What are some good blogs to read?

In My Humble Opinion
1

I read lifehacker religiously. Best Article Every Day is also pretty good.

Any others out there?

2

Schuyler’s Monster which I found through this Board years ago. The last couple of posts have been pedestrian, as happens in any life. If you read through, it is the evolving tale of a man coming to terms with the fact that his beloved child has an incurable disorder. It is not squeamish or mawky, but an honest exploration of his reactions to the setbacks and triumphs.

And the odd thing, given the subject, is that it is uplifting. Possibly because the author is determined to give his child tools to cope, and raise her to be resilient, so cotton-wool is out.

Also SmellyBlog 'cos I love perfumes and their technicalities. Good links into the perfume blogsphere from this one too.

3

Boing Boing is the best general-interest blog I read. It’s very artistic and only mildly techy.

WFMU’s Beware of the Blog is a great music-centric blog and a wonderful place to download MP3s.

Dark Roasted Blend is a wonderful image-centric blog. (Be warned that it frequently has huge pages that inline many huge, high-resolution images. It is also addictive.)

Failblog usually wins. It’s my little dose of schadenfreude.

I also keep up with Reddit, but that’s more of an aggregator than a blog in its own right.

4

I like to visit

Metafilter http://www.metafilter.com
Ask Metafilter http://ask.metafilter.com

These are mostly pictures, though:

I can has cheezburger http://icanhascheezburger.com/
I has a hotdog http://ihasahotdog.com/
Cute Overload www.cuteoverload.com
Malingering’s World http://www.therealmalingering.com/
Dogblob Dogblog

5

ditto on boingboing
I also read:
io9.com is the best blog for science fiction related stuff
Ask Kristen and Michael Ausiello are to great sources for entertainment news and spoilers
and Digg.com while not technically a blog is a great way to find interesting and popular articles on blogs of every topic

6

I would recomend http://www.ieet.org/ , a near-future site

7

+1 on boingboing.

Here’s my list:

  • boingboing (read via RSS)
  • Dave Barry’s blog is wild and wonderful fluffy humor.
  • kottke.org (a bit highbrow)
  • The Dilbert Blog (offbeat, thought-provoking)
  • Shorpy (wonderful old-time photos)
  • Beyond the Beyond (Bruce Sterling’s blog on Wired, sometimes self-
    important but also entertaining and informative)

I also read these via RSS

  • Gizmodo
  • Boingboing gadgets
  • Lifehackerr
  • Make
  • Roger Ebert

RSS is a good way to get blogs without being hammered by the ads and associated junk.

Since I’m in the tech industry, I get Slashdot via e-mail.