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Need something to get your mind off of work? Looking to kill a few hours of time? Check out our list of the Top 50 Diversion Blogs of the year. They are the perfect solution to distract you from your business for a little while and kick back and relax. From travel blogs to sports, entertainment, health, and lifestyle blogs, it's the perfect list for any entrepreneur looking to get some balance in their lives. Enjoy! The illustrations for the top 6 are provided by Happy Worker, a creative agency that makes custom action figures and custom toys. |
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Travel
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 1) TravelPod
URL: http://www.travelpod.com
TravelPod lets you share your trips using your own online travel blog. TravelPod was released in 1997 when it was introduced as the Web's first site to enable its members to create online travel blogs, revolutionizing the way people travel and share their adventures with the world.
2) Gothamist
URL: http://gothamist.com
Gothamist is the most popular local blog in New York. Founded in early 2003, Gothamist has been described by The New York Times as a "marvelous, not-to-be-missed Web site" that "reflects everything worth knowing about this city." Forbes described Gothamist as a "sophisticated, deliciously urbane city blog." Additionally, Gothamist has been several times for the annual Bloggie Awards. Traffic is currently at 4.2 million pages per month and growing.
3) Jalopnik
URL: http://jalopnik.com
Jalopnik is a daily automobile news and gossip blog for those obsessed with the cult of cars. Jalopnik will appeal most to those who know their clutch from their chassis, though the spec drawings of futuristic cars and "spy shots" of next year's car.
4) WebUrbanist
URL: http://weburbanist.com
WebUrbanist writers are interested in all things urban - from urban design to subversive art and strange architecture. They scour the net to find neat new stuff then boil that information down and pack it into an article with relevant images and links, as exhaustive as they can manage on a single subject area. WebUrbanist has over 500,000 unique visitors each month.
5) Gridskipper
URL: http://gridskipper.com
Formerly focused on the urban travel experiences, the new Gridskipper knows travel is an exercise in escape and leisure. From chronicling the stories, the people, and the places that make summer on the East End one of the greatest shows on earth to Miami, Aspen and the Alps, Gridskipper will fill you in on everything from the best new restaurants in Paris, to six new sneaker stores in Tokyo, to the best sex shops of Los Angeles.
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Sports
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 6) Deadspin
URL: http://deadspin.com
Deadspin covers sports like no other. With an “unspoken agreement between all commentators to be as thoroughly entertaining as humanly possible,” Deadspin not only informs but entertains. With “thousands of unemployed alcoholics and sub-par college students reading this site every day,” Deadspin will not let you down.
7) AOL Sports
URL: http://sports.aol.com
AOL Sports provides up to the minute sports news on all of your favourites: NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, NASCAR and College. Offering team stats, scores and player updates from professional and college sports leagues, AOL Sports is your partner for online sports information.
8) Sportsline
URL: http://www.sportsline.com
CBSSports.com is at the leading edge of media companies providing Internet sports content, Fantasy sports and e-commerce. In addition to its flagship service, the company publishes the official Web sites of the NFL and NCAA Sports. Sportsline offers insights from a company on the inside.
9) Fanhouse
URL: http://www.fanhouse.com
With some of the most talented writers in the sports blog field, Fanhouse posts more than 500 posts each week, ensuring you up to the minute sports coverage. With over 60 big name bloggers, including Captain Caveman and Miss Gossip, Fanhouse has become one of the most popular sports blogs around.
10) MVN
URL: http://www.mvn.com
The Most Valuable Network was started December 31st, 2003 by Evan Brunell and Frank Palmieri. MVN is an independent sports media company relying on the volunteered time of people to blog about their favorite sports team or any derivation thereof. MVN also has a podcast network. MVN continues to aggressively explore what a sports blog network can do on the internet, and prides itself on being the first and largest sports blog network on the internet.
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Entertainment
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 11) Veoh
URL: http://www.veoh.com
Veoh is a San Diego, California-based company which runs an Internet Television service allowing users to find and watch major studio content, independent productions and user-generated material. It was founded in 2003 and has since become one of the largest online video sites, with over 19 million viewers per month.
12) Perez Hilton
URL: http://www.perezhilton.com
Perez Hilton celebrity gossip blog is the source for Hollywood gossip, juicy celebrity rumors, celebrity scandals, and the latest celebrity gossip. Visit PerezHilton.com to see Hollywood's Most-Hated Web Site!
13) TMZ
URL: http://www.tmz.com
The term “Thirty Mile Zone” originated in the 1960s, when due to the growth of location shoots, studios established a “thirty mile zone” to monitor rules for filming in Hollywood. TMZ reinvented the thirty mile zone and now serves as the Internet’s premiere address for entertainment news. TMZ offers the latest entertainment news, celebrity gossip, Hollywood rumors, and celebrity video and photo galleries.
14) /Film
URL: http://www.slashfilm.com
/Film was created in August 2005 as an alternative movie news and review blog. A member of the Internet Entertainment Writers Association, /Film has been consistently growing and gaining reviews from the likes of USA Today, CNN, BBC, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, IMDb.com’s Studio Briefing, The Orlando Herald, Wizard Magazine and more.
15) Radar Online
URL: http://www.radaronline.com
Pop, Politics, Scandal, Style. Radar Online offers fresh intelligence and the latest on everything Hollywood, politics, and scandal.
16) Stereogum
URL: http://www.stereogum.com
Stereogum.com, founded by Scott Lapatine in 2003, is a blog devoted exclusively to music. It has a constantly growing collection of new and exclusive MP3s, which are free and legal, so download away.
17) Just Jared
URL: http://justjared.buzznet.com
JustJared.com is the trend-spotting, hot online source for pop culture gossip, fabulous celebrity photo galleries and breaking entertainment news. An established internet presence since 2005, Just Jared, Inc. has grown rapidly, joining in 2006 with technology partner Buzznet Inc., and building a team of smart, savvy contributors dedicated to bringing you the latest news 24/7.
18) Cinematical
URL: http://www.cinematical.com
Much like its name suggests Cinematical brings you the latest on everything Hollywood. From trailers to movie reviews to clips, galleries, rumours and more, Cinematical has what you are looking for.
19) Dlisted
URL: http://www.dlisted.com
Dlisted.com was started as The D-List on January 23, 2005. Since then, this Hollywood-focused blog has only been growing popularity, thanks in large part to the fact that “it’s also updated like every five seconds.”
20) PopMatters
URL: http://www.popmatters.com
PopMatters is an international magazine of cultural criticism. Its scope is broadly cast on all things pop culture, and its content is updated daily, Monday through Friday. It provides intelligent reviews, engaging interviews, and in-depth essays on most cultural products and expressions in areas such as music, television, films, books, video games, sports, theatre, the visual arts, travel, and the Internet.
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Health
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 21) Sweat365
URL: http://www.sweat365.com
Sweat365 is a new online media platform for everyday athletes. The online community provides members with the opportunity to interact with and learn from athletes all over the globe, as well as finding training partners with similar goals. Sweat365 provides a highly engaged and supportive community, as well as training tips and fitness tracking tools.
22) Wired Science
URL: http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience
Wired's science blog provides you the most interesting news from the research world with insightful writing that helps you see what's exciting and what's at stake within the torrent of academic journal articles.
23) Delicious Days
URL: http://www.deliciousdays.com
“Everything Food.” Named one of TIME's 50 coolest websites of 2006, Delicious Days was started in 2005 by Nicky, a girl who loves to cook. It was her way to combine her passion for food with her day job, design and online business. It is now a mix of “ Munich, the wonderful Bavarian town we live in, our occasional travel experiences, cookbook reviews and to cut to the chase all things delicious.”
24) Medical News Today
URL: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com
Medical News Today is the largest independent health and medical news website on the Internet. Medical News Today is updated with more than 80 articles every day, 7 days a week - more than any other health news site. The site is divided into 106 medical categories/specialties allowing you to browse only the news relevant you. More than 2 million unique visitors come to medicalnewstoday.com every month.
25) Well
URL: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com
Join New York Times columnist Tara Parker-Pope as she sifts through medical research and expert opinions for practical advice to help readers take control of their health and live well every day.
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Lifestyle
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 26) Inhabitat
URL: http://www.inhabitat.com
“Future forward design for a better world.” Inhabitat was started by NYC designer Jill Fehrenbacher as a forum in which to investigate emerging trends in product, interior and architectural design. Inhabitat.com is a blog devoted to the future of design, tracking the innovations in technology, practices and materials that are pushing architecture and home design towards a smarter and more sustainable future.
27) Ulysses Online
URL: http://www.ulyssesonline.com
Ulyssesonline.com is a personal website of Ulysses Ronquillo, offering personal insights to news, technology, podcasts, sports, music and travel. It has become one of the most popular websites on the Internet today.
28) Consumerist
URL: http://www.consumerist.com
The tagline for this blog is “Consumer Bites Back.” A tool for the consumer in ever commoditized world, the Consumerist blog offers the latest on corporate scams, directories of corporate executive contacts, and more. Find everything the responsible and proactive consumer need to know here.
28) Neatorama
URL: http://www.neatorama.com
Neatorama is a well-liked link blog, which features daily posts on science, technology, art, and odd news. Since the first post on August 9th, 2005, Neatorama has become extremely popular. Of the many special elements that Neatorama successfully uses are the longer Neatorama Exclusive Lists, often composed in cooperation with others
30) Dark Roasted Blend
URL: http://www.darkroastedblend.com
Started in November 2006 by Avi Abrams, Dark Roasted Blend is one of the favorite destinations on the web for all things weird and wonderful, updated daily. Their in-depth articles in many fascinating categories make DRB a highly visual online magazine, bringing you quality entertainment every time you open your feed reader or visit their site.
31) Core77
URL: http://www.core77.com
An industrial design wonderland, full of links, resources and hooky-playing designers, Core77 has served a devoted global audience of industrial designers ranging from students through seasoned professionals since 1995. Core77 publishes articles, discussion forums, an extensive event calendar, hosts portfolios, job listings, a database of design firms, schools, vendors and services.
32) Laughing Squid
URL: http://www.laughingsquid.com
Laughing Squid is an online resource for underground art, culture and technology from San Francisco and beyond. It is run by primary tentacle Scott Beale, who is also the publisher editor of the blog and is joined by the occasional guest blogger.
33) The Smitten Kitchen
URL: http://www.thesmittenkitchen.com
The Smitten Kitchen is 80 square feet of fourth-floor circa-1870 New York City walkup tenement building joy with a skylight on top. It has one counter, a small stove, a pot and pan rack, a marginally obsessive spice rack and a grapefruit knife with actual grapefruits on the handle. This blog is the result of that kitchen, bringing out recipes and more on a regular basis.
34) Serious Eats
URL: http://www.seriouseats.com
Fresh, hot, and delicious food content delivered daily. Serious Eats is a website focused on celebrating and sharing food enthusiasm through blogs and online community. Its unique combination of community and content brings together the distinctive voices of food bloggers, compelling original and acquired food video, and spirited, inclusive, conversations about all things food- and drink-related.
35) Trend Hunter
URL: http://www.trendhunter.com
TrendHunter.com was launched in 2005 by Jeremy Gutsche, an innovation expert who wanted to build a home for new business ideas and creativity. It is a multi channel explosion of cool that caters to social leaders, industry professionals, and relentlessly creative individuals. Trend Hunter is the world's largest community dedicated to trend spotting and cool hunting. It is a unique breed of insatiably curious people, constantly in search of the cutting edge.
36) Four Hour Work Week
URL: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog
Princeton guest lecturer and troublemaker, Tim Ferriss offers cutting-edge experiments in lifestyle design: outsourcing life, global travel and mobile lifestyles, doubling income while halving hours, and more. To date, his blog has been featured in the NY Times, Wired, NBC, and more.
37) PSFK
URL: http://www.psfk.com
PSFK is a trends and innovation company that publishes daily, provides consultancy and hosts events. It aims to inspire readers, clients and guests to make things better - whether that’s better services, better product ideas or a better way of living. Each month over 350,000 people from around the world read PSFK’s websites and newsletters for inspiration.
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 38) I Can Has Cheezburger
URL: http://www.icanhascheezburger.com
I Can Has Cheezburger is a site that gathers, organizes, tags, and captions the funniest and entertaining pictures of user-generated lolcats and lol (other animals) from the Internet. All pictures are made by the site’s users. Submit your own picture and be a part of the wildly successful lolcat phenomenon.
39) TreeHugger
URL: http://www.treehugger.com
TreeHugger is the leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. Partial to a modern aesthetic, it strives to be a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information. At TreeHugger you can find all you need to go green in their up to the minute blog, weekly and daily newsletters, weekly video segments, and weekly radio show.
40) Kotaku
URL: http://www.kotaku.com
Kotaku is the ultimate gaming blog, with in-depth news coverage, reviews, and expert analyses. Its readers are pop junkies who have chosen video games as their media of choice, and Kotaku satisfies their itches, while documenting the industry’s ever-increasing presence in television, film, and beyond. Churning out video game news over 50 times per day, Kotaku constantly accelerates the velocity of the hyper fast gaming world.
41) PostSecret
URL: http://postsecret.blogspot.com
PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail-in their secrets anonymously on one side of a homemade postcard. Since being launched by Frank Warren, it has become something of an Internet phenomenon. Send in your postcard and be a part of the movement.
42) Dave's Blog
URL: http://www.unknowngenius.com/blog
Dave’s blog offers useless ramblings of a former Tokyo gaijin recently moved to Paris, on life, happiness and the pursuit of the bizarre. Or, as its author likes to write, this blog is “chemically-enhanced neural rewiring on a semi-regular basis.”
43) Dooce
URL: http://www.dooce.com
Launched in 2001, this blog chronicles its author’s life from a time when she was single and making a lot of money as a web designer in Los Angeles, to when she was dating the man who would become her husband, to when she lost her job and lived life as an unemployed drunk, to when she married her husband and moved to Utah, to when she became pregnant, to the birth, to the aftermath, to the postpartum depression that landed her in a mental hospital. She’s better now...and blogging.
44) Global Voices
URL: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org
Global Voices is a non-profit global citizens’ media project founded at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, a research think-tank focused on the Internet’s impact on society. Global Voices aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore.
45) 5 Minutes for Mom
URL: http://www.5minutesformom.com
Identical twins Janice and Susan are the founders of 5 Minutes for Mom. As busy moms themselves who love being online, they wanted to bring other moms a site that helps you get the most out of your time online, while you have fun, and find all the best places! 5 Minutes for Mom brings other mothers the best in blogging, shopping, parenting, and entertainment.
46) Gaping Void
URL: http://www.gapingvoid.com
In this blog, Hugh “cartoons drawn on the back of business cards” MacLeod entertainingly writes about marketing, advertising, Microsoft and the wine trade.
47) Pink Tentacle
URL: http://www.pinktentacle.com
Pink Tentacle is focused on all things design. From biotech, to drinks, to luxury, to vegetation, Pink Tentacle offers a smorgasbord of all things unique and design-oriented.
48) Shorpy
URL: http://www.shorpy.com
Shorpy, the 100 year-old photoblog, is Dave Hall’s blog featuring high-definition images from the first half of the 20th century. The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a boy who worked in an Alabama coal mine and ironworks in the 1910s.
49) Funky and Creative
URL: http://www.funkyandcreative.com
A married mother of two is behind this blog, which details her love for arts, digital scrap that she creates, photos that she takes, and her own shopping sprees and travel tales. Keep up with her adventure through this blog.
50) Winelibrary
URL: http://tv.winelibrary.com
A leader in all things wine, Gary Vaynerchuk’s Winelibrary is the Internet’s first wine vlog. It presents Winelibrary TV, brought to you each weekday with new and exciting wines, news, and happenings in the wind world.
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