I was notified earlier this morning by Sam Turner at thistimeitwillbedifferent that UK film magazine Total Film published an article today called 600 Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed, a fairly definitive list of many movie blogs that are active in and around the movie blogging community.Not surprisingly, members of the LAMB are heavily involved. In fact, you'd be hard-pressed to scan more than a couple names on the 10-page list without coming across one; by my totally unofficial count, I'd say that there are at least 300 LAMBs making up the list, some of which are even lucky enough to get their site banners included as part of a gallery.
I got in touch with the author (Dan Goodswen) to thank him for the list and make him aware of the LAMB (if he wasn't already, which he was), and he had this to say:
I had an intern helping with research for the article and she found the LAMB pretty early on - in all our research you were the only site with a comprehensive list of blogs, so we found it extremely useful, and are endebted to you for our 600 blogs feature.If you wish to help Dan and TotalFilm out, there's a comments section at the bottom of the post where users are posting their "forgotten" sites; if you don't see yours on the list, go ahead and register and add it to the comments.
My intention with the list was to create a one stop shop for the cream of movie blogs out there (I was aiming for 1000), but we quickly realised this would be near impossible, with the vast amount of blogs out there and the frequency of blogs closing and opening. Making a 100% accurate list was just too ambitious, so i capped the list at 600, and let my intern of the hook (she was a babbling, incoherent mess by that point). So the feature is something of a success, in drawing attention to all these great blogs, but unfortunately there were many I didn't find - hopefully i can do a follow up feature down the line, 400 More Movie Blogs You Might Have Missed or something.
Thanks to TotalFilm for spotlighting so many hard-working bloggers out there, and to Sam for alerting me to this quickly.
