Follow The Blogosphere With Only 20 Feeds (Part I)
Sometimes I wonder if I could limit the number of feeds in my reader. Imagine, one day I have a partner and wifey thinks I spend too much time in front of the screen. What would happen, would I still be able to follow the blogosphere? What would happen if I were only allowed to read 20 blogs anymore? 1?
Without having to wade through all the submission in social bookmarking sites or meme trackers. YES!
Only 20 feeds open you the doors to everything blog related.
And the explanation to this is pretty easy too.
- Subscribe to blog papers
- Read guru blogs.
- Read several top social bookmarkers and speedlinkers.
Blog Papers
The Blog Papers generally report you the main blogosphere news, often also with a link to the original entry. They are your online news paper for blogland.
My must reads blog papers.
The Blog Herald.
TBH obviously is the WSJ (but without pay wall) for anything related to blogland. Duncan Riley, and later Matt Craven, have made the reference out of this Blog Paper.
Recently TBH was sold and is now also owned by Mark Saunders, the man behind Mr. Bloggy. After a difficult start the future looks bright with Succesful Blogger Liz Strauss, jiving star Tony Hung (co-editor) and new team additions Derek Van Vliet, Scott Karp and Micah Sparacio, among many other writers.
901am.
A new blog paper, founded by David Krug, assited from Thord Hedengren and Mohammed Salleem. Although very young this one seems to have everything to reach the top.
The Blogging Times.
Not always as blog related as TBH and 901am, but the comments section is always good for some fun and controversy.
Valleywag.
Blog/Tech/Geek Valley gossip blog number 1! A Gawker Media production, harsh, evil and controversial. No educational value, but perfect to finish your reading day with.
10 Zen Monkeys (A Webzine).
Not really a blog paper, but well written and interesting entries. Quite often blogand related scoops.
Bloggy News
Perfect if you don’t want to read everything but are addicted to your daily blogosphere article.
Guru blogs.
The bloggers who tell us how to blog, how they experience blogging and they certainly didn’t become popular because they are not opinionated. Always ready to help, learn new bloggers what to do and what not.
ProBlogger, Darren Rowse
Darren Rowse. ProBlogger. Nuff said. Daily also interesting speedlinking.
Succesfull Blog, Liz Strauss
Daily interesting blog and business advice, mixed with daily fresh Net Neutrality news and interesting links.
Crunchnotes.
TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington’s personal. Discover Michael behind the scenes. Honest and very human. Michael often discusses the atacks or flames he initiated/suffered.
Calacanis.com, Jason Calacanis
Not a professional blogger but surely our blog cheerboy. Should be on anyone’s list, even if it were only to disagree.
Jason is opinionated, will write what he thinks, sometimes even without thinking. A must read.
Founder of Weblogs.inc and just spend a year at AOL. Ex New Netscape guru.
Gapingvoid, Hugh MacLeod.
Hugh is no professional blogger either, but surely a blog guru. And great cartoonist. Sharp, witty and ad rem. If you don’t like sarcasm and black humor this might not be your cup of tea.
Wisdump, Paul Scrivens
Sometimes I would love to see 9rules write more editorial blogosphere related articles, but they don’t. Scrivs’ Wisdump is very Web 2.0 focused and shares very interesting points. Read this if you want an analysis of what is been done wrong online. No fanatism, no cheer-ism… but straightforward and controversial.
CopyBlogger, Brian Clark.
Copywriting tips for online marketing success. Although Brian not blogs about blogs, his insightfull writing tips are a help for everyone. Only started in January and already 7000+ feed subscribers speak for Copyblogger’s quality.
This surely was The New Blog for 2006.
Tomorrow in Part II
Top social bookmarkers and speedlinkers, together with some bonus links.
1 Following would happen : New girl friend. 
Franky- it’s very kind of you to plug bloggy news on this list, but it’s definitely not merited. It is, like practically all the other sites in our blogroll, for “content build-up” only and not- as a pure blog should be- an interactive discussion. Plus it’s main focus is internal, and its purpose to build up links internally, etc- with the other blogs. Hopefully, all this will change in 07 after our design and plugin overhaul- with each blog taking on a new life of its own.
Mosey said this on December 23, 2006 10:59 am
Hehe Mosey. I had to put at least one error in and hope someone would point it out.
Franky said this on December 23, 2006 5:57 pm
Hi Franky,
Only one error! That’s what I’ve been doing wrong! I’ll have to pay more attention now! Thanks for thinking I should be on this list.
I’ve been stopping over here for a while now. It’s nice to see “Jack” on a clear path again!
Liz Strauss said this on December 28, 2006 10:35 am
He! Let us hope that is the case Liz. I’m only the pianist.
Franky said this on December 28, 2006 1:17 pm
Hey, piano player, that works out well. I’m a saloonkeeper’s daughter.
Liz Strauss said this on December 28, 2006 1:24 pm
[...] Over the last weeks there have been some changes in the blog journal landscape. 2 Consolidated papers and a new comer. Positions haven’t changed yet, but the tone of the blogs has. Lets have a look at the 3 blog papers I mentioned in my Follow The Blogosphere with only 20 Feeds. [...]
Jack Of All Blogs » Blog Archive » Blog Journals Changes In The Next Months said this on January 6, 2007 4:14 am
[...] Over the last weeks there have been some changes in the blog journal landscape. 2 Consolidated papers and a new comer. Positions haven’t changed yet, but the tone of the blogs has. Lets have a look at the 3 blog papers I mentioned in my Follow The Blogosphere with only 20 Feeds. [...]
Blog Journals Changes In The Next Months » Jack Of All Blogs said this on January 17, 2007 1:29 pm