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