What are your favorite blog/news sites?

June 27, 2006 5:55 AM

What are your favorite blog/news sites on a specific subject?

I'm building a collection of regularly updated blogs/news sites - sites you visit daily to monthly for interesting, informative or useful links or content on a given topic.

Some examples, BLDG Blog for architecture, History Topic of the Week or Month or Something for history, Language Log for linguistics, Future Feeder for futuristic stuff.

It doesn't matter too much what the subject is, as long as the links or info is tasty. Thanks in advance for links!

posted by MetaMonkey to Computers & Internet (25 answers total)

That's a very general question. KK's Cool Tools, MAKE: Blog, joelonsoftware, Raymond Chen.
posted by Leon at 6:06 AM on June 27, 2006 [1 favorite]

Lifehacker. 43Folders. Tricks of the Trade.

For a completely different subject, Go Fug Yourself.
posted by timetoevolve at 6:20 AM on June 27, 2006

The Comics Reporter.
posted by beaucoupkevin at 6:21 AM on June 27, 2006

For Latin American-related links and analysis, try Beautiful Horizons. It's heavily World Cup-ified right now, but the May 2005 archive is a good place to start.
posted by mediareport at 6:22 AM on June 27, 2006

Hrmm, I expect the chatfilter brigade shortly, but I might as well add my own links here:

Engadget for tech news.
Xbox 360 Fanboy for Xbox 360 news.

I quite enjoy Go Fug Yourself too.
posted by antifuse at 6:42 AM on June 27, 2006

Language Hat for linguistics
Cognitive Daily for cogsci news
Good Math, Bad Math for...erm, math
The Technology Liberation Front for digital rights and related topics
Typographica for typography
Inhabitat for architecture and sustainable living
posted by youarenothere at 6:48 AM on June 27, 2006

The Sartorialist and Face Hunter are good for finding out what all the cool kids are wearing.
posted by driveler at 6:49 AM on June 27, 2006

The Apple Blog for Apple commentary/news.
posted by JPigford at 7:10 AM on June 27, 2006

Anarchaia
posted by AmaAyeRrsOonN at 7:12 AM on June 27, 2006

TechCrunch
posted by superfem at 7:23 AM on June 27, 2006

The bookslut blog, although when they get excited about a title they can become a little monomaniacal (okay, you liked King Dork, we get it).
posted by PinkStainlessTail at 7:28 AM on June 27, 2006

Response by poster: These are great so far, exactly what I am after, thanks! If further explanation be needed for the problem behind the question; firstly, I have an obsessive, voracious love of news/knowledge, and I find this medium perfect for my autodidactic needs; secondly, I'm trying to make a resource for this sort of thing.
posted by MetaMonkey at 7:28 AM on June 27, 2006

The Horror Channel seems to be undergoing a bit of an upheaval, but it's been an excellent daily source for horror industry news.
posted by Faint of Butt at 8:19 AM on June 27, 2006

Here's stuff out of my newsreader for a decidedly female perspective:

Kiddly for parenting/crafts
Shoewawa for shoes
The Bag Lady for handbags
Fashion Incubator for industry knowledge about being a fashion designer
The Bra-Makers blog about bra-making
Knickers (my own site) for lingerie
posted by ukdanae at 8:32 AM on June 27, 2006

Patry Copyright Blog for copyright stuff
lessig blog for more open-ip concerns
Schneier on Security for security/tech
Pharyngula for science & biology commentary
posted by spasm at 8:44 AM on June 27, 2006

Techdirt..
posted by dennis at 10:08 AM on June 27, 2006

Baseball Think Factory for baseball
posted by Arch_Stanton at 10:43 AM on June 27, 2006

Matrixsynth for synthesizers.
posted by zonkout at 11:26 AM on June 27, 2006

Fullasagoog is a cool aggregator of Macromedia Adobe blogs. They are mostly blogs of the employees, but there are quite a few other web design related blogs on there as well.
posted by robhuddles at 11:34 AM on June 27, 2006

MarginalRevolution. Keeping up with economics.
posted by zpousman at 12:00 PM on June 27, 2006

I heart kottke. Best link blog ever, I say.
posted by hazelshade at 1:56 PM on June 27, 2006

the May 2005 archive

Er, I meant 2006, of course.
posted by mediareport at 5:31 PM on June 27, 2006

Food: Megnut and The Simple Cook

Arts, Culture, Literature: Arts and Letters Daily

Crime Fiction: Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind

Death: Dead People Server

Environmental Issues: WorldChanging
posted by mmw at 6:20 PM on June 27, 2006

Response by poster: Many thanks to all contributors for the great links so far, these will keep me busy. To anyone stumbling across this page - I can't get enough of these sort of links, so don't be shy about adding your favourites!
posted by MetaMonkey at 12:35 PM on June 28, 2006

I'm a big fan of Marmaduke Explained

/revive
posted by craven_morhead at 7:44 PM on December 3, 2006