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My Favorite Blogs of 2004
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My blogroll represents my all-time favorites. The dozen or so blogs I list below as my "Favorites of 2004" are the weblogs that I seemed to check nearly every day, or at least several times week, over the course of the last year. Some are already in my blogroll, and some may be added later, but all of them meet two important criteria: they are well-written and they are consistently interesting.In no particular order...
The Top Ten
Infectious Greed (rss) - I'm infected. I stumbled across this one while cleaning up my long-defunct Blogger account, and what can I say: everything you need to know about it is in the title. A sharp-tongued economics professor slash writer named Kedrosky breaks down the financial mathematics behind business, mostly technology and the Internet, and it's a bit of a horror show: self-important white guys with lots of money, few morals, and nothing but profit motives. Just show them the money.
An Architect's View (rss) - It is a geek blog, alright, but to pay the rent I play the role a ColdFusion/Java developer on TV, so it's a kinda-sorta natural fit. Trust me, you won't see me over at /. anytime soon. Blogger and Macromedia employee Sean Corfield constantly points out key bits of news, information, software tools, and programming tips that help keep my chops from going obsolete.
Lulu Loves Manhattan (rss) - Bombay, ooops, sorry -- Mumbai -- expatriate, brand strategist and my office buddy Lools relocated from San Francisco to New York City this summer, and her commentary on restaurants, and all other things Gotham -- from the discovery of awesome little shops on obscure Manhattan sidestreets, to the dread of being caught in a high-rise elevator during a power failure -- are just sensual and delicious, even when the news is bad, which is hardly ever.
Marc's Voice (rss) - this voice is loud, sharp and provocative, and often overstates the importance of digital technology to those who aren't uber-hackers (i.e. most of us), but that's to be expected from the grandfather of multimedia: passion, great ideas, a lot of sound and fury amounting to a lot. Plus, he's a cool dude, who invites me to his parties and I never go, who digs Bob Marley, and who rolls in a jet-black Checker Cab as his main ride. Sweet.
gigaom (rss) - business writer Om Malik provides the lowdown on broadband, wireless, VOIP, gadgets, and all of the greedy businessmen behind the headlines. This blog is the place to get a topline on who's moving and shaking the world of connecting people via technology. My only complaint about this blog is it's starting to morph into a quasi-magazine replete with ads and assorted crap like that. I guess you can't write forever about greedy businessmen without taking on some of their characteristics. Oh brother.
Speaking of brothers, the black China hand (rss) / Na Han (rss) - it's not just because the blogger Laosan is my real-life little brother, it's because a lot of times I think that we truly see things the same way, only he's looking at the world as a Black man living on the other side of the Great Wall of China. His two blogs are really the yin and yang sides of one blog.
Abstract Dynamics (rss) - the blogger with the nom-de-plume William Blaze (or is that his real name) is just cool, and things he blogs make you realize that there's a lot of interesting music, art, usable technology, and other hip stuff out there, and that by seeking this material out, you might avoid the numbing conformity that's intertwined in the fabric of our Red State/Blue State, hyper-polarized socio-economo-political American reality tour. Or something like that. If this was The Matrix, this guy could be Neo, or at least, Morpheus.
Joel on Software (rss) - This software developer, Joel, although his RSS feed is kind of whack, what with just dates for post titles, is flat-out one of the best writers in the so-called blogosphere. He writes exclusively about software development and the business of software development, but he does it so lucidly that almost everything he posts becomes a virtual must-read for people who create software applications for a living.
I, Cringely (rss) - not actually a blog, but pro journalist Cringely does have an RSS feed. I think Cringely is simply an eye-opening spotter of trends that will eventually effect all of our lives, whether you like it or not.
Seth's Blog (rss) - his posts are often pitifully short, and he often plugs his books and coined catchphrases -- hey, that's a "purple cow" -- probably so you'll go out and buy his books, but his jargon-free, brand-focused stuff always makes this particular branding firm associate think twice. And hey, if you can't promote your product on your own blog, where can you?
Honorable Mentions
Negrophile. (rss) - quite simply one of the most intellectual collections of bloggery on the state and art of being and living Black, for a population that could probably use a few more thinkers, strategists, and builders, and a few less point guards, ministers, and hip-hop emcees. But, that's just me. Much thanks go to editor George Kelly for maintaining this valuable resource.
Josh Rubin: Cool Hunting (rss) - after the letdown of Gibson's Pattern Recognition, I thought I'd seen enough of cool hunting, but this blog proves that it's still fun to look for cool stuff that you can't really afford to buy, but at least you can ogle ... we live in a consumer society after all. But as long as you're not over your credit limit, why not just spend yourself into more debt. Just do it.
Blog Maverick (rss) - Mark Cuban's reality TV show, "The Benefactor," was a serious dog with fleas that had no bark or bite and failed to challenge to "The Apprentice 2" in the TV ratings. His blog, on the other hand, while at times puerile (which I have no problem with), is often a frank, fun and informative read on entrepreneurship, on emerging trends in HDTV, and on the general state of the National Basketball Association, from one of its
Coming up next, some of my favorite Web Tools of 2004, and my Links of 2004.most outspokenblowhard team owners.
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