How to find good blogs on almost any topic

04.19.06

It's true, almost every field of interest has bloggers now! So how can you find blogs about whatever you are interested in? Here are a number of ways I recommend:

  • Go to Technorati's Blog Finder and search by author-submitted tag regarding entire blogs as opposed to individual posts. You can view these in order of "most authority" (inbound links) or "most recently updated."
  • The other end of the spectrum, methodologically, might be Top Ten Sources. A fairly broad number of topics are covered here, with an expert human editor maintaining what they believe are the top ten blogs in their area of expertise. From Second Life to the Opera. For good times check out photoblogs and MP3 blogs. Since both of these are multimedia, the Top 10 pages themselves are less impressive than the individual blogs and feeds. I just subscribed to the OPML file of the Top Ten Photoblogs and yay am I excited.
  • Look at what other people have tagged with the terms blog and your topic of interest in del.icio.us. See, for example: http://del.icio.us/tag/library2.0+blog.
  • When you find blogs you like, check if they have blog rolls - a list of their favorite blogs - in the sidebar. Or, check to see who is linking to the blog you found already by searching for their URL in Technorati, Icerocket or another blog search engine.
  • If you are looking through a large number of blogs and want to evaluate the quality of them, I like to open the Technorati Mini on my desktop and drop in blog URLs as I find them to see if other people are linking there. This only works when Technorati works, of course, and that's only part of the time.

Well, there's a few tips. Hope they are useful.

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10 Responses to “How to find good blogs on almost any topic”

  1. Vicki Davis Says:

    I also find neat things from fellow bloggers whom I respect. I like to look at digg as well.

    Of course, you leave out one of my fave’s: see what Marshall K says he’s reading!

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  10. Kenneth Says:

    You missed a good blog finding resource called Blogged.com. The site is located at www.Blogged.com

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