Posted: December 20, 2007
Last year I decided to put on twist on my annual "best blogs" post [2002, 2003, 2004] by taking a turn toward the obscure. Because blogs now pervade the media landscape, it makes little sense to write a post arguing that Huffington Post is better or worse than DailyKos -- or Cute Overload.
It turned out that this change -- pointing to lesser-known sites like History of the Button, Buzzfeed, and Indexed -- was a rather auspicious. Within 24 hours of releasing the list, seven of the top ten links on Del.icio.us' typically-tech-centric hotlist were sites on my list. And so in the spirit of celebrating the lesser-known, it's time again to point toward the best blogs that might have flown under your radar. Here they are, the Best Blogs of 2007 that You Maybe Aren't Reading:
30) The Informed Reader
As mainstream media organizations continue to close their foreign bureaus out of cost-saving desperation, the less expensive version -- "the international news blog" -- has become a staple property on nearly all sites (nytimes.com, msnbc.com, cnn.com, newyorker.com, etc.). Though the foreign news consumer might be tricked into believing these will reveal new forms of international reporting, it actually means that none of these sites stick out above the rest -- except for the Wall Street Journal's The Informed Reader, which somehow kept my attention this year by finding the right balance between gathering links and providing context. (See also: Good Magazine.)
28) Paleo-Future
If the dictum "the future is now" has any veracity, then what do we do with the past? This blog chronicles how past generations envisioned what the future would look like. With an archive that goes back to the 1880s, Paleo-Future is an essential compendium of a new historical category: nostalgic futurism. (See also: Subtopia.)
27) TV In Japan
If ever there were a genre in need of aggregation, Japanese TV would be it. This site (from my friend Gavin Purcell, whose day job is running Attack of the Show on G4) is religious in its pursuit to bring you the best moments of televised weirdness from the Land of the Rising Sun. (See also: Neojaponisme and Ping Mag.)
26) BookForum
For those of us who have given up on the once-spectacular and oft-praised Arts & Letters Daily, the transformation of Book Forum to an aggregation blog has been nothing less than a savior. (See also: ArtsJournal.)
23) Metafilter Popular Favorites
Every year I sneak a reference to Metafilter onto this list. And every year a Metafilter post ridicules its inclusion -- can't wait to see this year's! My longstanding love-hate relationship with Metafilter (check the archives) tilted back toward the negative this year, which is why the Popular Favorites feature was almost a panacea for my frustration. More big sites are adding this "favoriting" feature (BoingBoing, Gothamist, etc.), which I initially appraised as a cheap way of avoiding depth, but now find the only way I can continue reading some sites. (See also: Ask.Metafilter.)
22) Drawn.ca
Drawn bills itself at "collaborative weblog for illustrators, artists, cartoonists, and anyone who likes to draw," but it acts more like a comprehensive guide to visual culture. (See also: Design Observer.)
21) FourFour
The overabundant jungle of pop culture blogging leaves little room for new voices to emerge. One can read only so many snarky reviews of every episode of every reality tv show on every network every night (I know!). As an antidote to Perez Hilton's pretty hate machine, FourFour's Rich Juzwiak (whose day job is blogging for VH1) has carved out something unique in the pop landscape by balancing critical insight with a celebration for the lovable. And what does FourFour love? For starters: Tyra, America's Next Top Model, Beyonce, Tyra, Project Runway, and... Tyra. (See also: Golden Fiddle and Best Week Ever.)
20) Reverse Cowgirl
Her: "Why don't more sex bloggers make your list?" Me: "Cuz they all talk about the same thing." Her: "Yes, but in many different ways." It's true, sex bloggers don't usually end up on this list, but Susannah Breslin's blog was one of the few sites in the genre to stay in the "to read" pile all year long.
19) Kanye West: Blog
Too much was made again this year about famous people getting blogs. Do you really want more insight into these people's opinions? Of course not -- you want to know their passions, their desires, their interest in dropping $7K on a bottle of cognac. Kanye's blog is more like a scrapbook of his id: some links (hey look, the new Lupe Fiasco vid), some photos (hey look, a Delorean), but surprisingly little ego.
16) Pussy Ranch
Several years ago I included Diablo on a "hot new blog!" list. Now she's super famous, and I'm still making this stupid list.
15) Serious Eats
Food blogging has always been a blind spot for me, but Serious Eats was the first site to find the right mix of editorial voice and community interaction.
14) Shorpy
The photoblog genre is easy to overlook, but this blog puts itself in a curatorial role by collecting photos up to 100 years old. (See also: The Triumph of Bullshit.)
11) The Daily Swarm
Looking for an alternative to Pitchfork? Who isn't! But Daily Swarm isn't exactly that -- it's a music news source that somehow seems to break news before anyone else. And it's not "press release" news that Pitchfork delivers, nor the salacious celeb news of TMZ, nor even the industry banter of Idolator; rather, The Daily Swarm's beat is a rare kind of -- dare I say -- investigative work that no one else is doing. (See also: Stereogum and Culture Bully.)
10) A Brief Message
Brevity seemed to only increase its role as the ruling doctrine this year (see: Snack Culture), and the designers hopped on board with their micro-manifestos on this site. (See also: Very Short List.)
8) emo+beer = busted career
When Earl Boykins mixed the infographic with a passion for Brooklyn indie music, he ended up with several pieces in the New York Times that could have passed for art installations. (See also: Infosthetics.)
7) Frolix-8: Philip K. Dick
What we once called "the news" is increasingly becoming different filters for perceiving reality. If you think about it, watching the news is just putting on someone else's reality goggles. Philip K. Dick would probably agree, and so this amazing site gives you today's headlines matched up next to which PKD novel the story corresponds with. If it seems that science fiction gets less fantastical every year, then this is the site for you. (See also: Cyber Punk Review.)
6) Snowclones
A snowclone -- says Wikipedia, cuz it oughta know -- is "a type of formula-based cliche that uses an old idiom in a new context." The best example is the rampant usage of "X is the new Y." But there are so many others, such as "Don't hate me because I'm X," "In X, no one can hear you Y," "No rest for the X," "To X or not to X," "Xgate," "Xcore," "Got X?" -- and many more. The site is so diligent in its pursuit of the cliche and the trite that you might fall stricken with a loss of words, gasping "This is not your daddy's snowclone." (See also: Language Hat and Away With Words.)
5) Jezebel
Gawker Media's modus operandi is to enter a content category (gadgets, politics, sports, music, etc.) by summarizing that industry with enough volume (in both senses of the word) to basically become the essential trade mag in that sector. This is why Jezebel represents the biggest coup in the empire's history. Rather than beguile its way into the women's magazine industry, Jezebel burst onto the scene in May by defining itself in oppositional terms. It isn't so much a thing as it is not those things. To be clear: it is not the celeb porn that Conde Nast and Hearst have been splooging on you from newsstands for decades. Whereas the average Idolator post would fit in just fine in Blender or Pitchfork, Jezebel was an entire take-down of Glamour, Cosmo, and the rest of the airbrushed crew. This is the holy grail of publishing: to find a voice that is completely unique while still appealing to a broad category. Nicely played, Mr. Denton. (Note: By the numbers, Jezebel probably doesn't qualify in the "overlooked" character of this list. But with as many dudes like me reading this "women's fashion" site every day...) (See also: Spout.)
3) Vulture
New York Magazine is a perplexing contradiction. It is probably the best magazine on the newsstand right now (Wired is the only competition), but it also has an editorial voice that is occasionally annoying in its sense of privilege and entitlement. On its worst days, I call this attitude "Aggressively SoHo" -- as in, it surpassed believing that NYC is the center of the world by declaring the epicenter somewhere south of 14th St. and north of Chambers St. When my bestest friend Melissa (disclaimer!) said she was co-launching this blog (she has since moved onto Rolling Stone), I was worried that this voice would ring through on its cultural coverage. But the opposite has happened -- Vulture has kept the best parts of New York Mag (the nuance, the design, the clever), while leaving the Aggressive SoHo Tude at the door. (See also: Wired's Blogs.)
1) Twitter and Tumblr
"Blog" has always been an elastic term, just barely surviving the stress of containing everything from Hot Chicks With Douchebags to DailyKos to your mom's Vox account. But this year the seams of the term finally burst, and out spilled some brand new words, tweets and tumbls, and these two new forms of quasi-blogging that are more personal, more immediate, and of course more annoying than anything online communication has rustled up so far. Twitter and Tumblr are the Rubik's Cube and the Tetris of the blogging world -- simple concepts that are immensely more complex and compelling than they logically should be. I've explained Twitter to a hundred people in a hundred different ways, each time not quite capturing why it's different, why it matters. "You just have to play it to understand," I eventually say, choosing the only verb that approaches the nuanced complexity. And yet, there's another very simple way to say it: Twitter and Tumblr made blogging fun again this year.
And finally, thanks to Taylor, Ben, Robin, Lindsay, Melissa, Scott, Alisa, Gavin, Jason, Peter, Matt, Choire, and Anil for their tips on this project. See ya next year.
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Los 30 mejores blogs de 2007: Los 30 mejores blogs del año en inglés: Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading.
links for 2007-12-21: Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading. It was his 2006 post that got me hooked on Rex, the poor man’s Jason Kottke. Four of them seemed interesting enough for me to put in my Probation folder.
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[Links]2007-12-21: 18th Annual Jolt Awards Finalists; 10 great Web site designs/redesigns of 2007; Fimoculous.com - misc - Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading; Remember The Milk + Gmail = task management goodness; SOA Posters (Prentice Hall
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holding pattern: hello, lots of people! i am in the midst of last minute prep for a global move and have no time to update, even though i am happy to see you all. sometime next week i will be back with new content, including a longish thing i have in
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links for 2007-12-21: diving mask thinks its a digital camera. wicked fun. (tags: mask digitalcamera diving). Microsoft is in yur Car. (tags: video youtube). Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading. dude sure can make a list
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links for 2007-12-21: 107 Magazine Predictions for 2008 | FolioMag.com. It includes a few of my wishful thoughts. Overall, the article is a fun list, but it actually contains one nugget of real news. In his prediction, Samir Husni reveals he’s not God. ; )
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Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading: via Fimoculous "Within 24 hours of releasing the list, seven of the top ten links on Del.icio.us' typically-tech-centric hotlist were sites on my list. And so in the spirit of celebrating the lesser-known, it's time again to point
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links for 2007-12-21: Rupture Goes Live: Awesome MySpace Clone for World of Warcraft. Rupture provides a download that pulls all your stats from the game and automatically updates your profile - last.fm for video gamers. (tags: videogames socialnetworks)
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links for 2007-12-20: Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading. yay fimoculous.com. (tags: 2007 bestof blogs fimoculous list)
FAMOUS ON FIMOCULOUS.: Rex Sorgatz of Fimoculous ("Feeding on itself"—the name is a play on the rare word fimicolous 'inhabiting or growing on dung') has posted his list of the "Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading"; one entry is:. 6) Snowclones
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Waxy recommends Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading: We love Waxy, and it points us to these great, undiscovered blogs, via Fimoculous:. 29) Songs About Buildings and Food Imagine if your favorite college prof got hooked on meth and The Hills -- and you were more concerned that the latter
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The Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading: I would argue that some of these are more "relevant" than "best", but Rex's list is excellent again this year: The Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading. I'll be adding several of those to my already-overloaded RSS!
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Unsung (or less-sung) blogs of 2007: From Fimoculous.com’s Rex Sorgatz: Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading.
Drawn! on best blog list: Drawn! makes the Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading list. Filmoculous says the site is “a comprehensive guide to visual culture.” Hat tip to Matt! Tags: drawn! press.
a good blog list: The "blog" came in #9 on this list of "Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading." I found the list an interesting read and thought that since people who read this blog are blog readers, you might be interested.
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Best 2007 Blogs You Aren’t Reading: Interesting list to check out; lame there’s not even one medical or science blog on the list.
Feed the Feed Reader: My OPML file just picked up some new nodes. I wish I could take credit for something more sophisticated, but my recommendation was Drawn.ca.
Best Blogs 2007: I came back from my vacation to find most of my favorite sites doing their "year's best" lists. Rex's Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Reading is a good one. I found three excellent blogs today! Anything you'd add?
Fimoculous: The end of the year as we know it: Former MSNBC executive producer (and MnSpeak founder) Rex Sorgatz is deep into the compiling of his annual and always swell list of year-end lists. He’s also posted his own list of 30 Best Blogs That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading.
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WTFCNN: With apologies to my brother, I’m pretty into WTFCNN. It doesn’t quite fill the void that Brill’s Content left, but it’sa great snack. via Fimoculous.
Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren't Readin: #23: Every year I sneak a reference to Metafilter onto this list. And every year a Metafilter post ridicules its inclusion -- can't wait to see this year's! Have at it, inclusoridiculists.
Drawn makes “Best Blogs of 2007 That (Maybe) You Aren’t Reading” list: Drawn makes “Best Blogs of 2007 That (Maybe) You Aren’t Reading” list.
lists!: 8 people whose jobs actually killed them The 23 best iTunes add-ons Top 10 awkward moments of 2007 (via Miss Cellania) 9 lists you thought the US would be at the top of (via Stumble Buzz) The 15 biggest tech disappointments of 2007 (via
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…Rex Sorgatz knows the best blogs?: Power up that RSS reader and prepare to feed it some new material, because Rex Sorgatz has just released his list of the Best Blogs of 2007 That You (Maybe) Aren’t Reading. It’s filled with undiscovered gems of the blogosphere,
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+1 for IllDoctrine (http://www.illdoctrine.com/) and Twitter/Tumblr
Great list; except now I have to add even more to my RSS reader!
Regardless, thanks for keeping us on the cutting edge.
Great list! You've gotta augment cnnwtf with David Jacobs' seminal Best of CNN: http://hello.typepad.com/photos/cnn
Also, you should charge to read this post; that would answer your question about selling your OPML file.
where's your tumblr?
@Anil Good one, I added it.
@Ashley It's called FIMOCULOUS. (Seriously, I've been Tumbl blogging for so many years here, and Tumblr is the first thing to come along and make me wonder why I should even do it anymore, because now everyone has a Fimoculous.)
"vidoes" - loev 'em! (thx & ciao!)
YUMMY
Hey, thanks for the hat-tip!
More great stuff I didn't know about this year - thanks. I wonder, was Errol Morris' blog at the New York Times not underrated enough for this list? Certainly some of the best writing I've read on a blog ever was on it. http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/
@Mike Oooh, yeah, that would've been a good one to include. I very much enjoyed it too. (Actually, come to think of it, I should've done an entire entry on the downfall of TimesSelect. Oh well.)
add www.whatreallyhappened.com
oh.
Can The World Hear Me is really taking off.
You seemed to have accidently left my blog Guitar Noize off your list, I'll forgive you it was an honest mistake ;)
Awww, WebUrbanist.com isn't on the list?!?
For sports fans, this one is is hard not to love:
www.heylarryhughespleasestoptakingsomanybadshots.com
what about www.thisblogisabomb.com?
www.spacedaisy.com
My push would be for Ill Doctrine - Jay is the most consistent, dead on video blogger that I've seen (yes, since Ze).
I agree. That's why he's #2.
what's Ze up to anyways?
I would also suggest http://www.quickonlinetips.com
TV in Japan? Half their videos are just taken from JapanProbe.com these days, which is a far better blog.
I would also suggest RestaurantMarketingBlog.com
I'm a big fan of the music culture blog Ill Doctrine!!!
Cool Beans!
I never heard of any of these blogs but than again most haven't heard of my blog either!~ ha
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