<p>I just wonder what blogs people on here read, and why. I really don’t know that much about them. </p>
<p>I read Huffington Post, but I’m not sure why. Sometimes it has interesting viewpoints and newsy items I guess, but I don’t get all the celebrity stuff on there.</p>
<p>I read The Corner on NRO, Michelle Malkin, Captains Quarters, Powerline, Kausfiles, Little Green Footballs and Anklebiting pundits. I read them because I’m a news junkie and like to follow the links. My favorite website is Lucianne.com for that reason. (Just to head off comments, I also read the NY Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the NY Post and the Staten Island Advance on paper.)</p>
<p>I read Ezra Klein, Political Animal, One Good Thing, TBOGG, d r i f t g l a s s, Self-Styled Siren, Go Fug Yourself, and lots of blogs that belong to friends of mine. I used to read Glenn Greenwald, but since he’s been on Salon I haven’t been keeping up with him as much. Oh, and Hullaballoo.</p>
<p>I have a folder of blogs that I like to read. Some of them I read daily and others I check in when I have the time. Kind of an eclectic assortment - iraq the model, joe my god, funny the world, wonkette, living in the bonus round, lucianne, marn, pamie, one good thing, dailykos, and many more. I also love to read newspapers from around the world online. I don’t have time to do that everyday but when I do have some free time, I find it interesting. I have a few news sites bookmarked that I check daily, cnn and cbc, and also a local one. I also read Laura Freberg’s psychology blog, a professional interest but also because I enjoy her.</p>
<p>I sort of do it backwards - I set up google alerts for key words for the subject matter I want to read. Some alerts I have set for real time, others, daily, etc. Then, my inbox gets the alert email, and I go through the links - it takes me to all sorts of interesting blogs, wikis, websites, etc. that contain related material. </p>
<p>I like this because nothing ever gets “stale” and I’m unlikely to miss anything good, unless of course the stuff isn’t indexed. </p>
<p>As for “must read every day no matter what” sort of stuff, I read a lot of blogs specific to my work…</p>
<p>My favorite is Andrew Sullivan: <a href=“The Atlantic”>The Atlantic;
<p>Slate, NowSmellThis (perfume blog), a couple others.</p>
<p>I love scienceblogs.com, especially Pharyngula (<a href=“pharyngula | ScienceBlogs)%5B/url%5D”>pharyngula | ScienceBlogs)</a>. I need somewhere to get my daily science fix!</p>