My 59 most favorite blogs.

Apr 10, 2007 at 2:16 PM

It's true that I monitor an insane amount of blogs each day through my news reader, close to 400 of them now; and also true that I almost never share the list online, in that it's so large and unwieldly. Anyway, a friend here in Chicago recently was asking if I could recommend some ultra-great blogs to him; I ended up on a roll, listing and briefly describing my favorite 59. As long as the list was typed already and all, I thought I'd post it here at my personal blog as well, for those who might be interested. Enjoy!

MOVIES/TV/ARTS
CHUD: Info on latest cult films
Tim Goodman: SF Chronicle's TV critic
The Sound of Young America: Indie-rock, edgy comedians
Onion AV Club staff blog: stuff you don't see in the paper version
Facets Multimedia: Staff blog about indie films
IFC blog: from the staff of the Independent Film Channel

TECH/COMPUTERS/INDUSTRY NEWS
Gizmodo
MAKE
GigaOM
TechCrunch
Valleywag
Coding Horror
Creative Bits
Cult of the Dead Cow
Freemacware
Logic + Emotion
37 Signals staff blog

CULTURE/WEIRD
IKEAHacker: Doing new things with IKEA furniture
Lifehacker: Personal productivity
43 Folders: Personal productivity
CTA Chair: Personal blog by head of the CTA
Re-Imagineering: Disney Animation employees bitch about the corporatization of Disney theme parks
TibTec: Group building ad-hoc wireless network for exiled Tibetans in India
Gapers Block: Chicago cultural guide
Time Out: Chicago
Chicagoland Bicycle Federation:
Boing Boing: Underground culture and absurdist political activism
YesButNoButYes: Pop culture
10 Zen Monkeys: Edgy pop/sci-fi culture
Green Bean: Profiles of environmentally-friendly cutting-edge Chicago architectural projects

COMICS/IMAGES
ACT-I-VATE
Penny Arcade
Player Versus Player
Savage Chickens
Wondermark
XKCD
Cute Overload
John K, creator of Ren & Stimpy
Drunken Stepfather
Fickr Blog
Gallery of the Absurd
I Can Has Cheezburger
Looper

PERSONAL BLOGS
Author Warren Ellis
Screenwriter Ken Levine
Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn
Author Bruce Sterling
Tech veteran Jason Calacanis
Tech veteran Dave Winer
Craigslist founder Craig Newmark
Chicago poet Daniel X. O'Neil
Fimoculous: Lots of great links to interesting things
Author William Gibson
NYT columnist and author Malcolm Gladwell
Hiphop DJ and podcaster Julien Smith
Filmmaker Kevin Smith
Author Neil Gaiman
Chicago author and dark humorist Dan Kelly
Author and actor Wil Wheaton