Collections & Rankings

General

  • BoingBoing "A directory of wonderful things" from around the Internet
  • Gawker Gossip and snarkiness about media, showbiz, New York City, etc.
  • Defamer Similar in tone to Gawker, but with a West Coast slant

Technology & Media

Technology Toys & Cool Things

Politics & Government

  • Daily Kos Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. One of the best-known liberal blogs.
  • Talking Points Memo Joshua Micah Marshall. Widely read liberal blog from a contributor to Washington Monthly and The Hill.
  • MyDD Jerome Armstrong and Chris Bowers.
  • Eschaton Atrios, aka Duncan Black. "Proud member of the reality-based community."
  • AmericaBlog John Aravosis. Politics from the left; one of the key sources of info in the Gannon/Guckert affair.
  • Crooks and Liars and politics, with a liberal slant. And a great collection of video clips.
  • Daily Dish Andrew Sullivan on conservative, religious and gay issues. (He tried to stop but couldn't.)
  • InstaPundit Glenn Reynolds. One of the best-known conservative blogs.
  • Kausfiles Mickey Kaus's mostly political blog on Slate
  • Little Green Footballs
  • Power Line One of the more widely read blogs from the right.
  • Iraqi Bloggers Central Good collection of links to Iraqi bloggers.
  • Mystery Pollster Mark Blumenthal's intelligent analysis of polls and polling.
  • Wonkette Washington gossip (also from the Gawker empire).
  • Global Voices gathers some interesting views from blogs around the world.
  • ScotusBlog and the related Supreme Court Nomination Blog are keeping a close watch on the proceedings in the court.
  • Also see Traditional Media, below

'Traditional Media'

  • Altercation. Eric Alterman. MSNBC.
  • Howard Fineman MSNBC
  • Bloggermann Keith Olbermann. MSNBC.
  • Citizen Journalists MSNBC's experiment in participatory journalism
  • LOOSE wire Jeremy Wagstaff, Dow Jones
  • The Corner From National Review
  • Hit and Run From Reason
  • Editor's Blog John Robinson, Greensboro, N.C., News Record. The paper is conducting a widely-commented-on experiment in increasing communication with its readers. Other News-Record blogs can be reached from this page.
  • The Politicker Ben Smith, New York Observer
  • Tapped from the American Prospect
  • CJRDaily Updates from the Columbia Journalism Review (successor to its Campaign Desk)
  • The Huffington Post Arianna Huffington's celebrity blogfest
  • Blinq Daniel Rubin, a Philadelphia Inquirer reporter, blogs for its Web site
  • Blogspotting from Stephen Baker and Heather Green of Business Week. (You can find other Business Week blogs from there.)

Business

  • Seeking Alpha and The Internet Stock Blog News and analysis by David Jackson, a money manager and former tech stock analyst
  • Footnoted.org reads corporate filings and news releases more carefully than most people