Strange Maps is a fantastic Blog. Best Blogs Ever is not just about hits, page impressions or technorati ratings, it is about my personal view on Blogs that deserve to be the best ever. This choice may be too personal because I love maps, but do take a look because it has some posts that are real talking points. The state of the USA converted into countries with a similar GDP is a particular eye opener. I would say that judging on the amount of comments the posts receive it gets a fair number of hits in fact it’s worth is calculated at

This blog is worth $763,258.08.
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The site also follows the very simple rule of simple, clean and unique. Simple concept, clean look, niche or clever content.

John Chow dot com is a very important web site. Here is a man who makes his living from blogging, and it would appear to be a very good living indeed. Best Blogs Ever was not set up to make money and it’s not here to give advice, mearly to catalog some of the best blogs in the world and this has to be one of them. It is a great read and very interesting, the writer has a witty turn and is an enjoyable read. You can find real tips, through his generosity, for increasing traffic or if you so wish to monetize your blog.

This site gets a top reccomendation.

Slashdot is News for Nerds, stuff that matters. It is a very popular blog, then walk down to the basement and take a look at your IT department and then ask yourself if you’d want to read a blog that represents all that you see? Now if you do - great this is the place for you, if you’d rather apply hot irons to the softer parts of your body then I’d steer clear!

The Huffington Post is one of the most popular News blogs on the Web. All the news is very American but for anyone interested in the most powerful country in the world this is a must. It gets behind American culture and thinking intelligent way.

It has some great link to any and every US news site of any note. It really is a one stop news site for the US. Personally I think every country should have a site just like this. The writer is Arianna Huffington a nationally syndicated columnist, author of ten books and co-founder and editor of the HuffingtonPost.com. It Has a well deserved Technorati authority of 17,254 earning it a place of 5th on the top 10 and making it one of the most popular blogs in the world.

Bolgcatalog I guess I can’t write a list of great blogs without mentioning Blogcatalog, I think it is the best index of interesting blogs on the net. Most of them are personal and of those driven by the subject of the content are still very personal in feel. There are lots of great examples of great writing here, and some stinkers and that’s what makes it a great site for just surfing around. There are other sites that run on a very similar basis My Blog Log is one. I use both regularly but my favourite is Blogcatalog.