Blogs 101

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. . . . Terry Teachout's About Last Night covers culture in New York and elsewhere. Interesting blogroll of culture sites, too. . . .Cyberjournalist.net looks at the effects of the Internet and new technology on the media. . . . Paidcontent.org looks at the economics of the Web. . . . ScotusBlog and the related Supreme Court Nomination Blog are keeping a close watch on the proceedings in the court. . . . Crooks and Liars and politics, with a liberal slant. With a great collection of video clips. . . .

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 onBayosphere
• 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

• PostSecret People mail their secrets -- touching, funny, scary -- on homemade postcards.