I work at Bivings, and appreciate you reviewing our list and your comment. The point of our original research, of which this list is a bio-product, was to see how newspaper websites were keeping up with the challenge posed by upstarts like Digg, HuffPo, etc. Were they adding features in an effort to keep up? Are they learning lessons from these competing ways of presenting the news? You can review the findings here:

http://www.bivingsreport.com/2008/the-use-of-the-internet-by-americas-largest-newspapers-2008-edition/

The top 10 list is nothing more than a way for us to recognize the best sites of the ones that we looked at in our study.

Thanks for your comment.

Todd