The best blogs you are not reading

Posted by jgrahamc on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @06:01AM
from the self-post dept.

A couple of days ago a reader of my blog (http://www.jgc.org/blog/) wrote a nice note saying that he was happy to have discovered it and it was one of the five blogs he reads all the time.

It made me wonder what blogs I'm not reading that I should be. We see lots of blogs come up here over and over again. What gems are there out there that we're missing?

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by pchristensen on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @12:20PM (#128957)

BetterExplained is nice (http://feeds.feedburner.com/Betterexplained)

Dan Weinred of Symbolics/Common Lisp/ITA Software fame has a good blog, although he hasn't written in a while (http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/feed/)

Instigator Blog has some good posts about startups (http://feeds.feedburner.com/InstigatorBlog)

Skrenta has good observations about search engines and entrepreneurship ( http://www.skrenta.com/atom.xml)

Skydeck has good posts about the mobile phone industry, mobile development, and OCaml (http://skydeck.com/blog/feed/)

TheFeelGood has cool music ( http://thefeelgood.com/feed)

Why Does Everything Suck has good observations about the technology of business, New York, PIMs, databases, etc ( http://feeds.feedburner.com/whydoeseverythingsuck)

I've got more obscure ones if anyone's interested.

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by engtech on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @10:30AM (#128890)

My technique is tagging new blogs with "sandbox" in Google Reader and then either promoting them out of there or nuking them after a week or so.

I also find I go through ebbs and flows of interest in some subjects... so when I first started blogging I read lots of blogs about blogging... now I'm reading lots of blogs about Ruby.

I still have yet to find a good recommendation engine for blogs, although I use the subscribe number on FeedBurner as a good indication.

My blog is at http://InternetDuctTape.com

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by davidw on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @06:07AM (#128764)

Sounds like a perfect machine learning project for someone. Put in the blogs you read, how much you like them, and get some recommendations, both blogs and other people who have tastes similar to yours.

Indeed, Google Reader has a feature just like this...

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by bootload on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @07:00AM (#128770)

"... Sounds like a perfect machine learning project for someone. Put in the blogs you read, how much you like them, and get some recommendations, both blogs and other people who have tastes similar to yours. ..."

something like ~ http://teddziuba.com/about-me.html & http://www.persai.com/

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by jgrahamc on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @07:47AM (#128793)

Of course, collaborative filtering applies to blogs too, but I wanted to hear people's opinions of different blogs. After all, I come here for the people not the algorithm.

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by davidw on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @11:36AM (#128920)

If 20 or 30 of us each post the 20 or 30 blogs we follow... a big mess ensues.

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by aneesh on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @07:14AM (#128778)

And Google Reader's feature is quite handy. I end up subscribing to over half of what it suggests.

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by tjr on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @09:06AM (#128829)

I regularly read http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/

Not sure how obscure that is among hackers, but there you go.

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by pchristensen on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @12:15PM (#128952)

Lots of good stuff about technology and education, lots of stuff about flying, photography, and dogs too.

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by pkaler on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @03:07PM (#129083)

Well obviously you should be reading my blog. :) http://parveenkaler.com

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by vanekl on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @04:19PM (#129139)

http://www.anarchaia.org/ tumblelog

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by insertcoin on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @02:46PM (#129072)

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Re:The best blogs you are not reading by curi on Tuesday March 04, 2008 @02:19PM (#129050)

You're missing http://www.curi.us/ , enjoy :)

And http://www.settingtheworldtorights.com/

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