The silly numbers game.

When architectural blogistes start running league tables about each other it must be time to close down the whole internet and start again. Especially when other blog people take such bollocks ranking seriously and when you know that they are largely the private judgments of other opinionated blogistes decorated with a bit of dodgy methodological cant. Michiel van Raaij, proprietor of Eikongraphia at www.eikongraphia.com/?p=1395 publishes MOPO 2007. It's a pair of lists, yet. One is of the top 25 blogs run by single people. The other is the top 25 blogs run by groups of people. You want to bawl into the cyber-ether 'They are all interesting so who, in god's name, cares which blog is at number four? Or seven?'. For the record, van Raaij has nominated Los Angeles-based Geoff Manaugh's BLDGBLOG top of the singletons with, modestly, his own site at number eight. He bills the Green www.worldchanging.com as best of the collaborative lot. Not so impressive when he could find only 11 such blogs to rank. You might think van Raaij should get out a bit more. So do I. Yet, for all the futility of MOPO 2007 and very confusing navigation, his own site is a fascinating ensemble of random thoughts about architecture by a number of contributors. It is the usual white text on black but when you crank up the type a few notches it's perfectly readable.

Summer's here, and the time is right for Sutherland Lyall to surf in the street.