case studies-all of which it makes available via various modes of content marketing (video, podcasts, social media applications, etc). Junta42’s Top Content Marketing Blogs list is a natural extension of its overarching goal of exposing great content.

“The Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs is an invaluable list for any marketing professional who needs to learn how their business can attract and retain customers by producing great content,” stated Joe Pulizzi, founder and chief content officer for Junta42. “While some of the Top 42 do not focus entirely on content marketing or custom publishing, all of them, in some way, help teach marketers how to create, distribute and market content through diverse forms of media.”

The top five blogs include:

1. Straight Talk with Nigel Hollis, Millward Brown’s Chief Global Analyist
2. Web Ink Now from Successful Author and Speaker David Meerman Scott
3. Conversation Agent from Valeria Maltoni, a Leading Author and Marketing Thought Leader
4. Marketing Interactions from Ardath Albee, Founder of the Marketing Consultancy of the Same Name
5. Buzz Marketing for Technology from Paul Dunay, Director of Global Field and Interactive Marketing for BearingPoint

Other top blogs include Copyblogger by Brian Clark (#7), Seth Godin (#37) and Guy Kawasaki (#59).

The full list is available at: http://www.junta42.com/top_42_content_marketing_blogs.

For more information about Junta42 or The Junta42 Top Marketing Blogs, please contact Pam Kozelka at pam [at] zsquaredmedia.com or refer to the selection criteria and ranking system. To learn more about the custom content revolution, see Junta42’s video series on educating marketing professionals about the power of content, as well as its content marketing resource center.

About Junta42
Junta42 is the leading media site dedicated to everything content marketing and custom publishing. As of its official January 2008 launch, Junta42 boasts an archive of over 1,000 of the best content marketing articles on the Web from approximately 250 marketing-focused media sites, blogs, and businesses. Presented as a social bookmarking vehicle, the site is dedicated to marketing professionals who want to attract customers through valuable and relevant content creation and distribution. In Spring 2008, Junta42 is launching the “eHarmony of business content” called Junta42 Match–a service that will match businesses who need turnkey content with expert custom publishers and content providers.

Junta42 is a division of Z Squared Media, LLC.

And here’s the full list (with thanks to Michael Stelzner - #23 on the list - from whose blog I grabbed a nicely formatted and pre-linked version). Our recommendation - use your Google Homepage, or your RSS feed aggregator (Google Reader does it, and it’s built into Firefox) to keep track of these valuable blogs, and check ‘em out over the course of the next few weeks. Heck, that’s what I’ll be doing as soon as I finish this post!

1. Straight Talk with Nigel Hollis

2. Web Ink Now

3. Conversation Agent

4. Marketing Interactions

5. Buzz Marketing for Technology

6. ContentMarketingToday

7. Copyblogger

8. Web Strategy by Jeremiah

9. Daily Fix

10. Influential Marketing Blog

11. Logic+Emotion

12. CK’s Blog

13. Rexblog

14. BeTuitive

15. Consumer Generated Media

16. Diva Marketing Blog

17. The Origin of Brands

18. The Viral Garden

19. What’s Next

20. Bernaise Source

21. Drew’s Marketing Minute

22. Made to Stick

23. Writing White Papers

24. Greg Verdino’s Marketing Blog

25. Writing on the Web

26. Joe Wikert’s Publishing 2020

27. AttentionMax

28. Brand Autopsy

29. Branding & Marketing

30. Eat Media Blog

31. Passion2Publish

32. Think Tank - King Fish Media

33. The Lonely Marketer

34. Custom Publishing Council Blog

35. ExperienceCurve

36. Marketing Whims

37. Seth’s Blog

38. THINKing

39. Inspire Action

40. Pandemic Blog

41. Relevant and Valued

42. The A-Ha! Blog

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