In a move to try and become a relevant online publication Time Magazine put out a list of the top 50 blogs that you can’t live without.
Here is how they rank 5 of the blogs:
The Huffington Post: All hail HuffPo, the political blog against which all others are now compared. HuffPo has become one of the most popular and widely quoted sites on the web, its influence easily rivaling that of many mainstream media outlets.
Lifehacker: Sometimes, life throws so many problems at you at once that you just want some quick and dirty solutions. Lifehacker is full of tips, shortcuts, downloads, web sites, do-it-yourself projects, and how-to’s for getting small things done and moving on with life.
Metafilter: The venerable — okay, crusty — community blog has been around since 1999, an eon in webtime. While the typical blog is written by one person wearing sweatpants reclaimed from the hamper, Metafilter lets any user — regardless of what they’re wearing — contribute links and brief commentary highlighting interesting stuff he or she finds on the web.
TreeHugger: In a green world, it’s clear that the Internet has a huge advantage over the tree murdering print media in championing sustainability with a straight face. TreeHugger is the most complete of the hundreds of grassroots green blogs; think of it as the Wal-Mart of sustainability, if you can imagine Wal Mart being sustainable.
PostSecret: PostSecret is one of those rare one-note blogs that actually works, mainly because the note is so beautiful and resonant. The blog is an ongoing community art project in which ordinary people mail in a personal secret written by hand on one side of a homemade postcard.
The top 25 that made the list are:
- Blog di Beppe Grillo – http://www.beppegrillo.it/
- Ace of Spades – http://ace.mu.nu/
- Engadget – http://www.beppegrillo.it/
- Freakonomics – http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/
- Gigazine – http://www.gigazine.net/
- Radosh.net – http://radosh.net/
- Gawker – http://gawker.com/
- The Daily Dish by Andrew Sullivan – http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/
- Velveteen Rabbi – http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/
- Boing Boing – http://www.boingboing.net/
- TechCrunch – http://www.techcrunch.com/
- Web2.Oh…really? – http://2ohreally.wordpress.com/
- The Sartorialist – http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
- Daily Kos – http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/
- The Consumerist – http://consumerist.com/
- Indexed – http://www.indexed.blogspot.com/
- Wired’s Threat Level Blog – http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6
- Regret the Error – http://regrettheerror.com/
- Bad Jocks – http://www.badjocks.com/
- The Reverse Cowgirl – http://reversecowgirlblog.blogspot.com/
- Slashdot – http://slashdot.org/
- Jim Cramer Blog on Realmoney.com – http://www.thestreet.com/p/index.html
- Ars Technica – http://arstechnica.com/
- Nicholas Kristof On the Ground – http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/
- I can has cheezburger – http://icanhascheezburger.com/
What do you think? Did Time get it right? What are your favorite blogs?
