Nobody Blogs it Better

I've never been a Blogger. It's difficult at best to write articles that peak the interest of those faithful followers who read and comment. This morning, a friend sent me an email that stated, "check out this new blog" and the content had to do with frugal living. I'm not a frugalist although I admit, at times I wish I were.

I began wondering who the best blogger on the block is. Surely someone is following the statistics and, sure enough, it appears that Time Magazine puts out a Top Ten List of the best of the best every year.

For 2010, Zenhabits came in at the number one, reminding us to "smile, breathe and go slowly." Sounds like good advice but do I really need to read it daily to remember to do this? You can visit them here.

To read through the rest of the best from Time, you can view the top ten blogs here. I remind you to read with caution.

Just this morning, the Houston Chronicle cited dangerous pitfalls in believing what you read in blogs and wrote, "Syrian blog hoax illustrates dangerous pitfalls of Internet information sources." You can read the full Editorial here. To summarize the editorial, Amina Arraf, a Syrian-American lesbian, whose "Gay Girl in Damascus" blog went viral, turned out to be Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old American who had fictionalized the entire blog.

I can offer you some solid advice regarding blogs or anything you read on the Internet:

Read with an open mind.

Question everything.

Take blogs for what they truly are '" editorials or opinions of those behind the keyboard.

Check numerous sources to verify your information.

In the end, reading blogs can be both fun and informative. It can also be misleading or completely false.

You are what you read.

Sources:

http://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1999770,00.html

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/technology/blogs_101.html