#b100Container { margin: 0 auto; text-align: left; padding: 30px 0 30px 0; width: 850px; } #b100Banner { margin: 0; padding: 5px 0 0 0; } #utilLinks { font-size: .8em; margin: 0 auto; width: 896px; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; } #openHTMLfix { overflow: visible; } #story { width: auto; } #badgeInfo { width: 265px; background-color: #F1F1F1; float: right; text-align: center; border-color: #666; border-width: 1px; border-style: solid; margin: 10px; } #badgeInfo img { margin: 5px ; } #badgeInfo h4 { padding: 6px 0 0 6px; text-align: left; } #badgeInfo p { padding: 0 6px 6px 6px; font-size: 85%; line-height: 1.3em; text-align: left; } #badgeInfo form { margin: 0 0 0 5px; text-align: left; padding: 0; } #badgeInfo form input { font-size: 80%; text-align: left; margin: 0; padding: 0; } blog100.news.com In 2006, CNET News.com introduced you to our first Blog 100 list. With more than 14 million blogs in existence that year and another 80,000 being created each day, we highlighted what we thought were some of the ones worth checking out. Blogs have become an important source of information, but the signal-to-noise ratio has made it hard to find the gems. In our pursuit, we spent weeks checking out technology-oriented blogs based on the recommendations from our reporters and readers. Of course, such a list is bound to generate vigorous agreement and vehement dissent. It's impossible to even get universal agreement on the definition of a blog. For our search, we decided to be very liberal. You'll find blogs produced by a single person and others that have grown to include a staff of contributors. Some are associated with major news outlets, while some are published by large companies. The bottom line is that they all are produced by passionate people who have a wealth of information about their corner of the tech world. After defining the types of blogs that could be considered for our list, the next question was to determine just what constitutes a "good" blog. There are a lot of reasons people find particular blogs worthy of their time. Some are valued solely for their aggregation of pertinent news, while others have formed a devoted following based on the robust and educated comments of their readers. Still others have become popular because of their humor or for the biting tone of their writers' opinions. With a blog being created about every second, there are bound to be many more good ones. Blogs featured in the Blog 100 Scripting News Engadget Declan McCullagh's Politech Groklaw Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger kuro5hin.org John Battelle's Searchblog Doc Searls Weblog kottke.org ongoing Jon Udell Venture Chronicles mozillaZine Gizmodo paidContent.org AppleInsider Techdirt PVRblog Scott Rosenberg's Links & Comment Geek News Central Chris Pirillo Lessig Blog MacMinute Daring Fireball Think Secret PressThink Social Media Todd Bishop's Microsoft Blog Dan Bricklin's Log The Spam Weblog Jeremy Zawodny's blog Boing Boing Grant News Channel 9 Responsible Nanotechnology Schneier on Security Joi Ito's Web tecosystems Jonathan Schwartz's Blog Between the Lines IEBlog digg BusinessWeek Online -- Tech Beat The Importance of... molly.com Terra Nova Neowin.net / Main Ars Technica Fark.com whatsnextblog jkOnTheRun Micro Persuasion Mini-Microsoft Science Blog - CyberJournalist.net Kim Cameron's Identity Weblog Science Blog - Simon Phipps, SunMink Romenesko BuzzMachine BeyondVC WWdN: In Exile Matt McAlister Things That ... Make You Go Hmm Security Fix O'Reilly Radar TiVo Blog Windows-Now.com Seth's Blog Security Awareness for Ma, Pa and the Corporate Clueless?? Apple Matters The Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) The Blog Herald my blog iLounge | All Things iPod, iPhone, iTunes and beyond Slashdot TechCrunch Search Engine Watch Freedom to Tinker Internet Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha Kotaku Lifehacker The Mac Observer Silicon Valley Watcher - the business of disruption Connections SunbeltBLOG Burnham's Beat Cleantech Investing The Gadgeteer XplanaZine Threadwatch.org - Marketing and Technology Discussed PhoneNews.com TVover.net PhysOrg.com Blog WET FEET PR Alice Hill's Real Tech News - Independent Tech Justin's Guide Tech-Confidential Geek Culture GigaOM BusinessWeek Online - Blogspotting TaoSecurity Vitalsecurity.org - A Revolution is the Solution nanocr.eu Linux-Watch.com 1080eye: Mark Kersey's HDTV News Blog hypebot GPS Review The RFID Weblog GigaOM Michael Gracie (Obsolete Feed) Tech Confidential FIXYOURTHINKING.COM Tech Confidential Blog
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