Top Blogs on Novelties and Esoterica

Here are several blogs that are especially difficult to categorize!

"Mark Frauenfelder, who co-founded the 'zine with wife, Carla Sinclair, has remained the driving force behind Boing Boing for nearly two decades, still regularly posting alongside the blog's three other regular editors, Cory Doctorow, David Pescovitz, and Xeni Jardin." (source: appscout.com) Each is a professional journalist. Advertising was added in 2004, with the help of John Battelle -- who went on to launch blog advertising network FM Publishing. A distinct gadgets blog was created last month.

Neatorama was founded in August 2005 by Alex Santoso. The site currently lists 16 additional authors. It includes content from mental_floss and Bathroom Reader.

MetaFilter (MeFi) was founded in July 1999 by Matthew Haughey ("mathowie"), whose other blogs include A Whole Lotta Nothing, PVRBlog and fortuitous. It's arguably more a community than a blog. Jessamyn West (a self-described anti-capitalist blogger at librarian.net) has been a moderator since 2005.

Jason Kottke has updated his blog "almost daily since March 1998". In 2005, he turned his blog into a full-time job, raising $39,900 from about 1450 micropatrons. He ended the experiment after a year, switching to a single sidebar ad.

Hosea "Ze" Frank is an internet phenomenon (sources):

"Humorist Ze Frank is 'thinking so you don't have to,' producing short, intense, funny videos capturing his wide-eyed, contorted face every weekday (apparently, he needs the weekends to catch up on his blinking)."

"Ze Frank's daily video blog looks simple enough... but what takes viewers a few minutes to watch, takes Frank nearly six hours to produce. Coming up with fresh material, he says, is a daily struggle."

"The site is chock full of funny videos, games, interactive toys, and various readings."