Posted: December 3, 2006
Every year around this time, I attempt to summarize what's been happening online by publishing my list of the best blogs of the year [2002, 2003, 2004]. But I abruptly stopped last year because the list had become annoyingly redundant. Yes, dear blogosphere, after only six (or so) years of existence, you already have your canon, created either through fiat, power laws, or meritocracy -- you decide!
Sure, new sites break through (such as Techcrunch and Valleywag did this year), but a glance at the Technorati 100 shows that things aren't really that different than they were a few years ago. So do you really need me to prattle on about the significance of Kottke and Waxy, Romenesko and Gawker, Engadget and Scoble? I think not. Instead, this year I've gathered 30 blogs that you perhaps aren't reading.
Caveat: no human on the planet is qualified to do this, and the 500 blogs that I follow probably represents how many blogs are created in a second.1 On the other hand, this is not a list of esoteric blogs that you'll smirk at and never read again. I actually read all of these, because I think they're great.
And finally, please add your under-appreciated blog suggestions in the comments. Because really, aren't the overlooked ones the reason we're all here anyway?
29. TV Squad
Blogging about tv sounds hard -- you're always a day late, yet you're always a spoiler. This surprisingly good Weblogs Inc. blog finds the right balance between last night's TiVo and tomorrow's buzzed show. (See also: Television Without Pity & Tuned In.)
28. Ballardian
Sorry, this isn't actually J.G. Ballard's blog. As possibly the only science fiction writer who merits the adjectival form, Ballard is synonymous with technology, body enhancement, organic architecture, dystopia, car crashes, and other generally weird stuff. This blog is about those things, sorta. (See also: William Gibson's Blog & Bruce Sterling's Blog & City of Sound.)
27. T-Shirt Critic
I've got this theory that the t-shirt is becoming its own legitimate form of media -- informative yet dispensable. Probably the most frequent email query I get is "where do you get all those t-shirt links?" The answer is all over the freaking place -- but this site is one of the best. (See also: Preshrunk & iloveyourtshirt.)
26. Pruned
Ostensibly, this is a blog about landscape architecture, but it actually illustrates how any discipline has complexity and hybridity behind it, usually by gathering all sorts of random pieces of visual culture. (See also: BLDG BLOG & Things Magazine.)
25. Ypulse
You can count the number of people making a living by blogging on a couple of hands, but be sure to add a digit for Anastasia. If you think you know what teenagers are talking about today, you may reconsider after reading this blog, which tracks everything that the kids (Generation Y) are into. (See also: Agenda Inc.)
24. Eyeteeth & Offcenter
Through some bad twist of misfortune, I never met the multi-talented Paul Schmelzer when I lived in Minneapolis. But I've been collecting all the marvellous little spores he leaves behind on various sites around the interweb, including these two. (See also: Greg.org.)
22. Dethroner
Not that you care, but 2006 was a crummy year for the lad magazine. Could it be that the social internet is invading dude-ness too? This one-man site (from Joel Johnson, former Gizmodo editor, recently interviewed by Matt Haughey) is a good example of what one person can do in a niche topic. (See also: Daddy Types.)
21. Cute Overload
Yes, hipster, I know -- you, your sister, and your mom have seen Cute Overload. But have you bookmarked it? Have you returned to it every day just for some cheery bunnies? You have not truly experienced Cute Overload until it has become a ritual. I dare you. (See also: Flickr: Interestingness.)
20. IFC TV
Picking the best film blog is difficult. Luckily, picking the best one you perhaps aren't reading is easy! This link-heavy blog is the perfect mix of news and views on film culture. (See also: Cinematical & GreenCine Daily.)
18. Metafilter
Joke, right? No, not really, because I bet everyone reading this post has at one time or another given up on Metafilter. And unlike the time you gave up on Slashdot, you eventually came back to Metafilter. (See also: Ask.Metafilter, the real reason this site deserves to be here.)
17. videos.antville.org
You're going to see a huge surge of video link blogs this year, but this one has always stood above the others for good community contributions of quality music videos. (See also: ClipTip & Digg: Music Videos.)
15. Josh Spear
Cool Hunting and The Cool Hunter are, well, cool. But they tend to track international trends that seldom seem to intersect with your life. Josh Spear's cool hunting includes stuff you might actually be able to afford getting your hands on. (See also: NotCot.org.)
14. Data Mining
Yawn, right? Nuh-uh. Everything that's happening today in areas around buzz tracking, social media, geocoding, data visualization, and countless other subjects is tracked on this blog, where I consistently discover new ideas. (See also: Blog Pulse & Micro Persuasion.)
13. Make Magazine
Even though this blog is arguably pretty popular, I'm including the work of the indefatigable Phillip Torrone because the trend of life hacking and productivity really started to emerge this year. Make's philosophy is simple: anything can be DIY if you just figure out how to hack it. (See also: Lifehacker & 43 Folders & Life Clever.)
12. 3 Quarks Daily
3 Quarks Daily sets the paradigm for what a good personal blog should be: eclectic but still thematic, learned but not boring, writerly but not wordy. (See also: Snark Market & wood s lot.)
11. Screens
I've had a boyish crush on Virginia Heffernan's writing since her days as Slate's tv columnist. This year, she started this peculiar little blog for the New York Times, covering the cultural side of the internet video industry before anyone realized there was such a thing. She was the first mainstream media writer to snag lonelygirl15 as a storyline (which I -- still boyishly -- think she first saw here), writing in a cozy vernacular that you were surprised in the old gray lady. (See also: Lost Remote & Carpetbagger.)
8. Subtraction
An editor from The Atlantic who was doing a story on buzz-building recently contacted me about finding the source of a meme he saw on Fimoculous. He asked where I got it, and I said Subtraction, to which he replied, "that's what everyone else said too." A blogger's blogger, Khoi Vinh is the new design director at the NYTimes.com, which might sound high-brow, but his personal site has the quality you most desire from a blogger: curiosity. (See also: Anil Dash.)
7. Pop Candy
I'm as surprised as you that a USA Today blog makes this list. Beyond the cute Chuck Taylors in her pic, what makes Whitney Matheson better than the slew of other pop culture blogs out there? Simple: while everyone else is there to out-snark and out-upskirt-shot each other, Whitney seems to actually like popular culture. (See also: Stereogum & Amy's Robot.)
6. Future of the Book
Ostensibly about exploring the shift from the printed page to the networked screen, Future of the Book stumbles across a variety of new ideas along the way, such as creating a wikibook on gaming. Although occasionally windy, Future of the Books is on the precipice of something big. (See also: Read/Write Web & Smart Mobs.)
4. Information Aesthetics
I suspect we need a chart to explain why this blog is so great, because just saying "this blog tracks instances of data visualization" sounds like it could be a weapon to kill terrorists with boredom. But this site is essential reading for anyone interested in the ways that engineers and designers turn the messy world into a clear visual representation. (See also: Visual Complexity & xBlog.)
Thanks to Andy, Greg, Lock, Matt, Jim, Robin, Andrew, David, Ted, Matt, Karl, Andrew, and Chuck for their advice on this project.
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To add to your subscriptions list: Fimoculous has listed “The Best Blogs of 2006 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading”.
Best Blogs of 2006: Fimoculous.com which has been known as the master of the year end list, has a roundup of thirty or so blogs that are worthy of a good read, but may have been overlooked. I am going to go through his list and see if I agree with him.
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TECNOSFERA: Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading.
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How to get Noticed: image from Indexed.Blogspot.Com. Have an Idea; Start doing It; Keep doing It; Keep doing It; Keep doing It; Keep doing It; goto 3. Check out http://indexed.blogspot.com/ – the Number 1 Blog you haven’t read yet according to Fimoculous.
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Best Blogs 2006: Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading (awesome list)
Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading: Top: 30. Starbucks Gossip 29.TV Squad 28. Ballardian 27. T-Shirt Critic 26. Pruned 25. Ypulse 24. Eyeteeth & Offcenter 23. We Make Money Not Art 22. Dethroner 21. Cute Overload 20. IFC TV 19. Journerdism 18. Metafilter
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1枚の絵は、1000の言葉に値する。: "A picture is worth a thousand words." ナポレオンの言葉とされている格言で、文字通り「1枚の絵は1000の言葉に値する（≒百聞は一見にしかず）」という意味です。その言葉を自ら実行しているブログがこちら：. ■ indexed
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links for 2006-12-05: Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading. via Fimoculous.com (via Anil Dash) - - an aggregated “best of ‘06″ with a little bit of everything (subjects-wise…) (tags: blog writing todo). Ten Tips for Smarter Google Searches
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Media Bytes: Dec 4, 2006: ‘Prison Break’ actor in wreck, one dead. Tweener gets offed on the show, almost offed in real life. gorilla vs. bear: the albums of 2006. Gorilla vs Bear beats everyone to the punch with their top 10 albums of 2006.
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30 Best Blogs You're [Probably] Not Reading...: Fimoculous_1 It's December, which means we're going to be seeing a LOT of lists. I'll try my best not to inundate you with every list that comes my way, but yesterday's post on Fimoculous deserves props. If you're like me,
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30 Blogs You Aren't Reading and Probably Should: Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading. Every year around this time, I attempt to summarize what's been happening online by publishing my list of the best blogs of the year [2002, 2003, 2004]. But I abruptly stopped last
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fimoculous - interesting list of top blogs of 2006 (via TechMeme): fimoculous - interesting list of top blogs of 2006 (via TechMeme)
Some Web Candy: Whitney over at PopCandy has a couple of cool links today....They might have pissed you off back in 1985 or 1987, but The 50 Greatest Commercials of the 80s (with video) are somehow much more endearing in 2006. And apparently the votes
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Great Blogs you might have missed: Fimoculous put together a list of great blogs you might have not heard of yet. It’s amazing how much great content the interweb holds. I’ve subscribed to a couple new ones and I urge you to check it out, too.
Two Distractions: I don't know about you, but I'm neck-deep in work. If you're not, here are two ways to pass the time. First, New York magazine (which I find oddly and compulsively readable these days; but not to be confused with The New Yorker,
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Blogs you aren’t reading because you have a life: From the fucking article (link here):. “… Sure, new sites break through (such as Techcrunch and Valleywag did this year), but a glance at the Technorati 100 shows that things aren’t really that different than they were a few years ago.
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First of the ?Best ofs?: With 27 days remaining in 2006, the year-end lists are starting to come out. Artforum‘s just-published December issue includes kudos for the Walker in its top-ten lists: Mike Kelley put the Philippe Vergne-curated exhibition Cameron
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Thank you for shoving Girl Killer in my face.
One blog that is only a couple months old--and could flame out easy--but to watch in o7 is: http://www.violentacres.com/
I found it on my own--why? Couple themes seem to be hitting. well, you be the judge.
The Lost Remote Killer has killed Lost Remote? I'm hurt.
Oh, you know perfectly well that Lost Remote is too established to make this list.
Another blog to watch is Etre's Reaction! (it's about user experience design).
re: music videos - shots ring out deserves a shout.
This is a great list. I'm always looking for new blogs to read, so it's nice to get some really good recommendations all in one place. While not yet up to the caliber of the blogs mentioned, I'd love for you to check out my blog: Didn't You Hear (http://www.didntyouhear.com). It's a little bit of everything mixed together with a little bit of humor and some informative stuff thrown in for good measure.
I have to agree with you on Pop Candy and YPulse. I read both of those daily. Also, I too had given up on MetaFilter and then came back. I thought it was just me.
This one has only been up for 6 months or so, but it's freakin' hilarious. It's a sports blog, but they just rip everybody. Always pretty good and updated quite a bit:
http://thesportshernia.typepad.com/
Checked out YPulse ... more ads than content for crying out loud, and no convenient way to AdBlock them. Would never dream of going back.
Oh, lovely! Thanks for reading. I hope you're enjoying it.
http://www.axesandalleys.com is a dadaesque humour and satire web and print magazine published five days a week (sometimes on Saturday if we get up early enough).
Rex--
Thanks for the shout-out in #10 -- Blogebrity's flattered to be in the mix, especially of an A-lister's reading recommendations.
Metafilter? I think you forgot google.com. Some people probably left it also.
I think an honorable mention would be
a writer who loves candy and writes about it, great photos too.
I am surprised and amazed that you don't have my blog in the best of 2006. Must be an oversightr, eh!Let's get things back into perspective here!
One of the best blogs online happens to be angelcakes1232000, through yahoo, a most interesting and heartwarming blog, and needs to be recognized...she's a beautiful woman, with a heart of gold.........
Woahhhh - Great *GREAT* list! Indexed is a surefire keeper, as are at least a dozen of the others.
Bookmarked like it's going out of style.
Another you're probably not reading is TNL.net
It's not updated very often but generally has good content.
I've been a fan of radio2019 for a while now, It's updated sporadically at best, but there has been some really cool music there over the last few months.
I can't believe you left out the most funny links blog of them all! How could you fail to mention daily linxzors?
Seriously, help a young blogger out
Here's a spanish blog about tech and wisdom:
Graffit.
You missed GraphicDesignBar. Goldmine of design-related links, without the pretentious elitism you find on other design sites.
Awesome list but I think you've overlooked one that makes 1000's of people smile every day, MangoFalls
Wow, thanks! My daily RSS reading list just went from "practically unmanageable" to "utterly impossible" in a few short mouse-clicks. In the hope of helping other folks to reach the same goal, I'll toss the recently-launched (but fast-growing) blog of The World Almanac into the ring. I imagine that many of you might take an interest in our diverse collection of stuff...
great list! great links!...have you looked at BetterBadNews...a sort of "DAILY SHOW" (minus the mugging) about the Tech World, politics (local and international)...check it out
What...no TheBestOfYoutube.com???
Good list. Thanks!
If you are liberally inclined, this is an excellent, eclectic blog:
http://mtanga.com/
hey love your blog, thanks for this great post :)
Smartspace does a pretty good job of collection ephemera to do with living between real and virtual environments, not unlike to Data Mining listed above, but somewhere between that blog and WMMNA.
not a single mp3/music blog. boooo!
good finds otherwise - thanks.
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Very nice post. I spent 3 hours surfing through all these blogs and it's only beginning, because I have add many to my rss reader :)
My blog should be up there. It's everything these blogs aren't. It's highly personal, self depreciating, artisitic, and humble haha.
http://blog.myspace.com/whetzell
for dodge who wanted a musicblog -> Music-versity
How the heck did you miss BWG?
http://www.bigwhiteguy.com/
Thanks for the linky love, Rex. We'll try to live up to your high praise.
Wow, thanks for the link, I write tcritic.com and really appreciate the complement. I've been blown away by the amount of people visiting and emailing me today, phew. I'm totally honored to be in great company as well, you list some great blogs in your list.
K
Hey Rex,
Thanks for sneaking in the plug for Cinematical (I don't even write for it anymore, but since you didn't do a list last year, I'll assume this list includes the influence of bloggery circa 2005, and thus take the credit).
I like the Cycling Economist blog; it's certainly different! And it seems this guy has few readers. If you ever wanted to know how a rabid cyclist sees everything through cycling-tinted glasses, this is the place:
I like my blog. I recently lost my job as managing editor of Beer.com and have been charting my search for a new job, totally genuine. Any link love would be much appreciated! Cheers, John. The blog is: http://makejohnnycash.blogspot.com/
You forgot:
Information Architects Japan's Notebook
Has been THE discovery of the year for me.
if you ever wonder what its like to live outside the United States (...as in outside the box), try our blog www.yucatanliving.com .
check out carlsonmilliss on adaptive reuse, it's like pruned in the way it uses a simple premise to investigate everything imaginable all with a humorous but rather acerbic commentary.
What, no Monkeys For Helping? Sheesh.
Quick Online Tips for me.
starbucks gossip?
Really good list of blogs. I found a few I din't know about, so thanks. Here are some I think are excellent that you don't have on your list. They all fall within the link blog but they are a cut above the rest, at least IMHO.
http://presurfer.meepzorp.com/
http://www.neatorama.com/
http://www.spaltenstein-ursi.ch/blog/weblog.php
http://www.eso-garden.com/
http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/
Rex - I'll toss out a few political blogs (since that topic seemed MIA) ... try Orcinus, from David Neiwert, a Seattle freelance journalist - great for insightful essays. For the quick take, beltway scoop, see the The Washington Note, by Steve Clemons and
Taggan Goddard's Political Wire. Then there's Memeorandum - maybe it belongs with the BlogPulse listing?
Group blogs: Crooked Timber (academics, but with non-academic relevance) and FireDogLake (political - notable for their campaign fundraising in 2006, IMO).
The Huge Entity seconded. Best blog in this universe (and quite possibly a handful of others)
You missed mine! :)
Oh wow, it looks like I've got a bit to check out! I've only heard of Make: and We make money not art. Thanks =D
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Oh wow, it looks like I've got a bit to check out! I've only heard of Make: and We make money not art. Thanks =D
Check out Torso, the most complete news site covering everything that covers your torso. It would have to be up there somewhere, though there are some great blogs listed.
Here's a blog that was missed - a Travel blog for the Destination Guide at Southpoint.com - http://www.southpoint.com/blog/index.html
Every Blogger knows, this is Nowhere!
Talk about giving Freudian Slips the slip.
http://www.freudianslipsincreativewriting.blogspot.com/
Interesting list of sites.
I agree with your TV choices, although I'm also a fan of AllYourTV.com (which I think I might have found first through Lost Remote). I's not exactly a blog, and it's not exactly a traditional site. Which I think might be what keeps people from noticing it. But they do a lot of nice coverage of fairly offbeat TV stuff, which I don't see anywhere else. Now if they would just bit more predictable about when they update the site.
you forgot me ;) jk
We Make Money Not Art is my absolute favorite blog... but Indexed? Seriously, I subscribed to Indexed's RSS long ago and every post is disappointing and not that great. I'm sure it's a nice blog, but just gets boring.
Many of us weren't blogging in 2002, 3, or 4, and were unaware of the Canon. So much good reading. Thanks for the list. TherapyDoc
If you're looking to make a list for next year, can I recommend my personal favourite
http://youpissedmeoffyoubastard.blogspot.com/
wow number one is fantastic. im hooked! thanks for sharing!
Marmaduke rocks! But ironic commentary on Marmaduke doesn't...
O, fallen hipsters! Hast thee nothing better to do?
No video game blogs made the cut? Sad panda!
Thank goodness you didn't choose the fat and ugly Perez Hilton!! But he was good in bed...
Try RealityBlurred...
I am starting this audio-text blog. Sort of podcast but diffrent. It is actually only in spanish although audio is both in english and Spanish. I am looking forward that this blog becomes something worldwide... Anyhow I hope you speak about it next 2007 Gururaj Ananda Yogi
I like my blog, which explores the world of old paper. www.ephemera.typepad.com
Since everyone looks like their shamelessly promoting their own blogs, here's mine:
What about My Part of Nairobi?
Where else can you find out about what it's like to live in another country, toilet paper production values and human-powered carts?