Well-known digital figure Stowe Boyd's new blog /Message explores tech culture from the inside. Boyd, an internationally recognized authority on social tools and member of both the Open Media 100 and the Web 2.0 workgroup, just launched /Message.

43 Folders is the brainchild of Merlin Mann, focusing on personal productivity, "life hacks," and simple ways to make life better. His encouraging, humorous spirit is just what his readers need to help them stop procrastinating, do what they need to do, and have more fun. A recent NY Times Sunday magazine story, ("Meet the Life Hackers," 10/16/05) praised Merlin and 43 Folders. Technorati ranks 43 Folders in the Top 50 of their list of 100 most influential blogs.

"[43 Folders is the] headquarters for a small movement to make lives more organized, better focused, and less encumbered by email. If you’ve got a college student graduating this spring, sneak into her laptop and make 43F the default home page on her browser; someday, with a small, meticulous notebook in her back pocket, she’ll thank you."

- The Morning News, which awarded the site a 2006 Editors' Award for Online Excellence

A VC records the thoughts of Fred Wilson, the NYC-based managing partner of two venture capital firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures. Technorati counts 1,286 sites linking to Fred's influential insights on marketing, technology, the Internet, and investment strategy (with a bit on his kids and his favorite music mixed in!).

Alarm:Clock, a weblog written by former RedHerring editors, covers the business of technology startups. Besides covering the news, each weekday it adds a new profile of a privately-held technology venture, analyzing the business model and assessing how the company fits in to the technology landscape.

AltSearchEngines tracks more than 1,000+ alternative/niche search engines for its coverage and publishes the popular "Top 100 Alternative Search Engines" list each month. The site is edited by respected industry analyst and former SEO Charles Knight.

Devoted to the polymath technologist, Ars Technica covers news, trends and technology across a broad spectrum of interests, including business IT, the intersection of technology and law, gaming and hardware. Ars Technica ranks in the Top 20 of all IT Media according to Hitwise, in the overall Top 20 at Technorati, and is a member of CNET's Blog 100. Ars' authors have made appearances in The New York Times, NPR, G4TV and Maximum PC magazine, among many other publications.

Boing Boing attracts more than 2 million unique visitors to its site each month, and has over 500,000 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 at #2. 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."

Kevin Kelly, former executive editor of Wired Magazine and publisher of the Whole Earth Review, now attracts legions of readers to Cool Tools. Kelly highlights one new cool tool everyday that is "extraordinary, better than similar products, little-known, and reliably useful for an individual or small group." What's a tool? "A cool tool," he explains, "can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true." He depends on his readers to suggest items they actually use. This authentic experience gives the site community, credibility, and amazing loyalty among its readers. These tools don't just 'look' cool. They've passed the test of experience: They really are cool. Technorati counts 2,789 links to Cool Tools from 1,172 blogs, putting Cool Tools among the most influential blogs.

CrunchGear is all about the latest gadgets and hardware. If it’s new cool and, most importantly, available now, you’ll learn about it first on CrunchGear. The site is edited by John Biggs, a New York-based writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Laptop, Men’s Health, Linux Journal, Popular Science and others. CrunchGear is part of the CrunchNetwork group of properties, which also includes Mike Arrington’s TechCrunch.

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.

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.

Duct Tape Marketing is a team of 22 authors -- each an expert in a specific aspect of business marketing, such as PR, internet marketing and selling to large organizations -- headed by author and business coach John Jantsch. The Duct Tape Marketing Blog was chosen as a Forbes Magazine "favorite for small business" and "best blog on small business marketing" for the third year in a row by the readers of Marketing Sherpa.

Ed Bott's Windows Expertise & Media Central weblogs are dedicated to tips, tricks, news and product coverage on the latest media technology – digital music, PVRs, HDTV – and all flavors of the Windows operating system and the Microsoft Office suite, from Windows XP to Media Center, and from Tablet PC to MCE. Ed has been a top editor at PC World and PC Computing, and has written 21 books on computing.

Fractals of Change is where retired serial tech CEO Tom Evslin writes about technology, marketing, strategy, black holes and Vermont – not necessarily in that order. Technorati sees 899 influential links to Fractals of Change.

Gadgetopia is Deane Barker's self-proclaimed blog for geeks -- covering science, technology, software, and web development. Technorati counts 894 inbound links to Gadgetopia, which attracts roughly 40,000 monthly unique site visitors and 10,000 RSS subscribers.

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.

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.

Andru Edwards developed Gear Live to be a premier destination for technology and gadget enthusiasts alike. His love of consumer electronics fuels the site's up-to-the-minute coverage of the tech space, written with a smart, honest, and witty edge. Since its launch in 2004, Gear Live has been quoted in places like The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Seattle Times, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, and Ad Age. In addition, it was recently voted by the influential TechWeb as one of the top ten technology sources on the Internet which "readers turn to... for its fun, accessible take on technology." According to Google, there are over 126,000 links to Gear Live.

GigaOm is Om Malik's blog dedicated to broadband & wireless information for the business professional. According to Google, almost 29,000 other sites point to GigaOm, and his blog is high in the Technorati Top 100.




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.

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.

High-Def Digest is dedicated to the next-gen high-definition disc formats, including both Blu-ray and HD DVD. Featuring daily news, comprehensive reviews, and updated release schedules, the site attracts a passionate and influential audience of high-tech early adopters and DVD enthusiasts. The site is published by former Yahoo executive Jed Rosenzweig, and edited by Peter Bracke, founding editor of DVDFILE.com and the author of the book Ultimate DVD.

As a trusted source for computing and tech hardware reviews and news for PC enthusiasts and IT professionals, HotHardware offers a rare mix of technical analysis and professional industry journalism, sans the stuffed shirt and pocket protector.

Whether you're looking for what's hot in computer graphics, processors, motherboards, storage, notebooks, systems or displays, HotHardware offers leading-edge insight into the latest and greatest in computing and high tech hardware and gadgets.

Guy Kawasaki's blog, How to Change the World, provides tactical, practical information that attracts the early adopter, entrepreneurial, tech-loving audience. His blog consistently ranks in the Technorati top fifty.

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.

Last100 provides news, reviews and industry analysis on products and services related to the digital lifestyle, with a particular emphasis on how the Internet is penetrating the home in an era of ubiquitous broadband access.

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.

LifeClever is a terrific 'life hack' site -- a collection of tips for design and life that's among the favorite sites of Merlin "43 Folders" Mann. LifeClever's straightforward practical advice helps both designers and non-designers learn how to design, work, and live better — from a living room to a resume. LifeClever is helmed by Chanpory Rith, a designer at MetaDesign whose interaction and branding work includes projects for Yahoo!, Symantec, PC World and Four Seasons Hotels. With more than 1,300 inbound links from 699 sites, LifeClever is well within Technorati's Top 3,000.

LiveSide, an independent news and information site focusing on Windows Live, is well known for being first with the best and most exclusive dirt on the Microsoft online initiative. The site feature interviews with Microsoft product team members and hosts the definitive list of Windows Live employee blogs and sites. LiveSide authors Harrison Hoffman, Chris Overd, and Kip Kniskern are all Windows Live MVPs (Most Valuable Professionals), recognized by the company to be among the most knowledgeable about Windows Live in the world. In February of 2006, Microsoft Watch called LiveSide's writers “sneaky geniuses,” and it’s become their unofficial motto. While its authors don’t always please Microsoft PR, LiveSide is considered, both inside Microsoft and in the community, to be the authority on Windows Live.

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."




MAKE has quickly become one of the hottest reads for tech enthusiasts, backyard scientists, hobbyists and basement inventors. A quarterly project-project based magazine, MAKE’s mission is to unite, inspire, inform and entertain a growing community of highly imaginative and resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. We call these people "Makers".

MAKE and makezine.com have been prominently featured 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. MAKE's editors - including Phil Torrone, blog maestro of makezine.com - have been featured on CNN, CBS News, The Tonight Show and have made numerous appearances on NPR, TechTV and MTV.

Mashable is the world's largest blog on Web 2.0 and social networking. Mashable is also the most prolific blog reviewing new websites and services, publishing 20 or more articles per day including news and features. Readers include developers, bloggers, journalists, VCs and social networking users themselves.

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).

MobileCrunch is Mobile 2.0. Our mission is to identify, profile, test and even help develop the technologies, applications, services and devices that will define the next generation of connected mobile computing.

A new day is dawning. One in which the promise of anywhere, anytime access to data, media, people and places is finally at hand. The restrictions of radically limited bandwidth, underpowered devices, and few functional applications is drawing to a close. We are about to experience an unparalleled explosion in mobile technology. Wi-Fi, Wi-MAX, Voice over WLAN, UMTS, HSDPA, UWB and UMA are but a few of the dizzying number of acronyms that mean but one thing; it’s finally here and it’s finally real.

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.

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.

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.

OhGizmo! reaches nearly 70,000 tech-savvy early adopters each month. Its readers love the blend of technological innovation, creative product design and daily gadget news. Alexa ranks OhGizmo at 22,278, Feedburner tallies an average of 3,000 RSS subscribers and Technorati counts 3,400 links from 1,075 sites. A team of three keeps OhGizmo up to date, under the leadership of managing editor David Ponce.

Dr. Paul Kedrosky's irreverent insights into technology, finance and venture capital have made Infectious Greed the first stop each morning for prominent players in all three fields. Having worked in the industry for two decades, Paul is an acknowledged expert: Quoted regularly in the NY Times and the Wall Street Journal, he also appears on CNBC every other week. Paul is the executive director of a venture capital institute at the University of California at San Diego — a combination research center and seed fund — and a partner at Ventures West, a $600 million venture fund. Named 'Best of the Web 2006' by BusinessWeek.

Ranking among the the 50 most popular sites of all time on del.icio.us, Thomas Marban's popurls.com | popular urls to the latest web buzz, is the dashboard for the hive mind — a single page that replaces the need to directly read Digg, Delicious, Flickr, Wired, Slashdot, NewsVine, Metafilter, Youtube and many other web-buzz related sites. With up-to-the-minute headlines presented in a minimalistic two-flavor design one can scan the latest headlines of what the web collectively thinks is either popular or interesting. A simple mouse over the headline will cleverly reveal a small box of expanded text on the article. Popurls ranks top for terms like "news" on bookmarking services and has a loyal and web-savvy readership.

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.

ReadWriteWeb is a popular weblog that provides Web Technology news, reviews and analysis. It began publishing on April 20, 2003 and is now one of the most widely read and respected Web 2.0 blogs.

ReadWriteWeb is ranked among Technorati's Top 20 blogs in the world. NextBlitz says about ReadWriteWeb: "The definitive site for analysis of new technology products, events, and news. Superb, detailed coverage."

Real World Technologies (RWT) is the premier community for computer industry professionals. RWT offers in-depth reviews and articles on computer architecture, microprocessor and computer system design, and other allied fields such as low-level software and semiconductors. The community is largely composed of industry insiders and experts on relevant topics, providing lively discussions and an opportunity for even the most experienced reader to learn something new.

The main driving force behind RWT is David Kanter, who writes about high-performance and embedded computer systems and manages other site contributors. David has extensive contacts throughout the computer industry and at major web publications. He has freelanced for the Microprocessor Report and been quoted in the San Jose Mercury News, the Inquirer and other leading web publications. His articles have been cited by ZDNet/CNet, the Register, eWeek and others.

On ResourceShelf and DocuTicker, dedicated and sleep-deprived information professionals share the results of their extensive (and quirky) searches for free resources. Senior editors Gary Price and Shirl Kennedy supply a daily handpicked selection of databases, lists and rankings, multimedia, and full-text reports, as well as their commentary on search engine and web news.

Searchblog is John Battelle's "thoughts on the intersection of search, media technology, and more." Battelle runs the Web 2.0 conference, and has taught at the UC Berkeley Graduate School in Journalism. In addition to his current role as Chairman and Publisher of FM, Battelle was the founder and publisher of The Industry Standard, and a co-founding editor of Wired magazine. His book, "The Search: Business and Culture in the Age of Google," was published by Penguin/Portfolio in September 2005 – making the Amazon, Businessweek, and Wall St. Journal best seller lists for business titles. More than 60,000 other sites link to Searchblog (source: Google).

Silicon Alley Insider is one of the fastest-growing business publications in the world. Founded by former financial analyst Henry Blodget and former DoubleClick CEO Kevin Ryan, Silicon Alley Insider offers real-time news and analysis of technology, telecom, and media businesses. The site’s expert staff breaks news and presents analysis and commentary in a conversational tone. Silicon Alley Insider has quickly become a must-read in the tech and start-up communities. Its rapidly growing audience exceeds 700,000 uniques/month.

“Begun just four months ago, SAI has quickly become a must read for the digital set.” -- Sam Gustin, Condé Nast Portfolio, 12/19/07

Smart Mobs, the best-selling book of that name by Howard Rheingold, continues the investigation launched by the best-selling book of that name, about the merger of the mobile telephone, the personal computer, and the Internet into a new medium that enables collective action in ways that were never before possible. New industries have arisen, political leaders have been deposed and elected, new cultural practices have arisen. Anyone interested in the new forms of socializing, the emergence of new kinds of cooperative enterprise in the for-profit and non-profit world, the beginning of the "age of sentient things" in which trillions of smartifacts will permeate manufactured objects with computational capabilities, the potential of grid computing, the novel ways in which people put mobile telephones to use, follows the Smart Mobs team of international bloggers from USA, Australia, Netherlands, Brazil, and Switzerland as they focus on daily developments at the intersection of technology, social practice, and enterprise.

Sphere scans the blogosphere to bring readers the good stuff. The blog search engine's authors -- Tony Conrad, Martin Remy, Steve Nieker and Toni Schneider -- founded Sphere to answer the question: “Blogs, what are they good for?” Whether you want to read what people are saying or throw your two cents in, Sphere’s advanced searching algorithms make it possible for blog readers to more easily discover great blog content — a very simple idea that takes some smarts to do right. Just a few months after its launch, Sphere had already announced deals with Time.com and About.com. It's no wonder when the service is good enough to inspire TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to say, "Sphere is a new blog search engine that quite frankly blows everything, and I mean everything, out of the water in terms of relevance."

Kevin Kelly, former executive editor of Wired Magazine and publisher of the Whole Earth Review, now attracts quirky fans to Street Use, a companion site to Cool Tools. Street Use looks at all the ways that people modify and re-create technology. Check out its collection of personal modifications, folk innovations, street customization, ad hoc alterations, wear-patterns, home-made versions and indigenous ingenuity. In short — stuff as it is actually used, which is rarely the way its creators planned on it being used. As William Gibson said, "The street finds its own uses for things."

STREETtech comprises tech reviews, news and how-to's by a posse of savvy writers under the leadership of Gareth Branwyn, the co-creator of Wired Magazine's popular Jargon Watch column and its editor for the past 12 years. STREETtech has been around since 1997, and has today almost all of the same writers it had then. That experience makes STREETtech's reviews sober and balanced.

Tailrank is a memetracker driven by readers — but not just its own readers. Founder Kevin Burton uses a 'robot' to constantly scan more than 3.5 million weblogs, looking for the most highly discussed links and citations and promoting them to Tailrank's top spots.

TechCrunch is Mike Arrington's weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched Web 2.0 business, product and service. In addition to new companies, the site profiles existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on the web 2.0 space. "Web 2.0" innovations, by their definition, are products or services that are evolving the web from a read-mostly medium to a read-and-write, two-way medium. The site appeals to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs and strategy executives. According to Google, over 14,000 other sites link to TechCrunch, and Technorati says TechCrunch is the 16th most influential blog in the world. Named 'Best of the Web 2006' by BusinessWeek

TechDirt targets IT and business leaders involved in IT decisions. TechDirt reaches 240,000 monthly uniques, a number that has tripled in the past year with the help of recognition by sites such as Google, which selected TechDirt as one of the four tech sites (with Wired News, News.com & Slashdot) chosen as default feeds for Google's new personal homepage (aka myGoogle). Feedster's recently ranked Techdirt the 12th most popular blog. It's a Technorati Top 100 site, with inbound links from more than 3,000 blogs.

Thomas Hawk's Digital Connection covers TiVo, MCE, Microsoft, Flickr, digital music, digital photography and the entire digital lifestyle. It's in the Top 500 at Technorati, which counts 502 linking sites. Thomas Hawk informs more than 60,000 monthly uniques*.

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!"

Treonauts is Andrew Carton's "bloguide" of all things Treo, dedicated to "the perfect all-in-one communications, information and entertainment tool." Treonauts reaches 70,000 high-income smart phone and PDA users every month.

Ubergizmo.com is a trendy web magazine dedicated to consumer electronics news and reviews. It was founded by Hubert and Eliane in Palo Alto at the heart of Silicon Valley (California) where they both work. Ubergizmo is an independent web site that does not rely on advertising to run (although we do display advertising). This allows us to be truly free to say what we think, even if it does not please the manufacturers (sorry guys). To make our content spicy and enjoyable for our readers, we have a secret: we blog from our kitchen :)

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.

VentureBeat provides news and information about fast-growing private companies and the venture capital that fuels them. Written by Matt Marshall, it is the successor to SiliconBeat. The Wall Street Journal in 2005 credited SiliconBeat with providing the "back-story" of Silicon Valley. VentureBeat targets the most influential leaders in Silicon Valley and in other dynamic business cities around the world. Readers include entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other professionals.

WebbAlert is the website and daily videocast of the popular TV host Morgan Webb, covering the day's developments in tech news, video gaming, gadgetry, and digital culture,. Succinct, articulate, and visually engaging, it's engineered to keep the busy tech executive and the avid tech consumer current on industry news and trends with a small investment of just a few minutes per day. Morgan Webb also hosts the popular TV program X-Play. Available in over 62 million homes and well past its 500th episode, X-Play is TV's longest-running and most-watched series focused on videogames. She was rated the 51st sexiest woman in the world in 2007 by the readers of FHM, but what truly inspires loyalty in her legions of fans is the fact she is as steeped in technology as they are. A web engineer before stumbling into a career in television, Ms. Webb has been building and modifying her own computers for years, and is a lifelong hardcore gamer.

Wi-Fi Networking News has become the pre-eminent news site for the Wi-Fi industry covering a spectrum of topics from hot spots to consumer equipment to technology developments. Those in the know turn to Glenn Fleishman's flagship Wi-Fi Networking News site and a small family of wireless data niche editorial sites covering cell data, voice over wireless LAN, public safety wireless, WiMax and broadband wireless, and the new 802.11n flavor of Wi-Fi.

The blog was started in 2001 after Fleishman wrote a cover story for The New York Times Circuits section on the very early stages of public Wi-Fi hot spots, which then numbered several hundred. (Today, hotspots number over 130,000 worldwide.) Fleishman is regularly quoted in the Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and other print publications about wireless data and Wi-Fi.

CEOs, marketing directors, and engineers regularly check in with Fleishman both to obtain the state of the industry and to provide the latest information on their companies, technologies, and insight on the future.

Fleishman brings solid reportorial chops to his blogs. Over a 15-year writing career, he's contributed to most major business and technology publications. He currently contributes regularly to The Economist, Popular Science, The New York Times, and The Seattle Times, where he is a columnist. Fleishman appears weekly on KUOW-FM in Seattle in a segment called The Works, talking about technology.

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.