Lady Banana I am giving this blog the respect of a first second review! I’ve stumbled it and would love to help more people to find it. It is a great collection of interesting stuff and thoughts from London based Lady Banana. Last time i reviewed it I called it a Seinfeld blog, because it is simply about stuff, the everyday things made very interesting. She must spend hours just wandering around the net, she finds such interesting things to read look at and join. This is a quality blog from an obviously smart lady. I have come to the general sweeping conclusion that women do make the best blogs ever.

kinetic world is a fantastic blog about all manner of kinetic design or

THE SOURCE FOR KINETIC, ELECTRONIC, SOUND, STEAM, AND FIRE ARTS NEWS, INFO, AND RESOURCES

I loved it from the moment I saw the T Shirt post. It is simply a collection of interesting bit and bobs but goes to the heart of all the best niche design blogs. It is very visual and will capture the eyes and minds of the casual surfer. Good Stuff.

Talk to My T shirt is the place for wearable electronics! fantastic.

It is so hard to find really great blogs, especially new ones, it means that I post irregularly and cant guarantee new content for the readers, so I am going to attempt to post links to some great posts. The sort of post that gets notices and causes buzz on the blogosphere. I’ve always avoided the down right popular preferring the more non commercial personal blogs. However, tracking the common buzzy sites you notice that the interesting blogs that are truly well written do have a chance to rise to the top and deserve a bity more of a push. They are not all about SEO marketing or how to get more traffic! So expect a few more emotional stories and some simply interesting bits and bobs.

This is genius and made me laugh out loud. If you find yourself wondering about your white culture just imagine any of your black friends liking anything on the list. This sort of blog is simply great, it will be used in comedy routines and probably end up in some kind of add campaign it really is that good.

idents.tv If you work in the business I do this is a fantastic site. If you watch tv this is an interesting site. If you are interested in branding this is a great tool. A collection of very upto date channel branding idents and a collection of other interesting clips make this a very good best blog. It is all very high quality stuff, the video is all of the best quality. No problem recommending it as a Best Blog Ever.

The Fist of Blog I do like collections blogs. Random things of interest from the net are quirky. there is not much to this site I was originally drawn to it becasue of this posting on you tube and this comment on the original site looking through the posts it seemed like one of those brilliantly quirky collections of random things. There may be too little commentary for some tastes but I found this an excellent way to spend a coffee break at my desk.

Pictures of Walls is one of those brilliant ideas. Not really a blog, just a great site. Funny pictures of graffiti signs or simply strange and interesting walls. All the content is user generated. I came across this using stumble upon. Still one of the best ways of finding interesting pages on the net.

Rod Drury this is a personal view of the internet and things technological that is informed and very well written. It should be, this guy is one of the most successful entrepreneurs from the New Zealand tech sector.
I hate the fact that the internet is littered with tech blogs that rise to the very top of the top listings. They are in the main dull and tecky, considering my love of gadgets, I’m not sure how so much boring drivel can be written about such beautiful, tactile objects of desire. Rod may not be flowery but his comments are on the money. Go read and enjoy.

cute overload goodness I wanted this to be as awful as it sounds. I wanted to rant on about the vacuous waste of effort and cynical advertising driven opportunist money making rubbish on the net. I tried so hard not to but about halfway down the page I smiled, I admit it. I’m not retracting my initial observation, especially because the press page actually crows on about the number of 18 to 39 females who use the site and what a targeted niche audience for potential advertisers that is. It made me smile, I won’t go back, I’m just not interested but it serves its audience well and who am I to argue with that. Like pop idol and all TV talent shows, the audience demo also fits the people most likely to test in or in this case click to vote for the site, hence all the best blog accolades. I do think it is a Best Blog, it knows its audience.

80 million Images, This isn’t a blog bit it is so fantastic I had to write about it. The English language represented by 80 million tiny images. As you hover your cursor over the image a window with a word and several pictures representing that word pop up.It is not just a great piece of code (I promised I never use that word here) but it is a beautiful image.
I totally recommend clicking on the link and just enjoying 5 minutes.
Then while you are in the mood get over to Free Rice and you can use you new found vocabulary to earn grains of rice for the 3rd world. It’s so Edward de Bono!

videos.antville.org, This is a blog it just looks like a video site. It is probably an urban myth that this is where Hollywood finds its new directors. If you know a director who made it on this site then send me a comment! It is a great place to spend a few hours looking at some very interesting stuff. The site can be a bit slow though, it is worth the wait if you chose well. If you don’t you’ll be off to pastures new in a flash.

Treehugger I’m not really into commercial blogs on this site but I’m forced to ask myself, where is the line as several of the blogs I’ve listed are already very commercial. I also categorize some blogs by what they are worth, so I’m being slightly hypocritical.
All of which is an excuse, not that I need one, to include tree hugger. It is one of the best looking blogs on the net and it totally on the money in terms of content. Yes it is about Green issues and its true they often seem worthy in tone. This has the right degree of irony and has bags of charm yet it is ture to the central issue of sustainable living without seeming like a club you have to be, vegan eat bio yogurt and use real nappies to join. As all parent know your principal go right out the window faced with twins a real nappies. I know I’m ashamed too and some people do use terry nappies but twins? Any how once they harness the methane from Landfill my twins will be providing sustainable energy for future generations.
GO look at the blog, make up your own ming. I enjoyed it and will return regularly because joking aside this is a way to go in making us realize this is an issue but not one that needs extreme or almost religious diatribe to confront. I expect some one is going to tell me the Treehugger is Al Gore in which case I may have to rewrite all the above.

Two Write Hands (and two left feet) This is very much a Seinfeld blog form a very good writer indeed. This is what she says about herself,

I’ve been told I can write, but no one ever told me I could dance. Find here the brainwork of a 27-year-old college student, published writer, and self-proclaimed genius. Follow my blog and one day say “you knew me when.” Or you could just point out my typos.

Good News is she is right, she can write. She sometimes goes against the rule of brevity that I’ve talk about but the thing is, this is a sticky blog if you are prepared to do some reading! Basically these are her observations of life as a 27 year old student, her life and her thoughts and I happy to report she is an interesting person. On a personal note I am beginning to think that my upbringing in a single parent female home is effecting my reviews.

2020 Hindsight someone else described this as a zeitgeist blog. It is a perfect description essentially an anonymous author with nothing personal at all except the insight from looking and reading about a personal collection of interesting things. It is a sticky blog, a browsing blog. A place to spend some time. Interestingly this blog is worth
How much is your blog worth?
The 2020 Hindsight blog is worth $0.00.

nothing! Which either means it is not technorati savvy or no one reads it, so you can change that because its good.

NB

I stand corrected, the blog is worth far more than 0 turns out leaving out the www causes a difference of $73,390.20. 

Well now I know, not a review of a blog but just a comment that confirms my view of Blogs on the net.
This from the Guardian UK

One significant trend that stands out is an apparent feminisation of the internet. “Ever since it kicked off in the early 90s the web has been male-dominated. For the
first time this year women are spending more time on the internet than men,” says Peter Phillips, strategy and market developments partner at Ofcom, referring to web users in the 25 to 49 age bracket. “It’s a big shift and has implications for the kind of content that content providers want to have on the internet.”Among 25- to 34-year-olds, women now spend more time using the internet than men, according to the Ofcom report published today. Although men account for the majority of web time in most other age groups, women have also taken a slight but significant lead in the 35-49 bracket.

Lazylaces now I admit this review is biased. I set out to find a blog I liked by a man. One that wasn’t about SEO or making money. This is one of the top games blogs, its British and written by a man, Graeme. The look is great it takes a bit of getting used to the home page is home to hundreds of those rather annoying point and click games you often get in your in box. A lot of them are in Japanese! So why do I like it? Because it is cool and you get to know the bloke who wrote it, despite the guise of a game blog it is all about him and I just found myself clicking around and browsing. Like TV today the trick is to have something sticky. Something that makes people stay a while and look around. So now I have two new phrases the sticky blog and the Seinfeld.

Joey Moggie Is another great site, top 10 in several on line stats directories - 5 Topblogsites - 6 skinny - and more. All with very good reason. This lady from a small island in Canada captures the mood of the people and herself in her posts. Again the key seems to be get to the point, all the posts are short pithy and say what needs to be said. Perhaps a but too much “fuel” in the sidebar but honestly we all want to be read! I enjoyed it very much, I am looking at a lot of blogs but so far the women have it by a mile. I wonder why there are not more women comedians when they all seem to capture life so well?

Lady Banana Blog I can see that I’m really liking blogs by women at the moment. The writing is usually funny, often quirky and not normally about making money through blogging and very rarely about SEO.
Lady Banana is an English woman who simply writes about the things that take her fancy. I’m going to create a new blog category called A Seinfeld Blog, essentially Blogs about nothing. But as Seinfeld proved our lives are about nothing. A conversation about why a person eats a muffin top first and often leaves the bun part, has more interesting relevance to our lives than the news that gang violence is becoming rife in the UK. I’m not belittling either piece of information but I bet you were nodding internally to the first statement.
The best Blogs are about the lives and thoughts of others. David Liddiment, former head of UK broadcast network ITV, once said, “people live their lives vicariously through TV,” very true and now we are starting do it through blogs. Lady Banana Blog is a perfect example of this. I read post after post, I was captivated, instantly hooked by her! Give it a visit you will spend an hour, living a virtual affair with this joyous woman.

Eavesdrop Writer Blog This is one of those wonderful ideas that is superbly executed. I writer who comments on everyday life through conversation she has overheard. It is some of the most inspired writing I’ve come across because of the social comment in the subtext. Do give it a visit.
About the Author

I’m in law enforcement by day and a writer by night…often into the wee hours of the morning! This is my first blog and I created it as a place to store my character development resources. I began to think it might spark some creativity in others, too, so here I am. I love writing, reading, eating and road trips. I enjoy family and friends, but also treasure the mysterious world I enter when I write.

Lifehacker this is one of the best examples of a blog on the net. If you want your blog to rise up the charts this is the way to do it. Every post is a gem and averages about 10 sentences. This blog was at the time of writing 6th in the technorati top 100 and with very good reason. The posts are simply pearls of wisdom for a more productive life. The blog is commercial, I bet it didn’t start out as such, clearly now it is a business. Nothing wrong with that it is an example to us all. So visit, study and implement!