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 thi