Kevin Rose and Jay Adelson's Digg.com is among the top 100 sites on the web -- in any category -- according to Amazon's Alexa metrics. Its unique approach to community driven news and dedication to tech trends and product announcements attracts IT professionals, developers, professional geeks and other tech leaders. Digg's enormous ability to drive channel traffic to other websites has become so well-known that when other sites experience an exceptional surge in daily traffic, the first question they ask is, "Who Dugg us?"

Drew Curtis's Fark filters the daily news into buckets labeled "strange," "interesting," "scary," "dumb," "obvious" and "amusing." Drew's comic and often unpredictable voice attracts more than a million readers each weekday. Technorati ranks Fark at #25 based on in-bound links; if they ranked weblogs by total traffic, Fark would likely place #1.




Breitbart.com offers real-time access to top news and analysis sources. You can monitor up-to-the-minute feeds from wires, newspapers, networks, key blogs and more. And there are multiple options for exploring topics by channel. While some news sites select stories for the user and others allow users to rank favorite news stories, Breitbart emphasizes user access to the raw news feeds -- kind of an organized grocery store of news.

Breitbart.tv is all news video, all the time. Our goal is to monitor the best video stories on the internet and provide an easy way for you to click and watch — all from one page. Our goal is to find video links from network and cable operations, as well as local television stations across the country. We’ll also be tracking news video posted on popular upload sites.If it’s online and newsworthy, it could end up on Breitbart.tv.

Breitbart is currently serving about 20 million news pages per month to more than three million unique visitors. Many top bloggers rely on Breitbart as a primary news resource. Technorati puts Breitbart.com in its Top 50, with more than 30,000 links from nearly 8,000 blogs.

Metafilter is often mentioned in the same breath as BoingBoing by sources such as the New York Times, which reported in their piece on leading bloggers: "Every e-mail discussion list, Web bulletin board and group blog is an example of collective intelligence at work. Do you want to know where 'memes' start? Try the group blogs www.metafilter.com and boingboing.net" (Circuits, 8/12/04). MetaFilter attracts 1,900,000 monthly uniques (50,000 of his readers are registered contributors to the site) and has links from over 172,000 other sites (Google).

Boing Boing attracts more than 3 million unique visitors to its site each month, and has over 600,000 RSS subscribers. And it now offers Boing Boing TV, which was recently highlighted by CNN, and Boing Boing Gadgets. By Comscore's measure, Boing Boing is among the five most-visited blogs on the web. Technorati's list of most influential blogs -- based on how many other sites link to that blog -- puts Boing Boing in the top 5. According to Google, more than 600,000 other sites link to Boing Boing. Forbes voted Boing Boing "best of the web" among tech blogs, as did BusinessWeek. AdRants, ad exec veteran Steve Hall's blog, posted an article to the effect that if Boing Boing covers your ad campaign, it's gone viral. 2006 Bloggies winner: Best Group Blog and Lifetime Achievement. 2006 Webby Awards nominee. Named 'Best of the Web 2006' by BusinessWeek. In a 2006 article, The New Yorker described Boing Boing as "a technology blog that is read by geeks the world over."

Newsvine is a vehicle for collaborative discovery and participation in the news. With content from such sources as the Associated Press and ESPN as well as thousands of contributors around the world, Newsvine boasts a daily body of content equal to or greater than that of existing mainstream media sources such as CNN and MSNBC. Founded by veterans of the Walt Disney Internet Group, ESPN, and ABCNews, Newsvine brings large and small media together in a way that respects established news organizations and empowers individual voices at the same time. At Newsvine, you don't just read the news... you influence it.

Ranking among the the 50 most popular sites of all time on del.icio.us, Thomas Marban's popurls.com | popular urls to the latest web buzz, is the dashboard for the hive mind — a single page that replaces the need to directly read Digg, Delicious, Flickr, Wired, Slashdot, NewsVine, Metafilter, Youtube and many other web-buzz related sites. With up-to-the-minute headlines presented in a minimalistic two-flavor design one can scan the latest headlines of what the web collectively thinks is either popular or interesting. A simple mouse over the headline will cleverly reveal a small box of expanded text on the article. Popurls ranks top for terms like "news" on bookmarking services and has a loyal and web-savvy readership.

Live in 51 cities today with over 700 local bloggers, Metroblogging is the largest and fastest-growing network of local blogs on the Web. From San Francisco to Bangkok, from Karachi to Toronto, Metblogs are a hyper-local look at what's going on where you live. Metroblogging has proven to be a vital part of the local media diet, getting information to people as it happens, building a loyal community of readers and writers, who fill our sites with the most interesting and relevant stories about their homes. Metroblogging is owned and developed by Bode Media and was selected in Forbes Magazine's Best of the Web 2005 in the "City Blogs" category.




Big Think has created an interactive, civil space where the most intriguing ideas can be exchanged and debated. From scientists to Nobel Laureates to rock stars, a diverse group of contributors reflects the full spectrum of human pursuit. Among them: Former Secretary of the Treasury and President of Harvard University Lawrence Summers; Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus; Grammy Award winner John Legend; Senators Ted Kennedy, Arlen Specter and Robert Menendez; architect Richard Meier; Republican Presidential candidate Senator John McCain; author Jonathan Franzen; Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; and many, many others. As of April 2008 the site already featured more than 300 interviews, with 15-20 new ones each week. Using cutting-edge interactive technology, Big Think enables thought leaders and thoughtful people alike to share their views with the world.

The purpose of Truemors is to democratize and spread information. From a reader perspective, it puts people “in the know” about the latest news, rumors, and happenings without spending hours searching the web. From “citizen journalist/editor” perspective it enables people to “tell the world.”

Created by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, Wikia extends wikipedia by making structured, high-value content on the internet free to the world. Wikia is run by passionate volunteers, who constantly create and update information that people care about on more than 2,000 topics — including technology, movies, videogames, city guides and sports. Wikia has been covered by the Wall Street Journal, Fortune Magazine and the New York Times. And it's comfortably within Alexa's top 1,000.

Tailrank is a memetracker driven by readers — but not just its own readers. Founder Kevin Burton uses a 'robot' to constantly scan more than 3.5 million weblogs, looking for the most highly discussed links and citations and promoting them to Tailrank's top spots.

"You're the Man Now, Dog" became an Internet phenomenon with its April 2004 launch, and its influence continues to grow. Taking as its title a line uttered by Sean Connery in the movie "Finding Forrester," YTMND founder Max Goldberg created the site to promote creativity. And promote it he has. Using sound, image and a dash of text, users convey points that are funny, political, and occasionally obscure — but each point is made quickly, and most are intriguing. Millions of audience members are addicted to producing their own 'points' and consuming the points made by others. The site sits comfortably among Alexa's Top 2,000 sites on the entire Web, and its quirky status has earned it a Wikipedia page of its very own: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YTMND.

Sphere scans the blogosphere to bring readers the good stuff. The blog search engine's authors -- Tony Conrad, Martin Remy, Steve Nieker and Toni Schneider -- founded Sphere to answer the question: “Blogs, what are they good for?” Whether you want to read what people are saying or throw your two cents in, Sphere’s advanced searching algorithms make it possible for blog readers to more easily discover great blog content — a very simple idea that takes some smarts to do right. Just a few months after its launch, Sphere had already announced deals with Time.com and About.com. It's no wonder when the service is good enough to inspire TechCrunch's Michael Arrington to say, "Sphere is a new blog search engine that quite frankly blows everything, and I mean everything, out of the water in terms of relevance."