2008 Top 10 Favorite Blogs

I read a lot of blogs, sites, twitter feeds, and a hell of a lot more!  Separating good blogs from bad blogs ain’t easy.  It takes a lot of time.  Sometimes you’ll come across a GREAT post, only to find out you’ve been tricked.  Tricked you say?  Yes tricked, because though there was that one great gem, it takes weeks and multiple posts for another gem to show up.  With that in mind, here’s my favorite blogs.  These are blogs that I visit frequently, recommend to friends, and hold in high regard.  Hopefully, you’ll find them useful as well.

1. Matt Dickman’s Techno//Marketer blog – Matt’s smart.  His content is solid.  There’s always value.  He takes on tough tasks too, like putting together one of the BEST overviews on Facebook out there.
2. Jason Falls’ Social Media Explorer site – Wow, this is such a GREAT site.  If it’s happening in social media this is the place to be.
3. Seth Godin’s blog – You can be guaranteed to get 1 post just about every day.  The posts are fun, though provoking, and interesting.
4. The Die Line – I’m a lover of package design.  You can spend hours going through their archive of great, new, and bad packaging.
5. Steve Rubel’s Micro Peruasion blog – Steve doesn’t always time for long posts, but he does make time to list out links that interest him.  It’s one of the things I really enjoy about his blog.
6. Avinash Kaushik’s Occam’s Razor site – If you love metrics, this is the blog to read.  Who better to learn web analytics from than the guy who literally wrote the book.
7. Ogilvy’s PR Blog – They team at Ogilvy do  GREAT job of providing interesting points of view.  By having multiple contributors you get some variety that’s often lacking on other blogs.
8. Michael Arrington’s Techcrunch blog – I enjoy his blog more than I do his tweets.  The blog covers startups, technology, and everything in between.  You’ll really enjoy the witty and sometimes scathing comments.  For the most part he’s brutally honest.  I just wish he’d be a little more willing to call his “friends” out when they’re wrong.
9. Zeus Jones’ Blog – I worked with Rob White, when I was at Fallon.  I thought he was smart then and he’s even smarter now.  The Zeus Jones blog has multiple contributors from different backgrounds who offer unique points of view.
10. David Armano’s Logic+Emotion blog – Sometimes a bit to preachy and at times hypocritical, but you can’t dismiss how smart he is.  I find his graphics to be much better than the copy.  You’ll find yourself using them often because of how simple and relevant they are.  The blog is MUCH better than the twitter stream.