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me'

11-14-2003, 04:51 PM

Hey, I was wondering whether anyone out there has any favourite blogs? I'll start with a few of mine. StopDesign (www.stopdesign.com)
simpleBits (www.simplebits.com)
webgraphics (www.web-graphics.com)
hicksdesign (exp.hicksdesign.co.uk)
jeffcroft (jeffcroft.com)
A Whole Lotta Nothing (a.wholelottanothing.org)
Skyzyx (www.skyzyx.com)
meyerweb (www.meyerweb.com)
Andy Budd (www.andybudd.com/blog/index.php)Please add your own.

liorean

11-14-2003, 05:45 PM

Webgraphics (http://web-graphics.com/) Collaborative web technology weblog by Nathan Steiner et al (including me). (Yeah, and Nate hosts my site too)
Sjoerd Visscher's weblog (http://w3future.com/weblog/) JavaScript and XML weblog by Shoerd Visscher. (This guy really knows his JavaScript)
BlogZilla (http://www.deftone.com/blogzilla/) Mozilla community weblog by Pinder et al. (If you're going to monitor any Mozilla community weblog, this is the one)
Hixie's Natural Log (http://ln.hixie.ch/) Web technologies weblog by Ian Hickson. (W3C CSS WG member, Opera employee, Mozilla contributor, maintainer of the CSS testsuite)
mpt (http://mpt.phrasewise.com/) Mozilla community weblog by Matthew Thomas. (Mozilla contributor)
Adot's Notblog* (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa/) Mozilla community weblog by Asa Dotzler. (Mozilla driver, QA)
bradchoate.com (http://www.bradchoate.com/) "Stuff that interests ME" weblog by Brad Choate. (Mozilla, Linux, Mac - whatever you want to hear about)
Daring Fireball (http://daringfireball.net/) Mac community weblog by John Gruber. (Well, why are you still here? Go read it!)
Dive Into Mark (http://diveintomark.org/) Web technologies weblog by Mark Pilgrim. (Resident guru)
Mezzoblue (http://www.mezzoblue.com/) CSS weblog by Dave Shea. (Designer for the Mozilla.org site, maker of CSS Zen Garden, Webgraphics coauthor)
Simon Willison's Weblog (http://simon.incutio.com/) "PHP, Python, CSS, XML and general web development" weblog by Simon Willison.
Surfin' Safari (http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/) Safari development weblog by David Hyatt. (WebKit developer, Mozilla contributor. This is THE weblog for Safari news)
Weblog about Markup & Style (http://annevankesteren.nl/) Web technologies weblog by Anne van Kesteren. (CSS and XML with a hint of JavaScript and the DOM. Webgraphics coauthor)
Ongoing (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/) Web technologies weblog by Tim Bray. (XML and CSS guru)

(Well, that was my dailies list. I would have to spend hours to write my weekly/monthly list down here...)

jeskel

11-14-2003, 05:55 PM

really nice blogs, I usually don't read them but thanx to you I'll start from now on ;)

Skyzyx

11-24-2003, 06:05 PM

Well, me', I'm flattered. I didn't think that I really ever said anything interesting, but thanks.

Here's my list...

A List Apart (http://www.alistapart.com)
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Daily Report (http://www.zeldman.com)
Stop Design (http://www.stopdesign.com/)
Superfluous Banter (http://www.superfluousbanter.org/)
Simple Bits (http://www.simplebits.com/)
What Do I Know? (http://www.whatdoiknow.org/)
Mezzoblue (http://www.mezzoblue.com)
456 Berea Street (http://www.456bereastreet.com)
All In The <head> (http://www.allinthehead.com/)
Daring Fireball (http://www.daringfireball.net/)
Sidesh0w (http://www.sidesh0w.com/)
Gemal's Psyched Site (http://www.gemal.dk)
Scott Andrew and the Walkingbirds (http://www.scottandrew.com/)
Kottke.org: Undesign (http://www.kottke.org/)
Adactio: Journal (http://www.adactio.com/journal/)
MeyerWeb (http://www.meyerweb.com/)
Textism (http://www.textism.com/)
Waferbaby 2 (http://www.waferbaby.com/)
The Web Standards Project (http://www.webstandards.org/)
Hicksdesign (http://exp.hicksdesign.co.uk/)
Andy Budd: Blogography (http://www.andybudd.com/blog/)
Asterisk (http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/)
Whitespace (http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/)
A Whole Lotta Nothing (http://a.wholelottanothing.org/)
Blue Plaid Shirt (http://www.blueplaidshirt.com/)
Zlog (http://www.zlog.co.uk/)
Thought Anomalies (http://www.thoughtanomalies.com/)
Adam Polselli (http://www.adampolselli.com/)
Jeff Croft (http://www.jeffcroft.com/)
Dionidium (http://www.dionidium.com/)
The Personal Design Journal (http://www.smithpaul.com/)
Darice.org (http://www.darice.org/)
SOXIAM (http://www.soxiam.com/)
Young Pup (http://www.youngpup.net/)
JKD (http://www.jasonkarldavis.com/personal/)
Mac OS Rumors (http://www.macosrumors.com/)
As The Apple Turns (http://www.appleturns.com/)

Edit: Since I originally posted this, my list has grown substantially. I keep a current list here (http://www.skyzyx.com/blogs/).

allida77

11-24-2003, 06:46 PM

I am pulling this from my config file....sorry for the length.

<feed category="MSDN">
<title>C#</title>
<link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vcsharp/rss.xml</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Yahoo">
<title>Top Stories</title>
<link>http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/topstories</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Technology News">
<title>Slashdot</title>
<link>http://slashdot.org/slashdot.rss</link>
</feed>

<feed category="MSDN">
<title>ASP.NET</title>
<link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/rss.xml</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Daily News">
<title>USA Today</title>
<link>http://xml.newsisfree.com/feeds/42/1842.xml</link>
</feed>

<feed category="MSDN">
<title>.net Framework</title>
<link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/rss.xml</link>
</feed>

<feed category="MSDN">
<title>Visual Basic</title>
<link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/vbasic/rss.xml</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Technology News">
<title>Zeldman</title>
<link>http://www.zeldman.com/feed/zeldman.xml</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Technology News">
<title>Wired News</title>
<link>http://www.wired.com/news_drop/netcenter/netcenter.rdf</link>
</feed>

<feed category="MSDN">
<title>Security</title>
<link>http://msdn.microsoft.com/security/rss.xml</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Yahoo">
<title>World</title>
<link>http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/world</link>
</feed>

<feed category=".net">
<title>.netWiredNews</title>
<link>http://www.dotnetwire.com/newsfeed/rss/</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Technology News">
<title>The Register</title>
<link>http://www.theregister.co.uk/tonys/slashdot.rdf</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Technology News">
<title>InfoWorld</title>
<link>http://www.infoworld.com/rss/news.rdf</link>
</feed>

<feed category=".net\thecodeproject">
<title>asp.net</title>
<link>http://thecodeproject.com/webservices/articlerss.aspx?cat=4</link>
</feed>

<feed category="Yahoo">
<title>Business</title>
<link>http://rss.news.yahoo.com/rss/business</link>
</feed>
<feed>

<title>Word of the Day</title>
<link>http://www.dictionary.com/wordoftheday/wotd.rss</link>
</feed>

<feed>
<title>kuro</title>
<link>http://www.kuro5hin.org/backend.rdf</link>
</feed>

me'

11-24-2003, 08:46 PM

Okay, my list updated: StopDesign (www.stopdesign.com)
WG (www.webgraphics.com)
hicksdesign (exp.hicksdesign.co.uk)
Skyzyx (www.skyzyx.com)
Blogography (www.andybudd.com/blog/index.php)
mezzoblue (www.mezzoblue.com)
chokeSPEAK (www.chokespeak.com)
Adot's Notblog (weblogs.mozillazine.org/asa)
Hivelogic (hivelogic.com/index.php)
etc (www.fortysomething.ca/mt/etc)
slidesh0w (www.slidesh0w.com)
clagnut (www.clagnut.com)Those are the ones on my toolbar anyway. I've got a few more in my 'Lesser Blogs' folder.

For anyone that's interested and running Moz Fb, I exported my whole Favourites list and attached it. (Why won't they let us upload .html files?)

ez4me2c3d

11-26-2003, 09:14 PM

what is this blog you are all talking about?

me'

11-27-2003, 05:14 PM

A Blog (short for web log) is normally a cross between an online journal and just a list of interesting sites for people to check out. There's blogs on every subject imaginable, and a lot of us here like to read Web Design blogs. Some are better than others, and so I though I'd post a thread asking which ones people liked.

edit: wow! sticky! :D

wox3-iO

11-29-2003, 09:55 AM

I'm not sure if youngpup.net (http://www.youngpup.net) qualifies as a blog, but I've always considered it as one :)

dragon

12-01-2003, 04:03 PM

Well... I do re-read my own blog quite a bit :D - I don't talk about web design much, but if you're interested in board games you might like it.

http://www.dragonshobbies.com

chup

12-26-2003, 09:07 AM

Really it's wonderful:thumbsup:

me'

12-27-2003, 11:26 AM

Just in case anyone's still reading this... I reccommend the excellent Whitespace (http://www.9rules.com/whitespace/) as a great blog to add to your lists!

Skyzyx

01-02-2004, 02:49 PM

Yeah, I'd definitely have to agree about Whitespace... excellent! :thumbsup:

Alex Vincent

02-12-2004, 04:27 AM

I'm shocked. You don't look at your XML moderator's blog? ;)

(Actually, I don't update it nearly as frequently, so it's perfectly understandable.)

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal

me'

02-12-2004, 05:20 PM

Another fantastic blog I've found myself linking to more often nowadays is Weblog About Markup And Style (http://annevankesteren.nl) (currently mid-redesign). Lengthy name, but great markup blog!

On the subject, if you want to add WAMAS to your blo.gs list, you need to search for 'Weblog About Markup &amp; Style'. HTH.

STDestiny

03-30-2004, 02:10 AM

Well, now that my blog is done, here's mine ( http://forever.chronolink.net/)

As for the one's i visit:

Weblog Tools Collection (http://weblogtoolscollection.com/)
photomatt.net (http://photomatt.net/)
HTML Dog Blog (http://htmldog.com/ptg/)
1975design.com (http://1976design.com/blog/)
geek ramblings (http://dougal.gunters.org/)
urbanwhore.com (http://urbanwhore.com/) (no, it's not a porn site)
Nuclear Moose (http://blog.nuclearmoose.com/)
mezzoblue (http://mezzoblue.com/)
SitePoint (http://sitepoint.com/)
White Space (http://9rules.com/whitespace/)
meyerweb.com (http://meyerweb.com/)
Stop Design (http://stopdesign.com/)

I have them all in a toolbar folder, and just use Firefox's "Open in Tabs" to open them all at once.

-Andrew

swmr

05-29-2004, 03:20 AM

:cool:
Fabulous Adventures In Coding (http://weblogs.asp.net/ericlippert)
The Scripting Guys' First Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/gstemp/)

gsnedders

05-29-2004, 01:07 PM

MacRumors (http://www.macrumors.com/macrumors.xml)
GrandPrix.com (http://www.grandprix.com/rss.xml)

gsnedders

08-24-2004, 04:24 PM

Left Justified (http://leftjustified.net/)

ReadMe.txt

08-24-2004, 10:12 PM

didnt realise that was a blog, altho i've seen it quite a bit with the award for design - i think someone should tell mindless his xhtml broke...:(

mindlessLemming

08-24-2004, 11:15 PM

mindless his xhtml broke...:(
He knows already :(
His plugins are playing stupid and causing invalid XHTML...
Fixes be a happenin' :o

Battosai

10-08-2004, 07:15 PM

How about http://xanga.com ?

Venom989

12-01-2004, 06:42 PM

Here are a few of mine:

Adam Bosworth's Weblog (http://www.adambosworth.net/)
Joe Beda (http://www.eightypercent.net/)
Jason Kottke (http://www.kottke.org/)
Subterrane (http://www.subterrane.com/index.shtml)

Bratz World

12-11-2004, 04:09 AM

:p WOW this is one of the best threads ever on any board- I have so much to read now thank you very much!!

Bratz World (http://www.bratzworld.tv)

mcrob

12-30-2004, 01:43 AM

I like too read mines! :thumbsup:
www.robslounge.net

codegoboom

01-30-2005, 10:07 AM

DISENCHANTED (http://www.disenchanted.com/dis/scan/fi=articles/sp=archive_results/st=db/co=yes/sf=category/se=technology.html): techno-critical/-hypothetical/-analytical, but not too deep; my sneaking suspicions reaffirmed... ;)

royall

04-02-2005, 09:52 PM

This question may make my sound absolutely uneducated and inept, but....

What is a blog? :o

royall

04-02-2005, 09:54 PM

Jero

05-02-2005, 07:50 PM

http://jero.net/

>_>

Kurashu

05-03-2005, 12:36 AM

The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster (http://http://darthside.blogspot.com/)

<_<

Scootertaj

05-03-2005, 02:52 AM

Perhaps you mean The Darth Side: Memoirs of a Monster (http://darthside.blogspot.com) ?

Kurashu

05-03-2005, 03:14 AM

Yes, yes I do.

Now to crush my previous post with the force....

JamieR

05-03-2005, 09:38 AM

People could also read my blog if they want..although its kinda empty :o - www.jamierees.co.uk/blog ;)

davidjovan

06-02-2005, 09:02 AM

You'll love Lori Porter from Boston. :D If you are under 18, don't click. I just read the letters.

Sensual Arousal (http://sensualarousal.blogspot.com/)

enumerator

07-08-2005, 06:13 PM

Grumpy Old Programmers (http://grumpyoldprogrammer.myblogsite.com/) on the "shimmering facade that is modern programming"...

FXdgtal

07-11-2005, 09:40 PM

if you want your website instantly promoted, get a blog. :thumbsup:

medigerati

07-15-2005, 04:39 PM

How about reallivepreacher.com (http://www.reallivepreacher.com) or my group blog at ourkith.com (http://www.ourkith.com).

Yup,
Kevin

Trojanfan

08-01-2005, 04:43 PM

Outside of my own blog, http://www.madbum.com, I love to read Maddox (who I got a lot of inspiration from) at maddox.xmission.com

codeteacher

11-29-2005, 03:09 PM

I only read one blog which is in dutch:
http://www.geenstijl.nl

Green Beast

12-20-2005, 08:16 PM

I read a bunch of cool blogs, but in order to promote my own while touting others', and saving myself some serious time as well, you check out my blog roll on my blog. Make sense? ;) http://green-beast.com/blog/

Mike

ubik

02-14-2006, 07:10 AM

http://www.3quarksdaily.com (http://www.3quarksdaily.com)
- is pretty cool. very interesting and *nicely designed website. various topics come up here:

Books, Current Affairs, Film, Food and Drink, Monday Columns, Music, Religion, Science, Sports, Television, Travel, Weblogs, Web/Tech...

kehers

07-04-2006, 05:40 AM

All notes (http://allnotes.blogspot.com)

teamgrowth

07-31-2006, 04:49 PM

I like these blogs;
blog.eukhost.com/ - Hosting related
sitepoint.com/blogs/ - Web development/seo/marketing
mattcutts.com/blog/ - SEO
mpdailyfix.com/ - Marketing

zealotgi

08-19-2006, 07:43 PM

Leo Laporte's Blog (http://leoville.vox.com/)