What I Read
This is an incomplete list of blogs and other Web sites I read. Over time, I will add to it. Rather than your typical blog entry, which has a half life of a few days, I prefer to read essays — articles that 10 years from now I would still want to read, as opposed to an entry that one week later no one cares about.
I prefer to read blogs in their original form, rather than through a RSS reader. Each site has a distinctive look and for me, the look is part of the experience. I use this page to click through to the sites I want to read. The disadvantage of this approach is that I have to manually check each site. Since I am usually not looking for up-to-the-minute news, I will check most blogs and Web sites once a month or so, and thus having to manually check is not much of a burden.
I used to use an RSS reader, which aggregated all of the feeds from every site I subscribed to. I found this experience to be unpleasant. There were too many articles to read, and I felt overwhelmed. If you’re looking for a RSS reader, I recommend FeedBurner, published by NewsGator. This page provides a list of all of their RSS readers.
List of my legal and non-legal Web sites
Business
- The Trump Blog
Donald J. Trump
Not surprisingly, the real estate posts are particularly good, at least to someone like myself who is not an expert in real estate
Computers and Programming
- Coding Horror
Jeff Atwood - Nick Bradbury
- Matt Mullenweg
- Bit qua Bit
Benjamin Pollack - Joel on Software
Joel Spolsky - 10x Software Development
Steve McConnell
Economics
- The Becker-Posner Blog
Gary Becker and Richard Posner
Covers law, economics and politics - Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles
J. Bradford DeLong - Greg Mankiw
- Jeffrey Miron
The Internet
- Online Personals Watch
- Rough Type
Nicholas G. Carr - The Paradigm Shift
Markus Frind - 37 Signals Blog
Law
Search Engine Optimization
- Peter T. Davis
- Search Engine Land
- Search Engine Watch
- SEO Book
Aaron Wall, Giovanna Villanueva and Peter Da Vanzo - SEOmoz
- Trinity Search Engine Marketing
Greg Hill
Search Engine Optimization — Magazines
Search Engine Optimization — Search Engine Employees
- Bing’s WebLog
- Matt Cutts
Matt is one of Google’s top software engineers - Google Webmaster Central Blog
- Yahoo! Search Blog
The Software Industry
Venture Capital
- List of Blogs Written by Venture Capitalists
- Above the Crowd
Bill Gurley - A VC — Musings of a VC in New York City
Fred Wilson - Crash Dev
Chris DeVore - Brad Feld
- Paul Graham
- Genuine VC
David Beisel
WordPress
- Joost de Valk
- Lorelle on WordPress
Lorelle VanFossen