The 10 Most Useful Blogs
Blogs are a part of our daily lives now. Some blogs are absolute must-reads for everyone who wants to know what’s going on, both online and off. PC Magazine reported ten best blogs that get regular updates.
1. Boing Boing
www.boingboing.net
RSS: http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag
The self-described “directory of wonderful things” needs little introduction. It’s arguably the most popular blog on the Web. It’s run by a group of editors including sci-fi author Cory Doctorow and journalist David Pescovitz, all with other jobs, none of which ever seem to interfere with their making multiple posts a day to link to whatever tickles them. Or enrages them. Or just looks odd. The addition of the BoingBoingTV video features and a spin-off site for gadgets just widens the cross-section of culture they cover. Art projects, weird furniture, e-voting, music album art, food waste, book reviews, and toys of the fifties were just a few items found on the top page one day in May.
2. TMZ.com
www.tmz.com
RSS: http://www.tmz.com/rss.xml (Go here for feeds by category.)
Celebrity gossip that is vetted for accuracy? You had us at “celebrity gossip.”
TMZ has made a name for itself since that night in 2006 when Mel Gibson’s arrest report appeared on its site the same day. Since then it has gone on to break many a story that we all probably wish we knew less about—Britney and K-Fed’s divorce or Anna Nicole Smith’s death, for example—yet as a nation we cannot look away. Our celebs are our royalty, and watching them wallow in the mud of nip-slips and up-skirts and excessive weight gain makes us all feel just a smidgen better about ourselves. Or dirty, you pick. You can’t beat a site with a feature like “‘Memba Her?!” It’s a tribute to just how bad plastic surgery and/or age can be to the celebs of the past.
3. io9
www.io9.com
RSS: http://io9.com/index.xml
Another part of the Gawker Media family of group blogs, io9 has established itself as a geek haven by focusing on “futurism, science, and science fiction” with equal parts reverence for the cool bits (think the current Battlestar Galactica and books by William Gibson and bizarre Bollywood sci-fi) and disdain for the trite, formulaic bits (especially from all the Stars: Wars, Trek, and Gate).
4. TechCrunch
www.techcrunch.com
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/Techcrunch
As TechCrunch’s founder and coeditor, Arrington is upfront about the fact that most of his friends are entrepreneurs and that he sometimes invests in and advises companies he writes about; conflict of interest isn’t a bug—its’ a feature! It’s definitely a good position to get the dirt and deals regarding Web 2.0 start-up companies, and beyond. Well beyond, since the brand is now a network of sites, including an industry conference, a podcast, a job board, a wiki about technology companies, a site about mobile computing, and another site for gadgets and hardware.
5. TreeHugger
www.treehugger.com
RSS: http://www.treehugger.com/index.xml
The site, part of same network as Discovery Channel, leaves no topic unturned if it touches on the environment and keeping it healthy, from the food we grow (organically) and eat, to the all-important impact of technology , the always interesting politics of saving planet Earth, and even the occasional celebrity impact.
6. The Consumerist
www.consumerist.com
RSS: http://consumerist.com/index.xmlWe are a consumer culture. We buy, we sell—but mostly we buy. Such transactions are not always without issue. When you’ve got a problem with a company or corporate giant screwing you in the course of your purchase, who do you turn to? Not the A-Team. Try…The Consumerist.
7. Work in Progress
http://www.time-blog.com/work_in_progress/
RSS: http://feeds.feedburner.com/timeblogs/work_in_progress
According to the bio on Time magazine’s Work in Progress blog, writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen blogs about work “because TV was taken.” Maybe that’s good, as she does a great job of aggregating advice and info for U.S. office drones.
8. Blog of a Bookslut
http://www.bookslut.com/blog/
RSS: http://www.bookslut.com/blog/index.rdf
Remember reading? Used to be big before those moving pictures and idiot boxes became a never-dying fad in the last century, and don’t get us started on the kids today with their SMS and LOLs! Perhaps blogging, what with all the writing involved, has become the new literature? Okay, not even the editors at Bookslut would probably agree with that.
9. the kitchn
www.thekitchn.com
RSS: http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/atom.xml
There are two kinds of cooks. Those who embrace the kitchen with gusto, and those who prefer to eat out. the kitchen attempts to cater to both. After all, we all have to eat.
10. DIY Life
www.diylife.com
RSS: http://www.diylife.com/rss.xml (Go here for feeds by category)
DIY Life—one of the many sites on AOL’s Weblogs, Inc. Network—is all about the do-it-yourself how-to. Not the total geek-out how-to you might find at a site like Instructables, but the how-tos of everyday life. Think “how to chill a bottle in just 10 minutes”—that kind of necessary and little known how-to.
Source: PCMag
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