To get the feel of Web logs and blogging, visit some of these sites. Most blogs carry links to other blogs on related topics or that the author likes (known as a blogroll). This page is under development; feel free to suggest your own finds. Business and sports are being built, and suggestions are particularly welcome.
Recent additions:
Footnoted.org reads corporate
filings and news releases more closely than most people.
Collections & Rankings
- Technorati blog search and the Technorati Top 100 list of most linked-to blogs
- Feedster Search for news feeds and blogs by topic
- Bloglines (Registration required.) Find blogs by topic (or name) and read them here
- Blogpulse, from Intelliseek, lets you search blogs and automatically finds trends
- Truth Laid Bear Traffic Rankings Most-visited blogs
- Flickr Not quite blogging, but fascinating. Storytelling through photo sharing.
General
- BoingBoing "A directory of wonderful things" from around the Internet
- Gawker Gossip and snarkiness about media, showbiz, New York City, etc.
- Defamer Similar in tone to Gawker, but with a West Coast slant
Technology & Media
- Romenesko The blog all journalists know
- Media Bistro Sort of a blog. Its Fishbowl is more of a blog.
- John Battelle's Searchblog Media, technology, Internet search, etc.
- Dan Gillmor's blog Well-regarded former columnist for San Jose Mercury, now on Bayosphere
- Cyberjournalist.net Jonathan Dube for the Online News Assocation
- BuzzMachine Jeff Jarvis talks a lot about new media (and himself).
- PressThink Jay Rosen of N.Y.U. on The Media vs. the press
- SimonWaldman.net Newspapers and new media from a British perspective
- Scripting News Dave Winer tracks the world of blogging and technology and has some interesting (and some cranky) thoughts.
- TheJasonCalacanisWeblog Blog about blogs from the chairman of Weblogs Inc.
- Paidcontent.org Looks at the economics of the Web
- Journal-isms Richard Prince, of the Maynard Institute, pays attention to diversity issues in journalism.
- Media Law Robert J. Ambrogi
Technology Toys & Cool Things
- Gizmodo From the Gawker empire
- Engadget Gadgets of all sorts
- Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting "Stuff from the intersection of design, culture and technology"
- Cool Tools Kevin Kelly finds all manner of intriguing things.
- Josh Spear "The pulse of cool."
- Treehugger Environmental design and consciousness
Politics & Government
- Daily Kos Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. One of the best-known liberal blogs.
- Talking Points Memo Joshua Micah Marshall. Widely read liberal blog from a contributor to Washington Monthly and The Hill.
- MyDD Jerome Armstrong and Chris Bowers.
- Eschaton Atrios, aka Duncan Black. "Proud member of the reality-based community."
- AmericaBlog John Aravosis. Politics from the left; one of the key sources of info in the Gannon/Guckert affair.
- Crooks and Liars and politics, with a liberal slant. And a great collection of video clips.
- Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan on conservative, religious and gay issues. (He tried to stop but couldn't.)
- InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds. One of the best-known conservative blogs.
- Kausfiles Mickey Kaus's mostly political blog on Slate
- Little Green Footballs
- Power Line One of the more widely read blogs from the right.
- Iraqi Bloggers Central Good collection of links to Iraqi bloggers.
- Mystery Pollster Mark Blumenthal's intelligent analysis of polls and polling.
- Wonkette Washington gossip (also from the Gawker empire).
- Global Voices gathers some interesting views from blogs around the world.
- ScotusBlog and the related Supreme Court Nomination Blog are keeping a close watch on the proceedings in the court.
- Also see Traditional Media, below
'Traditional Media'
- Altercation. Eric Alterman. MSNBC.
- Howard Fineman MSNBC
- Bloggermann Keith Olbermann. MSNBC.
- Citizen Journalists MSNBC's experiment in participatory journalism
- LOOSE wire Jeremy Wagstaff, Dow Jones
- The Corner From National Review
- Hit and Run From Reason
- Editor's Blog John Robinson, Greensboro, N.C., News Record. The paper is conducting a widely-commented-on experiment in increasing communication with its readers. Other News-Record blogs can be reached from this page.
- The Politicker Ben Smith, New York Observer
- Tapped from the American Prospect
- CJRDaily Updates from the Columbia Journalism Review (successor to its Campaign Desk)
- The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington's celebrity blogfest
- Blinq Daniel Rubin, a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, blogs for its Web site
- Blogspotting from Stephen Baker and Heather Green of Business Week. (You can find other Business Week blogs from there.)
Business
- Seeking Alpha and The Internet Stock Blog News and analysis by David Jackson, a money manager and former tech stock analyst
- Footnoted.org reads corporate filings and news releases more carefully than most people
New York
- Curbed Everyone's favorite New York City topic: real estate
- Gothamist
- About Last Night Terry Teachout writes about culture in New York and elsewhere. Interesting blogroll of culture sites, too.
- NYC Bloggers Thousands of other New York City bloggers, organized by subway line
Food
- The Food Section Josh Friedland. With a New York slant.
- Gothamist Food From the Gothamist folks
- Saute Wednesday Bruce Cole.
- Chocolate and Zucchini Clotilde writes about food from Paris.
- A Full Belly Alaina Browne.
Design
- Apartment Therapy Maxwell and Oliver Ryan. Tips and things for living better in small spaces
- Core77 Industrial design
- Design*Sponge A little breathless, but some interesting finds.
- Land and Living
- MocoLoco Modern design from all over
- Reluct.com Design and architecture from a team in the Netherlands.
- Treehugger Design with an environmental slant
Miscellany
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PostSecret People mail their secrets -- touching, funny, scary -- on homemade postcards.
