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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.




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.

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.

Recently named "One of the Twelve Essential Travel Websites" and "Best of the Web" by Forbes, RealTravel is a travel blogging and information site that helps people plan trips through the insights and recommendations of like-minded travelers, while also enabling marketers to appeal to people who are in the process of researching and planning a trip."

Kathy Maister's Start Cooking is the beginner's go-to recipe reference site. Featuring stop-motion animated how-to-cook videos for people who've never had the time to learn the basics of cooking, Start Cooking was launched in December 2006 and The Boston Globe calls it "The best thing to happen to clueless cooks since the Hot Pocket." Start Cooking was also named a top food blog by Real Simple magazine, in their March 2008 issue.

The site counts 20,000+ RSS subscribers. With iTunes, TVtonic or the Mywaves cell phone platform, people can take their favorite video-recipes anywhere they go and conjure delicious home-cooked dishes in few simple steps.

In addition to standard IAB ad units, Start Cooking offers video advertising and custom sponsorships. Site views and downloads on all videos amount to more than 280,000 a month. Other video sharing sites total approximately another 30,000.

TasteSpotting is THE place to feast your eyes on the most delectable delights the web has to offer... as well as food+drink products, news, accessories, etc.

Although many come daily to read and drool over what many are calling "food porn"... this is a curated user contributed site, so ANYONE can also submit delicious posts if something's missing.

TasteSpotting.com was launched Jan '07, because designers get hungry too, and we are in awe of how delectable the finds on food blogs both look and taste! So, realizing that the passion of food lovers is often as intense as those who contribute to NOTCOT.org we've created this space for like minded people to descend upon and share what delicious dishes, posts, images, products, ingredients, etc. inspire their great tastes.

- TasteSpotting named Best Food Blog Directory by Debonair Magazine

- TasteSpotting is AskMen.com's The Best & Coolest Site Around for July 19th, 2007.

TasteSpotting is linked by: Epicurious, Serious Eats, Chez Pim, Chow, SlashFood, Delicious Life, LA.Eater, Life Hacker, del.icio.us Popular, Josh Spear, Design*Sponge, Oh Joy, Wired, LAist, The Food Section, Yum Sugar and more.

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."

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.

Started only a year and a half ago by two brothers passionate about travel, TravBuddy is now one of the fastest growing and most socially vibrant travel communities on the web. Over 1,000,000 members have contributed thousands of travel blogs, travel reviews and travel photos to the site, providing candid travel information and timely advice for discerning travelers. TravBuddy has been praised by the NBC Nightly News, PC World, ZDNet, the Indianapolis Star, the Florida Sun-Sentinel and Webuser.

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.

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.