Celebrity blogs - some are more diaries than full-on blogs!

Dave Barry
davebarry.blogspot.com
Humorous columnist and author Barry entertains with his own blog.

Jeff Bridges
www.jeffbridges.com
Jeff’s unusual approach is to do handwritten notes.

Julius Caesar
www.sankey.ca/caesar
We didn’t realise he was still around to blog!

Brendan Fahr
www.brendan-fehr.com/fehr_asylum/rant_rage.shtml
TV’s Roswell star gets a chance to rant.

Neil Gaiman
neilgaiman.com/journal/journal.asp
Neil Gaiman is a top comic book writer and novelist. He was the creator/writer of monthly cult DC Comics horror-weird series, Sandman.

William Gibson
www.williamgibsonbooks.com/blog/blog.asp
The sci-fi author has had a love-hate relationship with blogging and may give up at any moment!

Anna Kournikova
www.kournikova.com/journal
The tennis star’s journal. She also hosts the odd Internet chat.

Avril Lavinge
www.avril-lavigne.com/journal.php
The pop singer has started her own blog.

Kylie Minogue
www.kylie.com
Click on the “diary” link to find out what Kylie has been up to lately.

Moby
www.moby-online.com/cms/viewalldiary.asp
The electronica artist’s travels on the road.

Raed
dear_raed.blogspot.com
This journal began just before the US invasion of Baghdad and has been the cause of much Internet speculation about who is writing it and whether it is really a Baghdad citizen. Raed has become a celebrity in his own right.

Red Hot Chili Peppers
www.redhotchilipeppers.com/fleamail/index.html
Flea, the Peppers’ bass player.

Anita Roddick
www.anitaroddick.com
Body Shop founder Anita Roddick aims to “connect with people who share my outrage over the menace of global business practices.”

RuPaul
www.rupaul.com/weblog.shtml
Show biz’s RuPaul lets it all hang out.

Douglas Rushkoff
www.rushkoff.com/blog.php
The author of books on new media and popular culture.

William Shatner
www.williamshatner.com
Captain Kirk himself.

Gene Simmons
www.genesimmons.com
Gene Simmons, the tongue-wagging demon from KISS.

Bruce Sterling
www.infinitematrix.net/columns/sterling/index.html
Cyberpunk author Bruce Sterling, who wrote Schismatrix, gets time to blog.

Tom Watson
www.tom-watson.co.uk
British MP Tom Watson’s view of the day in parliament. Other politicians are also getting in on blogging, such as America’s Gary Hart (www.garyhartnews.com/hart).

Wil Wheaton
wilwheaton.net
Former television star Wheaton has moved on from Star Trek-king to blogging.

Celebrity gossip blog
www.gawker.com
A gossipy New York blog that includes celebrity gossip and sightings and other stuff New York residents discuss over the water cooler in the morning.

Photo blogs – capturing your world through photography

Photo Junkie
www.photojunkie.org
Rannie Turingan is a freelance photographer from Toronto. He has been blogging for three years and won a Weblog award for Best Canadian Weblog.

Other interesting photo blogs:

www.slower.net

www.fotolog.net/alphabet

www.hirmes.com/ice

a.lifeuncommon.org

Technical and Internet “geek” blogs

Algorhythm
algorhythm.org
Sean Yeager’s topics range from emerging technology to digital media.

Dashes
www.dashes.com/anil
Anil Dash,an “Internet technologist,” was an early blogger.

Gizmodo
www.gizmodo.net
Gizmodo is a blog dedicated to everything related to gadgets, gizmos and cutting-edge consumer electronics. It’s edited by Wired magazine writer Peter Rojas.

Great Minds Working
www.greatmindsworking.com
This person is interested in artificial intelligence and notions of computers enslaving the human race.

I Make Content
www.imakecontent.net
Written by a freelance journalist in London, keen on technology and a believer in “active citizenship.”

Instapundit
instapundit.com
“If you've got a modem, I've got an opinion!" Glenn Reynolds is a law professor at the University of Tennessee whose chief interest is “in the intersection between advanced technologies and individual liberty”.

Kottke
kottke.org
Professional designer Jason Kottke has maintained this blog since March 1998, writing about “Web technology, photography, media, network science, design, the writable Web and rip/mix/burn culture”.

Microsoft Watch
www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,4248,933657,00.asp
There are a lot of Microsoft employees into blogging, such as developer Eric Rudder (msdn.microsoft.com/blogs/ericr). There is a list at Microsoft Watch of other such blogs.

Overclockers
www.overclockedcafe.com
Game cheats, hardware reviews and lots of technical stuff.

Plenty of Taste
www.plentyoftaste.com
A blog about design, typography, writing, editing, journalism and other things.

Ross Mayfield
radio.weblogs.com/0114726
“Markets, technology and writings” from a software developer who claims to have been a speechwriter to the president of Estonia.

Scripting
scripting.com
Dave Winer’s blog was one of the first . He sees it as part of a community of independent developers, particularly those using scripting environments.

Slashdot
slashdot.org
Started in 1977 as a place for “news for nerds and stuff that matters,” it’s evolved beyond what some might define as a traditional blog, especially now it has been taken over by a software corporate. Still a fascinating place for geeks to hang out.

Superfast Computer
superfastcomputer.com
A Canadian who is into his computing.

Wireless
radio.weblogs.com/0113297
Jeremy Allaire’s latest thoughts on mobiles and wireless.

Food blogs

Food Words
foodwords.blogspot.com
This foodie puts articles discovered online about food and eating.

Japanese
consumptive.org/gohan/taberu.html
Artist James Luckett is househusband for a year in Japan and is exploring local food.

Red Kitchen
theredkitchen.net
Five food fanatics share their recipes.

Santheo
www.santheo.com/restaurant
Two guys who dream of opening a restaurant share their research.

Soup
joyofsoup.surreally.com
This is a plog – soup + blog = plog!

Knitting blogs

Sew Wrong
www.sewwrong.com
This seamstress offers advice and answers questions.

More
www.ringsurf.com/netring?ring=knittingblogs;action=info
Bloggers who knit and sew have their sites listed and linked from here.

Book blogs

Summer Fall Studios
www.summerfallstudios.com/literary.html
The purchasing of books produces a feeling of ecstasy for this bookworm.

The Reading Room
faculty.etsu.edu/tolleyst/weblog/blogger.html
What this blogger and her readers are reading.

Blogs to make you think

Andrew Sullivan
www.andrewsullivan.com
Provocative political and social commentator, Sullivan, openly a gay Catholic, is an essayist for Time magazine and the former editor-in-chief of The New Republic magazine.

Blogjam
www.blogjam.com
A stylish site from a “36-year-old idiot with few remaining social skills and a penchant for talking absolute rubbish”.

Daily Pundit
www.dailypundit.com
Libertarian musings from William Quick who calls himself a “rabid civil liberties absolutist”.

Eject
ejectejecteject.com
William Whittle writes essays about America and the right wing way. Similar blogs are listed on the right hand side of his page.

Ken Layne
www.kenlayne.com
An American columnist since the mid-1980s.

Link Machine
www.timemachinego.com/linkmachinego
Full of interesting observations.

Ongoing
www.tbray.org/ongoing
Tim Bray’s blog has as unifying themes “truth, technology, and business”.

Quin Parker
www.quinparker.com
A 23-year-old journalism student with quirky observations about the world.

Rachel Lucas
www.rachellucas.com
She’s a “31-year-old gun-totin' capitalist oppressor college student with two jobs, two dogs, and no kids”.

Rafe
rc3.org
A baseball fan with a lifetime subscription to National Geographic.

Samidata
www.samizdata.net/blog 62
A blog for people with a “critically rational libertarian perspective”.

Scary Duck
scaryduck.blogspot.com
Voted UK’s best blog last year by the Guardian newspaper for its “intelligent, confessional and entertaining rambles on everything from September 11 to football hooliganism”.

The Talking Dog
www.thetalkingdog.com
Political ramblings. See the long list on the left hand side of the home page for more such blogs.

Women’s blogs

Big Pink Cookie
bigpinkcookie.com
Thoughts of a 33-year-old former Web design consultant with a 10 year old son. She loves gadgets and Starbuck cookies.

Green Fairy
www.greenfairy.com
Strong views from a woman on childcare, cosmetic surgery, abortion and other issues.

Kadyellebee
kadyellebee.com
Kristine works for her family business concerning leather products. Although happily married, she is dealing with depression and researching the effects of stress on the body.

Pick Up Your Own Damn Socks
www.pickupyourowndamnsocks.com
This woman needs a place to rant about her man.

A Small Victory
asmallvictory.net
Michele, 40, is a New Jersey court worker married to a 22-year-old. They have two kids.

Tampa Tantrum
tampatantrum.com
A 31-year-old woman named Robyn, married five years and now a mother, shares some of her life but runs a separate blog of more personal stuff for close family and friends only.

Working Mum
theworkingmom.net
She loves her kid and never wanted to put her in day care but has to pay the bills – so this mother is still working.

Baby and kid blogs

BabyBlog
kerryandjoe.tripod.com/baby.html
All about one child’s development. See the list on the right hand side of this site for more pregnancy and baby blogs, or see blog2ababy.blogspot.com .

Imaginaire
www.imaginaire.nu
Natalia started her journal at the age of 8. Three or so years later, she finds it a great outlet for her ideas.

Raising Hell
rhzine.com
The diaries of seven parents and their experiences in raising children.

Group blogs

Metafilter
www.metafilter.com
This blog is more of a collective effort. Anyone can contribute a link or a comment to it. This site exists to “break down the barriers between people, to extend a blog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members”.

Blogs to change the world

This Modern World
thismodernworld.com
The blog of Tom Tomorrow (real name Dan Perkins), the creator of weekly cartoon of social and political satire, This Modern World, which appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the US.

SARS blogs

Big White Guy
www.bigwhiteguy.com
What life is like in SARS-infected Hong Kong.

SARS Watch
www.sarswatch.org
The latest news.

Spacefan
www.spacefan.blogspot.com
A doctor working in a Singapore hospital.

T.S. Chang
www.tschang.net
This blogger from Beijing doesn’t want to wear a facemask.

Culture blogs

Ancient World
julen.net/ancient/breaking.html
Articles about the people, places and objects of the ancient world.

Blog Critics
blogcritics.org
“A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture and technology .”

Film Fodder
www.filmfodder.com
A group of people “who have a ridiculous urge to watch, talk about and absorb movies”. See also film.quicklikeabunny.net .

Pombostrans
pombostrans.blogspot.com
A Brazilian translator who is obsessed about languages, heading her blog “the great enemy of clear language is insincerity”.

News blogs

Cursor
www.cursor.org
A media and politics log that comments on the mainstream media and provides independent news sources.

Cyber Journalists
www.cyberjournalist.net/cyberjournalists.html#professional
A list of (mainly) US journalists with their own blogs can be found here.

Drudge Report
www.drudgereport.com
Long running independent news source created by a non-journalist who is credited with breaking the Monica Lewinsky story, which mainstream media didn’t have the courage to publish.

Scrappleface
scrappleface.com
“News fairly unbalanced. You decipher.”

TV Tattle
tvtattle.com
Discussion and criticism of TV shows.

Odd blogs

AnglePosied
anglepoised.com
A 26-year-old from London who clips interesting and obscure things from UK papers.

Boing Boing
boingboing.net
A “directory of wonderful things”, especially odd sights from these guys’ Net travels.

Idle Type
www.idletype.com
Troy’s huge collection of interesting stuff he has spotted.

Pop Culture Junkmail
www.popculturejunkmail.com
Favourite topics include trashy TV, British royalty, the 1980s, toys, movies, cats, makeup and weird food.

Diary blogs

Donkey on the Edge
www.donkeyontheedge.com
The ramblings of a London designer.

Fishy Shark
www.fishyshark.com
The joys of becoming a dad.

Lancheros
www.lancheros.com
This guy stopped drinking and smoking over a year ago and has been sharing his battle.

Megnut
www.megnut.com
Meg Hourihan was one of the first bloggers, starting in 1999 and co-founder of Web technology site Pyra (www.pyra.com), which has been bought by Google.

Shellen
www.shellen.com
Google (www.google.com) employee Jason Shellen talks about technology, music, business and his life.

Science and environmental blogs

Alternative energy
radio.weblogs.com/0106184
Joshua explores options for energy sources.

David Appell
www.davidappell.com
This science writer says you can never ask too many questions.

Earth Info
earth-info-net.blogspot.com
About matters environmental and concerning sustainable development.

Get Vegan
getvegan.com/blog/blogger.php
There is a big list of similar “green” blogs on the left hand side of this environmentally-caring blog.

Honeyguide
www.chaparraltree.com/honeyguide
Getting up close to ants, spiders and other such creatures.

Massive
www.mssv.net
Adrian Hon’s articles on multiplayer online entertainment and science topics.

Some Australian Blogs

Tim Blair
timblair.spleenville.com
Australian Tim Blair was last seen calling for Sir Barry Humphries to be Australia’s governor-general!

Hundreds more
www.anthonyjhicks.com/aussieblogs
This 28-year-old Sydney man who has his own blog must be having trouble keeping up with the number of local blogs. He does his best to keep a list of them here. Also check out portal.eatonweb.com/country/Australia for more, as well as www.diarist.net/registry/Australia and pepys.akacooties.com/Oceania/Australia.