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There are more than 126 million different blogs on the Internet, according to the website Blog Pulse. But which are worth reading? The staff of PCMag.com compiled a list of their 50 favorite blogs of 2010.
Recently, Eric Griffith, features editor for PCMAG.com, talked about the picks on Here and Now. Use the player above to listen to the segment.
Awful Library Books is one of PCMag.com’s favorites. According to the blog, it is a, “collection of library holdings that we find amusing and maybe questionable for libraries trying to maintain a current and relevant collection.”
Others on the list include 1000 Awesome Things, The Oatmeal and Not Exactly Rocket Science.
Full list of PCMag.com’s Best Blogs of 2010:
1,000 Awesome Things
All Facebook
Apartment Therapy
Autoblog
Awful Announcing
Awful Library Books
The Awl
Bleeding Cool
A Blog about History
Boing Boing
Book By Its Cover
Boy Genius Report
Cake Wrecks
Cocktail Chronicles
The Consumerist
Core77
Design Sponge
Engadget
Fail Blog
Fancy Fast Food
Gawker
Gizmodo
Google Operating System
io9
Information is Beautiful
Letters of Note
Lifehacker
MetaFilter
(The Customer is) Not Always Right
Not Exactly Rocket Science
The Oatmeal
Oddee.com
One Sentence
Passive Aggressive Notes
Phone Scoop
hotoshop Disasters
PostSecret
Regretsy
S*** My Kids Ruined
Smarter Travel’s Today in Travel
Smarterware
Springfield Punx
The Storque
Technologizer
This is Why You’re Fat
Travellious
TreeHugger
Videogum
Web Worker Daily
Visit PCMag.com to see a description of each blog.
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