What I Read

This is an incomplete list of blogs and other Web sites that 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.

Many of my categories are somewhat arbitrary and many blogs could legitimately be classified in other categories.

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.

Some people have asked, “Why did you put this up? Do that many people care what you read?” The answer is no, I suspect very few people care what I read. I put up this page so I could have a list of hyperlinks to click on whenever I feel like reading blogs. I could have purchased a separate domain name for this, but being the cheap bastard that I am, I wanted to save the $11 a year a domain name costs me. Also, having this page up makes it easier when I give people advice about what to read, I just point them to this page as I am discussing various blogs.

If you’re the one person in the world who is wondering, “Where is his twitter list?” I am proud to say I do not tweet and I do not follow anyone on Twitter. Twitter — more noise, less signal — is exactly what the world does not need. Rather than following people on Twitter, I would recommend that you purchase some books from your local bookstore or Amazon.com.


1. My Websites


2. Newspapers


3. Business Magazines


4. General Magazines


5. Computers and Programming


6. Dating and Romance


7. Economics


8. Education


9. Entrepreneurs


10. Entrepreneurship


11. The Internet


12. The Internet — Conversion


13. Law


14. Law — Torts


15. Los Angeles — Business


16. Los Angeles — Social


17. Marketing


18. Media


19. Search Engine Optimization


20. SEO — Magazines


21. SEO — Search Engines and Their Employees


22. The Software Industry


23. Technology


24. Venture Capital


25. Website Blogs


26. WordPress


27. Inactive Blogs


1. My Websites


2. Newspapers


3. Business Magazines


4. General Magazines


5. Computers and Programming


6. Dating and Romance


7. Economics

  • The Becker-Posner Blog
    Gary Becker and Richard Posner
    Covers law, economics and politics
  • Freakonomics
  • Greg Mankiw
    Having studied economics quite intensely for a few years (there is some question as to how much brain damage such study caused), I have a hard time taking anything an economist says very seriously. But Mankiw is clearly an honest broker who does a great job of fairly describing and discussing various viewpoints in the economics profession.


8. Education


9. Entrepreneurs


10. Entrepreneurship


11. The Internet


12. The Internet — Conversion


13. Law


14. Law — Torts


15. Los Angeles — Business


16. Los Angeles — Social


17. Marketing


18. Media


19. Search Engine Optimization


20. SEO — Magazines


21. SEO — Search Engines and Their Employees


22. The Software Industry


23. Technology


24. Venture Capital


25. Website Blogs


26. WordPress


27. Inactive Blogs