Are activerain Featured Bloggers like REO Agents?

This is only an OBSERVATION not a RANT.

I like to read several blogs every day, the first ones I look at are obviously the Featured Blogs. As I was browsing the head lines I came across one that stood out as odd. It was a blog that was for the local readers but it was a Featured Blog. At that point I started thinking back about every time I read a blog that wasn't Featured and how many of those times on the same day some of the Featured ones didn't seem to have as much substance. I also started to observe how many of the Featured Blogs are from repeat authors.

So I guess what I'm wondering is there a monopoly on Featured Blogs the same way a few REO agents have a monopoly on REO Listings.

Just Wondering