The REAL irony is the title of this post: "5 great examples of popular blog posts that you should know". It falls EXACTLY into your group of "XXX (the more the merrier) great examples of objects being rounded up with unique common characteristic".
There is a huge difference between collecting links to say "here they are -- look at me!" and collecting links to say "hey! look at the content of this link!". Most of the former start with a number -- hence the 5, 10, 20 ego-camp. Most of the latter tend to contain interesting content.
http://briancray.com/2009/06/13/5-web-tools-user-experience/ Just a link with a "sign up for free" blurb.
http://briancray.com/2009/05/04/5-books-web-professionals/ Two sentence synopsis' with a link to Amazon.
http://briancray.com/2009/07/27/eye-tracking-studies-influen... Two sentence synopsis' with a link to the REAL content.
The REAL irony is the title of this post: "5 great examples of popular blog posts that you should know". It falls EXACTLY into your group of "XXX (the more the merrier) great examples of objects being rounded up with unique common characteristic".