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News.com's Blog 100

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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