What blogs should I be reading?

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There are 54 blogs on my reading list, and they are listed on my blogroll to my right. Is there something you're reading that I should be reading as well?

Share your favorite blogs or your own blog by leaving a comment! Be sure to tell me why you think I should be reading your suggested blog. I'm always interesting in seeing new blogs!

Google Reader Trends: Which blogs pull my interest

I am a huge fan of Google Reader, and have been using it since the end of September. One of the features I've been fascinated with since the beginning is the ability to see your reading trends over a rolling 30 day period.

I've been taking a look at my personal reading trends and found some interesting things.





Mashable by far puts out the most content out of any of the blogs I subscribe to (60+ feeds and counting), yet only 21% of their 28 posts a day actually get read by me. With Mashable I am typically looking for cool new websites like Pinger.com that perform a valuable function for free. I tag those sites as web tools.

Lifehacker falls into the same category as Mashable for me. I'm typically scouring for for that handy site or piece of software that is going to improve my daily life in one way or another. (Note to self: Do you think that's why they call it Lifehacker? Captain Obvious at your service.)
As you can see, Lifehacker is hitting the mark with me 26% of the time.

As a blogger I am always on the lookout for tips on how to run a better blog and improve my writing. ProBlogger by Darren Rowse is one of the premier places to find those tips. And with a read rate of 71%, ProBlogger grabs my attention much more often than not.

It would be interesting if Google Reader would compile trend data on all blogs and release it on a regular basis, much like the Bloglines Top 1,000 Blogs list. While it is very easy to see your own blog's trends through services such as Feedburner, it would be a enormously helpful measuring stick to see which blogs in your niche are getting the most eyeballs on their content.

Which blogs get the most attention from you?

Bloglines: Dogs better than Cats?

Bloglines released their list of the top 1,000 blogs based on subscription totals and while scrolling through the list I came across this little coincidence.



While both have experienced nearly identical growth recently, it appears that DogReader has the edge over About Cats.

Does this mean that there are more dog owners than cat owners? Does this mean that dog owners are more tech savvy than cat owners? Or could it mean that cat owners are too busy loving and caring for their little princes and princesses to take the time to subscribe to a blog about their species of choice?

Maybe it means nothing. The coincidence in placement on the list was too good not to mention, though.

What do you think it means?