Everyone loves a contest. Including us. And you know? We're a competitive bunch here at Fistful of Talent. So with that... I present our last talent management blog ranking of 2009. (Okay, so you'll scroll past the next three paragraphs and then go straight to the rankings. We know how you guys are!)

For this round of blog rankings, we decided to go a different route. We decided to take our personal opinions out of the voting equation - because you get enough of that here on this blog every single. day. - and let an independent third party tell us who reigns supreme in our space. You heard us. We're letting someone else decide, someone completely objective since there have been whispers in the past with questions about our methodology. Then there were questions about fairness when we opened up the voting to you guys via March Madness. Let's face it. It's hard to be anything except first place, so we understand the frustrations from bloggers who don't make our top 25. But people! Let me just remind you that this is only the FOT's little 'ole blog ranking proce