TechCrunch, Gawker Among Most Overrated Blogs

Oh no you didn't, Time.com! The newsweekly's website gave the blogosphere a taste of its own bilious medicine by naming the five "most overrated" blogs of 2009. (It also named the 25 best blogs, but obviously you're more interested in which ones got ripped.)

The losers:

TechCrunch: "Born of a boom that's long since gone bust, TechCrunch now seems irrelevant."

Gawker: "[T]he economic downturn and the near-collapse of Wall Street has made Gawker's snarky worldview seem not only cruel but pointless. Why kick someone that's already dead? All that's left for Gawker is to report on its own demise." (If it makes you feel better, Nick Denton, two of your sites, Lifehacker and Deadspin, made the "best" list.)

Perez Hilton: "Blog rivals like TMZ.com do a much better job at uncovering real celeb scoops and providing original video and documents. Leaving PerezHilton to serve up the stalest dish of all: yesterday's celebrity news."

Daily Kos: "With the Bush years now just a memory, Kos's blog has lost its mission, and its increasingly rudderless posts read like talking points from the Democratic National Committee."