In Norway the most popular blogs are written by (and for) young girls, and are all about fashion, make-up and beauty advices. What are the most popular blog(s) in your country, (please add URL’s) and what do you think is the reason for its popularity in your culture, compared to Norway’s?
Since this is asking about opinions, it’s best suited for IMHO rather than GQ.
Colibri
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I’m a big fan of Hyperbole and a Half by Allie Brosh. I especially enjoyed “How a fish almost ruined my childhood”.
So I guess that means I enjoy hyperbole and MS Paint drawings. No makeup, but it is written by a girl.
This isn’t another homework assignment is it? Just note that your only other post here is also asking for help with a compare and contrast type assignment.
I read blogs about:
IVF/Infertility - there’s a whole list of them here: Stirrup Queen
Fashion - The Satorialist, Go Fug Yourself, Super Kawaii Mama
Parenting - Prudent Baby, Enjoying the little things, Rookie Moms, Babyology, Droolicious
Foodies - Bakerella, Smitten Kitchen, The Pioneer Woman Cooks, Tartelette
Healthy eating - Heather Eats Almond Butter
Home/design - Making it Lovely, Not Martha, Little Willow, Apartment Therapy, Remodelista
Sewing/craft - Katie Did, Grosgrain, Soulemama
Fitness - Leigh Peele
Random - PostSecret, CakeWrecks, Luxirare, Perez Hilton
I think you see from the above that I am not a 14 year old girl.
Thanks for posting that. I sent the link to my wife, it looks like we will soon own our very own Alot.
Another thanks. That’s hilarious stuff!
ETA: The ad below says: Killer Fish at HISTORY. Heh.
I love The Comics Curmudgeon. The guy who writes it often makes me think about the daily comics in a new way
I have never knowingly read a blog. This looks a good time to start.
thanks a lot for your posts! it would be nice if you also could add which country you’re from, and maybe your age. yes, this is another media survey for my assignment 
I only regularly read one blog, and that is the indesputably awesome CakeWrecks.
I’m American, and today I’m legally an adult. Happy birthday to me, etc.
Occasionally I read a tech blog for software.
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[li]Unhappy Hipsters[/li][li]Lowering the Bar[/li][li]The Slacktivist[/li][li]Awful Library Books[/li][li]Five Thirty Eight[/li][li]What’s Alan Watching[/li][/ul] and a couple of local political blogs.
I’m not a 14-year-old girl.
Joe Pastry
Perez Hilton
Regretsy
Photo Shop Disasters
The Pioneer Woman Cooks
These are the ones I visit on a regular basis, although I occasionally check out Cake Wrecks and the Family Photos ones. I also keep up with the personal blogs of a few friends. Mostly I like blogs that make me laugh or involve thoughtless enjoyment. Blogs are my brain break. The exception to this is cooking blogs.
I read a bunch of blogs daily that concern Japanese language and culture. The best is probably www.tofugu.com
I sometimes check Cracked.com, Fark, Digg, and b3ta as well.
A lot of these strike me as more or less just websites not necessarily blogs. They just use the ease of templates from blospot or wordpress because the site-runners don’t want to bother making their own. Blogs have to have a level personal-ness to them.
I tend to read food blogs that have distinct viewpoints to them.
I like this guy because he lives in my neighborhood and reviews places I might actually go. He’s also kind of a dick which I find amusing. Not in a fakey internet way, he just seems like a dick.
Of course I read my own blog… www.dinerwood.blogspot.com Shameless plug.
The only blog I follow regularly is fivethirtyeight.com.
I stopped reading fivethirtyeight.com right after the election. I just checked and I see he’s covering the UK election which makes complete sense. What does he do when nobody is having elections? I can see how it would be interesting to get his take on polling data every so often but I’m not sure I could get into him regularly when there’s no election to predict. He was really interesting during the election though, so I’d love to be mistaken.
I also read Guy Kawasaki and Michael Ruhlman’s blogs all the time.
He was covering the healthcare issue, polling, and stuff before the UK election stuff kicked up.