PC Magazine's favourite 100 blogs

The editors of PC Magazine have compiled a list of their favourite 100 blogs of the year. Only one of them is a science blog.

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I've heard of a few of them, and occasionally read ONE of them. In what strange bloggy universe do they live?

And people thought that computers would be a great educational tool. Like teevee.

The endarkenment continues...

The majority of the blogs they list are in the cool things to buy genera, reflecting the world at large where buying is on people's brains and science is not. It figures too, because PC magazine is all about what to buy (sometimes cool often not). So in fact are most of the media. Take the average broadcast news and science mostly gets airtime when it's going to lead to something marketable like a new cure or gadget. Scienceblogs are a rare and welcome exception.

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