1. Huffington Post
The Huffington Post is a progressive American news website and content aggregating blog founded by Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, featuring various news sources and columnists.The site offers coverage of politics, media, business, entertainment, living, style, the green movement, world news, and comedy, and has news, blogs, and original content. The Huffington Post was launched on May 9, 2005, as a commentary outlet and alternative to news websites like the Drudge Report.On February 7, 2011, AOL acquired The Huffington Post for US$315 million making Arianna Huffington editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post Media Group.
2. Mashable
Founded in 2005, Mashable is the top source for news in social and digital media, technology and web culture. With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new websites and services, and offering social media resources and guides. Mashable’s audience includes early adopters, social media enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, influencers, brands and corporations, marketing, PR and advertising agencies, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists. Mashable is also popular with bloggers, Twitter and Facebook users — an increasingly influential demographic.
3. TechCrunch
TechCrunch is leading technology media property, dedicated to obsessively profiling startups, reviewing new internet products, and breaking tech news. Founded in 2005, TechCrunch and its network of websites now reach over 10 million unique visitors and draw more than 33 million page views per month.
TechCrunch operates a global network of dedicated properties from Europe to Japan, as well as specialized industry websites and sections, including MobileCrunch, CrunchGear, TechCrunchIT, GreenTech, and TechCrunchTV.
CrucnhBase, TechCruch’s database about startup companies, people and investors, has become the leading statistical resource for technology companies and transactions.
4. Engadget
Engadget is a multilingual technology weblog and podcast about consumer electronics. Engadget currently
has nine separate websites, all operating simultaneously with each having its own staff, which cover
technology news in different parts of the world in their respective languages. Engadget won a 2007 Weblog
Award for tech sites.
Launched in March 2004, Engadget is updated multiple times a day with articles on gadgets and consumer electronics. It also posts rumors about the technological world, frequently offers opinion within its stories, and produces the weekly Engadget Podcast that covers tech and gadget news stories that happened during the week Since its founding, dozens of writers have written for or contributed to Engadget, Engadget Alt, Engadget Mobile and Engadget HD, including high profile bloggers, industry analysts, and professional journalists. These writers include Jason Calacanis, Paul Boutin, Phillip Torrone, Joshua Fruhlinger, Nilay Patel, Marc Perton and Susan Mernit. Darren Murph, who became the World's Most Prolific Professional Blogger as recorded by Guinness World Records on July 29, 2010, is an Associate Editor at the site and has written over 17,212 posts (and growing) to date. Industry analyst Ross Rubin has contributed a weekly column called Switched On since October 2004.
Engadget has been nominated for numerous awards, including a 2004 Bloggie for Best Technology Weblog, and 2005 Bloggies for Best Computers or Technology Weblog and Best Group Weblog; Engadget won Best Tech Blog in the 2004 and 2005 Weblog Awards. Google Reader, as well as many other RSS readers, has included Engadget as a default RSS feed, pulling the latest articles which appear at the top of all user's mailboxes. To extend readership, the blog is available in several languages including Spanish, Japanese, German, Polish (until 1.04.2010), Korean, and Chinese (traditional and simplified).
Engadget uses the Blogsmith CMS to publish its content.
5. Joel On Software
Avram Joel Spolsky (born 1965) is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog. In 2008 he launched the now successful Stack Overflow programmer Q&A site in collaboration with Jeff Atwood. Using the Stack Exchange software product which powers Stack Overflow, The Stack Exchange Network now hosts over 40 Q&A sites.
This website started in early 2000 at the URL joel.editthispage.com, hosted by Dave Winer's UserLand on his new Manila publishing platform. I just started banging out articles about the business and management of software, including a whole book about user interface design. All that stuff is still here, and I’ve been adding to it ever since. I’ve also published four books which are mostly just edited versions of this website, and I speak at conferences several times a year.
6. Read Write Web
ReadWriteWeb is one of the most popular technology blogs in the world, known for offering insightful analysis about each day's Internet industry news.
ReadWriteWeb was founded on April 20, 2003, by Richard MacManus and is now one of the most widely read and respected blogs in the world. Our readers are smart, tech savvy, engaged, decision makers; 46% have 'significant input' or "make final information technology purchase decisions." As one advertiser put it, "The real users of the Web read ReadWriteWeb."
Richard MacManus is the Founder and Co-Editor of ReadWriteWeb. New Zealander MacManus founded ReadWriteWeb in 2003 and grew his blog about the changing Internet into an international team of journalists. ReadWriteWeb is read by millions of thought leaders and consumers, and is syndicated daily by the New York Times. Still grounded in MacManus' thoughtful exploration of emerging trends, ReadWriteWeb is known for offering some of the most insightful commentary available about each day's Internet industry news.
7. Seth Godin’s Blog
"Seth Godin may be the ultimate entrepreneur for the Information Age," Mary Kuntz wrote in Business Week nearly a decade ago. "Instead of widgets or car parts, he specializes in ideas -- usually, but not always, his own." In fact, he's as focused on spreading ideas as he is on the ideas themselves.
After working as a software brand manager in the mid-1980s, Godin started Yoyodyne, one of the first Internet-based direct-marketing firms, with the notion that companies needed to rethink how they reached customers. His efforts caught the attention of Yahoo!, which bought the company in 1998 and kept Godin on as a vice president of permission marketing. Godin has produced several critically acclaimed and attention-grabbing books, including Permission Marketing, All Marketers Are Liars, and Purple Cow (which was distributed in a milk carton). In 2005, Godin founded Squidoo.com, a Web site where users can share links and information about an idea or topic important to them.
8. O’Reilly
Year Founded: 1978
Founder & CEO: Tim O'Reilly
Employees:270
Headquarters: Sebastopol, CA; additional offices in Cambridge, MA; Farnham, UK; Koeln, Germany;
Tokyo, Japan; Taipei, Taiwan; Beijing, China
Funding: Privately held
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazines, research, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and galvanizing their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Publisher of the iconic "animal books" for software developers, creator of the first commercial website (GNN), organizer of the summit meeting that gave the open source software movement its name, and prime instigator of the DIY revolution through its Make magazine, O'Reilly continues to concoct new ways to connect people with the information they need. O'Reilly conferences and summits bring alpha geeks and forward-thinking business leaders together to shape the revolutionary ideas that spark new industries. Long the information source of choice for technologists, the company now also delivers the knowledge of expert early adopters to everyday computer users. Whether it's delivered in print, online, or in person, everything O'Reilly produces reflects the company's unshakeable belief in the power of information to spur innovation.
9. Lifehacker
Lifehacker is an advertising-supported weblog about life hacks and software which launched on January 31, 2005. The site is owned by Gawker Media and covers Microsoft Windows, Mac, and Linux programs as well as time-saving tips and tricks. The staff updates the site about 18 times each weekday, with reduced updates on weekends. The Lifehacker motto is "Tips and downloads for getting things done."
In addition, Lifehacker has two international editions, Lifehacker Australia and Lifehacker Japan, which feature most posts from the U.S. edition along with extra content specific to local readers.
Lifehacker launched in January 2005 with an exclusive sponsorship by Sony. The highly-publicized ad campaign was rumored to have cost $75,000 for three months. Gawker Media never confirmed this number, and the campaign ended after 2 months. Since then a variety of tech-oriented advertisers have appeared on the site.
10. Ross Mayfield’s Weblog
Ross Mayfield is co-founder, Chairman and President, and former CEO of Socialtext Incorporated, an enterprise social software company based in Palo Alto, California. He now is Vice President of Business Development of SlideShare. He is also a regular blogger and public speaker.
Mayfield received a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and completed the Management Development for Entrepreneurs (MDE) program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
11. Gizmodo
Gizmodo Open Forums are unique pages built up by you, the readers. Approved commenters can invent a #hashtag and host their own threads.
Commenters can make their own spaces outside of moderated posts for discussions, investigations, live-blogs, and spirited debate. This is where you can stray off-topic and hold court with friends and foes.
12. Metafilter
Metafilter is a weblog that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members.
If you're new to the site, I'd suggest taking a look around, checking out the archives, and getting a feel for the place. You might also consider registering as a member. Members can post comments, customize the look and behavior of the site.
After becoming a member, check out some of the links and think about leaving a comment or two. If you stick around for a while, you'll get a feel for what types of things are posted as links, and if you find something amazing and/or enlightening, please post it.
The privilege of posting links to main page comes after posting a few comments and being a member for at least a week. This lag is built in to allow new members to get used to the place and to understand what other members consider good links. With the current number of members, even if fewer than 1% of the total membership post a link each day, it's far too many links to take in. Please take extra special care when selecting a link for the front page. To get an idea of what constitutes a good link, take a look at the link guidelines, to hear some philosophies guiding the site and community, check out the new user message.
13. Kuro 5hin
Kuro5hin.org is a collaborative site about technology and culture, both separately and in their interactions.Kuro5hin.org is a community of people who like to think. This is a site for people who want to discuss the world they live in. It's a site for people who are on the ground in the modern world, and who sometimes look around and wonder what they have wrought.
It's also a site for people who need a laugh now and then.
Kuro5hin relies on its readers -- it exists for you and through you. This site has an open submission queue. Any user can submit and vote on stories. If you want to see something posted, you can make it happen by participating in the moderation of the stories in the submission queue.
Garbage will not be tolerated. Others can and will rate your posts into oblivion. Mojo is our system designed to facilitate this community filtering. We have no intention of trying to stifle anyone's free expression and legitimate arguments (no matter how much we might personally dislike them). We hope most of you agree that this is the only way to keep a site usable and worthwhile, and that (as Bruce Perens put it) what we need is more "Freedom" and less "FreeDumb."
14. The Scott Adams Blog
Dilbert (first published April 16, 1989) is an American comic strip written and drawn by Scott Adams. Dilbert is known for its satirical office humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office featuring the engineer Dilbert as the title character. The strip has spawned several books, an animated television series, a computer game, and hundreds of Dilbert-themed merchandise items. Adams has also received the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award and Newspaper Comic Strip Award in 1997 for his work on the strip. Dilbert appears in 2000 newspapers worldwide in 65 countries and 25 languages.
15. Napsterization.org’s Blog
Napsterization.org was created as a resource to understand the napsterization by digital media of analog, old economy institutions, frameworks and media.
Napsterization.org's blog focuses on positive, fair-use and legal examples of peer-to-peer file sharing of works approved by their creators for sharing, helpful in learning about works that are then lawfully purchased, or otherwise considered fair use under the "fair use doctrine" in American copyright law or the copyright laws of other countries.
Mary Hodder Is a graduate student at UC Berkeley's School of Information Management and Systems, though she works on projects in three other departments: Boalt Law School, Journalism and Haas School of Business. She is a member of the Samuelson Clinic for Law, Technology and Public Policy, and works on Chilling Effects matters as well as project on RFID and sensor networks.
16. Merlin Mann’s Blog
43 Folders is Merlin Mann’s website about finding the time and attention to do your best creative work.
43 Folders was launched by Merlin Mann on Wednesday, September 1, 2004 with an introductory post whose improbable title suggested that productivity can be like sausage; no one likes seeing it discussed at length on the internet by middle-aged men.
The site continues to evolve, grow, contract, expand, recede, explode, go dark, go weird, go personal, and even occasionally reinvent itself -- all depending on where Merlin's interest, attention, and obsessions find him at a given time. But, in fairness, they are his obsessions, and he owns that.
17. Creating Passionate Users Blog
The Creating Passionate Users bloggers are all fascinated by brains, minds and what science can tell us about the practice of making users passionate about their lives and tools. Kathy is the co-creator of the bestselling Head First books (the brain-friendly series from O'Reilly), and creator of the Creating Passionate Users blog.
They're all passionate about the brain and metacognition, most especially--how the brain works and how to exploit it for better learning and memory. Oh yeah, and how to recognize when someone else (including one of us) is applying brain-based techniques to get you to do something.
Kathy Sierra has been interested in the brain and artificial intelligence since her days as a game developer (Virgin, Amblin', MGM). She is the co-creator of the bestselling Head First series (finalist for a Jolt Software Development award in 2003, and named to the Amazon Top Ten Editors Choice Computer Books for 2003 and 2004). She is also the founder of one of the largest community web sites in the world, javaranch.com. Kathy's passions are skiing, running, her Icelandic horse, gravity, and her latest favorite thing--Dance Dance Revolution.
18. BlogHer
At BlogHer.com, you’ll find the best conversations led by women in social media. A curated selection of authentic voices. Life well said.
BlogHer is a community and media company created in partnership with women in social media. Lisa Stone, Elisa Camahort Page and Jory Des Jardins founded BlogHer in 2005 in response to the question, “Where are all the women bloggers?”
Today, BlogHer is the largest community of women who blog: 25+ million unique visitors per month (Nielsen NetRatings). Engaged, influential and info-savvy, these women come to BlogHer to seek and share advice, opinions and recommendations. BlogHer’s team works hard to bring you the best and brightest conversations, writers and speakers – online and in person. That’s what we do best.
We host:
BlogHer Conferences, the world’s largest conference for women in social media.
BlogHer Publishing Network, with 2,500 blogs one of the largest and highest quality publishing networks of blogs authored by women.
BlogHer.com, the Web’s leading guide to the hottest news and trends among women in social media, renown as a community where women speak their minds on every topic from politics to parenting in an atmosphere of integrity and respect.
BlogHer is run by its three co-founders and a team of 50+ employees via offices in New York and Silicon Valley. We are proud to have venture backing from Venrock, the GE/NBC Universal's Peacock Equity Fund and Azure Capital Partners.
19. Sifry’s Alerts
This is David Sifry’s weblog. Dave is a entrepreneur with over 20 years experience in the I.T. industry. Most recently, he founded Offbeat Guides, which produce personalized, up-to-date travel updates that cover over 30,000 travel destinations using a combination of search technology and curation by both amateur and professional travel experts. Prior to that, Dave founded Technorati, the largest blog search engine in the world, and was CEO from 2002-2007. He is Chairman of Technorati’s Board of Directors. Dave was also co-founder and the CTO of Sputnik, and he was co-founder, CTO, and Vice President of Engineering at Linuxcare, Inc, having built Linuxcare’s services infrastructure. Dave is a recognized expert on leadership development, blogs and the massive changes in the digital media environment, Open Source development, and the Linux operating system. He served as a Technology Pioneer for the World Economic Forum, on the founding Board of Directors of Linux International, the Advisory Board of the National White Collar Crime Center, and the Technical Advisory Board of the National Cybercrime Training Partnership for law enforcement. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University. Dave lived and worked in Kobe, Japan for Mitsubishi Electric, and speaks Japanese in a rusty kansai-ben. While he now lives in foggy San Francisco, one of his top travel destinations is Yosemite, in his home state of California, although the lure of London and Paris frequently beckons.
20. Technology Pundits
Technology Pundits is dedicated to bringing you leading edge insight and opinion from some of the technology industries leading analysts and pundits.
Rob is President and Principal Analyst of the Enderle Group, a forward looking emerging technology advisory firm. Recognized as one of the best general Inquiry Analysts in the world, Rob specializes in providing rapid perspectives and suggested tactics and strategies to a large number of clients dealing with rapidly changing global events.
21. Jay Rosen’s Press Think
I am a press critic, an observer of journalism’s habits, and also a writer trying to make sense of the world. I am interested in the ideas about journalism that journalists work within, and those they feel they can work without. I try to discover the consequences in the world that result from having the kind of press we do.
I call this blog PressThink because that’s the kind of work I do. The title points to forms of thought that identify “journalism” to itself— but also to the habit of not thinking about certain things. The subatomic force that holds the pack of reporters together as they swarm around a story, there’s an example of pressthink. Without it there could be no pack; the pieces would come flying apart. There is a strange energy there, holding smart people to dumb practices.
Rosen is the author of PressThink, a weblog about journalism and its ordeals (www.pressthink.org), which he introduced in September 2003. In June 2005, PressThink won the Reporters Without Borders 2005 Freedom Blog award for outstanding defense of free expression. In April 2007 PressThink recorded its two millionth visit.
22. Corante
The world’s first blog media company, Corante is a trusted, unbiased source on technology, science and business that’s authored by highly respected thinkers, commentators and journalists; read by many of the sector's top entrepreneurs, executives, funders and followers; and is helping to lead the emergence of blogging as an influential and important form of reportage, analysis and commentary.
BLOGS: Home to an expanding network of some of the sector’s most notable and insightful commentators, Corante recognized early the impact blogging would have on the media landscape and has built a brand trusted by technology’s top thinkers and doers. For many of them, Corante’s a primary port of call for staying ahead of the news and cited often by readers for tipping them off to ideas and industry developments weeks and even months before they hit mainstream sources.
OUR READERS: Corante's community of more than 450,000 monthly readers aren’t just casual observers of the sector - they're the individuals on the cutting edge, the early adopters and innovators who are creating the technologies, building and running the sector's best companies, and dreaming up the applications of the future. In addition they're affluent, highly educated and well connected. In all, a perfect target audience for any company looking to make an impact on the real movers and shakers – to “influence the influencers.”
23. Gawker
Gawker is a newsmagazine/blog based in New York City that bills itself as "the source for daily Manhattan media news and gossip" and focuses on celebrities and the media industry.
Founded in 2003, Gawker is the flagship blog for Nick Denton's Gawker Media. Gawker has created other blogs, including Defamer, covering Los Angeles, and Valleywag covering Silicon Valley. Since folding those other blogs into Gawker.com itself, the site now uses the slogan "Gossip from Manhattan and the Beltway to Hollywood and the Valley".
Gawker was originally edited by Elizabeth Spiers, then by Choire Sicha, from August 2003 to August 2004. When Sicha became editorial director of Gawker Media in August, 2004, Jessica Coen was hired to be the site editor. The editor position was split between two co-editors in 2005, and Coen was joined by guest editors from a variety of New York City-based blogs; Matt Haber was engaged as co-editor for several months, then Jesse Oxfeld joined for longer. In July, 2006, Oxfeld's contract was not renewed, and Alex Balk was installed, while Chris Mohney, formerly of Gridskipper, Gawker Media's travel blog, was hired to become the managing editor, a newly created position.
24. Kotaku
Kotaku is a video games-focused blog. It is part of Gawker Media's "Gawker" network of sites, which also includes Gizmodo, Deadspin, Lifehacker, io9 and Jezebel. Named to CNET News' Blog 100,Kotaku is consistently listed in the top 40 of Technorati's Top 100.The site is currently headed by Brian Crecente; other editors include Brian Ashcraft, Michael McWhertor, Luke Plunkett, Michael Fahey, Owen Good and Stephen Totilo. Graduates of the site include Bungie Studios' Luke Smith, IGN.com's Jim Reilly, FastCompany.com's Adam Barenblat and Wired.com's John Brownlee (writing as Florian Eckhardt) and Eliza Gauger.
In August 2007, Allure Media launched Kotaku Australia. The site makes use of licensed content from Gawker Media in combination with original stories produced locally.On July 30, 2009, Kotaku Japan was launched by mediagene INC. The site will contain content from Gawker Media translated into Japanese, as well as Japanese-related gaming news.
25. RedState
On July 11, 2004, Josh Trevino, Ben Domenech, and Mike Krempasky turned on the lights at RedState, then RedState.org.
Shortly thereafter, Erick Erickson and Clayton Wagar signed on to help out and the site took off as the singular hub of conservative grassroots collaboration on the right.Today, RedState is the most widely read right of center blog on Capitol Hill, is the most often cited right of center blog in the media, and is widely considered one of the most influential voices of the grassroots on the right.
RedState was the first national political site to tout and endorse Marco Rubio for his Senate bid in Florida. We put Doug Hoffman on the national conservative radar in New York. Across the country we find grassroots candidates and work hard to get them elected.At RedState, we are conservatives in primaries and Republican in general elections and we aim to win.RedState’s day to day efforts are led by its Editor, Erick Erickson, and a talented and largely volunteer team of front page contributors. Anyone, however, can write at RedState. That makes RedState unique among right of center sites. Sign up for an account and you too can engage in the comments and post your own user diaries.
26. Revelife Christian Blog
Revelife is a blog, but more than that, we are an online community that exists to connect Christians with each other and with those who might not know or share our beliefs. We connect with each other through writing featured posts and discussing the topics of these posts with the community.
We want our content to be thought-provoking and challenging. We seek to feature original content on subjects of faith, current events, progressive culture, social injustice, arts and entertainment, and all things relevant to the modern Christian church.
We encourage dialogue that is constructive, honest and open-minded, and we don't want to limit the conversation to just those who agree with us. The discussion is open to all peoples of all walks of life, all beliefs, all opinions, all cultures, all races, all genders, and we value and appreciate open lines of mature, honest communication.
Our goal is to create a community of individuals with wider eyes and broader vision, well-rounded in our understanding and respectful of those who agree and disagree with our beliefs.
27. Thoughts
Thoughts.com is an evolving and unique blogging community that drives social conversation and connects like-minded people through its community forums and live discussions. The site is host to personal and engaging blogs and provides unlimited bandwidth for photo and video hosting, all being 100% free. Founder and CEO, Benjamin Ogden, launched the website in June 2007. Through a dedicated following and word of mouth, the site now has over 200,000 members. The website began as a place for people to share their thoughts, but has quickly developed into a worldwide community of passionate individuals. Whereas other social networking sites seem
designed to help members meet people and collect "friends", Thoughts.com is interested in facilitating engaging discussions.
Thoughts.com is a firm believer in giving back to the community any way that they can. They are inspired by the belief that there is one universal love shared by everyone. Thoughts.com strives for social progress and unity, while promoting charitable giving and passionate debate.
28. Mises Economics Blog
This site offers many thousands of hours of audio and video, thousands of free books in the literature section along with the full run of rare and wonderful journals, biographies and bibliographies of great economists, an active bookstore with outstanding titles as well as ties and shirts, and a full community with forums, chat, user blogs, and more. It is a city unto itself, and it is growing every day. We've placed some links to the right to get you going.
29. Travel Blog
Travel journals and photo blogs from world travelers. Maps, research and resources for the aspiring vagabond. Livin' large in the third world!
Hi, I'm Jason. I wrote Blogabond so I guess that makes me your host. Welcome!
I spend about 9 months a year on the road, chasing the sun around the world in search of good climbing and surfing. I've always kept a travel blog, even back when "blogs" were just called "personal websites". Blogabond started as a tool to help me update my blog from the road, and grew into a site where everybody that wants can get a travel blog of their own.
We've been around for several years now, but Blogabond.com is still growing. If you like what you see here, let us know. If you see anything that's not working, or have ideas to make anything work better, definitely tell us about it.
We're putting new features live all the time so if you ask for something, don't be surprised if it's up and working the next day. We hope you stick around!
30. Trippert
Trippert celebrates the handful of experiences that define a trip. When you look back on a two-week trip, there are always a few key moments that made it amazing: a lazy day at a beach cafe, an architectural wonder, a great party, a romantic vista, a street market. Whatever the moment is for you, it is what you will remember in five years and what we want you to share on Trippert.
We don’t expect to offer the traditional travelogue features – travel diaries, step-by-step maps that retrace a trip, etc. Instead, we want to provide the best tool for you to add great photos and articles, to discover unexpected places, to save what you like, and to leave inspired to take a trip.
Absolutely not. We’re nowhere near done. This site is still early in its beta - and we mean a "real" beta, not a "we've been in beta for three years" beta. We’re planning on adding more features, especially based on your ideas. So please give us feedback on things that break or how to make the site better by emailing us at info@trippert.com.
31. Weebly Blog
Weebly is a San Francisco, California based company that was founded in 2006 with the mission to help people put their information online quickly and easily. We now enable 3 million people to easily create personal sites and blogs or establish web presences for businesses, weddings, classrooms, churches, artistic portfolios, and more.
In early 2007, the Weebly founding team joined a seed funding program called Y Combinator and began working full-time to make the Weebly service spectacular. We were proud to be named one of TIME’s 50 Best Websites of 2007, and have continued to improve Weebly’s feature set and ease of use.
Weebly is backed by some of the most knowledgeable angel investors in Silicon Valley, including Steve Anderson of Baseline Ventures, Ron Conway (original investor in Google), Mike Maples (Floodgate), Aydin Senkut (Felicis VC), Rajeev Motwani and Paul Buchheit (creator of Gmail).
32. Tip’d Blog
Tip’d got started because two businessmen, Andy and Jimmy, enjoyed discussing investing news with each other. They wondered: why wasn’t there a better casual, friendly, online place to share and discuss current financial ideas and news?
So they started their own community to do just that. Tip’d is a place for investors — both amateur and professional — to meet, share, discuss, comment, and vote on what’s happening on both Wall Street and Main Street. We’re focused on building a smart, friendly, and open community, and we hope you join us! If you're a new user, you may want to check out our Frequently Asked Questions to help you get started.
33. Lady And The Blog
I’m Not Obsessed (INO) is an online destination which focuses on the entertainment and lifestyle needs of today’s woman. The INO family includes imnotobsessed.com and Lady and the Blog.
INO offers work and family friendly insight into the latest celebrity gossip, paparazzi photos, and up-to-the-minute pop culture news.
Lady and the Blog is all about FOOD, FAMILY and FASHION. The site focuses on beauty and fashion (including the celebrity look for less), is your one-stop-shop for the latest Fashion Week news and highlights product reviews and designer previews (beauty, fashion, parenting, and baby related). It also offers up great recipe finds and includes Vera’s personal blog.
34. Auto Blog
Autoblog obsessively covers the auto industry with news, reviews, podcasts, high quality photography and commentary about automobiles and the automotive industry.
John Neff joined the autoblog team in 2004 and quickly became its part-time lead . Following the purchase of Weblogs, Inc. by AOL in 2005, Neff became the full time editor-in-chief of Autoblog and has since guided the site to become the largest automotive news blog on the internet.
35. Apple Weblog
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, commonly known as TUAW, is a website devoted to tips, reviews, news, analysis and opinion on everything Apple. Founded in 2004, TUAW is part of Weblogs, Inc. and the AOL Tech Network.
TUAW's current (as of July 2009) editorial leads are Michael T. Rose and David Caolo. Christina Warren is the deputy lead and Victor Agreda, Jr. is the site's producer. There are 10 or more active writers on the site at any given time; contributors as of July 2009 include Mel Martin, Mike Schramm, Steven Sande, Michael Grothaus, Erica Sadun, Megan Lavey, Mat Lu, Chris Ullrich, Robert Palmer, Aron Trimble, Brett Terpstra, Jason Clarke, Sang Tang, Kevin Harter, Tim Wasson, Mike Jones, TJ Luoma, and Lauren Hirsch.
Past contributors to TUAW include Macworld.com's Scott McNulty, Obsessable's C.K. Sample III, Wired's Giles Turnbull, Computerworld's Lisa Hoover, and David Chartier.
36. Blog Huddle
SB Nation, short for SportsBlog Nation, was founded in 2003 (as AthleticsNation.com) by political activist Jerome Armstrong, freelance writer Tyler Bleszinski and Markos Moulitsas Zuniga (creator of Daily Kos). Today, the network features 300 sites with 410 paid writers.
Based in Washington, D.C., SB Nation focuses on developing high-quality grassroots sports sites on the web. The company offers 300 distinct team and sport-specific sites, each with its own name, URL, team colors, writers, and guidelines, such as Athletics Nation. The network covers most or all teams of the MLB, NBA, NFL, MLS, and NHL, as well as MMA, college sports, pro cycling, and other sports.
37. The ColourLovers Blog
COLOURlovers™ is an international community of designers and artists of all kinds who visit the site to get color inspiration, ideas and feedback for both their professional and personal projects. COLOURlovers' loyal members create colors, palettes and patterns to nurture their ongoing love affair with color. They join color-inspired groups and forums and share the love by commenting on their favorite creations. The COLOURlovers blog fuels the world’s online discussion of color with its entertaining posts on color trends and news, including interviews.
543,354 Members have created 3,651,866 Colors, 1,524,503 Palettes and 1,399,610 Patterns.
38. Computer Weekly Editor’s Blog
ComputerWeekly.com is the number one online destination for senior IT decision-making professionals.
It is dedicated to providing IT professionals with the best information, the best knowledge and the best range of solutions that will enable them to succeed in the industry.
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39. Node
In January 2007, patternboy appealed to the William Gibson discussion board in the hopes of creating a multi-author blog where other Gibson fans could post stories in the Spook Country universe as those who live there.
Since then, the original NODE has been hailed as “the future of literary criticism” by legendary critic John Sutherland and called “cheap A.I.” and “genuinely new” by William GIbson himself [see Sutherland | Gibson interview]. NODE also inspired a wikipedia article and a mirror site by Memetic Engineer [who edits a Zero History blog for Gibson's latest work published in September 2010].
40. Monsters and Critics
Monsters and Critics' aim is to provide users with a broad source of entertainment news and reviews as well as coverage of world news, technology, sport and science.
The entertainment focus is on movie/dvd/music reviews, celebrity news and TV features. The hard news side of the site aims to provide broad and in-depth international coverage, with as little political bias as possible.
Articles are provided by staff writers, news agencies and freelancers.
The categories are expanding all the time in both coverage and content volume as the site grows.
M&C also seeks to build a robust community and really get users involved. Whether through submitted articles or via talk back in existing articles.
The site's staff are mainly based in the USA, as are most of the readers. The site itself is part of WOTR Limited, which is co-owned by the site founders James Wray and Ulf Stabe.
41. Marginal Revolution
Marginal Revolution is a blog focused on economics run by economists Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, both of whom teach at George Mason University. The blog's slogan is "Small steps toward a much better world." The site is updated daily and focuses on current events and newly released reports or books. The "small steps" advocated by the slogan are usually free-market-based policies, ranging from new forms of property rights to following the results of behavioral economics studies. As of July 2005, Marginal Revolution had a BlogPulse rank of 88, the highest of any economics blog.
Several of the blog's postings by Cowen were revised and published together in the 2007 book Discover Your Inner Economist.
42. KnowHR Blog
KnowHR Blog serves up straight talk about human resources. We like simplicity in language. We don’t have much patience with HR jargon (unless we’re making fun of it). The program de jour is probably not going to be on the menu. Crappy business books are bound to be skewered. But it’s not all negative. We believe that people really want to do a good job. That there are ways to create motivation. And that communication is at the heart of it all. You’ll probably get that bias here.
KnowHR is a product of iFractal LLC, which provides organizational communication consulting to some of the leading companies in the world. We can be contacted at +1 215 772 0400. We’ll be delighted to talk to you. Our mailing address is 20 N 3rd Street, Suite 702, Philadelphia, PA, 19106, USA. You can even send e-mail to a real person: frank [dot] roche [at] ifractal [dot] com. “Info” doesn’t work here anymore.
43. Inhabitat Weblog
Inhabitat is a weblog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future. Inhabitat was founded in 2004 by New York City designer and architecture graduate Jill Fehrenbacher as a forum in which to investigate emerging trends in product, interior and architectural design. Mike Chino is the Managing Editor.
Inhabitat covers topics on emerging technologies, green building, energy efficient interior design, emerging sources of renewable energy and sustainable product design.
44. Incidental Economist
This is a blog (mostly) about the U.S. health care system and its organization, how it works, how it fails us, and what to do about it. All blog authors have professional expertise in an area relevant to the health care system. Main contributors Austin Frakt and Aaron Carroll are researchers and professors in health economics and health services. By avocation and as bloggers we’re actively trying to understand our health care system and make it better. Our goal is to help you understand it too, and to empower you with research-validated information so you can be a more informed observer of or participant in the ongoing debate over how to reform our system.
Sometimes we stray from health care, just to keep things lively. Posts on politics, family life, food, information technology, and personal finance are among the occasional non-health topics. Whether on health care or not, the unifying theme is thoughtful consideration of important ideas. Blog authors write on topics of interest that they know well. Few if any posts at The Incidental Economist are idle speculation or shallow observations.
The blog’s title, “The Incidental Economist,” was Austin Frakt’s pseudonym when he blogged anonymously on The Finance Buff (March-June 2009). Austin is a professional economist, but this is not an essential fact, and he prefers to be judged not for his title but for his work (read more about Austin and his work on his About page). An economist yes, but only incidentally so. The name remains though the blog now has multiple authors.
In August 2010, The Incidental Economist merged with Rational Arguments, Aaron Carroll’s former blog (where his archives remain). If Austin is an incidental economist, Aaron is more so. He’s actually a physician. You can read more about Aaron on his About page.
45. Idol Blog
Idolblog is an unofficial blog site dedicated to the talent search television show NZ Idol. Since its launch in 2004, the site has attracted a dedicated community and its popularity has led to national media coverage in New Zealand.
After the first season of NZ Idol ended in 2004, New Zealand Listener columnist Russell Brown cited Idolblog as an example of how fan-run sites can build communities around programmes more effectively than broadcasters, claiming the site generated "a degree of engagement that the official Idol website never achieved". The site was featured on the TV2 programme Flipside, and mentioned in the New Zealand Herald as a notable source of opinions on NZ Idol.
Idolblog won the 2004 NetGuide Web Award for Best Youth Site, and was a finalist in the 2006 NetGuide Web Award for Best Blog. In 2005, Nielsen//NetRatings ranked Idolblog as the sixth New Zealand website by average session duration.
Idolblog was created by Auckland-based couple Rachel Cunliffe, a website designer and University of Auckland senior tutor in the Department of Statistics, and Regan Cunliffe, who runs a web hosting and design company.
After the final season of NZ Idol aired in 2006, the site has remained as an online tribute to the show and its fanbase. Only parts of the website are still functional. The site now provides commentary and recaps during the American Idol seasons.
46. Hotair
HotAir.com is a leading news and commentary site online since 2006. It is part of the Townhall/HotAir network alongside Townhall.com and Townhall Magazine in a network of conservative websites and publications with over four million monthly readers.
The Editors
A.P. has been blogging for Hot Air since its inception in April 2006. He is cited in Mary Mapes’s book as one of the right-wing bloggers whose “wild and hateful claims” helped destroy CBS’s story about the Bush National Guard memos, which pleases him to no end.
Ed Morrissey joined Hot Air in February 2008. He can be reached at ed@hotair.com after writing at Captain’s Quarters since 2003. He also hosts a weekly radio show on Minnesota’s AM 1280 The Patriot every Saturday afternoon.
47. Brain Blogger
Brain Blogger is an award winning biomedical blog that covers topics from multidimensional biopsychosocial perspectives. We review the latest news and research related to neuroscience/neurology, psychology/psychiatry, and health/healthcare. Our blog serves as a focal point for attracting new minds beyond the basic sciences of the mind-and-brain into the biopsychosocial mode.
48. Vtiger Blogs
vtiger has the mission to bring affordable, enterprise IT solutions in CRM, Groupware and other areas. vtiger has been established with a vision to offer best-of-breed open source solutions that are integrated, validated, and certified with additional functional features augmented by our own contributions. We certify the distribution, and provide world-class support. vtiger products may be downloaded and used free of charge, with support and subscription services providing our revenue.
vtiger is a Private Limited corporation registered under Indian law. vtiger is also in the process of establishing a subsidiary in the US.
vtiger is an early stage venture funded by AdventNet, a leading Network Management Software provider, and other private angel investors.
49. Forrester Blogs
Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR) is an independent research company that provides pragmatic and forward-thinking advice to global leaders in business and technology. Forrester works with professionals in 19 key roles at major companies providing proprietary research, customer insight, consulting, events, and peer-to-peer executive programs. For more than 27 years, Forrester has been making IT, marketing, and technology industry leaders successful every day.
50. Science Blogs
From climate change to intelligent design, HIV/AIDS to stem cells, science education to space exploration, science is figuring prominently in our discussions of politics, religion, philosophy, business and the arts. New insights and discoveries in neuroscience, theoretical physics and genetics are revolutionizing our understanding of who are are, where we come from and where we're heading. Launched in January 2006, ScienceBlogs is a portal to this global dialogue, a digital science salon featuring the leading bloggers from a wide array of scientific disciplines. Today, ScienceBlogs is the largest online community dedicated to science.
We believe in providing our bloggers with the freedom to exercise their own editorial and creative instincts. We do not edit their work and we do not tell them what to write about.
We have selected our 80+ bloggers based on their originality, insight, talent, and dedication and how we think they would contribute to the discussion at ScienceBlogs. Our role, as we see it, is to create and continue to improve this forum for discussion, and to ensure that the rich dialogue that takes place at ScienceBlogs resonates outside the blogosphere.
ScienceBlogs is very much an experiment in science communication, and being first also means being first to encounter unforeseen obstacles. We are learning as we go (and as goes the blogosphere) and appreciate your understanding and patience.
ScienceBlogs was created by Seed Media Group. We believe that science literacy is a pre-condition for progress in the 21st century. At a time when public interest in science is high but public understanding of science remains weak, we have set out to create innovative media ventures to improve science literacy and to advance global science culture. To learn more about what we do and why we do it, please visit seedmediagroup.com.
51. Zen Habits
Zen Habits is about finding simplicity in the daily chaos of our lives. It’s about clearing the clutter so we can focus on what’s important, create something amazing, find happiness.
It also happens to be one of the Top 25 blogs in the world, with about 200,000 readers, and is uncopyrighted. Zen Habits features one or two powerful articles a week on: simplicity, health & fitness, motivation and inspiration, frugality, family life, happiness, goals, getting great things done, and living in the moment.
52. Terra Nova
Terra Nova is a weblog about virtual worlds. Virtual Worlds are also known as synthetics worlds, MMOs, MMORPGs, Social Worlds, MUDs, MOOs, and MUSHes. Terra Nova authors include scholars and practitioners from a variety of disciplines. Additional information about individual authors, contributors, and guests can be found via the hyperlinks on the right hand column of the main page.
Contacting us: To contact Terra Nova, please send an e-mail message to terranova -at- roaringshrimp -dot- com. (And be sure to use the appropriate typographic symbols for "-at-" and "-dot-"). Please do not put us on your general organizational PR lists unless you really want to annoy us.
Guest authors: We like to have guest authors, especially those who contribute new voices and perspectives to the blog. We prefer authors who have either published scholarship relevant to virtual worlds or are currently engaged professionally in the design of virtual worlds. If that sounds like you, please contact Terra Nova at the email address above.
53. Scotus Blog
SCOTUSblog is devoted to comprehensively covering the U.S. Supreme Court—without bias and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethical standards. The blog is provided as a public service and is sponsored by Goldstein, Howe & Russell, P.C.
Tom Goldstein and Amy Howe – husband and wife – founded the blog in 2002. Reporter Lyle Denniston joined a few years later. Other permanent and part-time staff members have joined over time. Significant contributions have come from other lawyers at Tom and Amy’s law firm, as well as their students at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. Now more than twenty people work on or write for the blog.
The blog generally reports on every merits case before the Court at least three times: prior to argument; after argument; and after the decision. In certain cases, we invite the advocates to record summaries of their arguments for podcasts. The blog notes all of the non-pauper cert. petitions that seek to raise a legal question which in Tom’s view may interest the Justices; Lyle gives additional coverage to particularly significant petitions. For the merits cases and the petitions we cover, we provide access to all the briefs.
Many of the blog’s posts go beyond coverage of individual cases. Each business day, we provide a “Round-up” of what has been written about the Court. We regularly publish broader analytical pieces. Lyle also comprehensively covers litigation relating to detainees in the “war on terrorism”—a topic of recurring interest at the Court. The blog carries significant analysis of nominees to the Court. In addition, various special projects—such as our thirty days of tributes to Justice Stevens—may span several weeks. Significant books related to the Court are the subject of our “Ask the author” series. A calendar lists significant dates for activity at the Court and programs relating to it. We also regularly publish statistics relating to the Term.
All of the material we collect and publish is easily accessible on the blog.
54. Blog Top Sites
BlogTopSites is the original blog ranking directory since 2004.
With thousands of links from blogs, BlogTopSItes has emerged as the center of the blogosphere.
Our mission is to connect bloggers and readers in a meaningful and natural way.
We are continuously looking to develop tools for blogs, to expand their reach and widen their exposure.
With thousands of links from blogs, BlogTopSItes has emerged as the center of the blogosphere.
Our mission is to connect bloggers and readers in a meaningful and natural way.
We are continuously looking to develop tools for blogs, to expand their reach and widen their exposure.
BlogTopSites offers an opportunity to get your blog discover as also with your profile, there are a lot bloggers and blogs out there and if you don't take the chance to submit and list your blog onto a high profile blog directory then chances are, your blog will only become an island without ships passing by.
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Submitting your blog also gives you an edge to have quality links or backlinks for your blog, it's more like a road that connects to your blog from a highway and it helps your blog to be on top of search engines and be discovered and thus having more chances of having free traffic from targeted visitors.
55. Everyday Christian
Everyday Christian was developed to help all Christians apply Biblical truth to everyday life situations. We believe in relevant, easy-to-understand, conversational communications that unite the Church. It is our desire to help you see God’s hand, God’s plan and understand God’s truth in the topics we cover.
Content appearing on EverydayChristian.com is contributed by a growing community of Christian authors, bloggers, pastors and teachers. This site includes thousands of blogs, articles and prayer and ministry resources.
Editorial: news@everydaychristian.com
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56. Zero History Blog
This is the ZeroHistory.net blog. Discussion and hyperlink cloud enhanced literacy criticism around the forth coming new novel by cyber punk / literacy fiction author William Gibson, which is currently in progress, and which is provisionally entitled Zero History.
57. Talking Points Memo
Talking Points Memo (TPM) is one of the most innovative political news organizations in the United States. The editors of Time magazine say TPM "has become the prototype of what a successful Web-based news organization is likely to be in the future." With its relentless focus on breaking news, original reporting and investigative journalism, TPM has made itself a must-read for DC insiders, the media who cover them and politically engaged people everywhere. And media watchers have taken notice too: In addition to many other awards and citations, TPM was the first online news organization to win the prestigious George Polk Award in 2008.
58. Freakonomics
It began when New York journalist and author Stephen J. Dubner went to Chicago to write about award-winning economist Steven D. Levitt for The New York Times Magazine. Dubner had been reluctant to take the assignment (he was in the middle of writing a book about the psychology of money). Levitt was reluctant to be shadowed by a journalist (but his mother loved the Times Magazine, so he gave in). The article came out, and led to an unexpected partnership. Levitt and Dubner wrote Freakonomics, a book about cheating teachers, bizarre baby names, self-dealing Realtors, and crack-selling mama’s boys. They figured it would sell about 80 copies. Instead, it took up long-term residency on the Times best-seller list, and went on to sell more than 4 million copies in 35 languages. Then they wrote SuperFreakonomics. It also became a worldwide best-seller. A lot of other stuff happened, too. A blog. A documentary film. Jon Stewart and Beauty and the Geek! Lectures. A pair of pants. A radio show. Not bad for a partnership born of such profound reluctance.
59. Got2BeGreen
The momentum of the Green movement has been slowed by everyone's preoccupation with the economic downturn, which is a shame, since Green done right can help save the other kind of green. Got2BeGreen is a blog devoted to highlighting ideas and products that are friendly not only to the planet but to your budget. For instance, did you know that the economic stimulus package includes dozens of tax credits for energy efficient products, everything from a $150 credit for a new furnace or boiler to $2,000 for a ground source heat pump? Or that you could be saving up to $100 by plugging your computer and electronics into a switchable power strip instead of letting components suck up electricity in standby mode? Or that you should never place hot food in the fridge because it uses up more energy? Got2BeGreen is a daily reminder that being eco-friendly is just plain smart.
60. BoingBoing
BoingBoing is a blog written by geeks. But we mean geeks in the best sense of the term — the smart, eternally curious seekers of information, not the smug know-it-alls with questionable personal hygiene. The self-described "Directory of Wonderful Things" is compiled by four regular bloggers and a revolving corps of guest geeks who present the bleeding edge of technology and fringe culture. BoingBoing is equally adept at uncovering can-you-believe-this photos ("Carved watermelon resembles human mouth!") as it is rallying readers to demand greater digital freedoms. The blog helped direct public pressure on Google and Yahoo! when the companies caved to China's Internet censors, and the site reserves a special spot in hell for music and film companies that prosecute small-time file sharers.
61. The Conscience of a Liberal
You'd need a Nobel Prize in economics to figure out what went wrong with the economy and how to get it back on track. Paul Krugman has one. The Princeton economics professor and New York Times columnist won a 2008 Nobel for his work on international trade theory, but it's his clear, penetrating blog entries that make the dismal science understandable and even entertaining for everyday folks. The Conscience of a Liberal acts as a kind of digital supplement to Krugman's twice-weekly Times column, providing expanded coverage and additional insights into the unfolding economic mess. Krugman was one of the few economists to predict the burst of the bubble before the numbers proved him right, reason enough to pay attention as he analyzes the government's efforts to get things back on track.
62. Crooks and Liars
Today, Crooks and Liars is among the most widely read political blogs on the Web, and Amato — now known in blog circles as "the Vlogfather" — is recognized as a pioneer of video blogging. The video selections — snippets from government press briefings, Congressional hearings and TV talk shows — are the sort of clips that Jon Stewart uses for fodder, but this is a chance to see the video in its original unintentionally humorous context. Amato leans liberal, but his blog is an equal opportunity attack dog, taking a bite out of the crooks and liars on both sides of the aisle.
63. Generacion Y
This blog delivers daily dispatches from one of the few places where it's still dangerous to be a blogger: Cuba. Yoani Sánchez, a 38-year-old Havana webmaster and editor, launched Generacion Y as what she calls "an exercise in cowardice," because it lets her say things she can't say out loud in Cuba. Sánchez documents the prevailing sense of "endophobia" in Cuba — fear of what will happen after Castro's reign ends — as well as the discontent of young Cubans eager for change. There are also oddly wistful reminisces of her youth, like receiving free candy and soda at school thanks to Soviet Union subsidies. Sánchez's own photos accompany many of the entries, which offer a fascinating and brave peek behind the curtain of a still-closed society.
64. Slashfood
Slashfood is a site for people who are serious about what they put in their bodies, the blogosphere's answer to "smart food" books like Michael Pollan's The Omnivore's Dilemma. Packed with useful food tips, Slashfood tells you what to do with leftover heavy cream (make cream scones, bread pudding, Alfredo sauce, or herbed sauce for fish) or how to feed yourself for $15 a week (hope you like oatmeal.) There are scads of recipes, which can be searched by protein or category (comfort food, organic) or holiday (Thanksgiving, Passover). In a squat-and-gobble culture, Slashfood is food for thought.
65. The Official Google Blog
The official Google blog is a self-serving site dedicated to advancing the viewpoints of a multi-billion dollar company. And guess what? It's great. That's because the company in question runs the (free) search engine that's on almost everybody's computer, and the blog is full of helpful tips on getting the most out of it. There's info on integrating headlines from Google News onto your webpage, a look at a new service that uses Google Maps to help you find local hotels, restaurants and entertainment and send the info to your mobile phone, and a description of Google Earth's stunning new service that lets users drop below the surface of the ocean and explore the nooks and crannies of the seafloor in 3D. There's even information on the occasional Google goof, like the recent glitch that mistakenly flashed the message "This site may harm your computer" beside every search result.
66. Synthesis
synthesis, written by engineer and marketer Shafeen Charania, is that rarest of digital creatures: a blog about ideas. The posts on synthesis are long by blog standards, and cover serious topics like education, healthcare, geopolitics and leadership, but Charania's writing is accessible and engaging. A recent post notes how Barack Obama's campaign strategy is similar to that espoused by Sun Tzu in The Art of War ("The clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy's will to be imposed on him") and points out some uncomfortable truths about why healthcare in the U.S. is broken ("Americans are horribly lazy and believe that pills can cure bad behavior.") synthesis is not just smarter than the average blog — it's practically at the head of the class.
67. The Bleat
bleat is the work of James Lileks, a columnist for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and serial collector of strange and wonderful pop cultural ephemera. The blog is a daily diary of a somewhat anal retentive Fargo native doing ordinary things like dropping his daughter off at school and going to meetings at work, punctuated by gleeful dumpster dives into pop culture history. There's an impressive and curiously evocative collection of old match books, lots of campy print and TV ads from the black-and-white era, a detailed look at weird currency from foreign countries and what it reveals about the local populace, and an alarmingly extensive gallery of interior decorating horrors from the 70s. If all of this seems like an exuberant waste of time, then you're getting the idea. It's the perfect way to kill that interminably long hour before you knock off work.
68. /Film
/Film (pronounced Slashfilm) was launched in 2005 as an alternative movie news and review blog, a kind of online bridge between the reel world and the real world. It's a great place for serious movie buffs to find out what their favorite actress or director plans to do next, to see a trailer or movie poster for a film that's months away from release, or to check out behind-the-scenes photos from films in production. The blog takes movies and video games seriously, but isn't afraid to call a dog a dog ("SEGA Announces Iron Man 2 Video Game; Will Probably Suck"). Slashfilm is especially strong at evaluating the indie scene, providing deep coverage of the SXSW and Sundance film festivals, and a weekly column provides a handy roundup of the latest DVD releases.
69. Deadspin
Deadspin is a blog for the sports fan who loves the game but realizes that there's plenty of action happening off the field. Averaging more than 10 million page views per month, Deadspin is the web's most popular sports blog, a reliably snarky sports reporter that pretty much ignores the score of last night's game and focuses instead on the controversies and scandals that cling to modern sports heroes like Saran Wrap. Deadspin even breaks the occasional sports story; — it was first to report that Mark McGwire's brother is shopping a book that claims the baseball slugger first started taking steroids in 1994. Deadspin calls out not only sports stars, but also those who revere them, in particular TV announcers. The blog's "Media Approval Ratings" feature invites readers to sound off on various sports media personalities, an exercise which often turns into an online public flogging.
70. Dooce
Blogging has been around less than a decade, but Heather Armstrong can rightly call herself an old hand. The 33-year old Salt Lake City resident launched Dooce.com back in February 2001, and had a brief moment in the national spotlight a year later when she was fired from her job because she had written about people in her workplace. Years later, dooce is still going strong, a highly personal and often funny account of parenthood, pregnancy, struggles with depression and cancer, and life as a former Mormon living among Mormons. Dooce's strength is its unflinching honesty. There are plenty of blogs out there that recount the wonders of pregnancy, but few bloggers manage to cut to the chase as quickly as Armstrong: "Sometimes when I'm trying to roll out of bed in the morning I'm like, whose boobs are these?"
71. Pioneer Woman
A decade ago, Ree Drummond moved from Los Angeles, where she wore black pumps to work everyday, to live on a dusty cattle ranch in the Midwest. Her blog is a chronicle of her fitful transition from a spoiled city girl to a homey ranch wife, sort of a digital age version of "Green Acres." There are posts about chipping dried cow poop from boots, frying calf nuts and a running "wild tale of romance and cow manure," recounting how she met her rancher husband and became a pioneer wife. Drummond's blog is no hayseed effort; it's a slick-looking site that posts her photography, home remodeling tips, poetry, and recipes of dishes she's whipped up in her own kitchen. (When she makes ranch-style chicken, it's the real deal.) The blog also features periodic "Give That Photo a Name" contests, with the winners receiving real prizes. Like Green Acres, this is the place to be for farm living.
72. Said the Gramophone
A daily sampler of "really good songs" as judged by the three Canadian music fans who compile the site. Launched in March 2003, Said the Gramophone was one of the first mp3 blogs that actually let you download and listen to the music being described. And when it comes to music, hearing is believing. How many times have you bought a CD on the recommendation of a magazine or newspaper review only to find the music sounded nothing like the description? Said the Gramophone solves that problem, although you have to act fast on listening to the music — all songs are removed from the blog within a week or two of posting. The capsule reviews are reliably thoughtful with occasional forays into the surreal, and most songs are accompanied by a link in case you want to buy them immediately. It's a great, low-risk way to get turned on to new music.
73. Detention Slip
This blog will send you over the edge. Detention Slip bills itself as "your daily cheat sheet for education news," but almost all of the news is bad in a really big way. Consider these recent entries: "Second grader brings heroin to school," "Texas schools allow teachers to carry guns," and "Student Banned After Setting Teen's Turban on Fire." The blog solicits juicy tips from readers, and it's clear the site has a strong following among teachers who enjoy reading about students worse than their own. There's also a contest that asks teachers to submit their most outrageous or ridiculous detention slips. Telling tales out of school has seldom been this entertaining.
74. Bad Astronomy
Bad Astronomy is the work of Phil Plait, a good astronomer who used to work on the Hubble Space Telescope, a device which started off bad but ended up good. Got it? Plait is a born skeptic — his blog regularly battles the misuses of science in daily life, in addition to praising the wonders of legitimate research. Whether its debunking the theory that the measles vaccine causes autism or taking on conspiracy theorists who insist that NASA faked the moon landings, Plait is a voice of reason amidst the nonsense of non-science. Bad Astronomy is also a reliable guide to the latest in good astronomy, like the stunning recent photos of Centaurus, an elliptical galaxy with a massive black hole at its core.
75. PerezHilton.com
This highly trafficked gossip blog, written by sometimes actor and fulltime celebrity hound Mario Lavandeira, mines the usual Jessica Simpson/Brad Pitt/Jennifer Anniston territory. But blog rivals like TMZ.com do a much better job at uncovering real celeb scoops and providing original video and documents. Leaving PerezHilton to serve up the stalest dish of all: yesterday's celebrity news.
76. Daily Kos
Founded in May 26, 2002, Daily Kos is the premier online political community with 2 million unique visitors per month and 300,000 registered users. It is at once a news organization, community, and activist hub. Among luminaries posting diaries on the site are President Jimmy Carter, Senator Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and dozens of other senators, congressmen, and governors. Even more exciting than that, however, are the hundreds of thousands of regular Americans that have used Daily Kos to shape a political world once the exclusive domain of the rich, connected, and powerful.
77. Post Secret
PostSecret's premise is old by now — anonymous people send in secrets on postcards that are scanned and posted online. But the endlessly fascinating array of responses makes this blog worth a return visit. PostSecret has even branched out beyond the Web. After an anonymous illegal immigrant posted pledging to jump off the Golden Gate Bridge because the person "didn't belong," thousands of fans of the blog joined a Facebook group to urge the person to reconsider. Some devotees even held a rally at the bridge. Was the post real? Did the person see the response? The fact that there is no answer to these questions only adds to the blog's mystique.
78. Climate Progress
Climate Progress is dedicated to providing the progressive perspective on climate science, climate solutions, and climate politics. It is a project of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization.
Climate Progress began as a hobby but quickly became a full-time passion for Joe Romm, a physics Ph.D. from MIT who worked for the Rockefeller Foundation during the Cold War, focusing on global security threats, and later at the Department of Energy. After Romm's brother lost a house during Hurricane Katrina, Romm took it upon himself to research whether his brother should rebuild in the New Orleans region. He has been writing about the topic ever since. Viewing climate change through the prism of national security, Romm analyzes breaking energy news and the relevant research, but most important, he challenges the beliefs and conclusions of the mainstream media on climate-change issues. Go get 'em, Joe.
79. HiLobrow
HiLobrow is a p-HiLo-sophical blog edited by Matthew Battles and Joshua Glenn.
Pop culture beautifully pops in this hip discussion of obscure writers, amazing art and the kind of cool but forgotten songs that only come to you in the shower. There seem to be few boundaries as to where HiLobrow's conversations can go, but that's a big part of its charm. It is a potpourri of intellectualism, culture trends, unexpected artistic creations and out-of-the-box personalities. The blog's tagline is "Middlebrow is not the solution." We couldn't agree more.
80. Hipster Runoff
HIPSTER RUNOFF is a blog worth blogging abt, created by Carles that is trying 2 stay relevant. It blogs abt buzzbands, alt_stuff, and memes.
HIPSTER RUNOFF is a blog worth blogging about.
HIPSTER RUNOFF is commonly referred to as 'HRO.'
Some claim that HIPSTER RUNOFF is 'no longer relevant.'
HIPSTER RUNOFF is maintained by 'Carles', an 'anonymous' webblogger.
In 2010, HIPSTER RUNOFF was named blog of the year by Time Magazine.
81. Jason Kottke’s Blog
Jason Kottke's blog is a grab bag of multimedia trivia. A YouTube clip from a 1936 documentary on mail trains? Check. A copy of an 1892 menu, fascinating not only for its price structure but for its customers' bill of rights? Yup. Touting only smart, stimulating items worth adding to the public sphere, Kottke.org is part odd-news aggregator and part archival treasure dig — consistently one of the most surprising domains on the Web.
82. Cake Wrecks
Think of this blog not just as a collection of baking disasters but accidental art in the kitchen, at once spectacular and bizarre. There's the least festive holiday cake of all time and the most disturbing life-size baby cake to exist outside a nightmare. And while those might be among the most peculiar and hilarious of the blog's discoveries, Cake Wrecks also pays homage to those cakes that are so beautifully elaborate that they earn our admiration and even envy. One killer example: the Father's Day cake that looks like a hyper-realistic tool set. Finally, the wreck photos often come with hilarious stories on how the disaster came to be — enriching the schadenfreude. Above all, this blog never lets you forget that failure can be fun.
83. Oatmeal
The Oatmeal produces zany screen-length visual aids in a cartoon style. There are quizzes too. A personal favorite? The one that asks how many Justin Biebers you could take in a fight.
Everything on this site was written, drawn, and coded by Matthew Inman.
The Oatmeal's real name is Matthew and he lives in Seattle, Washington. He subsists on a steady diet of crickets and whiskey. He enjoys long walks on the beach, gravity, and breathing heavily through his mouth. His dislikes include scurvy, typhoons, and tapeworm medication.
84. Everything Everywhere
In 2007, Gary Arndt — onetime Internet consultant and online gaming devotee — decided to pull up his roots and set sail around the globe. Determined to travel expansively, he started posting his experiences online. The result is a widely followed blog, Everything Everywhere, that is anchored by his inimitable personality. In the three years since he left the Midwest, he has ventured to some 60 countries, posting photos, stories and recommendations along the way. It has become a full-time endeavor, and he now uses podcasts, Twitter and even Foursquare to share his tales of New Zealand glaciers, Easter Island and Egypt. Part photo album, part travel guide and part experiential public diary, his blog is best followed from a metropolitan office cubicle, so workers can fantasize about where in the world Gary Arndt is. Maybe one day we'll follow his lead on our own exploration of the wonders of the world.
85. The Sartorialist
The blog that spawned a thousand fashion-blogger wannabes, Scott Schuman's the Sartorialist is still the best chronicle of street fashion. The premise is simple: well-lit photos of well-dressed people, accompanied by minimal commentary. But it is the looks that Schuman manages to collect from all over the world that makes his blog a winner.
86. Information is Beautiful
On Information Is Beautiful, you'll learn oodles about, say, that nasty oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico or find a topographical map of narcotics use in San Francisco or see a carbon-dioxide graphic contrasting the way America drives now vs. a possible electric-car future. Overseen by David McCandless, a writer and designer based in London, the blog's clean design, probing nature and impressive number crunching keeps us coming back.
87. The Daily Kitten
The Daily Kitten has emerged as puppy cam 2.0 — a daily, dependable onslaught of cuteness. Every day at precisely 10:07 a.m. E.T., a new photo is posted. But even more touching are the stories that accompany the photos and the board discussions that run alongside the daily updates — chat rooms that touch upon everything from animal health to adoptions. The Daily Kitten has grown in scope to be a respite for the animal lover and an indulgence for all of us who are addicted to cute.
88. Double X
Slate's blog Double X — an extension of the site's XX Factor blog — the day's news is run through a frank and thoughtful female perspective. Serving as everything from a virtual book club and sex-discussion group to a parenting chat room, Double X's many contributors are acutely aware of any story that marginalizes or stereotypes the lives of women. Contributors have weighed in on prescription-drug ads that medicalize female sexuality, research on the impact of children on marital satisfaction and the controversy surrounding Abby Sunderland, the 16-year-old girl who was rescued during her attempt to sail around the world solo.
89. Strobist
Strobist teaches you how to be a good photographer. The project of a former photojournalist, Strobist explains techniques beyond point and shoot, with an emphasis on lighting on the cheap. Think cinematic-type images on a film-school budget. Even if you're loath to venture beyond taking pictures on your phone, the blog's collection of photographs is fun to flip through.
90. The Awl
The Awl intends to encourage a daily discussion of the issues of the day—news, politics, culture (and TV!)—during sensible hours of the working week.
The website is run by two editors, Alex Balk and Choire Sicha, and supported by the contributions of excellent folks from near and far. You may reach the editors at notes@theawl.com.Its publisher is David Cho, and you are welcome to contact him regarding any sort of business activity, including advertising and other opportunities for your brand. You may reach him at advertise@theawl.com.
An "awl," by the way, is a "pointed tool used for punching small holes," often utilized in wood and leather craft. Here is how you pronounce the word "awl," both with UK and US accents. Finally, our motto, "Be Less Stupid," is intended with some humor.
91. The Consumerist
The Consumerist empowers consumers by informing and entertaining them about the top consumer issues of the day. We are a leading online resource for consumer-driven advice about dealing with everything from non-existent customer service to onerous cell-phone contracts to ever-shrinking (and ever-more-expensive) grocery products. The Consumerist is published by Consumer Media LLC, a not-for-profit subsidiary of Consumers Union, and takes no outside advertising.
The Consumerist highlights the persistent, shameless gaffes of modern consumerism - and the latest scams, rip-offs, hot deals and freebies. We also encourage our readers to tell us about their everyday experiences with absurdities of consumer culture - and suggest ways for them to fight back.
92. Pitchfork
Pitchfork has brought together a sprawling audience without losing ties to its roots. It features some of the most interesting, influential music writing online — smart without being snobby, critical but not pretentious — and remains one of the single best places to discover new music before all your friends jump on the bandwagon. In this way, it's a trend setter for tastemakers. Looking for proof of Pitchfork's appeal? Its annual music festival in Chicago has rapidly emerged as the cool kids' alternative to Lollapalooza.
93. FailBlog
If things seem to be going too perfectly in your world, you can visit FAIL Blog and wallow in mistakes of all kinds, since the blog is an open-source clearinghouse of flubs and fiascos. Since being purchased by Pet Holdings Inc. in April 2008, the site has won its share of Webby Awards. But as time goes by, what originality or distinctive voice can FAIL Blog provide to keep visitors coming? After all, stupidity wears thin after a while. The blog is almost entirely dependent on user-generated content, and as soon as those users shift their attention — and submissions — to another flap-based Internet wonder, the party's over. Or in other words: FAIL Blog fail.
94. Regret the Error
Regret the Error reports on media corrections, retractions, apologies, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the press. It was launched in October 2004 by Craig Silverman, a freelance journalist and author based in Montreal.
Mistakes happen, especially in the media. Everyday, thousands of bonehead mistakes are printed in newspapers and magazines and go out over the airwaves, and only a tiny fraction of the errors are ever corrected. Regret the Error is the media consumer's revenge, a regularly updated compendium of media mistakes big and small. The big mistakes get plenty of coverage elsewhere — the plagiarized newspaper columns, the fabricated news sources, the memoirs that are — how shall we put this — totally made up. Regret the Error covers the big whoppers, but it really shines on highlighting the small stuff that the media gets wrong. Small, that is, unless you're the person being written about. There's a useful yearly roundup of errors, corrections, and plagiarisms, and some of that material has been compiled into a book. Read 'em and weep.
95. Bad Jocks
Bad Jocks, which bills itself as "Where COPS meets SportCenter" turns to the world of sports and poses a simple question: Who did something dumb today? Never mind the celebrated cases of stupid jock behavior — Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens, and scores of major leaguers abusing steroids and then lying about it, NBA referee Tm Donaghy caught betting on games he officiated. Bad Jocks has all of the big stories but then drills deeper into even more unsettling territory: the Detroit Lions assistant coach arrested after ordering a meal at Wendy's drive thru window naked, the golfer arrested for DUI in a Golf Cart after leaving the course and driving eight miles, the mom who sued her son's Little League Coach for not teaching him how to slide properly. A wicked chart rates the all-time highest BAC (breath alcohol content) levels of sports figures arrested for drunk driving. Number one on the list is former Detroit Tiger's broadcaster Lary Sorensen, whose 0.48% blood alcohol content reading easily cleared the fences of the 0.8% legal limit.
96. Gigazine
Created by Satoshi Yamasaki and Mazaki Keito of Osaka, Gigazine is Japan's most popular blog, a sumptuous daily feast of eye candy bundled in a bright shiny wrapper. Gigazine previews the latest trends in cell phones, video games, junk food, fashion, toys, and consumer products from Japan and across the Pacific rim. If you're not checking out Gigazine regularly, you probably missed the spiffy David Beckham condoms from China (which presumably let the users "bend it like Beckham"), or the full sized luxury sports car model knitted entirely from wool, or the new chili flavored shrimp being served at Asian Kentucky Fried Chicken outlets. Gigazine is not some Westernized view of Japanese pop culture; it's the exotic East proudly presenting its shiny self to the world. And from here, it looks very, very cool. Since the blog is written entirely in Japanese, you'll need to view the text through an online translator such as Google. The often less-than perfect translations add another weird layer to a decidedly foreign experience.
97. Blog Di Beppe Grillo
Beppe Grillo, a popular Italian comedian, actor, and political satirist, writes one of the few non-English language blogs that's become wildly popular worldwide. That's because Grillo speaks the international language of outrage. On a typical day, Grillo's blog may call for Germany to declare war on Italy, or failing that, for Italy to boycott the upcoming Olympic Games in China, or for a prominent politician to stop acting like a "Psycho-dwarf." Most of the outrage has a political point — the Beppe blog features a regularly updated list of members of the Italian Parliament who have been convicted, and frequently calls for tainted politicians to resign from office. Last September, Grillo used his blog to rally marchers in nearly 300 Italian towns for his "Fuck Off Day," to encourage citizens to forcibly remove from office members of the Italian Parliament who have criminal convictions. The rally was such a hit that a second round is planned for April 25th. America could use a political satirist fueled by this sort of outrage, but for now, there's Beppe.
98. Ace of Spades HQ
The conservative/ libertarian answer to the Daily Kos, the Ace of Spades HQ, (AoS) has been going strong since 2003, and recently recorded its 10 millionth hit. Like most political blogs, the anonymous Ace comments on the day's political news and provides links. But the anonymous Ace who writes the blog isn't afraid to mix it up; AoS is full of snarling, flat-out funny commentary, videos, cartoons, pictures, and gratuitous insults. And while reliably conservative, AoS is no shill; last summer, the blog called President Bush "incompetent" and "embarrassingly dimwitted" and urged him to retire. The quote from H.L. Mencken in the AoS banner pretty much sums up Ace's mission: "'Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats."
99. Tree Hugger
TreeHugger is the most complete of the hundreds of grassroots green blogs; think of it as the Wal-Mart of sustainability, if you can imagine Wal Mart being sustainable. It's a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information, and it ranks among the top 20 blogs in traffic worldwide. Part of what makes it a good read is that Treehugger isn't trying to change the world overnight; more like one post at a time. There are scores of tips on how to reduce your environmental footprint while not radically changing your lifestyle—things like getting out of the bottled water habit, using a pressure cooker to reduce energy consumption, and buying and cooking food in bulk. One word of warning: steel yourself for plenty of guest appearances on the blog from eco-stars like Bono. Try to think of it as a form of recycling.
100.Radosh.net
DANIEL RADOSH is a contributing editor The Week, a national news and opinion digest, and, if it ever starts publishing again, at Radar. As a freelance writer, I have appeared in more publications than most people have read. From 2000 to 2001 I was a senior editor at Modern Humorist. Less recently, I was a staff writer and editor at Spy, and a weekly columnist at The New York Press. Links to some of my work are here. I have contributed to several books of humor, including 101 Damnations, Mirth of a Nation, and Rough Draft. If you're a potential employer, or just obsessive, have a look at the formal résumé.
RADOSH.NET began as an repository for my published, unpublished, and remixed writing, but it has been more or less completely taken over by the blog.
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