There was a time when I had a lot of different blogs in my RSS reader but that was a couple of years ago. I eventually got tired of the chore where I had to sit down and go through 200 or 300 unread blogs. So I’ve cut down. A lot. It’s still an effort to read through my backlog, but at least it’s down to 20 to 30.

But you know, I never ended up posting about what blogs I read, so here is a start:

• Boing Boing – This is a great blog with lots of obscure and unique posts. But it was also one of the main offenders in my backlog as they post something like 20 a day. Between that, its carefully integrated but perceptible advertisement/sponsorship and way too many posts about Disney/steampunk/freedom of speech; I now keep it as a manual site to visit on occasion when I’m bored.
• Marginal Revolution – Every post is insightful and intelligent, although some have to much of an economics slant.
• Kottke – I’ve been following Kottke since back in the 90s. He was the inspiration for many site designs. He’s had a career as a blogger for a few years now, and how much money he makes is dependent on how interesting his site is.
• Freakonomics – This is the blog by the (Super-)Freakonomics authors and a growing cast of random people. I kind of see it as MarginalRevolution’s more sociable (and thus less enjoyable) younger brother.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: blogging, Blogroll