Long List of Resource Sites for Blog Fodder
Posted by Raven on April 26th, 2009
Are there cobwebs growing in your head? Have politics bored you? Not sure what to blog about? Do you sit around and read the same old web sites for news, blog post ideas and what not? Maybe it’s time to freshen up your sources…
There’s millions of sites out there- and an endless supply of blogging ideas can be found within the sites. I’ve compiled a small list of some of these here.
Top News Stories
- Research Buzz – Kebberfegg
- Topix News Headlines
- Online Newspapers
- 180n (Top Sited News Stories)
- Crayon – Most Popular News Sites
- People’s Daily from China – Most Popular News Stories
- New York Times – Most Emailed Stories
- New York Times – World News
- Meta Eureka – Top News Stories
- Yahoo Top News Stories – Most Viewed
- News is Free – Most Popular News Stories
- 1st Headlines – Top Breaking Headline News
- Yahoo News – Full Coverage and Topical Roundup of World News Stories
- Google Alerts
- Google News
- Today’s Front Pages from the Newseum
- Newslink – Major Metro US Newspapers
- News Link
- Headline Spot – News Wires
- Reuters Free Top News Stories
- Rapid Tree – List of Worldwide Media Resources like Newspapers, Magazines, TV, and More
- Meta Grid – Access and Search 8000 Newspapers and Magazines Online
- News Directory
- Online Newspapers
- I Want Media – Links and Media Resources
- News Place – News Resources
- Ananova – Breaking News Portal
- World News
- News in Essence – Aggregator
- I Have News Aggregator Top Stories
- Wall Street Executive Library News Resources
- News Trawler
- WorldPress.org – Worldwide News
- Lexis Nexis – Free News Headlines
- News Ahead – News Forecast
- Slate
- News Wise – News Tracker and Search Engine Service
- CNN Email News Alerts
- Yahoo Email News Alerts
- E-News Wire
- Infomaniac – News Research Behind the Stories
Industry News and Resources
- New Scientist (dinosaurs, evolution, being human, endangered species, technology, health and more)
- BlogPulse
- Blodex – Top Blogged Stories
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation Magazines and Information Resources on Health, Science, and Medicine
- Geography Network of Canada (maps, geography, and data)
- Silicon.com – Most Popular White Papers from Silicon Valley
- Above Top Secret – Top Conspiracy Theory News
- Business Week – Technology Research Library Top 50 Resources
- Business Week – Blogspotting
- Netcraft – Web Server Survey
- Webmaster World
- Wired – Blogs
- ZDNet Blogs on Technology
- Inbox Robot – Most Popular Newsletters
- Inbox Robot – Hot Newsletter Topics
- All Bookstores – Most Popular Books
- Spacetoday.org – Research Resources for Journalists
- Writer Magazine
- About.com’s Urban Legends Blog
- Hill News – News About the US Congress
- Business Wire
- ZDNet – Technology News
- The New England Journal of Medicine
- US National Library of Medicine
- Medline Plus – Medical News and Information
- The Educator’s Reference Desk
- Jane’s News On Defence, Airport, Transportation, Security And Risk Developments
- Landings.com – Aviation History, Accident, and Archives
- Newsforge – News about Linux and Open Source
- Internet News
- Editor and Publisher News Headlines
- Bloomberg Financial News
- OneWorld.net – Human Rights News
- Book Wire – Book Publishing News
- Idea List – News from the International Non-Profit World
- ReferenceShelf – Docuticker – News from Librarians
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – Freedom of Speech Resource Center
- Internet News Bureau – Most Recent Stories
- Research Buzz – Search Engine News and More
- Biz Journals – Business News
- The Smoking Gun
- WebReference
Tag and Social Bookmarking Services
- Technorati
- IceRocket
- Daypop
- BlogPulse
- Blodex – Top Blogged Stories
- Blogsearch.com
- Blogs of the Day
- 180n (Top Sited News Stories)
- Gada – Graphic Meta Search Engine
- Furl.net – Latest Headline Entries
- CodeCubed – Tree Map (based on Del.icio.us)
- Newzingo – Google Tag Map
- Flickr
- BlinkList
- Connotea – Scientific Tags
- De.lirio.us (Del.icio.us clone)
- Digg
- Furl
- Blogmarks
- KB Cafe Tag Search
- Shadows – Social Bookmarking Service
- Bloghop
- Simpy
- Oishii – Most Popular Bookmarks
- Citeulike – Free Citation Service
- Common Times – Reader Controlled News
- Wists – Social Shopping
- Spurl
- Scuttle
- LookMarks
- Frassle
- GiveALink – Donate Bookmarks
- Netvous
- Memeorandum
- Ask Jeeves (now uses tags)
- LinkFilter
- Hyperlinkomatic
- FeedMarker
- BackFlip
- Yummy.printfu – PDF Social Bookmarking
- Diigo
- Quimble – Poll on Favorite Social Bookmarking Manager
- StumbleUpon
- Filangy
- Riffs – Social Recommender
- RawSugar
- Linkagogo
- Gibeo.net
- Linkroll
- OpenBM – (Open Bookmarks)
- SearchFox
- Bloogz
- Findory
- Wink
- Blog Top Sites
- Indiza – Europe and International Social Bookmarking
Blog Search Engines and Feeds
- Google Blog Search
- Yahoo News & Blog Search
- Feedster (Feed Search)
- Blogdigger {Feed Search)
- Bloogz – Blog Search
- Dogpile – Searches 5 Major Search Engines
- Hot Sheet – List of Top News and Information Sites and Search Engine
- Mamma – The Mother of All Search Engines
- Metacrawler
- Search Engine Colossus – International Directory Of Search Engines
- Lycos
- Journalism Net – Find People
- Oxide – Jump Search Engine
- I Want Media – Facts, Statistics, Links and Media Resources
- Teoma Direct Hit Search
- Vivismo Clusty – Cluster Search Engine
- Rocket News – Feed Search Engine
- Snap – Virtual News and Search Engine
- News Wise – News Tracker and Search Engine Service
- Bloogz
- Blogwise – Top Blogs Search
- Vivisimo – Clusty Blog Search
- Blog Search Engine
- Blogarama Blog Directory
- A9 Search Engine and Maps
- KartOO – Graphic Search Engine
- Click City – City Guides
- Killer Info Cluster Search Engine
- Info Please
- DMOZ – Open Directory Project
- DMOZ – Open Directory Project – Weblogs Resources
- DMOZ – Open Directory Project – Blog Search Engines
- Blog Top Sites
- Search Engine Base
- Search Engine Showdown
- Jux2 – Search Engine evaluates Page Ranks
- Blogdigger Local – Find Local Bloggers
- FeedMap – Blog Map
- Tag Cloud – Heat Map of Feed Keywords Tool
- BrowseDelicious – Visual Browsing
- Blog Universe Directory
- All Your Words – Word Association Search
- Vox Delicii – Graphic Search Engine
- My Web 2.0 Yahoo Search – Custom Search Page
- Wists – Social Shopping
- StumbleUpon
- Filangy
- WayPath Blog Search
Most Popular/High Traffic
- Alexa – Top 500 websites
- Alexa – Top 500 global websites
- Technorati – Most Popular Posts and Tags
- Fark
- BlogPulse
- Hot Links
- Truth Laid Bear’s website ecosystem
- Technorati Top 100
- Feedster Top 500
- Memeorandum
- Furl.net – Most Popular
- Chuquet – Most Linked To Posts
- Blo.gs – Most Watched Blogs
- Bloogz – Most Popular Blogs
- National Geographic – 15 Most Popular Stories
- WayPath Most Popular Blogs, Topics, and Search
- Topix News Headlines
- Variety – Most Popular Entertainment Stories
- Most Popular Sites
- Village Voice – Most Popular Stories
- Yahoo – Most Emailed Photos and Slideshows
- CNN – Most Popular Stories
- Flickr – Most Popular Photo Tags
- Bloogz Most Popular Blog Ranking
- Most Popular Historical Biographies
- Bloglines – Top Links
- Technorati – Most Popular Blogs
- Bloglines – Top Blogs
- Yahoo News – Most Popular Stories
- Salon Radio Community Server – Statistics by Page Read Rankings
- Topten.org – Most Popular Top Ten Nuggets
- Blog Rankings – Most Popular Blogs
- Right Wing News – The Most Popular Political Blogs On The Net
- What is Making Blog News – Top 10 Posts List
- Top Ten Sources – Popular Posts
- Amazon Bestsellers
- USA Today – Hot Sites and Hot Shows
- Info Please – Top Tens List
- Blog Top Sites
- DayPop – Top 40 Stories
- Blogmarks – Most Popular Posts
- FeedMeLinks
- Jots
- LiveMarks
- Most Popular Del.icious Posts of All Time
- EarthCam Announces 25 Most Interesting Webcams
- Tail Rank – Popular Blog Posts and Comments
Stats and Facts
- US FedStats – Statistics from the US Government
- US Freedom of Information Act
- US Department of Labor – Labor Statistics
- Population Reference Bureau
- US National Center for Education Statistics
- US Energy Information Administration
- US Center for Disease Control – Data Warehouse for National Center for Health Statistics
- Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
- FBI Crime Report Statistics
- US Bureau of Justice Statistics Data for Analysis
- Crime.org – Crime Links and Statistics
- World Health Organization – WHO Statistical Information System
- US National Institutes of Health
- City-Data – US Cities Data and Statistics
- Cornell Law – Legal Information Institute
- Library of Congress – Thomas Search the Laws
- Louisiana State University – Libraries Federal Agencies Directory
- USDA Economics, Statistics and Market Information System
- USDA State Facts
- Find Law
- US FedWorld
- The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education
- US Department of Defense
- National Conference of State Legislatures – State Legislatures Internet Links
- Cornell – US Code
- CIA World Factbook
- Defense Statistics
- Pentagon Facts & Figures
- CIA World Fact Book
- Securities and Exchange Commission – EDGAR – Research Companies
- US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
- US National Traffic Safety Board (NTSB)
- I Want Media – Facts, Statistics, Links and Media Resources
- Statistics Every Writer Should Know
- Jonathan Oatis – How to Get Public Records Online
- WWW Virtual Library – International Affairs Resources
- Nation Master – Compare Nations
- Hyperstat Online Textbook – Statistics
- Stats.org
- Statistics.com
- United Nations Statistics Division
- US Government Documents – Statistics on the Web by University of Michigan
- Acronym Finder
- US Census Bureau
- Info Please
- US State Department
- World Wide Web Virtual Library – Demography and Population Studies
- Electronic Frontier Foundation – Freedom of Speech Resource Center
- TRAC.SYR.EDU – Transactional Record Access Clearing House – Tracking US Government News
- Google Scholar Search – Search for Scholarly Resources
- United Nations Population Information Network
- National Statistics for the UK
- Statistical Resources on the Web Environment
Web Site Tracking Services
- PubSub
- PR News Wire – Feed Categories
- Steven Bell’s Keeping Up Website – Web Page Change Detection Services
- Watch That Page
- Library Journal – Do I Detect a Change
- Infominder Website Tracking
- Change Detection – Website Administrator Tool
- Website Watcher
- Change Detect
- Check and Get
- Right Web Monitor
- Track Engine
- Site Up
- Chikaboo
- New York Times – News Alerts by Category
- TV Eyes for Consumers – Free Email Alerts on TV Stories
- Net News Tracker – Tracks News Groups
- Google Alerts
- Google Groups – What Are They Saying?
- TalkDigger – Tracking Search Engines, Blogs, Tag Services and Social Bookmarking
- Tail Rank – Popular Blog Posts and Comments on Posts
- I-Tools Search
- News Wise – News Tracker and Search Engine Service
- TRAC.SYR.EDU – Transactional Record Access Clearing House – Tracking US Government News
- Feedster Ego Builder Feed – Custom Feed Maker
- Rocket News – Feed Search Engine and Custom Feed Maker
- BBC News Feed Factory – Custom and Category Feeds
- Associated Content – Custom Categorized Feeds
- LifeHacker – Creating Custom Live Digg Feeds
- Yahoo News Feeds and Custom Feeds
- Netvibes – Custom News Page
- Topix – Advanced Search Custom Feed (scan for feed on search results)
- Inform – Custom News and Feeds
Internet Traffic, Web Trends, and Page Rank
- AWIS – Alexa Blog – Article on Watching Net Trends
- BlogPulse
- Alexa (top websites/trends)
- Alexa – Top 500 websites
- Alexa – Top 500 global websites
- Blo.gs – Most Watched Blogs
- TalkDigger – Who is Blogging About You?
- DMOZ – Open Directory Project – Weblogs Resources
- Jux2 – Search Engine evaluates Page Ranks
- Clickz – Trends and Statistics
- 43 Things – Keeping Up With Current Web Trends
- Internet Traffic Report
- Cyber Geography Research – Mapping the Internet
- GVU Research and Technology Reports
- Internet Systems Consortium Internet Domain Survey
- Search Engine Watch
- Netcraft – Server and Web Status and News
- Nielsen and Net Ratings – News Releases
- The Counter – Statistics
- Global Research – Global Internet Statistics
- Internet Pulse
- Zooknic Internet Intelligence and Geography Project
- Search Engine Optimization – Bandwidth Reports
- EMarketer – Online Business and Marketing
- Web Hosting Info – Global Stats for Web Hosts
- ComScore – Internet Statistics News
- Internet World Stats
- Research Buzz – Search Engine News and More
- Cybergeography and Web Statistics
- CAIDA, the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis
- Webhosting.info – Hosting Statistics and Information
- Browser News – Statistics
- Browser News
- Net Applications – Marketshare
- International Telecommunications Union – Global Statistics
- Complete Guide to Internet Statistics and Research
- Internet Demographics Directory
- Security Space Internet Research Studies
- Sociosite – Internet Use(r)s Demographics
- European Internet Statistics
- CIO – Technology Articles, Forecasts, and News
- National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) – A National Online
- US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
- Forrester – Online Research, Surveys, and Polls
- Pew Internet and American Life Project
Next week I’ll share some of my BLOGGING HELP resources…as in, sites devoted to blogging, plugins, themes, ideas to build readership and so on.








April 26th, 2009 at 10:07 am
Small list? Sheesh! Girl, you’ve been busy. BTW, my wife loves the pictures you have been taking….
April 26th, 2009 at 10:33 am
Some of the pics are old, like taken a few yrs back. Which ones does she like??
I might have larger sizes. LOL
April 26th, 2009 at 10:39 am
She loves the pictures of your gardens. You’ve set an impossible standard for her to hit based on the climate here in West Texas, but her dream is to have an area of wild flowers growing, water restrictions be damned..
That and she loves the New England-esque pictures you’ve been taking. I keep promising her to take her through New England…
April 28th, 2009 at 5:00 pm
Wow! What a great list! Thanks a lot! :-)