some big surprises this year when i read the econtent 100 list…ever read it? it’s online now, and cleanly organized by category…some big surprises and some changes as well: this time around it looks like the judges aren’t just letting the incumbents hold their spots without some kinda actual innovation…the result? no mention of hoovers - but are you really surprised? what has hoovers actually done in the past few years beyond change a few colors on the home page and raise prices? exactly (read: good decision judges)…so here’s some additional commentary regarding the shit that shoulda been on there, my own “econtent 100 additions” - if you will:

skyminder - this company didn’t make the short list for fee based services? come on! what are these judges smoking?

wordpress - what the shit? they’ve got feedster and six apart, which is good - but google and askjeeves and no wordpress? have they even seen any of the wordpress releases this year?

drupal and mambo - how can you have plone - and not drupal or mambo? this confounds me…and how could you skip right over sugar crm?

…and what about quintura for search? hello??? elgoog in multiple categories, but no mention of quintura? and absolutely no mention of lucene or nutch? clearly these judges are asleep at the wheel…

…and what about esnips, from the folks behind net snippets (also not on the list)? or yahoo for mobile content? or pagebites for specialty search, or indeed (both of those are super new this year)?

once again this list seems to fall as short as truman capote giving madame dame a hug… and it feels like yet another one of those rankings where winners are regular advertisers (pure smud, as defined here)…well, at least there’s next year….btw, any other great ones that i’m missing? there must be dozens of others…

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