Given that Technorati now claims to index more than 50 million blogs, it can be hard to find new, high-quality sites. Here are six that I haven’t linked to or mentioned before–I think they are all worth a look.
- Startup Review. Nisan Gabbay of Sierra Ventures recently launched a new blog that features weekly case studies of successful internet startups. For each, he will interview members of the management team and/or investor group. His first case is on Craigslist–check it out here.
- OnStartups.com. Dharmesh Shah, CEO of HubSpot, writes about software startups. He has a great, readable writing style and tends to offer very practical advice (ie the top six questions you should ask before joining a startup).
- Ben Casnocha: the blog. Ben founded Comcate, a provider of CRM software for local governments, when he was 14–he recently graduated from high school. On his 18th birthday, he asked his blog readers to describe something they did that they regret or something they didn’t do that they wished they had. The responses helped Ben to decided to take time off before college to travel the world, which he’s now doing–and blogging. He has interesting insights and his blog is a fun read.
- TED Blog. TED is an annual conference in California focused on technology, entertainment, and design. Recently, they posted video clips of many of last year’s speakers (link here)–these are worth a look. Similarly, the TED blog highlights related ideas.
- Creating Passionate Users. This is a group blog (meaning it has multiple authors) focused on the brain and metacognition–in particular, “how the brain works and how to exploit it for better learning and memory. Oh yeah, and how to recognize when someone else (including one of us) is applying brain-based techniques to get you to do something.”
- Chartreuse (Beta). Prince Campbell covers internet media properties, including social software, blogging, podcasting, videocasting and related technologies. He’s a tremendously creative thinker; his latest project is to sponsor (with $1000 of his own money plus sponsorships) a team of two to travel to New Orleans to investigate the current situation there.
What are you reading?
