Instructables is the best place on the Web to show what you've made and how you made it. The partners at Squid Labs — a mix of MIT, Brown, and Stanford engineers and inventors — launched Instructables in order to share the projects that sparked their passion. Soon, visitors from all over joined in, contributing their own projects and marveling at others. Word continues to spread — Technorati lists Instructables among the Top 100 blogs in the world, with more than 9,800 links from nearly 4,000 sites. Instructables' Food and Craft categories skew female, while the Tech section's audience skews male.

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.




Graffiti is a popular Facebook and MySpace application that allows users to draw directly on profile pages. From the incredibly artistic and complex to simple line drawings and messages, Graffiti art is quickly becoming a chosen mode of communication in the social networking space. With millions of users, Graffiti has proven to be a powerful platform for brand marketers to reach engaged consumers.

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.

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).

Known for its piercing views on the gaming industry and memorable robot mascot, the Webby-recognized Destructoid.com is the pulse of the hardcore gamer. Its unique (and often irreverent) editorial voice was formulated by mixing independent editorial with community-scale mass blogging and social networking. Dtoid's multiple editors cover daily breaking news, gamer culture, music, reviews, and industry politics and have often appeared as industry experts on MTV, G4, and SpikeTV. Destructoid is one of the top 3 gaming blogs and its iconic robot is also a playable character in the Xbox 360 title Bomberman Live, marking the first appearance of a gaming blog's brand within a popular video game.

Boing Boing attracts more than 3 million unique visitors to its site each month, and has over 600,000 RSS subscribers. And it now offers Boing Boing TV, which was recently highlighted by CNN, and Boing Boing Gadgets. By Comscore's measure, Boing Boing is among the five most-visited blogs on the web. Technorati's list of most influential blogs -- based on how many other sites link to that blog -- puts Boing Boing in the top 5. According to Google, more than 600,000 other sites link to Boing Boing. 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. 2006 Bloggies winner: Best Group Blog and Lifetime Achievement. 2006 Webby Awards nominee. Named 'Best of the Web 2006' by BusinessWeek. In a 2006 article, The New Yorker described Boing Boing as "a technology blog that is read by geeks the world over."

TREND HUNTER Magazine is an explosion of cool fueled by a global network of thousands of trend spotters and cool hunters. Editor in chief Jeremy Gutsche knows that innovation and strategic advantage hinge on the ability to identify the next big thing. By tracking the evolution of cool, contributing Trend Hunters generate ideas, stimulate creativity, and ultimately shape our social context. Advertising in Trend Hunter infects an influential population of social leaders. As MTV puts it, "At Trend Hunter, find out what’s cool BEFORE it’s cool!"

Newsvine is a vehicle for collaborative discovery and participation in the news. With content from such sources as the Associated Press and ESPN as well as thousands of contributors around the world, Newsvine boasts a daily body of content equal to or greater than that of existing mainstream media sources such as CNN and MSNBC. Founded by veterans of the Walt Disney Internet Group, ESPN, and ABCNews, Newsvine brings large and small media together in a way that respects established news organizations and empowers individual voices at the same time. At Newsvine, you don't just read the news... you influence it.

GoNintendo is the most up-to-date source for Nintendo news, period. With an update schedule that continues literally all through the night and on every weekend and holiday, the site has quickly established itself as a hub for Nintendo enthusiasts. GoNintendo has a fantastic community made up of some of the most dedicated & loyal fans in the videogame arena.

The GoNintendo weekly podcast is overwhelmingly popular, and is consistently in iTunes' top 10 gaming podcast. If you are looking for Nintendo news, there's no better place.

Gamersyde is dedicated to covering to all news & media related to next-gen gaming, providing both official trailers and screenshots as well as exclusive HD gameplay videos. The site built a reputation on its special game coverage from shows all over the world thanks to its team of editors spread out across Europe, North-America and Japan. Videos can all be downloaded in 720p or simply streamed (more than 500,000 streams occur monthly). Most of Gamersyde's peers put their HD content behind a subscription wall, giving Gamersyde a loyal readership that appreciates the free HD content. Gamersyde also features live coverage of all major gaming events including E3, TGS or GDC. With its active and talkative community and the support of the international sites and forums that matter, Gamersyde is today a reference website made for gamers, by gamers.

Introducing CRAFT and CRAFTzine: The first project-based magazine and website dedicated to the renaissance that is occurring within the world of crafts. Celebrating the DIY spirit, CRAFT's goal is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative and resourceful people who are transforming traditional art and crafts with unconventional, unexpected and even renegade techniques, materials and tools; people who undertake amazing crafting projects in their homes and communities.

CRAFT is the sister publication of and created by the same team of renegade thinkers who created MAKE and MAKEzine. Coined "The Martha Stewart For Geeks" by Newsweek's Stephen Levy, MAKE is one of the most highly regarded and well published success stories in the consumer magazine space over the past year. In just 6 issues, MAKE went from a standing start to well over 80,000 paid circulation and newsstand sell-though and twice the norm for consumer magazines. The makezine.com website with Phil Torrone, crafter Natalie Zee's blog and Pre Petis's video blog attracts over 1 million unique visitors a month and has become one of the top DIY blog sites anywhere. Just as remarkable, MAKE has received rave reviews and feature coverage in virtually every major North American newspaper and magazine - including The Wall Street Journal, Rolling Stone, Forbes, BusinessWeek, The New York Times, NewsWeek and The Washington Post. We've been on CNN, CBS News, The Tonight Show and numerous appearances on NPR, TechTV and MTV.

Drink of the Week was born six years ago out of Jonas Halpren's wish to ask a bartender for something other than a gin & tonic. This online celebration of cocktail culture has become a force, attracting more than 100,000 cocktail enthusiasts each month and 5500 subscribers to its weekly newsletter. Drink of the Week includes hundreds of recipes, liquor reviews and bartending advice. Drink of the Week has been mentioned in Family Circle, Night Club & Bar Magazine, the Houston Chronicle, the Arizona Daily Star, the St. Petersburg Times and the Appleton Post-Crescent. More than 1500 blogs and websites link to Drink of the Week. But Jonas still doesn’t know what to order.

reality blurred has analyzed, highlighted, and reported on reality TV since 2000. Andy Dehnart's critical examination of unscripted television includes industry news, behind-the-scenes reports, and witty recaps. The Chicago Tribune described reality blurred as "indispensable" and "highly reliable," while Newsday called it "influential," and The New York Times said it "revels in the post-ironic pleasures of reality television." The Associated Press concurs, calling it "the most schooled blog on America's guiltiest pleasure." And Entertainment Weekly urges it's readers by saying "you should visit Reality Blurred, which collects the best news and gossip about all your favorite reality TV."

Ask A Ninja is one of the largest independent video podcasts on the net today, with over 300,000 viewers for each new episode released. Technorati ranks it solidly among its Top 100 Blogs — more than 3,100 sites link to the Ninja. One of Forbes Magazine's top "Fictional Stars," the Ninja has been featured on CNN and ABC News, and praised in Ad Age, the New York Times Magazine, Wired Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, BusinessWeek, the Washington Post and on National Public Radio. It is also the recipient of two "Podcast Peer" awards, including one for favorite video podcast. Additionally, the show was recognized as "best series" in the inaugural YouTube video awards. Delivering its quirky wit at the speed of lightning, Ask A Ninja is redefining American humor.

Mixing humor and skepticism, the Museum of Hoaxes examines dubious claims of all kinds: hoax websites, urban legends, bogus email rumors, doctored photos, practical jokes, and the like.

It's been featured in USA Today, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, National Geographic and Wired. Alex has appeared as a hoax expert on CNN, MSNBC and ABC World News Tonight. In April 2004, PC Magazine included "Museum of Hoaxes" as one of the "Top 100 Sites You Didn't Know You Couldn't Live Without."

Founded 1995 by primary tentacle Scott Beale, Laughing Squid is an online resource for art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond. Its audience is extremely diverse, ranging from underground artists to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, and everything in between. Laughing Squid currently has a Technorati rank of 333 with an authority of 2,450, meaning that 2,450 blogs have linked to the website in the last six months.

Each day, Cartoon Brew brings the latest news and trends in animation to nearly 5,000 different artists, entertainment execs and cartoon aficionados. Animation authorities Jerry Beck and Amid Amidi — both of whom are recognized historians and published authors, with long experience in the animation industry — cover a wide range of topics, including contemporary and classic animation from around the globe, CGI, advertising, design, anime and industry/business news. Amid's recent book "Cartoon Modern" was awarded the best film book of 2006 by the prestigious Theatre Library Association.

Launched in January 2005, Modojo is the world’s leading publication devoted to handheld and mobile videogames, covering the space from both consumer and trade perspectives. Well-respected within the mobile industry, Modojo editors have been invited to speak and judge at such industry events as CTIA, The Independent Games Festival, the Global Mobile Content Awards and others.

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.




HDTV Magazine is the website for those who love HDTV. Our roots go back to 1984, when Dale Cripps founded The HDTV Newsletter, a professional publication distributed in 24 countries to those developing HDTV. On November 16, 1998, The HDTV Newsletter became the first online publication dedicated to HDTV -- HDTV Magazine. Today, HDTV Magazine serves the public by educating enthusiasts and would-be consumers providing the latest in HDTV articles, news, reviews, products, and emerging technologies.

CoasterBuzz was launched in 2000 by Jeff Putz, a career media guy turned programmer. After working in radio, TV and business-to-business print media, Jeff offers regular news and commentary on the business of theme parks and roller coasters, as well as an enthusiast club whose members travel the globe looking for the latest thrill. CoasterBuzz has been quoted in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, FHM, Fox News and dozens of regional media outlets. For everyone from industry insiders to teenage coaster fans, CoasterBuzz has become the first source of news for the amusement business. The site also features a weekly podcast with spirited commentary on the headlines.

Animation legend John Kricfalusi, creator of "Ren and Stimpy," began posting "All Kinds of Stuff" in February 2006, and already gets nearly 5,000 visitors a day. On it, the guy behind the most influential cartoon of the past 30 years tells readers everything they ever wanted to know about real cartoons. But his site draws more than just cartoon fans — it draws filmmakers, entertainment execs, and entertainment lovers of all kinds. John created the Internet's first Flash animation, "George Liquor," and invented the system that Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network use to make cartoons today. He aims to please the audience, himself, and his sponsors — to sell products, and make the audience happy about buying them. He loves to experiment, and is happy to kick around new ideas.

MamaPop is the sleep-deprived, semi-coherent pop-culture-related brainchild of two smart stay-at-home mothers and bloggers extraordinaire -- Amy Corbett Storch of amalah.com and Tracey Gaughran-Perez of sweetney.com. The site is a collective of smart, amazing writers from all over the "mommyblog" universe and features hourly posts on everything under the pop-culture and entertainment sun from the modern mother's perspective.

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. As of April 2008 the site already featured more than 300 interviews, with 15-20 new ones each week. Using cutting-edge interactive technology, Big Think enables thought leaders and thoughtful people alike to share their views with the world.

The purpose of Truemors is to democratize and spread information. From a reader perspective, it puts people “in the know” about the latest news, rumors, and happenings without spending hours searching the web. From “citizen journalist/editor” perspective it enables people to “tell the world.”

W. James "Hamlet" Au's New World Notes is a must-read destination for the Residents of Second Life, the user-created online world which surpassed a million total accounts in October 2006, and is adding new citizens by the thousands every day. Previously Second Life's official "embedded journalist" from March 2003 to Feburary 2006 (when he was a contractor for Linden Lab, the company behind SL), Au now continues the story as an FM author, documenting the rise of this emerging online society which may consider the next generation of the Internet, following its art, commerce, culture, and technology-- including the many citizens who make a real-world living from their virtual creations. He also documents the arrival of real world businesses, organizations, and governments into Second Life, from Twentieth Century Fox and Microsoft, to Creative Commons and the American Cancer Society, to the BBC and US Homeland Security, and also interviews figures like Cory Doctorow, Lawrence Lessig, and former Presidential hopeful Governor Mark Warner, who occasionally visit SL in avatar form. He's currently writing a book based on his coverage of Second Life, set to be published in 2007.

Au is also a contributor to GigaOM (another FM site), and longtime tech writer for publications like Wired Magazine and Salon. New World Notes has been featured on the BBC Online, CNN, NPR's Morning Edition, the Washington Post, NYTimes.com, the UK Guardian, Wired.com, among many other outlets. He's spoken on the subject at South by Southwest in Austin and the State of Play Conference co-sponsored by New York Law School, Yale Law School, and Harvard's Berkman center. Technorati listing.

Lost Remote is where Cory Bergman, the director of digital media at a cable-TV network in Seattle, and Steve Safran, executive producer at a similar network in Boston, highlight the latest trends in TV and new media — with the help of six other industry insiders. Their visitors turn 5,000 pages each day, and each Thursday, their newsletter reaches 3,000 media-savvy professionals.

CBS Marketwatch praises the site's "straight journalism," the Seattle Weekly calls it "Seattle's best Weblog," and Variety recommends it as "a good place to start your day."




Liqurious asks "What's your poison?" ~ and offers readers a visually stunning space to browse "curated user-submitted links" to explore the best mixology related articles, blog posts, products, reviews, galleries, and more.

Dethroner is an everyday field guide for men, chucking out advice, DIY projects, and personal admonishment, as well as all the gear and grooming gewgaws that tickle a Y chromosome. Dethroner is helmed by Joel Johnson, veteran blogger and regular contributor to Popular Mechanics, Wired, and Playboy.

Transbuddha is a showcase for those compelling nuggets of media that pepper the information highway like so many two-headed cows and 20-foot spiders. Presiding over the show is Aaron Weber, a former network tech, band manager, comic-book author, film critic and all-around media junkie. Each weekday he highlights the best and the brightest talents in mass media, both professional and homemade — and that's why Transbuddha is consistently ranked among Technorati's Top 150 blogs.

Witty, sarcastic, and always engaging, Mindy chronicles her life, and that of her children. She tackles the good and the bad with a broad stroke and a sense of humor that give her writing depth and an emotional pull. Besides her obvious, tender love for her children, The Mommy Blog is a place where Mindy reveals some of her fears and disappointments, and talks about her hopes for the future. Readers have laughed and cried along with her, finding inspiration in Mindy's tales.

Known for its wide-ranging vocabulary and sharp insight into matters both personal and global, The Mommy Blog is a showcase for Mindy's unique spin. She's quick to highlight other bloggers. With her poise (we assume from her modeling background) and her inner strength (from her tomboyish childhood in Chicago, perhaps), Mindy is a staunch ally.

A few years ago, Web consultant Hugh MacLeod invented a new art form: drawing cartoons on the back of business cards. Because the cartoons are funny, and relevant to our media-saturated, love-starved world, the site where he posts those cartoons, Gaping Void, sits comfortably in Technorati's Top 200 as one of the world's most influential blogs. With nearly 9,000 links from nearly 3,000 blogs, Gaping Void has become a must-visit for savvy surfers everywhere. Gaping Void satirizes advertising, public relations, technology and the wine business — but it never loses heart.

Alex Salkever, founder of Hawaiirama, is a veteran travel journalist who has lived in Hawaii since 1994. He's written about Hawaii for dozens of publications, including Travel & Leisure, the Washington Post, Conde Nast Traveler, Outside Magazine, Men's Journal, Sunset Magazine, Islands Magazine, Honolulu Magazine, the Honolulu Weekly, the Christian Science Monitor, Salon.com, and Brides Magazine. He travels regularly in the islands and still surfs as often as possible. Before launching this blog, he spent five years as editor of the technology channel at BusinessWeek.com.

For more than two years, Dragon Head Almost Destroyed Me has displayed the best and the worst of current media and marketing trends. The site offers insider analyses on media and technology from both participatory and consumer viewpoints. Longtime ad veteran and principal author Stuart Wallace turns a critical eye on the marketing world, putting his brand-building expertise to work in a way that benefits everyone but the mediocre.

Documentary films are suddenly cool. Previously marginal, hard to find, and poorly distributed, true films are now a pop culture hot spot with the advent of DVDs and downloadable video. Even a mediocre documentary is better than most Hollywood blockbusters. Kevin Kelly's website, True Films, reviews and recommends the best documentaries and true films available. As it accumulates a deep archive of great works, it is also gathering a community of fans pioneering this newest digital enthusiasm.

PVR Blog is Matt Haughey's other well-known site, dedicated to on-demand programming and the enabling technologies. When the mainstream media (like Newsweek) needs to understand developments among the on-demand video players, Matt is often the source. His collaborators include Raffi Krikorian, author of "Tivo Hacks" and a master's student in the Physics and Media group at the MIT Media Lab; George Hotelling, creator of 90% Crud and HME PVRblog sites; and Gen Kanai, a prominent Tokyo-based blogger.

Created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Wikia extends wikipedia by making structured, high-value content on the internet free to the world. Wikia is run by passionate volunteers, who constantly create and update information that people care about on more than 2,000 topics — including technology, movies, videogames, city guides and sports. Wikia has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine and the New York Times. And it's comfortably within Alexa's top 1,000.

"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.

Watercooler enables fans to connect with other fans in TV communities inside their favorite social networks. With tens of millions of registered fans on the Watercooler platform, Watercooler operates the largest TV application suites on Facebook, Bebo, and Friendster. Watercooler makes connecting with your friends, family, and other fans of your favorite TV shows more compelling than ever before.

Moji means "character", and Mojizu.com is the web's premier resource for character artists -- a focal-point website and online community for people who create original characters.

Mojizu is a place like no other, where accomplished professionals can display their work to a worldwide audience, casual doodlers can get feedback and learn new techniques, and artists working at all levels can participate in a contemporary character design community that knows and loves the subject as much as they do.