Drew Curtis's Fark filters the daily news into buckets labeled "strange," "interesting," "scary," "dumb," "obvious" and "amusing." Drew's comic and often unpredictable voice attracts more than a million readers each weekday. Technorati ranks Fark at #25 based on in-bound links; if they ranked weblogs by total traffic, Fark would likely place #1.




Founded in July 2005, Mashable is the world’s largest blog focused on Web 2.0 and Social Media news. With more than 10.5+ million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific blog reviewing new Web sites and services, publishing breaking news on what’s new on the web and offering social media resources and guides. Mashable’s audience includes early adopters, social media enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, influencers, brands and corporations, marketing, PR and advertising agencies, Web 2.0 aficionados and technology journalists. Mashable is also popular with bloggers, Twitter and Facebook users – an increasingly influential demographic.

Breitbart.com offers real-time access to top news and analysis sources. You can monitor up-to-the-minute feeds from wires, newspapers, networks, key blogs and more. And there are multiple options for exploring topics by channel. While some news sites select stories for the user and others allow users to rank favorite news stories, Breitbart emphasizes user access to the raw news feeds -- kind of an organized grocery store of news.

Breitbart.tv is all news video, all the time. Our goal is to monitor the best video stories on the internet and provide an easy way for you to click and watch — all from one page. Our goal is to find video links from network and cable operations, as well as local television stations across the country. We’ll also be tracking news video posted on popular upload sites.If it’s online and newsworthy, it could end up on Breitbart.tv.

Breitbart is currently serving about 20 million news pages per month to more than three million unique visitors. Many top bloggers rely on Breitbart as a primary news resource. Technorati puts Breitbart.com in its Top 50, with more than 30,000 links from nearly 8,000 blogs.

Boing Boing is a pioneering blog that offers an eclectic blend of of tech culture, gadgets, entertainment, business, and more -- a "geek's eye view" on the world. Original feature reporting from some of the most-respected technology writers today and original Boing Boing Video episodes have made Boing Boing an Internet mainstay. First launched more than twenty years ago as a print 'zine, then in 2000 as one of the earliest blogs, Boing Boing now attracts millions of unique visitors to its site each month and has over 600,000 RSS subscribers. Google and various internet mapping projects frequently show Boing Boing as one of the most linked-to blogs in the world. Technorati's list of most influential blogs -- based on how many other sites link to that blog -- puts Boing Boing in the top 5. TIME Magazine selected Boing Boing multiple times as one of the top 25 blogs in the world, and in 2009 named it as one of the best Web sites of the year. Forbes voted Boing Boing "best of the web" among tech blogs, as did BusinessWeek. AdRants, ad exec veteran Steve Hall's blog, posted an article to the effect that if Boing Boing covers your ad campaign, it's gone viral. In 2005, Boing Boing won two Webby Awards, including a coveted People’s Voice Award. The site has won multiple Bloggies and in 2006 landed a Bloggies Lifetime Achievement award. The New Yorker described Boing Boing as "a technology blog that is read by geeks the world over." MSNBC host Rachel Maddow referred to it on air as her favorite blog, and regularly features Boing Boing content on The Rachel Maddow Show. Boing Boing Video is Webby-honored, featured on YouTube and iTunes, and has its own in-flight television channel on Virgin America. Boing Boing's contributors are frequently sought as tech culture experts by television, radio, and other news media, and have wide followings in online social networks.

TweetMeme aggregates all the popular links on Twitter to determine which are the most popular. Its categories, subcategories and channels make it easy to filter out the noise to find what you're interested in.

Metafilter is often mentioned in the same breath as BoingBoing by sources such as the New York Times, which reported in their piece on leading bloggers: "Every e-mail discussion list, Web bulletin board and group blog is an example of collective intelligence at work. Do you want to know where 'memes' start? Try the group blogs www.metafilter.com and boingboing.net" (Circuits, 8/12/04). MetaFilter attracts 1,900,000 monthly uniques (50,000 of his readers are registered contributors to the site) and has links from over 172,000 other sites (Google).

Breitbart.tv is all news video, all the time. Our goal is to monitor the best video stories on the internet and provide an easy way for you to click and watch — all from one page.

To see the real time feeds of news video, you can look at the video section of Breitbart.com.

On Breitbart.tv, you will find our custom selection of video — and at times, audio — news stories.

Our goal is to find video links from network and cable operations, as well as local television stations across the country. We’ll also be tracking news video posted on popular upload sites.

If it’s online and newsworthy, it could end up on Breitbart.tv.

At Breitbart.tv, we are also developing innovative original programming that we hope will bring new ways to look at the day’s video news and for you to be a part of the process.

Alltop is an “online magazine rack” of popular topics. Tell them what you’re interested in, and they’ll bring you stories from the best websites and blogs on the topic. All the topics, all the time.

Ranking among the the 50 most popular sites of all time on del.icio.us, Thomas Marban's popurls.com | popular urls to the latest web buzz, is the dashboard for the hive mind — a single page that replaces the need to directly read Digg, Delicious, Flickr, Wired, Slashdot, NewsVine, Metafilter, Youtube and many other web-buzz related sites. With up-to-the-minute headlines presented in a minimalistic two-flavor design one can scan the latest headlines of what the web collectively thinks is either popular or interesting. A simple mouse over the headline will cleverly reveal a small box of expanded text on the article. Popurls ranks top for terms like "news" on bookmarking services and has a loyal and web-savvy readership.

TheNextWeb.com reports about everything that influences the future of the Web. Since its launch in January 2008, it has grown to become the biggest Pan European tech blog, reaching over 500k unique visitors from all over the world.

The site profiles interesting products, start-ups and existing companies that are building The Next Web, or the future of the internet as we know it (or Web 2.0, whatever you like). With an international view on news, the site's main goal is to keep readers up-to-date, inspire them and give them new ideas -- maybe even persuade readers to start contributing to the next web themselves.

Big Think has created an interactive, civil space where the most intriguing ideas can be exchanged and debated.

From scientists to Nobel Laureates to rock stars, a diverse group of contributors reflects the full spectrum of human pursuit. Among them: Former Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard University Lawrence Summers; Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus; Grammy Award winner John Legend; Senators Ted Kennedy, Arlen Specter and Robert Menendez; architect Richard Meier; Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain; author Jonathan Franzen; Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; and many, many others.

Big Think enables thought leaders and thoughtful people alike to share their views with the world.

Live in 51 cities today with over 700 local bloggers, Metroblogging is the largest and fastest-growing network of local blogs on the Web. From San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what's going on where you live. Metroblogging has proven to be a vital part of the local media diet, getting information to people as it happens, building a loyal community of readers and writers, who fill our sites with the most interesting and relevant stories about their homes. Metroblogging is owned and developed by Bode Media and was selected in Forbes Magazine's Best of the Web 2005 in the "City Blogs" category.




Each day millions of consumers turn to NYTimes.com for information, ideas and news on what matters most. From Opinion to Sports, no other news site offers consumers the information and insight provided by the Times.

NYTimes.com’s blogs combine this quality journalism with increased speed and the personal voice of Times Journalists. Your brand can make a lasting impression on an influential audience as they examine a wide array of topics through Times Blogs.

NYTimes.com blogs include:

Sports:
* Bats (baseball)
* The Quad (college sports)
* The Rail (horse racing)
* The Fifth Down (NFL Football)
* Slapshot (hockey)
* Gambit (chess)

News/Opinion:
* The Lede (news commentary)
* The Opinionator
* Outposts
* Talk Show with Dick Cavett
* Idea of the Day
* Think Again – Stanley Fish
* TierneyLab (science)
* At War

Food/Dining:
* Diner’s Journal (NYT Dining critic’s blog)

Parenting:
* Domestic Disturbances

Graphic Arts/Design:
* Abstract City
* The Animated Life
* By Design
* Zoom

Entertainment:
* Laugh Lines

"You're the Man Now, Dog" became an Internet phenomenon with its April 2004 launch, and its influence continues to grow. Taking as its title a line uttered by Sean Connery in the movie "Finding Forrester," YTMND founder Max Goldberg created the site to promote creativity. And promote it he has. Using sound, image and a dash of text, users convey points that are funny, political, and occasionally obscure — but each point is made quickly, and most are intriguing. Millions of audience members are addicted to producing their own 'points' and consuming the points made by others. The site sits comfortably among Alexa's Top 2,000 sites on the entire Web, and its quirky status has earned it a Wikipedia page of its very own: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTMND.