Award winning blogger, Ree, aka “The Pioneer Woman,” chronicles her decade-long transition from spoiled city girl to isolated ranch wife on her weblog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman. Ree faithfully posts daily contributions to her site, including inspiring photography, tongue-in-cheek poetry, and often hilarious stories about her experiences as a city girl stuck in rural America. Ree's site features sections about cooking, home & garden and photography.

Confessions of a Pioneer Woman won a Bloggie for “Best-Kept Secret Weblog” in 2007 and won Bloggies for "Best Food Weblog" and "Best Writing of a Weblog" in 2008. It's easy to see how loyal her readership is -- some of Ree's posts have gotten thousands of comments.

Uncrate is a popular web-based buyer's guide for men. Their dedicated team finds and reviews the best gadgets, clothes, music and movies, cars and more. Updated every week day, Uncrate reaches a large, influential audience of men looking for the next great thing. The site also offers a free AJAX-powered shopping list service that allows readers to save the items they want to buy or check out later. Uncrate has quickly become a respected, go-to guide for finding the absolute best of the best men's products.

NOTCOT is a visual filtration of ideas + aesthetics + amusements. NOTCOT's two sites have become the daily sources of inspiration for creatives everywhere, fighting the good fight against "creative block" since 2005 with visually stunning imagery, the latest in international trends, and a passion for all things well designed.

NOTCOT.ORG is a community of creatives, design lovers, and trendsetters — where .org serves as the studio bulletin board gone digital — each image and caption brings you to a place worth visiting. It's about sharing what inspires you. Bookmarks, del.icio.us, digg, blogrolls, etc. make you read, search and think. This is the PICTUREBOOK to their novel. NOTCOT.COM is the editorial face of NOTCOT, offering in-depth features on products, artists, technology, innovation, and up-and-coming trends.

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.

The Bargainist finds the best deals around on just about everything. From gadgets to vacations, she'll always let you know about the hottest sales, coupons, and freebies. Updating around the clock, The Bargainist has a growing number of avid shoppers who stop by multiple times per day looking to score a great deal. Basically, she'll help you go broke saving money. The Bargainist has been cited in several national newspapers and was named one of TIME Magazine's Top Ten Web Sites of 2006 and one of PC Magazine's Top Undiscovered Web Sites of 2007.

NotCouture.com launched July 2007, because there was something missing from the NOTCOT world covering design/tech/art through NOTCOT and food through TasteSpotting... Fashion! The art of wearables and accessories which complete our trifecta of designer passions to obsess about. So NotCouture has stepped in to fill the void with all of your luxe and fashion indulgences. Most of the mens and women's pieces that appear are truly inspiring, even if they don't make it into your closet.

Readers come daily to both browse and shop... as well contribute their own inspiring and fashionable desires.

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.




Mighty Goods is a shopping blog and one of Time Magazine's Top 50 Cool Sites of the year. We spend a great deal of time finding and posting things we love, 5 days a week. These aren’t just any old things, these are exactly the right things. They will brighten your eyes, match your couch, and fix the annoying problem that’s been bothering you. They will make you want to fortify the economy with your purchasing power. Mighty Goods is written and curated by Margaret Mason, who has exceptional taste. You’ll also find her at her personal blog Mighty Girl. And for the kids, visit sister site Mighty Junior.

Time Magazine declared that "Cool Mom Picks has a knack for finding kicky togs for tots" and indeed, tens of thousands of parents, editors and opinion leaders across North America agree, coming here first for what's hot in gifts, gear, services and websites. The cheeky shopping blog has gained a loyal fan base through a combination of fresh, fun writing and an eye for spotting trends before they hit the mainstream.

Editors Kristen Chase and Liz Gumbinner have been seen doling out shopping wisdom in newspapers across the country, on Martha Stewart Radio, and in their own series of on-demand shows on the national Alpha Mom cable network.

Mighty Girl is the personal website of Margaret Mason, author of No One Cares What You Had for Lunch, 100 Ideas for Your Blog. Mason also publishes the shopping sites Mighty Junior and Mighty Goods, which was one of Time Magazine's Top 50 Cool Sites of the year. Mighty Girl was born in 2000, and has been nominated for several awards, including a lifetime achievement Bloggie. Mason lives in San Francisco with her husband Bryan and her son Hank, who is almost two and clearly a genius.

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.

A design and shopping blog for people who like to nest. We look for objects that solve problems and make your life lovely all at once.

Mighty Junior is a shopping blog that features great stuff for kids. It’s updated five days a week, and is a sister site to Mighty Goods (one of Time Magazine's Top 50 Cool Sites). We spend a great deal of time finding and posting things kids will love. These aren’t just any old things, these are exactly the right things. They will make your kids stronger, smarter, and kinder. They will remind you that the kids you love are the best kids. They will encourage you to fortify the economy with your purchasing power. Mighty Junior is written and curated by Melissa Summers of Suburban Bliss and Margaret Mason of Mighty Girl. Both are moms who have excellent taste.

OpenRoad.TV with Doug McConnell - The Traveler's Video Guide to the American West is dedicated to helping people imagine, plan and book their travel in the West. The site combines a vast library of broadcast-quality videos and the expert knowledge of a veteran team of travel writers and producers with a growing travel community to deliver a deep, interactive and engaging environment. OpenRoad.TV is the "go to" site for travelers seeking a more enriching online experience about the American West.

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.

Smart and sexy, MakeupAlley is the ultimate insider destination to all things beauty. MakeupAlley is the largest beauty-focused social network on the Internet. Here women connect to discuss beauty, fashion and lifestyle using message boards, product reviews, emails, photos and shopping diaries. MakeupAlley continues to be the number #1 source for beauty related information on the internet, reaching hundreds of thousands of smart women consumers each month. Highly regarded since its 1999 launch, MakeupAlley currently has offices in NYC and Berlin. “An online universe where women congregate about beauty” -- New York Times “The most up-to-date source of honest information anywhere about beauty products” -- Toronto Star “MakeupAlley spreads the word” -- Vogue

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.

Traveling the world, tastingmenu obsessively documents and photographs the the most memorable and high quality food experiences in existence. According to Yahoo tastingmenu is "...one man's love affair with all things edible...a mouthwatering collection of food photography...a fabulous voyage into the wonderful world of food."