Comments on: Recommend some good daily blogs.

Question: Recommend some good daily blogs.

anastasiav — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:46:55 -0800

Who is on your A-list? I'm looking for something new to read -- what are your favorite, visit-every-day-for-sure blogs?

By: dobbs

dobbs — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:59:41 -0800

Currently MIA, but worth reading the archives... Bobby Burgess. (Though a journal, not a blog.)

By: lotsofno

lotsofno — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:19:32 -0800

toothpastefordinner.com (more of a comic site)
funnylogic.com

By: majick

majick — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:28:48 -0800

As the years wear on, the distinction between weblog and journal grows more and more blurry, if it ever was terribly clear to begin with. Most of my favorites seem to be a little bit of both.

I obsessively reload mimi, and rarely go a day without checking up on Matthew and Skot, all of whom are funny in different ways. I just plain old like jsja, who is just about the most decent guy I have ever exchanged mail with.

Alterslash makes Slashdot tolerable, so I stop in at least once a day. Daze Reader should not be missed, though it is of fairly narrow focus. Plurp is a bit of a one-note wonder, but I do like the way his mind works. Give him a chicken for me if you stop by.

By: jasper411

jasper411 — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:33:09 -0800

Dooce.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:42:52 -0800

tremble

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:49:18 -0800

Hildago, Kafkaesque, and, recently, WULAD

By: gwint

gwint — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:52:45 -0800

waxy's links

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:54:07 -0800

Oh, and Mighty Girl, duh.

By: jdroth

jdroth — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:55:02 -0800

I find myself drawn toward two classes of weblogs: weblogs which link to interesting things (such as scrubbles and Bifurcated Rivets), and those which are well-written personal journals (such as I, Asshole!, which also happens to be very funny). My favorite new weblog is sennoma's Malice Aforethought, which has a good mix of local Portland stuff and heady intellectual stuff.

Other favorite visits: the aforementioned Defective Yeti and Izzle Pfaff, the obscure Baraita, Nicole Lindroos' Discolor Online, and Mr. Haughey's Ten Years of My Life. I also spend a lot of time randomly checking out weblogs on OrBlogs, a directory of Oregon-based weblogs.

I really need to learn to use an RSS-reader. I have about three dozen weblogs I visit daily — often more than once — in an effort to scout for new content.

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 11:58:09 -0800

im currently reading:

paris to the moon - by gopnick

and

terror in the name of god - by stern ...

both excellent.

jd - please send your daily read list if you are in a sharing mood :)

By: corpse

corpse — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:00:38 -0800

Aaron Gleeman
Ed Cone

By: specialk420

specialk420 — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:02:35 -0800

oops. i missed the blog part of the initial thread... well, if the power goes out a couple excellent books to dig into.

By: billsaysthis

billsaysthis — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:08:02 -0800

There's a whole bunch of good stuff written by MeFi members if you care to dig for it, though most of us are too modest to self-link.

By: mathowie

mathowie — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:19:58 -0800

Here are my favorites at blo.gs that I check on hourly.

By: majick

majick — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:38:08 -0800

Also, let us not forget that Misterpants is back in action and worth every penny! Equally justifying a regular visit is Cardhouse, but I'm sure everyone knows that already.

Pigdog Journal is a sort of magazine-ish thing put out by a handful of cranks, curmudgeons, nutcases, and former Hollow/SDLB/RoR/RatHead folks. Maybe that's not much of a recommendation, but it's entertainment in a flaming car wreck sort of way.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:50:04 -0800

I second majick's recommendation of Plurp. Also (which you would find on your own anyway if you read enough Plurp, as there's a fair bit of crosslinking between these two) The Curvature of the Earth is Overwhelmed by Local Noise.

By: gleuschk

gleuschk — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:51:24 -0800

My blo.gs favorites. (Nice trick, Matt.)

By: t r a c y

t r a c y — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 12:51:41 -0800

dong resin's joint. you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll sometimes run screaming from the room.

By: kaibutsu

kaibutsu — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:09:29 -0800

Again, far more comic than blog, but still awesome - Buttercup Festival. (Recently found via another of my favorite comics, Cat and Girl.)

By: languagehat

languagehat — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:18:49 -0800

Some of the non-language-oriented ones:
the heart of things
Long story; short pier
the cassandra pages
Pepys' Diary
(the last not exactly a blog—it's daily entries, with reader comments—but better reading than most)

By: contessa

contessa — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:31:52 -0800

fury & hunkabutta

By: filmgoerjuan

filmgoerjuan — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:33:05 -0800

I second Dooce and would also recommend Que Sera Sera. Jellyfish is beautifully written, but she hardly ever updates anymore. I'd also recommend the blogs on Weirdsmobile — a good mix of personalities going on there (in particular, Dear God Damn Diary).

For MeFi members, I'd second the recommendation of dong_resin and add in kafkaesque and fishfucker (though, fish, you really need to update more often). They are a triumverate of inzanity.

By: silusGROK

silusGROK — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:33:13 -0800

Well, I have a list of 50 or so sites I visit each morning... the ones here are the personal sites I visit from that longer list. Because I try to relate to people by their names, and not the names of their sites, the list is organized by first name (with a brief commentary in the TITLE): Andy Budd's eponymous journal, Anil Dash' Links, Caterina Fake's journal "Catarina", Claire Robertson's journal "Loobylu", Craig Newmark's journal "CNewmark", Dawn Mikulich's photo site "Chicago Uncommon", Dean Allen's journal "Textism", EtherF@rm, Evan Williams' journal "EvHead", Gabe Anderson's eponymous journal, Greg Storey's journal "Airbag", Jenny Levine's journal "The Shifted Librarian", Jeremy Hedley's journal "Antipixel", Joshua Newman's journal "Self-Aggrandizement", José Luis' journal "A Beat Experience", Matt Kingston's journal "Hit or Miss", Matthew Haughey's journal "A Whole Lotta Nothing" (I think you know this guy), Melanie Goux's journal "Brushstroke TV", Mena Trott's journal "A Dollar Short" (currently being re-routed to her Typepad blog), Michael Heilemann's journal "Binary Bonsai", Mike Pugh's erstwhile journal (re-formatted in its afterlife to improve archive accessibility), Paul Bausch's journal "OnFocus", Rion Nakaya's photographic journal "Rion.NU", and Scott Andrew's eponymous journal.

By: konolia

konolia — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:33:24 -0800

BWG.

And the aforementioned Dooce.

By: riffola

riffola — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:37:15 -0800

Here are all the links in "blogs" folder: EverythingNY [Or at least anything that seems interesting at the time], Gawker [NYC gossip], Gothamist [Areas of focus include media, technology, and New York], NYC Coffee - MeFi [Guide to good coffee in NYC], SliceNY [It's about pizza. New York-style, that is], Acts of Volition [Steven Garrity's blog], A List Apart [Web design news, info, and insights since 1995.], Anil Dash [New York New Media New Funk], Antipixel [a deliberate pouring from empty into void], A Whole Lotta Nothing [Matt Haughey's blog], BlogRoots [Community blog about blogging], Bluejake [Bluejake is the personal website of Jake Dobkin, a 27 year-old technologist living in New York City.], Boing Boing Blog [The Blog of Wonderful things], bottom dwelling [dot] com [eyeballkid's website], Clagnut [Root through a heap of web design & development stuff and a few other tasty morsels.], coda.coza [South African designer], Daring Fireball [Macintosh punditry and curmudgeonry.], delete.me.uk [The home page of Paul Sowden], dive into mark [Mark Pilgrim's blog], Dunstan's blog [Just a personal blog], EmptyBottle.org [stavrosthewonderchicken's blog], everlasting blort [quonsar's site, need I say more?], Ftrain.com [Semantic blog], GearBits [Tech. Culture. Ideas.], Gizmodo [The gadgets weblog], Greg Knauss' site [Very funny and smart man], Holovaty.com [A weblog discussing technical aspects of news Web sites], if (dot) only (dot) org [holgate's site], Jeffrey Veen [Veen's blog], Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report [Zeldman's blog], kottke.org [Jason Kottke's weblog, home of fine hypertext products], Lance Arthur [Still on the path to world domination.], megnut [Meg's blog], meyerweb.com [Things that Eric A. Meyer, CSS expert], mezzoblue [design, typography, and the web as seen by one guy in vancouver, b.c., canada], milov.nl [Website/weblog/photolog of Milo Vermeulen], MoCoLoco [modern contemporary design], mpt [Opinions on Mozilla, human interface design, and Free Software in general], 'Nika's Journal [Melinika's journal], onfocus.com [Weblog Free to the Public], photo matt [The thoughts, pictures, music, and code of Matthew Mullenweg.], PVRblog [How-to articles, News, and Reviews of all things TiVo, ReplayTV and Digital Video Recorder.], Q Daily News [random ramblings from a geek doctor], random($foo) [leonard lin's personal blog. semi-daily to daily ramblings on the web.], SIGNAL VS. NOISE [37 Signal's blog], Simon Willison's Weblog [PHP, XML, CSS and general web development], SimpleBits [Dan Cederholm's stuff], splorp . blog [Splorp is the is sound of scooping lasagna. Now served daily with a side of random batherings.], SportsFilter [Community blog about sports], stating the obvious [Michael Sippey's essays], Stopdesign [A collection of creative work and thinking capturing my view as a designer and world problem solver.], stynxno's blog [Ironman fetishist], sylloge [Keeps moving around], ten years of my life [Matt Haughey's daily photo site, run for ten years of his life.], Textism [Three Quarks for Muster Mark], thatothergirl.com [Groping rude ogres utilitzes persistence.], The Calm Dreariness [Jamie's site about a bunch of stuff that happens], The Fix [jimbob's blog], [this is aaronland] ["my pants are crankier than yours"], this is sippey.typepad.com [a weblog is often a reflection of its writer.], torrez.org [Andre Torrez' site], Total Viscosity Breakdown [mr_crash_davis' blog], v-2 Organisation [Adam Greenfield's site], waferbaby [Daniel Bogan's playground], Waxy.org [Andy Baio lives here], webgraphics [WebGraphics is a daily compilation of hypertext design resources, links, commentary and notes.], Weblog about Markup & Style [Anne van Kesteren's site], What Do I Know [The daily dish of Dominey Design.]

By: adamrice

adamrice — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:13:00 -0800

Lotsa good stuff here.

I'll just mention that if you aren't already using an RSS reader (I like NetNewsWire Lite for the Mac, I hear Feed Demon is good for Windows), try one out: it'll let you keep track of a lot more information much more efficiently.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:13:25 -0800

Thanks for the inclusion riffy. Fine company indeed.

Emptybottle.org : clinging to the a-list by my fucking fingernails.

I see little mention of some of my faves, people that I consider part of my little subtribe, but then, most of them seem to be on hiatus at the moment. And I don't really read much in the way of blogs these days. Nonetheless, I'll put together a list later today of a few I recommend that may not have appeared here yet.

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 15:57:51 -0800

Belle de Jour, diary of a London call girl.

By: ed

ed — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:14:59 -0800

On the book front (in no particular order and at the risk of excluding other nifty voices which you can find within my sidebar), Maud Newton, Bookslut, TMFTML, Old Hag, Cup of Chica, Sarah Weinman, and Elegant Variation are all worth your time. And they're all nice, funny, and smart people to boot.

By: Jimbob

Jimbob — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 16:52:44 -0800

cat riffolaslist.html >> mylinks.html

This is going to be a good little askme thread, this one.
Can I suggest some Australian blogs? Virulent Memes is pretty well known, but I can't stop reading it every single day. /dev/null is another fave. If you insist on political content in your weblogs, Kick and Scream is a new fave, as well.

By: calistasm

calistasm — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 17:01:30 -0800

Nobody's mentioned Teresa Nielsen Hayden yet? I'm surprised.

By: eilatan

eilatan — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 18:07:07 -0800

More a journal than a blog, but one of my current favorites is Novel Gazing. I'm also fond of jessamyn's abada abada

By: soyjoy

soyjoy — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 19:58:08 -0800

What, no Atrios? Where's the love, people?

By: Hildago

Hildago — Mon, 12 Jan 2004 22:13:48 -0800

Ober Dicta generally has great links that don't show up in any of the other places I frequent.

Hunkabutta has a stupid name but is just great photography and truly interesting entries. Very personal and honest. Has an annoying community that give the guy shit all the time in the comments, but that's part of the fun.

Ftrain is just all-around well written, superb site design. Entries occasionally hit and miss, especially lately since he's been busy.

The first two blogs I go to every day are Defective Yeti and My Life as an American Gladiator, but everybody knows about the truth of those sites being awesome already, so basically this is redundant.

Of the like 15 blogs I read, all but a couple are from members of this site. My advice would be to just click on the name of someone whose comments you find interesting. Chances are they've got a blog.