Bill Belew

I got curious to know who are the blog networks that are still around and are still getting traffic.

I was surprised at how few there are and how little traffic many networks are getting.

Is this list comprehensive? No. Is it authoritative? No. Is is the best I could come up with for now? Yes. Got suggestions? Proof to the contrary? Let me know. I’ll gladly edit.

For now, here are the top 14 blog networks I have found. (According to Alexa Ranking).

Top also meaning the higher numbers are/may be getting 40,000 views or more a day.  Numbers 1-10 are well over 1 million views a month.

Here they are –

1. Techcrunch – TechCrunch, founded on June 11, 2005, is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies.

2. Gawker – Gawker is Gawker Media’s flagship title, a mix of pop culture and media gossip, updated up to two dozen times a day. Gawker is compulsory reading for New York editors and reporters, and often sets the agenda for the entertainment weeklies, gossip columns such as Page Six, and the soft sections of newspapers such as the New York Times.

3. Glam - In late 2002, a small team of people started to explore some small, but revolutionary ideas

Why is it that in real life we love high glossy magazines and TV for both the content and the beautiful contextual brand ads, but the Web largely remains a text-based direct medium?

Why is it that women as consumers account for more than 80% of the advertising and retail sales, but account for less than 50% of e-commerce spending and even lower for Web advertising?

Why does the Web have a few large portals and content websites, while increasingly some of the most compelling content is targeted on indie publishers’ websites and blogs or is user-generated?

4. R3Media – “Committed to bringing you the latest and greatest in topics ranging from phone technologies to the latest and greatest in digital lifestyles.”

5. PajamasMedia – The best in global blogging, podcasts and opinion – 25/7

6. Sports Blog Nation – SportsBlogs, Inc. brings together some of the netroots top pioneers in order to build the most interactive, fan-friendly sports sites on the web.

7. SeekingAlpha – Seeking Alpha is the leading provider of stock market opinion and analysis from blogs, money managers and investment newsletters.

8. Instablogs – Instablogs Community – Bringing Bloggers and Readers Closer

9. CosmoFair – (that’s me!) – Dedicated to how the world enjoys life, specifically in Asia!

10. Curbed – Since its launch in May 2004, Curbed has established itself as the center of the virtual conversation about real estate in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. Sales and rental prices, celebrity deals, new developments, amusing broker stories, hot restaurants, and the latest neighborhood gossips all on Curbed. Updated a dozen or more times throughout the day, and liberally spiced with reporting and dish from readers, Curbed has become a daily fix for tens of thousands of NYC residents”and the most-trafficked neighborhood and real-estate weblog on the web.

Trying hard to make it to the top ten but not there yet.

11. Weblogs – Looking to get paid to blog about subjects you love? Tell us what you’re passionate about and lets find out if there’s a fit! All of our blogs are 100% unfiltered and certified to be the complete, unvarnished truth. We don’t tell our bloggers what to write. Our industry leading blogs like Engadget, Autoblog, and Joystiq reach millions of passionate readers every month.

12. b5media – b5media is a global new media network featuring more than 150 blogs on a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports. With content written by passionate people from all over the world and visited by more than two million unique visitors a month, b5media is among the world’s largest online new media networks. b5media is based in Toronto.

13. Corante – Corante is a trusted, unbiased source on technology, business, law, science, and culture that’s authored by leading commentators and thinkers in their respective fields. Corante also produces premium conferences and publications that help decision-makers better understand their industries and the world around them.

14. Funponsel – Funponsel Network is a blog network that covers a lot of things. From news, technology, computers, gadgets, entertainment, hobbies, programming, until online earning opportunity.