Congratulations to the FM authors who made The Observer's list of the world's 50 most powerful blogs:

#2: Boing Boing: "It launched in January 2000 and has had an immeasurable influence on the style and idiom of blogging."
#3: Michael Arrington's TechCrunch: "One of the most influential news websites across the entire technology industry."
#5: Heather Armstrong's Dooce: "Readers feel that they have been brought into her life, and reward her with their loyalty."
#25: Pete Cashmore's Mashable: "Readers range from top web 2.0 developers to savvy 13-year-olds wishing for the latest plug-ins to pimp up their MySpace pages."
#31: Hugh MacLeod's Gaping Void: "... acerbic and almost surreal cartoons ... (and) writing about his other passion – the new world of understanding how to adapt marketing to the new world of the net."