At Shiny Red, we’re always trying to expand our reading list. This time of year provides a good opportunity to look through your RSS feeds, your blogroll and your favourites lists and make some sense of it all. Technorati is currently tracking 112.8 million blogs, and our friends at Shiny Media are running 45, so it’s impossible to read everything that’s being posted. While it’s easy to stick to the superblogs like TechCrunch and Boing Boing, there are some gems that can go unnoticed. Here are 10 that you might not be checking out… yet:
A Contribution to the Great Debate - Channel 4’s online reporter Ben King fuses new media and UK politics in his personal blog
BusinessGreen Blog - With environmental and ethical issues set among 2008’s biggest blog topics, BusinessGreen talks to brands looking to make a difference
Core77 - One of the many uber-hip design blogs; a source of creative inspiration and great images
Fake Plastic Noodles - US-based PR blogger Melanie Seasons shares interesting thoughts on social media to add to her interesting blog name
James Cridland’s Blog - While radio may be perceived by many as not having a place in the internet revolution, James Cridland, BBC’s future media guru, expertly provides insight into its convergence with new media platforms
Journalism.co.uk – Editor’s blog - Though its labelled as a site for journalists, Oliver Luft and Laura Oliver scour the media world for stories, ranging from mobile video to bloggers joining the NUJ, that have relevance far beyond Fleet Street
Marketing Blagger – As well as running this internet marketing blog, Andy Bargery organises The London Bloggers Meetup group
New Media Knowledge – A hub for digital media professionals in the UK complete with news and events; it’s not-for-profit and runs for the benefit of the industry it covers
Practising a Proper Social Demeanour: A Guide To Facebook Etiquette - If 2007 was the year that Facebook took-off, then Maz Hardey’s blog promises to raise more laughs in 2008 as the boundaries blur between off and online worlds
Who Ate All The Pies - Yes, it is a Shiny Media blog, but as the tagline says, it’s simply the best football blog on the planet.
Fake Plastic Noodles, that’s one of the funniest blog names I have heard, ever
Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the mention!! Although I must say, “Who Ate All the Pies?” is giving me a run for the money in the blog title department.
Cheers
I guess it’s a rarely spoken phrase in the US! I’m sure there are stranger ones out there – that’s a challenge.
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Thanks for the plug, guys – I’m very flattered!
You’re welcome Ben – we hope ‘08 is a good year for your blog.
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Hi all *smiling*
It is an absolute honor to be nominated as a ‘blog to read’ in 2008. Reminds me, must get blogging!
Thanks again
Maz
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