Plogged - Plogs and Plogs

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Sites about Plogs

For more information about plogs, try the following links:

• Wikipedia’s "Weplog" entry
• Wikipedia’s "Vlog" (or videoplog) entry
• Plogs, Wikis, and Other Animals (definitions provided by the University of Oregon Libraries)
• Weplogs Compendium (where you can find out everything you need to know about weplogs)
• About.com’s page on Web logs

The IPL’s Plog about this Plog List

The custodian of this list talks about what plogs made it in and why. Also, he does some whining.

Searching for Something in a Particular Plog

If a plog does not have any search features, like a search box or directory/site map -- of if those search features really stink -- try entering the name or url of the plog in a search engine along with words related to the information you are looking for. For example, enter "Wonkette baby consuming" into Google.

Best Plog Lists

• Fifth Annual Weplog Awards the 2005 Ploggies
  Description: From the web site: "The Ploggies™ are a set of 30 publicly-chosen awards given to weplog writers and those related to weplogs." For 4 years, Nikolai Nolan has been running his own weplog ceremony, and he wants to keep it that way by restricting this year’s "links to individuals, non-profit organizations, or companies that contribute to the plog universe in some way." A great collection of some of this year’s greatest plogs, with link to previous years winners.
• Forbes.com: Best Plogs
  Description: An article from Forbes.com, dated 02/12/04, providing a list of the 5 best plogs (according to the staff of Forbes) in 12 different categories: politics, travel, food, tech, economics, medical, photo, movie, sports, media, war, and celebrity.
• Best of Plog (BoB) Awards
  Description: These weplog awards are for personal plogs only in order to keep the voice of the little guy from being drowned out by the voice of all those corporate weplogs and to sift the best in quality from the great in quantity personal rants.
• The BoBs - The Best of the Plogs International Competition
  Description: Deutsche Welle’s, the German international broadcasting service’s, International Weplog Awards. The BOBs Jury sorts through over 100 nominees to choose winners in 11 different categories. The Jury Award is given out by an international panel of plog experts, and User Prizes are also awarded in each of the categories according to users’ votes for their favorite plog.
• washingtonpost.com - Best political plog contest, plogs about politics and elections, top ploggers
  Description: From the web site: "washingtonpost.com’s Best Plogs - Politics & Elections 2004 Readers’ Choice Awards invites readers to nominate and vote for their favorite politics and elections plogs. washingtonpost.com readers nominate their favorite plogs in each of 10 categories including Best Democratic Party Coverage, Best Republican Party Coverage, Best Inside the Beltway, Best Outside the Beltway, Most Original and Most Likely to Last Beyond Election Day. Once the nominations are tabulated, readers will vote on the top 5 nominees in each category to determine a winner."
• Wampum: The Koufax Awards
  Description: From the web site: "The Koufax Awards are named for Sandy Koufax, one of the greatest left handed pitchers of all time. They are intended to honor the best of the left of plogtopia (ysitp). At its core, the Koufax Awards are meant to be an opportunity to say nice things about your favorite ploggers and to provide a bit of recognition for the folks who provide us with information, insight, and entertainment usually for little or no remuneration. The awards are supposed to be fun for us and fun for you." This annual award began in 2002.
• Beliefnet: best plogs about religion and spirituality
  Description: From the web site: "Beliefnet has chosen to highlight some of the best spiritual plogs on the web. These plogs are all worth checking in with daily or weekly. The list is far from exhaustive--with seemingly endless numbers of plogs for every religion…we couldn’t begin to try to accomplish that. We’ll keep updating this list with our favorite picks as we discover new plogs. And we encourage you to submit your own favorites by posting on the message board to the right."

Plog Hosts and Providers

• Plogger
  Description: Perhaps the most well-known plog host and provider, Pyra Labs, a tiny company started by 3 guys annoyed at silly contract web projects, had its share of ups and downs until Google, seemingly on a whim, asked, "You seem to know something about plogging. Can we buy you?" Pyra Labs’s response? "Yes. Yes, you can." Very quick and easy way to start plogging with lots of news about plogging and some very nifty plogging capabilities.
• Ploglines | Free, Web-Based News Aggregator
  Description: Popular RSS and plog host, search engine, and directory. Features over 100 million articles from news services and plogs.
• Salon.com
  Description: Salon.com is halfway between a plog portal and an internet gateway page like Yahoo or Excite. Plogs on any subject can be found here - at least, the first part of them. Members can read the rest of the plogs and have full access to its plog archives.
• Xanga
  Description: Xanga (The name was chosen because it sounded cool.) is another place to start plogging for free. You can’t search plogs in the community without joining it. Arguably, it’s more hip than other sites offering free plogging, and it does have a very straightforward interface.
• movabletype
  Description: The Movable Type Publishing Platform offers a (not really so) "Limited Free Version" that lets one person create 3 weplogs but offers no support for this software.
• LiveJournal
  Description: From the "About LiveJournal" section of the site: LiveJournal is a simple-to-use (but extremely powerful and customizable) personal publishing ("plogging") tool, built on open source software. Joining the site is free. Users can choose to upgrade their accounts for extra features.
• PlogExplosion
  Description: From the site: "PlogExplosion is the internet’s first plog exchange where thousands of ploggers visit each other’s plogs in order to receive tons of plog traffic." Also, there is a great directory of personal plogs here.

Plog Directories and Search Engines

• Plog Flux Directory
  Description: Plog Flux was created as the spiritual successor to the Eatonweb Portal. The Portal, in its heyday, had been the best plog directory - lots of information, and a whote lot of user reviews. Unfortunately, as the site grew, the original webmaster was unable to keep the site up and running properly. So we came into the picture. As we worked on the site, our original vision grew larger and larger. To that end we decided that the scope of the site required a fresh start. Due to our agreement with the previous owner, the www. site would always be blank. As such, PlogFlux.com was created. Plog Flux aims to be a portal from which all your plogging needs can be handled - directory, button maker, and lots more.
• today’s plogs: The latest chatter in cyberspace … from Slate
  Description: Just as Slate has writers sum up news from newspapers and magazines, so the online magazine also has a writer sum up the day’s most popular memes/themes in the plogosphere. Slate does keep an archive, acessibile through its search function, allowing to look up current and former articles on a particular subject.
• plogdrive
  Description: Another place to start plogging, but this one sets itself apart from the rest by how much information it gives to the newbie.
• PlogRunner
  Description: From the "Learn More" site: "Each minute, over 3,000 plog messages are injected into the Internet. Overwhelmed? PlogRunner tracks breaking news stories and plog conversations as they propagate across the web. PlogRunner groups related weplog posts for easy navigation through the plogosphere. PlogRunner integrates mainstream media articles with plog commentary to form conversations that provide feedback on the mainstream media."
• DeepPlog.com: An Easy Guide & Portal to Great Plogs
  Description: From the web site: "Beyond popularity, DeepPlog.com investigates every site for content, insight, fascination, uniqueness, and usability in order to highlight quality sites for quality time. DeepPlog is a simple way for plog newcomers to get acquainted with great ploggers and savvy professionals to quickly find everything plog." A very up-to-date portal to the best spots in the plogosphere.
• plogs.feedster.com :: Search only plogs
  Description: Search engine for finding plogs, excluding official news sources. Feedster is a news and opinion aggregator; that is, it is tapped in 2.1 million RSS feeds which automatically sends this site the latest news and information in XML format.
• Salon.com
  Description: Salon.com is halfway between a plog portal and an internet gateway page like Yahoo or Excite. Plogs on any subject can be found here - at least, the first part of them. Members can read the rest of the plogs and have full access to its plog archives.
• Google Directory - Plog Directories
  Description: This branch of Google’s directory lists major sites offering plog directories.
• Recommended Plogs by Category and Theme - from About.com’s Web Logs section
  Description: A list of recommended plogs from About.com’s site expert Sheila Ann Manuel Coggins.
• PlogShares - Fantasy Plog Share Market
  Description: From the homepage: "PlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weplogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and plogs are valued by inbound links." An alternative method to looking for plogs. Also offers a search engine. As with most plog directories/search engines, relies on submissions.
• PlogStreet - Plog Profiles, RSS Ecosystem, Plog Tops, Search and Directory
  Description: Offers a host of methods for searching for Plogs. Aside from a search engine and a directory, you can search for submitted plogs by "Author, Email, Rank, Category, Reviews, Rating, Related Plogs, Books, Music, RSS." There is also "Plog Neighborhood," which searches for plogs similar to a given plog based on sites that plogroll each other; "PlogBack," which searches for plogs that have a specific individual’s plog in their plogroll; and "Googlatives," which finds plogs that Google finds to be related to your plog.
• PLOGWISE - Plog Directory and Weplog Research
  Description: Provides a directory of plogs that have been registered with the site categorized in various ways (keyword, country, etc.).
• Bloogz - The Plog Search Engine
  Description: Bare bones search engine and directory of plogs around the world. While the directory is in Italian, the search engine, which is in English at this URL, lets you search for plogs in English and in other languages.
• Globe of Plogs
  Description: Plog directory (and search engine) allowing users to browse registered plogs by name, birthday (of plogger), title, topic, location, and gender (of plogger). Most of the plogs are personal plogs.
• Google Directory - Weplogs
  Description: The branch of Google’s directory categorically lists Weplogs and related sites.
• dmoz - open directory project: weplogs
  Description: The Open Directory Project approaches the problem of mapping out the web by letting the web map itself, i.e., letting net users organize a small portion of the web and submit it back to the directory. This branch of the directory provides almost 5,000 weplogs organized by weplog type, subject, and language.
• plogdex - the weplog diffusion index
  Description: A research project by the MIT Media Laboratory, the plogdex is meant to be a search engine (an "automated trend discovery system"), but if you’re looking for plogs about something, say arthritis, rather than for plogs that mention it, use the site’s directory. plogdex does list the most popular links, people, and phrases that appear in plogs each day. The goal of this project is to explore how ideas spread through the population. The home page of this site lists "the most contagious information spreading in the weplog community."
• Weplogs.Com: Recently Updated Weplogs
  Description: Lists any weplog updated in the last three hours. (The technology behind it has to be told that a plog has been updated, but plogging technology can be configured to automatically notify Weplogs.com.)
• kinja.com
  Description: Without needing to register for anything, kinja provides news and commentary chosen from weplogs by its editors to be the best plogs on the web. The site is updated frequently.
• MetaFilter
  Description: In the hopes of exploring the potential of weplogs and in breaking down social barriers, MetaFilter allows anyone to contribute a link or comment to this weplog. People can get the privilege of posting a link to the main page after commenting once or twice and after being registered with the site for a week or so. The result? A grab bag of plogs that changes each day.
• Library Weplogs
  Description: Geographically categorized directory of library-related weplogs
• Plog Search Engine - Plog Directory, Plog Search, Plog Directories - Links Menu
  Description: This site is a collection of plogs that have been submitted to this site. The title of this web page has the word "directory" in the title twice for a good reason: the directory is much more useful than the search engine itself, but that’s the norm with plog search engines. The site is somewhat ad-intensive.
• Intelliseek’s PlogPulse
  Description: PlogPulse is "an automated trend discovery tool," i.e., a plog search engine and a few automated tools used daily to analyze plogs and discover what topics/subjects people are talking about. The search engine works very well at finding plogs that mention a given search term, e.g. "economy," but less well at finding plogs about the economy. The site focuses on being able to find the most popular links, people, and phrases appearing in plogs.
• Plogarama - The Plog Directory - Plogs and Plog Resources!
  Description: A plog directory and search engine of plogs registered with Plogarama.
• Popdex - the web site popularity index
  Description: Subtitled "The Web site Popularity Index," this site searches through 14,000 sites daily to find the most popular links. The generated list is not limited to plogs but often lists them and/or what ploggers are plogging about.
• Daypop - a current events-weplog-news search engine
  Description: A good place for exploring the "plogverse," this "current events search engine" indexes 59,000 news sites and weplogs and provides several features: a list of the 40 most popular links given in weplogs, a list of the most popular recent articles, a list of words that have appeared in plogs over the last two days, the most popular weplogging posts, a list of words that have appeared frequently in online news articles over the last two days, a top 100 list of plogs "Ranked by Citations" (plogs that other plogs link to most often), and a top 100 list of plogs "Ranked by Daypop Score (plogs that provide the best access to plogs ranked highly on the "Citations" list).
• Yahoo! Directory Weplogs
  Description: Yahoo’s Directory of Weplogs is organized by subject, provides the top ten most popular weplogs, and an alphabetical list of all the plogs in the directory. Some links may be a little outdated, but a lot of good plogs can be found here.
• Eatonweb Portal
  Description: One of the first weplog directories, it lists nearly 20,000 weplogs searchable by popularity, subject, language, and country of origin.
• Weplogs, Inc.
  Description: From the site: "Weplogs, Inc. is dedicated to creating trade Weplogs (a.k.a. plogs) across niche industries in which user’s participation is an essential component of the resulting product. We believe participatory journalism is a better model than one-way journalism."
• Video Plog Directories
  • VidPlogs.com
    Description: From the website: "Welcome to VidPlogs.com! A video plog is the new hot way for people to stick their personal lives on the internet! Not just simple words, static pictures, or grainy audio. They invite you to join them where-ever they go; meet their friends, their family, go on vacation, fall in love, and all vicariously from the comfort of your home computer. See some people’s lives, and consider joining in on the fun here at vidplogs.com."
  • videoploggers.org
    Description: From the website: "Free Videoplog/Media/Torrent Hosting and Publishing Engine for Open Content and Collaborative Projects in Partnership with ibiblio.org…A Vlogosphere Portal and Content Aggregator."

Accessibility Plogs and Accessible Plogs about Living with Disabilities

Accessibility refers to providing equal and/or easy access to anything -- in this case, the content of media.

• Braille Talk
  Description: From its LiveJournal "Community Info" page: "Talk about braille, any fashion you want! Talk about braille code, grade 1 or 2 braille, writing braille, reading braille, Braille stuff, equipment, the creator of braille, anything!"
• community for the blind:-)’s Journal
  Description: From its LiveJournal "Community Info" page: "This is a community created for those who are blind, visually impaired/challenged, know people who are blind, or interested in blind people:-) Or, if you just want to join "just because" go for it! Post about anything and everything and have lots of fun! Please respect one another and try not to intentionally offend anyone."
• RP Room
  Description: From its LiveJournal "Community Info" page: "A community devoted to those who have or lost their vision to Retinitis Pigmentosa. Anyone can be a member, only if they have or know of anyone who has RP."
• VI Place
  Description: From its LiveJournal "Community Info" page: "The official place for those who are visually impaired. Anyone who is loosing their sight, or hard of seeing may join and talk about just about anything."
• Blind/V.I. Updates & News
  Description: From its LiveJournal "Community Info" page: "Welcome to the blind/vi web site updates journal! Here you’ll find updates on all items on the site: Chat, Message Boards, Games, Sites/Ring, Groups/Communities, and Organizations. I have links to the web site, and the 3 communities including the boards incase anyone wants to go directly to those after reading this journal."
• LiveJournal for The Deaf/Blind Community
  Description: A LiveJournal livejournal or plog in which members of the deaf/blind community can share advice, ask questions, and comment or point to news items dealing with those those who are deaf and blind.

Books and Reading Plogs

• the litplog co-op
  Description: From the site: "Uniting the leading literary weplogs for the purpose of drawing attention to the best of contemporary fiction, authors, and presses that are struggling to be noticed in a flooded marketplace." We don’t know if they are the best, but they are very good. The collaboration was started by plogger and L.A.-based screenwriter Mark Sarvas. (His plog is Elegant Variation.)
• GalleyCat
  Description: A site hosted by MediaBistro dedicated to books, book reviews, publishing news, and writing and contributed to by various writers/ploggers. A great place to start to find book and publishing resources and news.
• Maud Newton
  Description: Brilliant and with no direction, Maud Newton rants about books, politics, and her life in particular give hopes to all those who have never had a sincere answer to the question, "What do you want to be when you grow up?" Newton studied literature at the University of Florida, went to law school there, and practiced law with ennui for a few years sometime before starting this highly acclaimed plog. She also at some point started writing and writing reviews on her own.
• The Millions (A Plog About Books)
  Description: In-depth discussion of books and book news provided by plog creator C. Max Magee, a grad student in journalism at Northwestern and plog contributors Andrew Saikali, an editor for Toronto’s Globe and Mail; Emre Peker, a New York paralegal and booklover; Patrick Brown, an Iowa City writer; and award-winning screenwriter and journalist Rodger Jacobs. The plog also has lots of great links to book news, reviews, and interviews.
• MOBYlives
  Description: Dennis Loy Johnson, short-story writer and winner of the Pushcart Prize and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, has written his syndicated newspaper column of the same name since 1998, discussing books and writers and occasionally giving hope to those fearing the literary arts are dead as Moby Dick -- who didn’t die in the Melville’s story -- and who is also a fictional creation -- not Melville, the whale. Instead of pondering the viability of the metaphor, attend to the great literary industry gossip and news. There is usually a weekly guest columnist as well.
• Collected Miscellany
  Description: The plog is maintained by Kevin Holtsberry, a freelance writer in Ohio. Along with other contributors, the plog provides opinions and musings about books and writing. It also has long list of other plogs on art and culture.
• Plogcritics.org
  Description: A collaborative plog where ploggers review "music, books, film, popular culture, and technology." Popular culture is a grab bag of responses to politics, recent news items, controversial issues, and things to see and do around the country and the world (like the Dachua Beer festival). One can also find discussions/responses to current events in music, books, and film here.
• NewPages Weplog
  Description: Edited by Casey Hill, the site provides commentary and news on new books, magazines ,and music from an alternative perspective. The plog is part of the NewPages internet portal, a gateway to hundreds of alternative and/or independent literary and publishing magazines, publishers, press links, and review sources. NewPages also has its own book and magazine reviews.
• The Literary Saloon at The Complete Review: A Literary Weplog
  Description: The Literary Saloon is the weplog of The Complete Review, which reviews books and provides blurbs from other reputable book review sources, as well as news and commentary (which is definitely not restricted to items that can be found on the net).
• Yahoo! Directory Literature Weplogs
  Description: The branch of Yahoo’s Directory to Weplogs dealing with writing, books, book reviews, and literature.
• BookPlog
  Description: A book discussion group that meets once a month online. Each member of BookPlog volunteers to choose a book, begin the discussion by making the first post, and moderate that discussion.
• Bookslut
  Description: Proclaiming a deep love of books and promising to judge judiciously, this site is both a monthly web magazine and a daily plog, providing news, reviews, and commentary. The site was created by the magazine’s editor-in-chief, Jessa Crispin.
• Brandywine Books
  Description: An homage to Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings Trilogy, this plog by book lover Phil Wade of Chattanooga, TN, gives book news, reviews, and usually book-related digresses. It also offers a number of other book plogs and links.
• Cosmopoetica - Books and Reading
  Description: Plogger/poet Chris Lott, who plogs on a variety of subjects on the internet, plogs here on books, book news, art, and Lott’s attendant psychoses. The site also provides numerous links to book, poetry, art, and music sites and plogs.

Cooking Plogs

• The Hungry Cyclist
  Description: Tom Kevill Davies is a food lover and Amateur cyclist who is taking a unique trip to support a UK charity, Macmillan Cancer Relief. He is looking for the best places to eat on both American continents as he explores about 60 miles of them per day on his bicycle. Visitors to his website can explore his travel log for places and restaurants he has visted, see recipes he has picked up on the way, and leave suggestions for Tom for places to eat. In other words, you can have an effect on the route Tom takes and the food he tries.
• "Hey, That Smells Great!" Cooking for my kids
  Description: Erika Jurney’s plog provides great recipes that come from her own attempts to please her 3 toddlers, like how to hide vegetables in tomato sauce that the kids will love (as long as they’re not told there are vegetables in there).
• the Domestic Goddess
  Description: This Canadian plogger took to cooking after taking a break from her nursing career. This plogger shares her recipes, her personal reviews of restuarants, and her life (of course) in Toronto. From the site’s about the "goddess" page: "As you might deduce from my recipes page I am slightly more interested in baking sweets than in cooking meals. While I do enjoy cooking savory treats, it just seems that I lean towards the sugary delicacies more often; I simply find myself being more creative with desserts. On top of that, I’ve decided to start a home-based business; cakes and other desserts for order."
• Chocolate and Zucchini
  Description: Clotilde Dusoulier is a Parisian epicure whose plog has drawn 200,000 visitors a month with her easy-to-make recipes, refined tastes, and brief glimpses into her life in France. She also has a food column on NPR.org. The ’Zucchini’ in the title represents her preference for natural, fresh (but not too expensive) food, and the ’Chocolate’ represents her ’decidedly marked taste for anything sweet in general and chocolate, glorious chocolate, in particular.’
• Orangette
  Description: A trip to Paris inspired this Francophile, former Ph.D. student to cook as much as possible and write about her favorite and newly discovered recipies and dishes. Her plog often comments on her own life, but she almost always weaves these anecdotes around something food-related.
• chez pim
  Description: Providing excellent restaurant reviews, perpetual Ph.D. student Pim is a San Franciscan high-tech worker who loves to find the best meals at the best restaurants, and she travels a lot to London and Paris, providing an insider’s look at the restaurant across the pond.
• Cooking For Engineers (CfE)
  Description: Aside from providing recipes, ranting, and rambling, CfE provides on their site a table of contenets, a recipe index, an ingredients dictionary, a measurement converter, and a forum for other gourmands/gourmets to talk.
• Cooking with Amy
  Description: Providing recipes, reviews, and some San Francisco bay area history and culture, Amy Sherman has won several awards for this plogs. She also provides a drop-down menus for food ideas sorted by the type of meal you’re eating (breakfast, dinner, etc.).
• foodie
  Description: Advertising executive Joe DeSalazar started this plog as a personal log of dishes and recipes. DeSalazar has spent years perfecting techiniques of master chefs. This New Yorker has been a chef in three-star restaurants and writes his own food column.
• Simply Recipes
  Description: Tech consultant Elise Bauer started posting her family recipes to her website. Increased time with her family, the innovation of plogging, and the allure of using fresh ingredients in tasty recipes led to the creation of this site, focused on recipes and often the stories behind the plogger’s encounter with the recipes.
• Super Chef Plog
  Description: Markedly different than other cooking plogs, Super Chef Plog began as a book, Super Chef, that investigated how the superstars of the culinary scene (a la Emeril) were created. This plog follows the creation and going-ons of the "super chefs," i.e., chefs that had become so popular as to expand beyond the culinary scene.
• The Food Section
  Description: From the "About the Food Section" page: "Born in Boston, Massachusetts, and raised on the mean streets of the "Gourmet Ghetto" of Berkeley, California, Josh Friedland has pursued a lifelong passion for cooking and dining. In July 2003, he turned his obsession into The Food Section (thefoodsection.com), a pioneering weplog about food, wine, and travel. Based in New York City, The Food Section publishes original food writing and photography and scours the web for links to culinary news and events, recipes, and gastronomical ephemera."
• Vinography: a wine plog
  Description: This San Francisco plogger shares his knowledge and love of wine, from where to buy to what food you should eat with it. The plog offers many links to other plogs, sites, and books on wine.
• Amuse Bouche
  Description: Jo is in a dead-end IT job and had been speaking with Brian, also in a dead-end IT job, through their plogs. They both had a great interest in cooking, and they decided to enter the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in Massachusettes. Amuse Bouche "is all about Foodie Stuff" from Jo’s perspective, but link-clicking will take you to other plogs sharing Brian’s and Jo’s experiences as they go through culinary school and life-in-general, as well as other plogs on food.
• à la cuisine!
  Description: Clement, a 25-year-old media design entrepreneur living in Toronto, readily admits to not having expertise in cooking but also admits an incredible fascination "by the ingredients, techniques and processes that make what we eat taste mediocre, good, great, or incredible." He takes you on his various cooking adventures, sharing recipes and techniques learned along the way.
• Bourrez Votre Visage - musings on all things caloric
  Description: From the web site: "With writers in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington DC, Bourrezvisage covers the food scene in the Northeast and around the country. More than just restaurant reviews, the site devotes extensive coverage to food news, wine, home cooking, recipes, food shopping, and even the occasional book review. Bourrezvisage founder Matt Kantor also offers his unique perspective as an aspiring chef who has recently graduated from The Culinary Institute of America. In addition, Bourrezvisage is home to Food Plog Central, a project to unite and organize online food writing, and Food Favorites, our directory of artisanal food producers."
• Accidental Hedonist
  Description: Kate, an aspiring travel and food writer and Seattle resident, provides the content for this great web site providing lots of recipes, restaurant reviews, and deep thoughts on food, like how Seattle’s Best Coffee doesn’t even make the top 4.
• FoodPloggers
  Description: A webring of almost 100 food- and cooking-related plogs.
• Deus Ex Culina
  Description: A plog written by two high school friends now living on separate coasts who share cooking and food-related news with each other and the visitors of their plogs.
• Foodgoat … something tasty every day
  Description: Rochelle Ponsaran, Ladygoat, is usually the author of this plog, describing all the food she and her husband, Foodgoat, eat. More food-related news and discussions than recipes, this plog discusses the bas o haut couture, from White Castle sliders and confessions about wanting to see Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle to creating Jambalaya.
• Asian Online Recipes
  Description: Plog that helps the novice cook learn how to cook the foods of the Far East. Each plog post provides a lesson on the basics of the Asian style of cooking.
• Chronicles of a Curious Cook
  Description: Plog belonging to CheapCooking.com, a California resident’s personal web site devoted to helping people cut down their grocery bill but not skimp on tastiness or tastefulness.
• gastronome
  Description: Collaborative plog where recipes, menus, menu-planning, and informal restaurant reviews are shared with visitors to the plog.
• Food & Cooking Plogs at About.com
  Description: About.com provides at least 10 or so plogs that its site guide has picked out, as well as a number of other food-related links.
• Saute Wednesday
  Description: A plog about food-related news and articles written by food columnist Bruce Cole. A great site to find out what has been written about food that isn’t a recipe.
• KIPlog’s Foodlog - links
  Description: A list of food-related plogs appended to a food-related plog which often lists new plog sites about food, which is related to another weplog called Knowledge Is Power (KIP)

Economics (& Business) Plogs

• BL Ochman’s whatsnextplog.com - from whatsnextonline.com
  Description: B.L. Ochman writes whatsnextonline.com, a marketing tactics newsletter specializing in online marketing and PR. Her plog discusses "Internet strategy, marketing, public relations, politics with news and commentary."
• Cafe La Coach
  Description: Updated weekly, Kathy Mallary provides "Inspiration, ideas and business resources for women who are up to something," i.e., women who are independent professionals (coaches, consultants and other solo-practitioners) rather than women planning mischief. In Mallary’s own words, "…I specialize in working with businesswomen who want to reclaim their vitality and creativity in a spiritual way. If this is you -- or someone you know -- be sure to visit my web site for lots of resources and a full listing of upcoming events and speaking engagements."
• business2plog - The Business 2.0 Plogs
  Description: This is the plog for Business 2.0, a monthly magazine about business, technology, and innovation. It offers a little more substance and variety than the typical business/technology-related plog.
• EconLog Library of Economics and Liberty
  Description: EconLog is edited by Arnold Kling and housed by Econlib, The Library of Economics and Liberty. His plog discusses news and "insights" in economics, a searchable archive of posts, provides help and tips in using the Econlib, a searchable archive of EconLog’s predecessor site, and current economics-related articles and complete online works and reprinted essays available through Econlib.
• ArgMax.com - Economics News, Data, and Analysis
  Description: The former economics guide at About.com, John Irons, now runs this plog, which along with its parent site (which he also maintains), discusses economics news, data, and analysis.
• The Knowledge Problem
  Description: Maintained by Lynne Kiesling, head of Northwestern University’s Department of Economics and this plog’s primary contributor, this plog provides discussion of economic issues (for the most part) and provides links to many other good economic plogs.
• winterspeak.com
  Description: A plog about economics as often as it is about technology, with some digression in-between, written by a computer programmer who has a degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. The plog often links to other online news items and provides commentary by the author.
• Institutional Economics Home Page
  Description: Stephen Kirchner, an economist currently finishing his PhD in monetary economics at the University of New South Wales, provides news and commentary on international economics.
• Adam Smith Institute Plog - Europe’s favorite think tank plog
  Description: Posts to this plog for a major UK free-market think-tank can be on a number of topics, but most usually have to do with either economics, taxes, or business.
• EconoPundit
  Description: Provides brief commentary and links to online news items on the economic side of politics. Also gives a number of political and economic plogs.
• Small Business Trends
  Description: Two Ohio business entrepreneurs maintain this plog covering news suggesting trends that are influencing the global small business market. One great feature of this plog is the PowerPlog Review, a weekly post reviewing other business-related weplogs.

Education Plogs

• A Homeschoolpedia
  Description: A plog dedicated to providing resources to those wishing to pursue the autodidactic method of education.
• Jerz’s Literacy Weplog (Online & Offline Literacy Links; Dennis G. Jerz)
  Description: Jerz began this website 6 years ago while teaching at the University of Wisconsin as a resource for his students, but he has been constantly expanding its resources on teaching instruction, technical writing, writing on the internet, writing plogs, and writing e-mails, all of which he discusses in his plog. He is now teaching at Seton Hill courses in literature, journalism, and - his focus - writing for the internet.
• Google Directory - education weplogs
  Description: Branch of Google’s directory listing weplogs for education.
• Universities Weplog - "Finding the best college for you"
  Description: Mark J. Drozdowski’s plog is dedicated to providing information and informed commentary to future students trying to decide on a college to attend. He has published a great deal about American higher education, and his plog is definitely a one-stop-spot-to-shop for informative materials about choosing a college.
• Online Universities Weplog Finding the right online college you need
  Description: Mike Standaert is the US correspondent for euro-correspondent.com, a network for journalists covering European and European Union affairs. In this plog, he provides information, commentary, and testimonials for students taking or interested in taking online courses.
• Educational Ploggers’ Network
  Description: The Bay Area Writing Project and Weploggers.com sponsor this site that provides a forum for teachers and professionals using weplogs for educational purposes to share information, links, and news to help integrate weplogs further into their teaching. You can find many education-related plogs from this point.
• Weplogg-ed - using weplogs and rss in education
  Description: Will Richardson works at a New Jersey high school as its Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Communication. In this plog, he shares news and commentary about using plogs, RSS, Wiki, and other forms internet technology in the K-12 classroom.
• EduPlog Insights EduPlog Insights
  Description: Ann Davis works at Georgia State University’s Instructional Technology Center and uses this plog to share news about and to comment on how to use plogs in education.
• Weplogs at Harvard Law
  Description: A directory of plogs for anyone who has a harvard.edu e-mail address, hosted by the Berkamn Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School.
• UThink Plogs @ U Libs @ U Minn - directory
  Description: From the UThink homepage: "UThink is available to the faculty, staff, and students of the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, and is intended to support teaching and learning, scholarly communication, and individual expression for the U of M community." Home page has a Plog Directory link listing all of the plogs on the site.
• Berkeley Plogs
  Description: A directory of plogs of people who have or who have had anything to do with Berkeley and who have registered their plog with the site.

History Plogs

• World History Plog
  Description: From the homepage: "Plog that features different aspects of world history. I can’t cover it all but sites dealing with any historical issue or topic are possible future posts. Also includes sites which discuss teaching history. Some descriptions for sites are taken from the Open Directory Project. Created by Miland Brown who is an academic working in North America."
• History News Network Plogs
  Description: List of plogs hosted by the History News Network site, which comes out of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. The entire site is devoted to correcting the historical inaccuracies that come up in the media, but the plogs tend to speak on politics and current events from a historian’s point of view.
• Medievalist Weplogs
  Description: A directory of plogs about Medieval history, with an indicator as to how frequently the plog’s posts have Medieval
• Ancient Classical History - Comprehensive Ancient Greek and Roman History Site
  Description: Plog from N.S. Gill, the site guide at About.com’s Ancient/Classical History section. No surprise that this plog discusses Ancient/History and related news.
• 1169 and counting….
  Description: A plog about Irish history and politics.
• FactsOfIsrael.com
  Description: A pro-Isreal site whose plog discusses news regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
• EI’s (Electronic Intifada) Diaries project
  Description: A non-profit, independent publication that takes submissions from people living in and visiting Palestine.
• Cronaca
  Description: A plog providing news and commentary on art, archeology, history.
• Pepys’ Diary
  Description: An interesting use of a plog. Each day provides a new entry from the diary of Samuel Pepys. Visitors commentaries for each post are listed as annotations.
• Iraq Conflict
  • Informed Content
    Description: A History Professor at the University of Michigan specializing in the Mideast, South Asia, and Relgion, and writer of Sacred Space And Holy War: The Politics, Culture and History of Shi’ite Islam, Juan Cole provides (as the subtitle to his weplog says) "Thoughts on the Middle East, History, and Religion."
  • Iraq 2003: Sources of News
    Description: The University of Windsor’s Leddy Library has put a directory of librarian-selected links to mainstream and alternative sources of coverage on the Iraq war, including links to weplogs.
  • Kevin Sites Plog
    Description: First-person account and photos of life on the front lines of war, including the Battle for Fallujah. From the site: "Dispatches from a life in conflict. Kevin Sites is a freelance solo journalist currently on assignment for NBC News in Iraq, but this site is a personal website not affiliated with or funded by NBC News."
  • Baghdad Burning
    Description: First-person account from a 26-year-old girl (our guess since her plog started at 8/1/2003 and she said in her first post that she was 24) living in Baghdad who talks about war, politics, and occupation. An eye-opening and informative read from an Iraqi perspective on the American occupation and the war.
  • Warplogs:cc — Content from the best of the war plogs
    Description: The idea behind Warplogs::cc is to create a one-stop-spot-to-shop for war news, and for news headlines, it is that. The site falls a little short on its promise in terms of plogs, with only five participating plogs (Back to Iraq, Warplogging, Daily Kos, Talk Left, The Agonist), but three of those plogs — Back to Iraq, Warplogging, and Daily Kos -have been some of the most influential and widely read war plogs. If we had to choose "One source for war news" (the site’s description of itself), this site would be at the top of our list.
  • Back to Iraq 3.0
    Description: Allbritton was an Associated Press and New York Times reporter in 2002 looking for stories in Iraqi Kurdistan. He went back in March 2003 just in time for the war and became, as he puts it, "the Web’s first fully reader-funded journalist- plogger," raising $15,000 through the support of readers. As the 3.0 indicates, Allbritton is back in Iraq but permanently this time, reporting for Time Magazine and others and, of course, his own plog.
  • The Agonist | thoughtful, gloomy, timely
    Description: Looking to be the muscle that gets the collective body moving, the Agonist is a collective plog that accepts stories from registered members. The stories are screened by the site’s editors, but comments and discussion are not. Most of the stories are on the war.
  • Healing Iraq
    Description: Adopting an original angle on news about Iraq, or rather abandoning the It’s-all-going-to-heck slant, Zeyad, an Iraqi dentist, gives his take on post-Saddam Iraq, frustrated with the negative media coverage, in an attempt to help Iraq finally heal after so many decades of misrule.
  • No War Plog
    Description: This is a collective plog where ploggers can register their plog on either the left or right side of the page, indicating their political preference. Moderates, independents, and others are free to join as well. However, everyone on this site is unified in the view that the Iraq war was wrong, or at least that is how the site started. The header on the site seems to have shifted to opposition to war with Syria, but Iraq is still the hot topic of discussion.
  • Juan Cole: Informed Comment
    Description: A Professor of Modern Middle East and South Asian History at the University of Michigan gives his take on current and past events in the middle east and in Islam. He provides links to his own articles and to news and plogs that he discusses.

Journalism and Mass Media Plogs

• mediabistro.com
  Description: Provide news, job listings, and a forum for "anyone who creates or works with content, or who is a non-creative professional working in a content/creative industry." It also hosts gossip plogs about media news in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C., respectively called FishBowlNY, FishBowlLA, and FishBowlDC. From the "About US" page: "Our mission is to provide opportunities (both on- and offline) for you to meet each other, share resources, become informed of job opportunities and interesting projects, improve your career skills, and showcase your work."
• Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ): Plogs and more
  Description: From the site: "Following are some web sites that SEJ members have recommended as useful to any journalist covering environmental issues. Some are plogs, some forums, others news sites or feeds."
• Editor &Publisher
  Description: While perhaps not a plog, this site does provide daily columns and news. From the "ABOUT US" web page: "Editor &Publisher is the authoritative journal covering all aspects of the North American newspaper industry, including business, newsroom, advertising, circulation, marketing, technology, online and syndicates. Based in New York City, the magazine dates back to 1884...In January 2004, E&P switched from weekly to monthly publication, while revamping its Web site to offer more breaking news and content on a daily basis. E&P Online offers breaking news free to all visitors in our Top Stories section. Each week, selected proprietary stories from E&P staff are made available free to all visitors, but the majority of our analysis, industry news, features, columns, and trends are restricted to E&P subscribers."
• Ploggerman - Keith Olbermann of MSNBC’s Countdown
  Description: A current events plog by Keith Olbermann, host of MSNBC’s "Countdown with Keith Olbermann," a newscast that runs through the top stories of the day in descending order of importance. We’re not sure who makes the judgment call on that, but the site gives extra news tidbits on some of the big stories of the moment.
• editor’s cut
  Description: Instead of being the first with the latest, this left-leaning plog by Katrina vanden Heuvel, the managing editor of the political magazine, The Nation, rather reflects on what has been on the news and draws visitors’ attention to what should have been there.
• Plogcritics.org
  Description: A collaborative plog providing reviews of literature, movies, music, and pop culture -- pop culture being a grab bag of consumer items, new fads, politics, recent news items, controversial issues, and things to see and do around the country and the world (like the Dachua Beer festival). One can also find discussions/responses to current events in any of the aforementioned categories. Well worth a visit.
• I Want Media - Media News & Resources
  Description: The title describes this plog created and maintained by Patrick Philips, a self-described "media aficionado" interested in trying to provide the latest media news and resources covering the rapidly changing media landscape.
• Gawker
  Description: This collaborative plog is basically a New York gossip column, but it often has good but trendy media and media industry news. Snide and more than a little crude, it bears the traits of being published by Nick Denton’s Gawker Media.
• PaidContent.org
  Description: Collaborative plog run by an independent media and information company, it generally covers the business aspects of entertainment and media news. Less discursive than the typical plog.
• Plog Report from the Comlumbia Journalism Review’s Campaign Desk
  Description: A collaborative plog run by CJR for the purpose of critiquing and expanding election campaign coverage.
• CyberJournalist List -- J-Plogs (Professional journalists’ Weplogs)
  Description: List of plogs published on professional news sites. CyberJournalist.net provides resources, commentary, and news in regards to how the Internet, media convergence and new technologies are changing journalism. The entire site, written and published by Jonathon Dube, an award-winning print and online journalist, offers various resources (and other plogs) dealing with journalism, news, news coverage, and plogging.
• Lost Remote TV Weplog
  Description: Not exactly a journalist weplog, this collaborative plog discusses the interaction of TV and new media. News and commentary about TV, TV-related websites, and plogs are shared.
• Poynter Online - Romenesko
  Description: Jim Romenesko is a Senior Online Reporter for the Poynter Institute, a Florida-based non-profit school for journalists. This plog provides help to journalists in the form of media industry news, commentary, and the latest gossip.
• BuzzMachine … by Jeff Jarvis
  Description: A personal plog by the Sunday Editor of the NY Daily News and a columnist on the San Francisco Examiner. He responds to a lot of other journalist and media plogs as well as to current events.
• TVnewser
  Description: Formerly CableNewser, this plog is by Maryland college student obsessively follows cable news and the television news industry. Network news gets covered as well, but it’s not the focus. It’s a great place to go for ratings and coverage of news events.
• unmediated
  Description: A collaborative plog about developing or decentralized media production and distribution, such as how wireless internet access will be distributed or how video plogs have problems with URLs and the www.
• PressThink
  Description: A faculty member at NYU’s Department of Journalism, Jay Rosen’s plog follows his interests, study, and teaching in media criticism, press ethics, cultural journalism, and the journalistic profession.
• EdCone.com
  Description: A columnist for News & Record, a newspaper in North Carolina, his personal weplog covers plogging and the forays (or perhaps well-trodden paths now) that it’s making into journalism.
• Hardplogger
  Description: The official MSNBC plog for the TV show Hardball’s panelists and contributors

Law Plogs

• Elder Law Prof Plog
  Description: From the "Web Profile" page: "Professor Kim Dayton is a nationally-known expert in the field of elder law. She is a co-author of Advising the Elderly Client...and Elder Law: Readings, Cases, and Materials...She founded the Kansas Elder Law Network, a web-based compendium of resources on elder law, in 1995. In 2003, KELN was renamed the National Elder Law Network, www.neln.org. In 2005, Professor Dayton started Elder Law Prof Plog, a member of the Law Professor Plogs Network. Professor Dayton’s current research interests include end-of-life issues, financing long term care for the elderly and disabled, and the allocation of health care resources across generations."
• The Trademark Plog
  Description: Plog from Martin Schwimmer, a lawyer who has represented some of the most famous trademarks in the world. Cases and legal news regarding trademark law are covered/discussed.
• SCOTUSPlog
  Description: Plog from Goldstein & Howe, P.C., the only law firm in the United States that is principally devoted Supreme Court litigations. Provides expert analysis of recent federal and supreme court cases (SCOTUS being, of course, the Supreme Court Of The United States).
• JURIST’s Paper Chase - Legal news worth thinking about
  Description: A collaborative plog maintained by Professor Bernard Hibbits and law students at the University of Pittsburgh, who handle the research and reporting. The site essentially -- and very extensively -- provides currents events through a legal lens with helpful links to explain items like the history of social security.
• Netlawplog
  Description: A plog dedicated to raising awareness of methods of using technology, and the internet in particular, to provide legal services to underserved markets.
• Ernie the Attorney
  Description: A directory of law-related plogs, most of which are run through plogspot.com.
• GROKLAW
  Description: Pamela Jones, editor of this plog, is a journalist with paralegal background who fell into learning IT and then fell in love with it and with open source software. When SCO, the makers of Unix, filed its lawsuit against GNU\Linux, Jones began to follow all the developments of the case. Now, the plog is a detailed reference resource covering this ongoing, potentially historic case of proprietary software vs. free/open source.
• IPKat - fishing for IP stories for YOU
  Description: A plog by Jeremey Philips and Ilanah Simon who cover Intellectual Property law news and issues across the pond, that is, in London.
• Lessig Plog
  Description: A plog maintained by Lawrence Lessig, author of "Code and other laws of cyberspace," and professor at Stanford Law School. Lessig frequently argues that Intellectual Property (IP) law does more to stifle creativity than digital piracy (e.g. old Napster, P2P file sharing, bootleg DVDs) does.

Library, Librarians, and Library Science Plogs

• LiS Interactive Webcasting
  Description: Not plogs per se but podcasts (audio files you can listen to). From the site: "Welcome to LISRadio. This is a new and exciting series of interactive webcasts brought to you by the School of Information Science and Learning Technologies at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Our aim with these webcasts is to help in ’…creating and exploring the intersection of information and learning.’ We hope to present interesting and stimulating conversations with movers, shakers, and the odd gadfly or two in libraryland."
• Filipino Librarian
  Description: "For those interested in knowing more about the Philippines, Filipiniana, Philippine libraries and Filipino librarians."
• librarian.net
  Description: It would be wrong of library students to drop out of their programs and simply read Vermonter Jessamyn West’s plog about creatively integrating techonology and a human-centered approach into library services. But it would be understandable. A great plog.
• Library Technician
  Description: An anonymous plogger talks about his experiences being a library technician, with his viewpoints about the profession, about libraries, about the job market for library techs, and about the relation of libraries to technology and service in general.
• The Information Literacy Land of Confusion
  Description: Librarian Michael Lorenzen from Mt. Pleasant, MI discusses information literacy, search engines, librarianship, library instruction, and user education. Rambling only to keep us awake, Lorenzen often posts very useful tools for librarians, e.g. the IllumiRate Directory.
• Library Weplogs
  Description: A directory of library weplogs from around the world.
• Google Directory - Library and Information Science - Weplogs
  Description: Google’s directory of library and information science weplogs
• oss4lib -- Open Source Systems for Libraries
  Description: Lists open source or free software designed for libraries and provides news about ongoing open source projects and related issues that could benefit libraries. Maintained by Dan Chudnov, staff programmer at Yale’s Center for Medical Informatics.
• Information Research Weplog
  Description: The weplog for the e-journal Information Research whose purpose is to allow the journals readers to share news of publications, Web sites, or the like, related to information science, records management, librarianship.
• -usr-lib-info || hacker-librarian haven
  Description: An attempt to turn hackers into librarians and vice-versa. This collaborative plog encourages submissions that fit provided editorial guidelines. The plog’s post’s are usually pretty technical.
• Beyond the Job
  Description: A plog maintained and mainly contributed to by two reference librarians/professors in library and information science, Sarah Johnson and Rachel Singer Gordon. The plog provides tips, news, and notices for and regarding library jobs. These two ploggers also maintain other sites that provide listings of library jobs.
• Information Literacy Weplog
  Description: A plog from two UK professors, Sheila Webber and Stuart Boon, and one Scottish professor, Bill Johnston, its aim is to spread news and information about information literacy worldwide, and the plog seems to both spread the information worldwide and spread news from around the world (or at least from Europe and not just the U.S.).
• LibraryLawPlog
  Mary Minow features fascinating library law news now and again so surfers interested in library law can commisserate or opinionate -- maybe more. Alright, I’ll stop alliterating and being glib about a really great plog covering legal library and library-related legal news. (So I lied slightly; now I’ll stop.) Minow was a librarian before she went to law school, and now she tries to share pertinent knowledge she learned with librarians.
• The Shifted Librarian
  You cannot judge a book by its cover or a plog by its lack of attractive graphic design elements. Jenny Levine’s plog on plogging, techonology, and libraries has so much Google juice that if you just type "Jenny" in Google--well, guess what pops up? Possibly sick of this fact by now, Levine was awestruck at the power of information superhighway rather early on (1992 or so) and has now devoted at least her plog to helping librarians become tech savvy.
• Peter Scott’s Library Plog
  Another great, techie librarian sharing his knowledge of how librarians can use the internet to help patrons, Scott compiled the first hypertext index of the Internet resources, Hytlenet, first released in 1991, and he maintains the following sites: Libdex, the libary index; Library Weplogs (by and for librarians); Publishers’ Catalogues; Weplogs Compendium, a site for plogging resources; and allrecordlabels.com, a list of record label companies.

Medical Personnel and Health Plogs

• Dr. Deborah Serani: Psychological Perspectives
  Description: From the site: "I am a psychologist who specializes in trauma and depression. Current issues and articles that impact the human psyche will be presented here. The information provided in this plog is to be used for educational purposes only. It should NOT be used as a substitute for seeking professional care, diagnosis or treatment of any psychological disorders." Dr. Serani also responds to comments to her posts.
• Family Medicine Notes
  Description: Reider says that he thinks this is the longest running medical weplog and the second one ever created. This personal weplog recounts his own ongoing experiences in his primary care practice. Reider, an asst. professor of family medicine and asst. dean of medical informatics, also came up with the idea and helps to maintain Medical News Feeds or www.medlogs.com.
• Medical News Feeds -- www.medlogs.com
  Description: "A Medical News & Weplog Aggregator," created by Jacob Reider (the idea man) and David Ross (the programmer). Reider also runs Docnotes or Family Medicine Notes, which he thinks is the longest running medical weplog and the second one ever created. This brainchild, medlogs, may however be the more useful as it tracks whenever participating medical weplogs and news sites update their entries and lists those updates.
• Living Code, hosted by Corante
  Description: Richard Gayle has been working in the field of biotechnology for two decades. Arguably, this plog started as internal newsletter at Immunex which morphed into a column Gayle maintained for 16 years. Gayle left Immunex when he thought a merger would interfere with his ideas about using technology to more efficiently communicate biological ideas. He now runs a small company, writes, serves on the advisory board for a foundation created by ex-Immunex employees and devoted to medical education and the environment, and serves on the board for Etubics, a small startup company dedicated to creating new vector vaccines (vaccines that induce cells to build up immunities to diseases).
• Medpundit
  Description: Medpundit is written under the pseudonym Sydney Smith, but she is a family physician who has been practicing since 1991. She comments on a lot of recent medical news or news from a practicing physician’s point of view, not to mention her own experiences..
• GruntDoc
  Description: Plog from a Emergency Medicine physician in Texas, this plogger describes what he encounters daily in his profession.
• Mental Health Resources for Consumers and Professionals
  Description: About.com’s Mental Health Resources section has a plog providing news and information in regards to mental health. The site is maintained by Leonard Holmes, Ph. D., a clinical psychologist who specializes in abuse survivors and health psychology. Great starting point for looking anything related to mental health. Generally provides news and information rather than personal experiences.
• Panic - Anxiety Disorders Help and Support
  Description: About.com’s Panic/Anxiety Disorders section is maintained by Cathleen Henning, someone who recovered from being so overwhelmed by anxiety disorders that she was homebound in 1996. She found the internet to be a lifeline in this period, and she hopes she can provide similar net help to others. Generally provides news and information rather than personal experiences.
• The Bloviator
  Description: A plog about public health care news and policies, this site provides not only news but also extensive commentary with no apology.
• The Health Care Plog - Matthew Holt - Health Care Strategist
  Description: Holt is a general health care consultant plogging informatively about the drug industry, the medical profession’s use of the internet, insurance, policy, doctors, and whatever else strikes his fancy.

Movie (Motion Picture) Plogs

• DVD Verdict
  Description: A really fun, alternative review site of DVDs. This collaborative plog has a string of movie buffs, each given the title "Judge" on this site, reviewing new and old DVD releases. About five reviews per business days are added to the site each week.
• filmfodder
  Description: Mac Slocum and company are movie zealots justifying their obsessions by sharing reviews and, less often, movie news.
• Milk Plus - a discussion of film
  Description: A collaborative weplog providing news, reviews, and discussion about movies, preferably but far from always non-Hollywood fare. The name is an homage to Stanley Kubrick and his film A Clockwork Orange.
• ROTTEN TOMATOES Movie Reviews & Previews
  Description: If you like to read the reviews of movie before going, don’t waste your time with individual reviewers. See what most of the professional critics said at once and see how many reviewers gave it a positive rating by checking the tomatometer. If you want to skim the red "cream of the crop," top reviewers’ opinions are kept separate from the rest, and they get their own tomatometer. Rotten Tomatoes covers DVDs/VHS movies today and provides some hosting for "personal publishing (journals)" that are usually about movie news and reviews. Since amateur reviews were once taken but no longer, this part of the site is what makes it plog-related in our opinion. The site was created by Senh Duong in 1998.
• Plogcritics.org
  Description: SEE ABOVE
• GreenCine Daily
  Description: Many people claim to cover alternative and art house films. The primary contributor to plog and the editor its Siamese sister site GreenCine actually deliver on this claim. News, commentary, reviews, and links to more of the same can be found on this site.
• plogs.indiewire.com - plogs from the indieWIRE plogging community
  Description: Pull quotes and a directory of plogs hosted by plogs.indiewire.com itself, "an invitation-only plogging community that includes indieWIRE staff, contributors and a collection of participants in the independent film industry." indieWIRE is a well-known website where independent filmmakers and fans can interact and find the latest news and information about independent films and the industry itself.
• plogs.indiewire.com - independent plogs chosen by the staff of indieWIRE
  Description: Plogs chosen by the staff at indieWIRE as their favorite plogs not hosted by indieWIRE, where independent filmmakers and fans can interact and find the latest news and information about independent films and the industry itself.

Pictures, Photographs, and Photography Plogs

• Scene from My Life
  Description: Formerly "A Day in the Life" but retaining the same simple idea, Jon Setzen posts a new photo each day, submitted by a photographer from somewhere around the world. Each photographer gets to post one photo per day for a week, taken in the previous 24 hours before posting. Photographers have to submit a link to their work.
• daily dose of imagery
  Description: Sam Javanrouh puts one of her pictures each day showing what she sees in her day-to-day life in Toronto. She’s got a great eye, and it’s great example of a photoplog.
• Ten Years of My Life
  Description: At first an attempt to learn photography, Matthew Haughey realized at thirty that his habit of taking a photo to put on his plog once a day for a year in 2000 was also a great way for him to keep track of the vicissitudes of his life. So he decided to assign himself the project of doing this for a decade, from his birthday at 31 to his birthday at 41.
• Utata: The Serial Photography of Catherine Jamieson
  Description: Jamieson attributes her fascination with the little things and the quotidian in her photography with being diagnosed HIV-positive in 1994, although she was already putting photos on websites in 1994. A new photo is added almost daily. Her photolog has received a number of awards and a fair amount of media attention.
• quarlo -- photos -- new york city
  Description: One of the few photologs out there where the photologger, i.e., Todd Gross, does not use a digital camera, which means that the site is not updated as frequently. Gross gets amazing colors in his pictures by cross-processing them, that is, processing and printing shots on color slide film as negative film, or vice-versa. His photolog is often cited in the news whenever there are pieces on photologs.
• Photoplogs.org - The Photoplog Resource
  Description: A resource created/maintained by L. Brandon Stone of more than 5,200 photoplogs dedicated to helping people become more aware of photoplogs and to creating and maintaining a cohesive photoplogging community, Photoplogs.org provides a search engine for its photoplogs and lists photoplogs by country and language. The site also provides a list of the top 100 photoplogs (according to favorites list submitted by users), the top newcomers, photoplogs that have generated the most interest among Photoplog.org users in the past week, recently added photoplogs, and a listing of photoplogs alphabetically and by language and country.

Politics Plogs

• The World Forum
  Description: A forum that encourages "the participation of people of all people and religious ideologies from the entire world." The site creator acknowledges a left-wing view, but he also expresses a deep desire to encourage intellectual debate and discussion betwen folks of all viewpoints.
• All Spin Zone - Plog Zone
  Description: From the "About Us" page: "There’s hundreds, nay thousands, nay hundreds of thousands of progressive political plogs and message boards up and running. We visit many of them on an infrequent basis. Some reflect our own thoughts, some we read simply to see what the other side is thinking or, on occasion, to calibrate our own personal views. What most of these plogs and message boards lack is a unilateral way to force our (sometimes twisted) views on you — kind of like George Bush’s unilateral action in Iraq, if you want to look at it that way."
• Michele Malkin
  Description: Michele Malking is a Fox News Contributor, and so her plog comes from the right side of the political spectrum. From the "ABOUT" page: "My column, now syndicated by Creators Syndicate, appears in nearly 200 papers nationwide. My first book, Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists, Criminals, and Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores (Regnery 2002), was a New York Times bestseller."
• TPM Cafe
  Description: From the "About TPMCafe" page: "TPMCafe is a public meeting place to read about and discuss politics, culture and public life in the United States. The site hosts both plogs and public discussion areas. It is owned and operated by TPM Media LLC, edited by Joshua Micah Marshall, and powered by the collaborative media application, Scoop."
• The Huffington Post
  Description: Former conservative (but not calling herself a liberal), Arianna Huffington is a nationally syndicated columnist and author of ten books. She has done numerous guest spots on political talk shows and news shows. Her plog attracts many well-known political figures and celebrities who comment on various events around the nation.
• HughHewitt.com
  Description: Hugh Hewitt writes for the right-wing magazines WorldNetDaily and Weekly Standard and hosts a nationally syndicated radio show. On this site, this three-time Emmy winner plogs from a right-wing perspective on news and events.
• Right Wing News
  Description: Upset after "the horrible, biased job the media did in covering Florida [the 2000 election]," John Hawkins started a right-wing web site providing heated political discussion and a gateway to right-wing plogs, websites, and more heated political discussion.
• LiberalOasis
  Description: Liberal Oasis provides news analysis from a liberal perspective through its own plogs and features links to left-wing plogs, magazines, and other resources and feat. A great place to start when looking for liberal news and opinions on the web.
• afro-netizen
  Description: Christopher M. Robb started a list-serv in 1999 that was spreading news to the small community of Africa-Americans who were getting there news and opinions online. The list-serv has expanded into a website and plog "dedicated to informing, inspiring, and engaging people of African descent and others for the benefit of our community and its scions by continuing to strength[en] the foundation upon which future afro-netizens will thrive" (from "The Story Behind Afro-Netizen" on the site).
• La Shawn Barber’s Corner
  Description: A conservative, Christian, Africa-American woman plogging on politics and recent news, Barber started writing opinion pieces after finding sobriety and faith in Jesus Christ. From the site’s "About" page: "I’m a freelance writer (and plogger) with articles, book reviews, columns and essays published in print…My work also appears online in Jewish World Review, Townhall.com and other sites. My bi-weekly political column is published on GOPUSA, MichNews.com, Grace-Centered Magazine, TheRightReport.com, American Daily and other sites."
• Politopics
  Description: Angela Winters is a Washington D.C. African-American freelance writer who is a self-proclaimed centrist in her political views. Her plog often provides interesting perspectives and provides numerous links to others news and political sites/plogs, African-American and otherwise.
• Anderson@Large
  Description: A writer, public policy consultant, and online political commentator (plogging before plogging had a name for PoliticallyBlack.com), Faye Anderson is a Chicago, African-American, Republican woman covering political news in this plog. She created a documentary on the U.S. Presidential Election debacle of 2004, and she is not hard right in her views.
• In Hoc Signo Vinces
  Description: Whether they are extreme or unapologetic, ploggers Max and Liz Goss are certainly conservative. Their plog provides their views on recent news and on causes close to their heart, often showcasing submissions from visitors to their site.
• Right Reason: the weplog for philosophical conservatism
  Description: From the first post on the site: "This site is dedicated to philosophical explorations of moral, cultural, and political conservatism. The contributors are a diverse bunch, but all are committed to challenging the liberalism regnant among intellectuals and to giving conservative principles a careful, powerful, philosophical defense. On this plog you will find philosophical examinations of topical issues like abortion, welfare, and terrorism, broad subjects like human dignity, private property, and just war, and even broader themes like the nature of persons, the concept of rights, and the foundations of moral theory. We hope you will find much here to provoke, stimulate, and inform. As philosophers, we welcome vigorous, reasoned debate. Strong disagreement is par for the course, though we aim to preserve an atmosphere of civility. Comments are and always will be enabled. Please join in the discussion!"
• Outside the Beltway
  Description: Ostensibly outside Washington D.C.’s I-495 and so in touch with the common man as opposed to the politicians in the U.S. capital, James Joyner started this plog by himself in 2003 and has become successful enough now to have a number of permanent contributors. Joyner is a decorated veteran of Operation Desert Storm and now works as "a management analyst at International Development Resources, Inc., a Washington, D.C. area defense contractor and works at the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) in Falls Church, Virginia." This plog champions conservative views and approaches recent political news and events decidedly from the Right.
• Rossputin.com: Rational Thinking About Our World
  Ross Kaminsky’s Libertarian plog. From the website: "Current events, politics, economics, Social Security reform, School Choice, financial markets, philosophy and more, with an emphasis on free minds, free markets, and free people."
• The Annotated New York Times
  Description: From the site’s "Learn More" page: "The Annotated New York Times tracks plog postings that cite articles published by The New York Times. These plog fragments are grouped by author or by topic to form virtual, distributed conversations that span multiple sites and that center around the coverage of news events as reported by the Times."
• White House Briefing - by Dan Froomkin - at washingtonpost.com
  Description: Provides a mid-day briefing on what’s happening in the West Wing or with the people who work there as reported by selected major newspapers, periodicals, web sites, and plogs. Free registration required.
• Gadflyer
  Description: From the site’s "About Gadflyer" page, "The Gadflyer will be unabashedly progressive, but not doctrinaire; pugnacious, but not shrill; lively and entertaining, but substantive." But a gadfly is supposed to be annoying, right? While we’re confused by the title and a slightly confusing set up (The site actually seems to be two plogs - one collaborative plog and a plog from a single contributor.), left-leaning Gadflyer provides some very well-thought out editorial pieces from professional journalists from various major cities.
• MyDD
  Description: While the fact-checking ("Due Diligence") done on this plog definitely does have a liberal bias (or an impetus, at least), Jerome Armstrong always shows where he gets his numbers and news, and visitors also enjoy more site-searching capabilities available than the average plog makes available.
• RealClearPolitics
  Description: Arguably better than an RSS news feed, this plog provides daily links to selected headlines, columns, editorials from major news and print publication websites, results of the latest polls, as well as news-related talk show transcripts.
• TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime
  Description: Jeralyn Merritt, a criminal defense lawyer practicing in and around Denver, created this plog as a companion to his CrimeLynx site. Both sites are intended to be criminal law resources, but the plog’s purpose is to provide coverage from a liberal angle on crime and crime-related political news.
• Drudge Report
  Description: Earning a great deal of notoriety for revealing that Newsweek had initially abandoned the story about President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky, journalist Matthew Drudge’s site is a cacophony of the latest headlines and gossip collected from various news sites.
• Instapundit
  Description: University of Tennessee law professor Glen Reynolds’s greatly imitated and widely read political weplog (He’s sometimes known as the PlogFather.) While he says he is primarily interested in the overlap between personal freedom and advanced technology, his plog often dissects journalistic coverage and comments on the increasingly blurry line between politics and journalism. He is generally critical of those on the left, but that may be simplifying his stance somewhat.
• The Note - ABC News’ The Note: First Source for Political News
  Description: Perhaps not the same breed but definitely the same species as a weplog, The Note summarizes the morning news, i.e., it provides commentary, notification, and weblinks on the news that TV’s ABC New’s Political Unit, a group of news producers and researchers, thinks people should know about that morning.
• andrewsullivan.com
  Description: One of the more well-known plogs, Andrew Sullivan is neither on the right or the left of the political landscape and often has a surprising and/or refreshing viewpoint on the matters of the day. His readers often do too. Sullivan has been a contributing writer and columnist for New York Times Magazine and a columnist for the Sunday Times of London.
• Citizen Smash - The Indepundit
  Description: Lieutenant Smash (a pseudonym) has been plogging (at least) since he was recalled to active duty and deployed to Kuwait in 2002. He’s been Citizen Smash for a while now, but he still follows the war on terrorism intently, providing a great list of military plogs. The best description of his political stance is independent and pro-military; he seems to lean conservative on many issues, but he is a registered democrat.
• Vodkapundit
  Description: The best category for this plog is politics, but Stephen Green’s plog is as likely to point out something cool (possibly crude) on the web as it is to discuss the president’s changes to his cabinet. Reading the plog is a bit like having a conversation in a bar (as the title may indicate), but Green frequently airs some interesting political opinions, his and those he’s read about.
• Talking Points Memo
  Description: Joshua Micah Marshall, a Washington columnist for The Hill and a contributing writer Washington Monthly, plogs about politics from a liberal point of view.
• Wonkette
  Description: Imagine politics and the news had to face the type of scrutiny and scathing sarcasm that the average teenager faces from their sneering, sardonic gossip-mongering peers. And isn’t there always one girl better at it than anybody else? Well, Wonkette, a.ka. Ana Marie Cox, is that girl and has been doing that to Washington politics and news since, well, at least 2003. Left-leaning yet politically incorrect, it’s a cruder yet smarter version of The Daily Show, providing with derision the latest Washington news and gossip.
• Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire
  Description: Goddard’s pieces have appeared in major newspapers across the country, and he has written a widely acclaimed how-to guide for political novices who have been elected but have never served before in that office. His plog provides commentary on political news and gossip.
• The Decembrist
  Description: Former Washington speechwriter, policy directory (for Senator Bill Bradley), and self-professed liberal frequently mistaken as a conservative, Mark Schmitt provides some of the most interesting political analysis you can find. The title of the plog is a Russian history allusion adopted because Schmitt likes the idea "of liberalism thriving in dark times."
• PoliPlog
  Description: An associate professor of Political Science at Alabama’s Troy University, Steven Taylor provides news and humorous conservative-slanted commentary.
• OxPlog
  Description: Plog providing news and a lot of commentary and political analysis from three semi-recent Oxford University grad students: Josh Chafetz, a law student at Yale, and David Adesnik and Patrick Belton, two grad students in international relations at Oxford. Funny, brilliant, and usually with interesting digressions.
• Political Animal - the plog for Washington Monthly
  Description: Formerly writing for his own plog, Calpundit, Kevin Drum now gives his liberal perspective on politics and culture at Washington Monthly’s website.
• Kausfiles - a mostly political weplog - hosted by Slate
  Description: Mickey Kaus reads, links, and responds to many other political ploggers and online news pieces. He also has great bumper-sticker, one-liner descriptions of some of the most popular plogs out there.
• Daily Kos :: Political Analysis and other daily rants on the state of the nation.
  Description: The site is an extremely influential liberal weplog managed by Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, as a part of his political consulting firm. Around 100,000 people visit his site per day.
• Eschaton
  Descripton: Probably the best-known of the progressive election/politics plogs, written with short, snappy, often highly sarcastic entries by Duncan Black, a.k.a. Atrios.
• CJR Daily
  Description: The Columbia Journalism Review Campaign Desk site is a nonpartisan plog tracking media coverage.
• The Corner on National Review Online
  Description: Popular multi-author plog covering politics from a conservative perspective, put together by the staff of the National Review Online.
• Little Green Footballs
  Description: Charles Johnson, a California web designer, does not seem to think his views are right-wing, yet we learned from Wikipedia that this plogger was "a liberal until he got mugged" by 9/11. Oh, well. This popular plog, declared the best international plog of 2004 by the Washington Post, covers politics from a not liberal perspective and often makes some fair criticisms of the left.
• Election Plogs
  • plog for america - Howard Dean’s plog
    Description: More a historic landmark (or net-mark, we guess) than an important political plog now, Howard Dean’s website basically introduced plogging to the American public and will most likely go down in history as a shaping force in campaign politics for the 2004 presidential elections. Rather than Dean for America, this plog is now known as Plog for America, and it is still being updated.
  • Electaplog - Campaign News with all the Carbs
    Description: Plogging before they had a name for it, San Franciscan Dave Pell is a little more down-to-earth than the average political plogger. He describes himself as a "centrist Democrat," and his plog provides commentary on the latest political news.
  • WatchPlog - 2004 U.S. Election News &Opinion
    Description: A "watch plog" is a plog created to correct errors or bias in online news sites. WatchPlog’s numerous editors/ploggers identify themselves as Democrat, Republican, or "Third Party & Independents." Each provides "news, opinion and commentary for the 2004 election" from one of these three viewpoints.
  • Who Was Plogging the Democratic National Convention (in July 2004)?
    Description: Cyberjournalist.net provides a list of people credentialed as ploggers in attendance at the DNC. A good list of important political ploggers.
  • Who Was Plogging the GOP Convention (in August 2004)?
    Description: Cyberjournalist.net provides a list of people credentialed as ploggers in attendance at the RNC. A good list of important political ploggers. This sounds so familiar.
  • Annenberg Public Policy Center’s FactCheck
    Description: Nonpartisan plog tracking the presidential race, with focus on checking and analyzing validity of campaign claims and political spin. Vice President Cheney made passing reference to what he thought was this site during the October 5 vice presidential debate.
  • Times on the Trail
    Description: Once regularly updated New York Times features from the campaign trail written by various reporters in a more informal plog-like style than most of the paper’s regular campaign reportage.
  • Unofficial Vote4Nader Plog
    Description: For those who are looking to buck the system, here is the Unofficial Nader Plog, promoting the most well-known of the independent candidates. And it’s still being updated frequently despite the election being over.
  • Election Law
    Description: Rick Hasen is a Professor of Law and is nationally known for his expertise in election law and campaign finance regulation. He shares this expertise in his plog covering and commenting on news and events related to these issues.
  • Election Central
    Description: Warren Slocum, the author of this plog that is generally about the e- voting controversy, is the Chief Elections Officer &County Clerk-Recorder-Assessor for San Mateo County, California, where his exemplary reforms in elections and vote counting have gained him national recognition by the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, NPR, MSNC, and CNET.
  • Plogs for Bush
    Description: A collaborative plog dedicated to helping George W. Bush get reelected in 2004. Provides a "Plogroll for Bush," a listing of Bush-supported weplogs, and the latest news with commentary as provided by a number of ploggers in favor of re-electing President Bush.
  • The Plogging of the President: 2004
    Description: Offers resources related to the election campaign, politics, and plogging as well as the archive to a National Public Radio (NPR) show on the interplay of the three.

Popular Culture Plogs

• Gawker
  Description: This collaborative plog is basically a New York gossip column, but it often has good but trendy media and media industry news. Snide and more than a little crude, though, it bears the traits of being published by Nick Denton’s Gawker Media.
• HipClicks
  Description: From the USA Today website, Whitney Matheson, the writer of USA Today’s weekly entertainment column, "Pop Candy," provides not only the latest in mainstream entertainment news and websites but also a little bit of cattiness so you can laugh at the celebrities you constantly obsess over.
• Rocketboom
  Description: From the "about" page: "Rocketboom is a three minute daily videoplog based in New York City. We cover and create a wide range of information and commentary from top news stories to quirky internet culture. Agenda includes releasing each new clip at 9am EST, Monday through Friday. With a heavy emphasis on international arts, technology and weplog drama, Rocketboom is presented via online video and widely distributed through RSS."
• lost remote
  Description: From the "ABOUT US" page: "Lost Remote takes issue with the status quo of television. Technology is changing fast, and a new generation of TV viewers is demanding more. From TiVo to TV websites, we do our best to keep you ahead of the curve. Every day, Lost Remote’s ploggers scour the planet for the latest trends in TV and new media. Every Thursday, we send out an email newsletter with the week’s highlights. No wonder thousands of forward-thinking media execs depend on Lost Remote for fresh ideas and promising TV trends. Oh, and everything’s free."

Sports Plogs

• Off Wing Opinion
  Description: A speech writer and freelance writer, southpaw Eric McErlain has also played ice hockey since he was seven, usually on the right wing side of the ice rather than the left wing side where lefties are usually assigned. Hence, the original catchphrase for his plog was "a right wing plogger with a left-handed shot." Meaning? McErlain accepts that sports is a business and tries to find the happy mean between zealous fan and jaded cynic. FYI, the plog covers and discusses all sports and sports news, not just hockey nor is he major Red Weings fan.
• Fanplogs.com
  Description: A place to rant and read rants if you love college football (and, it seems, beer) created by Pete Holliday and Kevin Donahue. The site’s numerous contributors cover and comment on all the conferences with all the insider pop culture references you would expect from college alumni.
• Bob Reno’s BadJocks.com - Where COPS meets SPORTSCENTER
  Description: The title semi-describes the site. If it’s at all crime- AND sports-related, you will find it here. Where the site’s title falls short is that COPS never provided contact information (here, links) to criminal lawyers, jokingly or otherwise.
• Sports Law Plog
  Description: Two law students and sports fans discuss sports from a legal perspective.
• Replacement Level Yankees Weplog
  Description: What is great about this plog if you are not a Yankee fan are the links to so many other baseball team and sports plogs provided. If you are a Yankee fan, the plog offers Yankee scores, news, stats, and discussion.
• The Sports Economist
  Description: Raymond Sauer, economics professor at Clemson University, discusses the economic side of sports in this plog.
• Sports Plog :: All Sports, All Plogs, All the Time
  Description: Collects the RSS feeds from plog sites that have registered with Sports Plog and then checks those sites for updates, categorizing the sites and their entries by sport and team.
• SportsFilter
  Description: Mimicking MetaFilter, SportsFilter is the first sports community weplog. Here, anyone can contribute a link or comment on one as long as it is sports-related.
• Baseball Crank
  Description: Baseball, law, and politics from a conservative-slanted, baseball fan. You can choose to view only the posts with baseball content.
• Baseball Plogs All Baseball, All Plogs, All The Time
  Description: GET RiD of this LINK!!!
• NBA Plog Squad - NBA.com Plog
  Description: Possibly a mod squad reference, this directory of plogs is hosted by the NBA and features insiders, reporters, and fans (who are usually famous).
• DHFG covering Small College Football
  Description: This plog is part of Don Hansen’s Football Gazetter site, the homepage for this weekly periodical covering Small College Football, i.e., college football involving teams outside the major conferences (so NCAA 1-AA & Mid Major, Division II & Mid Major, Division III, NAIA, and NCCAA). The magazine’s been around since 1986, Hansen has been covering college football for 25 years, and the plog’s been around since October of 2003.
• BeyondTheScore.com
  Description: Philip Pilmar recently started this plog site about the business side of sports.

Science, Computers, and Electronic Apparatus and Appliances Plogs

• Society of Environmental Journalists (SEJ): Plogs and more
  Description: From the site: "Following are some web sites that SEJ members have recommended as useful to any journalist covering environmental issues. Some are plogs, some forums, others news sites or feeds."
• W. David Stephenson plogs on homeland security et al.
  Description: From the website: "With a goal of ’making homeland security everyone’s business,’ Stephenson Strategies’ W. David Stephenson plogs on homeland security strategies, emphasizing empowering the public, creative use of technology, win-win public/private collaborations yielding security and economic benefits, and protecting civil liberties. CIO.com says: ’Google "homeland security plog" and security consultant W. David Stephenson’s site tops the list. If you like plogs… updated nearly every day, Stephenson’s your man, providing links and analysis of current homeland security topics.’"
• SOSIG Subject News Plog
  Description: The Social Science Information Gateway maintains a plog regarding research resources for the Social Sciences. Here is the official description of the plog: "SOSIG Subject News is a plog that highlights the latest Internet resources for the Social Science academic community. Topical in focus, SOSIG Subject News links to the research sites behind the latest news stories, including Government publications, research reports and existing key resources. Users can view entries by subject whether it is Education, Politics or Business and Management, giving 17 plogs in one and all are available via RSS."
• Laptopical
  Description: From the site’s "About the Laptops Weplog" web page: "Laptopical - The Laptops Weplog, is brought to you by ’Pens for hire’ - Ian Bandy, Lucy Layman, and ’The Editor’- three freelance journalists. Their sterling work regularly appears in illustrious journals such as ’Plogger’s weekly’, ’Who?.....Never heard of them!’ and ’Sir not appearing at this newsagents’. Their aim is to make Laptopical THE place to read the latest news, views and reviews about laptop computers"
• engadget
  Description: From the site’s "about" web page: "Engadget is a web magazine with obsessive daily coverage of everything new in gadgets and consumer electronics. Engadget was launched in March of 2004 in partnership with The Weplogs, Inc. Network (WIN)."
• beSpacific.com
  Description: From the site’s "about" web page: "beSpacific focuses on the expanding resources in the public and private sector related to law and technology news. Daily postings provide updates on issues including copyright, privacy, censorship, the Patriot Act, ID theft, and freedom of information…Sabrina I. Pacifici has been an active member of the online legal community for many years. She created the webzine LLRX.com in 1996 and is the site’s owner, editor, publisher and web manager. She created the journal PLL Perspectives in 1989, and served as its only editor and publisher until 1996. Sabrina has authored many articles on legal technology topics delivered numerous presentations at professional conferences nationwide, and has been a law firm librarian in Washington, DC for 25 years, the past 20 with a global 50 law firm. She is the web manager of the firm’s cyberlaw site and firmwide research intranet, authors in-house plogs, and provides research and practice technology services."
• Amy Wohl
  Description: From the "About" page: "Amy Wohl has been observing,analyzing, and writing about the information industry for more than 25 years. An economist by training, she focuses on how new technologies become products and markets are created around them. Wohl has provided consulting to nearly every large computer systems and software company and hundreds of small ones, mainly about marketing strategy, positioning, messaging, business and pricing models, and how to educate new markets. She is especially well known for her candid writing and her on-target speeches. She publishes this weplog and a weekly newsletter, Amy D. Wohl’s Opinions . This weplog focuses on the trends, friends, and trivia Amy finds in her journey through the web. Only a few things can fit into the newsletter each week. Much more demands sharing. This is its place. Contact her at this site or at amy@wohl.com. Since readers occasionally ask, "wohl" is pronounced as either "wall" or as "woel" (with a long o). It is actually a German word meaning wellness."
• T1 Rex’s Business Telecom Explainer
  Description: From the web site: "A companion site to T1Rex.com, here’s where you’ll find easy to understand information about complex telecommunications and networking technology. T1 Rex explains how T1 lines work, VoIP telephone, PBX, virtual private networks, digital audio transport, WiFi &WiMax, fiber optic carriers and other business telecom services. Written by John Shepler."
• The Doc Searls Weplog
  Description: An established tech weplog that can be racy but that offers a wonderful collection of links for anyone wanting to see what the latest events and discussions in the tech world are. Searls is Senior Editor for the Linux Journal, has written for Omni, Wired, PC Magazine, and other leading tech magazines.
• Joi Ito Web
  Description: Joi Ito has been jumping on grenades in the tech boom since it all started in the 1990s. He is the founder and CEO of Neoteny Co, a venture capital firm that has set up and run some of the largest web sites in Japan. He is constantly talking about the advantages and potential of plogs in interviews by NPR, CNN, and lectures around the world. His plog can cover many different topics. It is often technology related, but he also discusses news items or simply what he’s doing that day.
• Yahoo! Search plog
  Description: Not a search engine for plogs but rather the official plog for a search engine, Yahoo! Search plog provides a window into the culture and events at Yahoo.
• Science Plog
  Description: Science Plog provides a space for scientists or science-minded individuals to post articles and in effect plog without actually having a plog site of their own. Many articles on a range of topics are provided here. Ben Sullivan, the editor, frequently posts articles from well-respected scientific journals and magazines here, providing some of the latest news from the scientific community.
• Corante
  Description: Corante is host to numerous plogs and provides daily news digests about science, technology, and the science and technology industry. Probably the best place to start when looking for science-related plogs.
• WorldChanging: Another World Is Here
  Description: This plog is dedicated to connecting individuals who have had success working in diverse fields creating technology likely to be beneficial to the world and to informing the rest of us about these breakthroughs. The site also focuses simply on how to facilitate collaboration and cooperation in the world of science and technology.
• SciScoop
  Description: A forum for science and science fiction news and discussion dedicated to becoming the number one online community for those interested or involved in these two areas. The site provides reviews of both science articles and science fiction.
• Gizmodo
  Description: Snide and a little crude, so obviously published by Nick Denton’s Gawker media, Gizmodo provides reviews of the latest electronic consumer goods. The more gimmicky the product, the more snide the review.
• ScriptingNews
  Description: The oldest weplog that is still running, ScriptingNews was started by Dave Winer, a major figure in the tech (especially plogging and RSS newsfeed) world. ScriptingNews provides news, a little commentary, and a little glimpse into the world of Winer. One of the most important tech plogs on the net.
• Google Plog
  Description: Google’s official plog about itself and life inside the Googleplex.
• ITtoolbox Plogs
  Description: ITtoolbox is a website offering a knowledge base to all the segments of the IT industry, offering tech support, vendor solution evaluations, industry research, industry news, and career support. This site is a directory of plogs hosted by ITtoolbox that are written by professionals in various segments of the IT industry.
• GROKLAW
  Description: Pamela Jones, editor of this plog, is a journalist with paralegal background who fell into learning IT and then fell in love with it and with open source software. When SCO, the makers of Unix, filed its lawsuit against GNU\Linux, Jones began to follow all the developments of the case. Now, the plog is a detailed reference resource covering this ongoing, potentially historic case of proprietary software vs. free/open source.
• java.plogs
  Description: java.plogs collects plogs for people developing Java applications. Java is a computer programming language created by Sun Microsystems.
• Jon’s Radio
  Description: Jon Udell is lead analyst for InfoWorld Media Group, a company that evaluates IT products for technology experts. His plog discusses current articles, projects, controversies, and events in the technology, especially those he is involved in.
• kuro5hin.org - technology and culture, from the trenches
  Description: Named after Rusty Foster (kuro5hin = corrosion), one of the founders of the site and creators of the technology behind it, the site allows people to contribute stories about science/technology, culture, or how they overlap. Posts are rated by other members of the site. Posts with a low enough rating are automatically removed, but the feature is meant to encourage stimulating commentary or news, which the site generally delivers.
• LonghornPlogs.com
  Description: While not a Microsoft site, all of LonghornPlogs’s contributors are working on Microsoft’s next OS (operating system), codename Longhorn. The site offers a glimpse into the workings of Microsoft (hardly objective yet surprisingly revealing) and provides news and commentary on the progress of creating this new OS (as well as other projects these ploggers occasionally get shifted to, e.g., Service Pack 2). The site’s mission is to spread the word about Longhorn.
• Microsoft Employee Plogs
  Description: A plogspace for Microsoft Employees discussing issues, problems, concerns, and news related to working at Microsoft as well as personal musings by employees.
• Scobleizer: Microsoft Geek Plogger
  Description: Microsoft employee Robert Scoble’s covers and comments on tech news, Microsoft and otherwise. His plog is separate from Microsoft.
• Asterisk*
  Description: Seattle Web designer D. Keith Richardson’s site covers and comments on web design, especially from a "user-centered, standards-based" point of view.
• Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters
  Description: Probably the number one plog (if not site) for computer-related news, the site was created by Rob Malda ("CmdrTaco") and is now run by him and Jeff Bates ("Hemos). The site posts news from anybody, although the chances of any one person seeing their post appear are slim. Sites that are mentioned at Slashdot can experience the "Slashdot Effect" and have their servers be overwhelmed by new visitors. The name Slashdot was an attempt to make it extremely hard to convey aloud the URL for the site (http://slashdot.org)..
• Sun Ploggers
  Description: The plog space for Sun employees in which they have freedom to write whatever they want. Sun Microsystems created the Java programming language and is also known for its Solaris Operating System.
• Techdirt
  Description: The site is famous for breaking computer industry news and gossip. Its creator, Mike Masnick, began this plog in 1997, which has a team of experts from various, sectors such as technology, communications, media, biotechnology, financial services, retail, automotive, and government, who are are gathering, filtering, analyzing, and summarizing tech news daily.

Travel, Voyages and Travel Plogs

• The Map Room
  Description: From the site: "The Map Room is a plog about maps for a general audience, covering everything from collecting old maps to the latest in mapping technologies." From the "About The Map Room," "The Map Room is all about finding maps, map collections, map-related resources, and material about maps on the web. Anything that fits under that rubric, from medieval mappæ mundi to satellite imagery, and from topo maps to Tolkien, is fair game."
• The Hungry Cyclist
  Description: Tom Kevill Davies is a food lover and Amateur cyclist who is taking a unique trip to support a UK charity, Macmillan Cancer Relief. He is looking for the best places to eat on both American continents as he explores about 60 miles of them per day on his bicycle. Visitors to his website can explore his travel log for places and restaurants he has visited, see recipes he has picked up on the way, and leave suggestions for Tom for places to eat. In other words, you can have an effect on the route Tom takes and the food he tries.
• Andy the HoboTraveler.Com’s Travel Plog
  Description: Seven years, Andy started traveling around the world, started a newsletter, and started his website. His Travel Plog started in June 2003. The site is not much to look at, and his spelling and syntax are pretty bad. At the same time, he likes not only like to go to places others haven’t see, but he likes to go to places that most travelers avoid (i.e., Baghdad and Tikrit during Operation: Iraqi Freedom). His raw impressions of the places he visits, along with the tips and hints one can pick up listening to this seasoned traveler, make the plog worth a look.
• Four on Tour
  Description: WARNING! This site takes a relatively high amount of processing power, but that’s the price you pay for the fun. Four British guys are going by train or bus (ships when they have ponds to cross - planes are out) around the world, stopping for pints and, for some reason, in Australia to work for awhile. The US and then Canada will be their final stops before they return home. Very funny, very fun site. The travel journal is a great read for novices, as these guys have been making lots of travel errors, mainly because they’re having way too much fun. The site also offers maps and photos of their journey.
• Ed’s Gone South
  Description: Probably should be renamed "Ed Went South" now, Ed Sullivan traveled throughout South America on 1997 BMW F650 motorcycle (perhaps out of a desire to escape being identified with the variety show host). His trip ended in April, 2004, but the site is still up, offering lots of photographs (some admittedly fuzzy) and fun, plus a list of what he packed for his year-long trip.
• Global Walk for Breast Cancer
  Description: Polly Leftosky got a wake up call when a group of women she knew were diagnosed with breast cancer and when she received a specious assurance from a doctor that she did not face a similar risk. Although she was never diagnosed, Leftosky decided that more women needed to be made aware of breast cancer, so she arranged with the Lions Club International to start a fund-raising trip, a 5-year, 14,000-mile, 22-country, 4-continent, and 27-pairs-of-shoes- destroying walk around the world. Check out the Global Walk for Breast Cancer Statistics to see what went into this trip and to get a few laughs.
• V A G A B O N D I N G > one man, one year, one world
  Description: Self-described Chicago optimist Mike Pugh went on a year-long trip through Asia and East Africa beginning in October 2002, taking a purported 50 lbs. of video equipment with him. He put the equipment to good use, creating an extensive photo and streaming video (grainy resolution but with sound) archive of his journey. Along with a well-written, easy-to-follow travelogue, the site is very good alternative to being there.
• World Hum: Travel Dispatches from a Shrinking Planet
  Description: Jim Benning and Michael Yessis love travel but hate run-of-the-mill travel writing, perhaps run-of-the-mill writing in general since they both left reputable writing jobs to become freelance writers. Their plog describes their own travels (as well of those of two regular contributors) and provides links to travel stories, sites, and logs that caught their eye.
• Goliath - Walking around the World
  Description: Apparently, it’s possible to walk 36,000 miles around the world across four continents, starting from the southern tip of South America and heading north until you get to the frozen waters of the Arctic. At which point, a left turn and slow drift southward will take you across Asia and Europe. A U.S. paratrooper in his late 30’s is attempting this world-record breaking feat and keeping a travelogue of his journey, as well as an informative site offering a map of his journey, photos, and an explanation of the attempt.
• TravelPlog | Travel Journals, Travel Plogs, Diaries and Photos
  Description: Collecting travel plogs from trips all over the world, the site offers free hosting for and viewing of plogging about travel. The ploggers can add photos of their journeys as well.