This is part five of my A-Z review of Scoble‘s feeds. The rules and criteria are here.

I found a great one I didn’t know about in the E’s:

eHomeUpgrade (RSS Feed)

eHomeUpgrade is a collaborative blog that focuses on “the connected home and the digital lifestyle.” That is a perfect recipe for a blog I want to read every day.

Honorable Mention:

Ed Bott (RSS Feed) (ineligible because I already read it every day)

Engadget (RSS Feed) (ineligible, same reason)

Ernie the Attorney (RSS Feed) (would be HM based on funny name alone, but good stuff too)

Evil Genius Chronicles (RSS Feed)

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This is part four of my A-Z review of Scoble’s feeds. The rules and criteria are here.

We have another tie for the best of the D’s:

Dare Obasanjo (RSS Feed)

Down the Avenue (RSS Feed)

Dare Obasanjo has exactly the kind of blog I love to read. There’s a lot of tech stuff, some current events, a little music. Good stuff, and going onto my every day reading list.

Down the Avenue is about PR, marketing, blogging, VC and other interesting stuff. I’m not all that interested in VC stuff anymore, having lost a lot of money back in the dot.com bust, but I find this site interesting.

Honorable Mention:

Doc Searls (RSS Feed) (ineligible because I read it every day, but most of the time I have no idea what he’s talking about)

Dan Gillmor’s eJournal (RSS Feed)

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This is part three of my A-Z review of Scoble’s feeds. The rules and criteria are here.

Here is my choice from the C’s:

Conversations with Dina (RSS Feed)

Conversations with Dina is an interesting mix of tech, blogging, travel, philosophy, etc. Most of it’s interesting, but what put her over the top is her take on Plaxo. Her experience with Plaxo sounds like mine when I stupidly signed up on Classmates for one day, which was a piece of cake compared to when I signed up on Ancestry during the only 10 minutes of my life when I wondered about my ancestors. People from Ancestry called (yes called) me at my office more than my wife until I screamed at them to stop.

Honorable Mention:

Cyberspace People Watcher (RSS Feed) (Very enjoyable social computing, blogging, etc. resource)

Chris Brooks (RSS Feed) (Great game content and a very well designed website)

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This is part two of my A-Z review of Scoble’s feeds. The rules and criteria are here.

First, some housekeeping. I have decided that Bloglines is worthless. Most of the posts in the feeds I imported there appear to be months old- even though most of the blogs have many newer posts. For some reason, Bloglines is not picking up all the posts in a feed. So I dumped Bloglines and imported Scoble’s OPML file into FeedDemon. Hopefully this will work better- it can’t be any worse. I’d prefer a web based reader for this task, but if Bloglines is representative of how those work, I’ll pass.

Now, for my favorite feed from the B’s:

Bernie DeKoven’s FunLog (RSS Feed)

Bernie DeKoven’s FunLog is a blog about fun. It’s that simple. With a world full of blogs about technology, politics, music, Web 2.0 (whatever the hell that is) and other “important stuff” it’s refreshing to find a blog about origami, croquet, cubicle bowling and other “fun” stuff.

Honorable Mention:

Blog Maverick (RSS Feed)

BoingBoing (RSS Feed) (ineligible because I, like everyone else, already read it)

Blog Consulting & Professional Blogging a View from the Isle ( RSS Feed) (Might have warranted a tie, but got a much deserved too long name penalty)

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I mentioned yesterday that Scoble has updated his blogroll, and that I was looking forward to mining it for new blogs to read.

I have decided to A-Z it sort of like I am doing with my songs on the Err Bear Music page. Once or twice a week I’ll post my favorite feed from a letter of the alphabet. There may be ties and there may be some letters with no selection.

A couple of rules:

1) I am going to skip all blogs with names that begin with a “.” the same way I skip all the aaa whatevers in the Yellow Pages.

2) I am looking for blogs that interest me, and I am not interested in all things. I am not a coder (anymore), I don’t use Linux (anymore) and I care nada about politics and cellphones. I like personal tech, music and a bunch of other stuff. Accordingly, there will be some great blogs I skip over solely because of the subject matter and some lesser known blogs I select for the same reason.

3) If I already read a blog daily, it is ineligible, though it will get an honorable mention inclusion. This is about mining new blogs.

4) My descriptions of the blog will be intentionally short. You can learn more by subscribing to the feed than you can by reading what I think about it.

So without no further adieu, the A pick(s).

There are lots and lots of A’s so we’re going to start out with a tie:

A blog doesn’t need a clever name (RSS feed)

Ask Dave Taylor! (RSS feed)

A blog doesn’t need a clever name covers a lot of stuff: tech, music, politics, etc. I’m not interested in all of it, but even the stuff I don’t care about is packaged in a way that makes it readable. I think I will learn some stuff I don’t know here, as well as more about stuff I do know.

Ask Dave Taylor! is exactly the kind of blog my ‘Tweeners should read. He answers questions about tech stuff in a way that’s easy to understand. I’m going to refer a lot of my 40 something friends to this site as a way to begin the journey from luddite to geek.

Honorable Mention:

A VC (RSS Feed) (ineligible because I’ve read Fred’s excellent blog for a long time and this is a blog mining experiment).

A Welsh View (RSS Feed) (for the same reason)

Addicted to Digital Media (RSS Feed)

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