Discovering Blogs - 1. How to find blogs to read

So you want to explore the world of blogs. Where do you start?

Blog Hopping

Well, a good place is to look in the Links section in the sidebar of most blogs. On ZenGuide, I put links there to other blogs that I like or visit frequently - or they may be blogs by friends or people I know. They are not necessarily about blogging or social media.

From one blog, you can blog-hop to a vast array of other blogs of all kinds by going from link to link.

Recommendations

Many newspapers and magazines have a section on blogs with a summary of what they’re about. These are often informative, useful and fun as they tend to pick them for newsworthiness or quirkiness.

The post you are reading on a blog (ie the “article” on the blog) may link to another blog. Links are shown in bold (and often in another colour) and if you hover your mouse of the link, the mouse arrow will change to hand icon. The address of the link will usually appear in the bottom left corner of your screen. Click on it and you’re off to another blog.

On ZenGuide, I have a Category called Blogs to Explore - see the far right sidebar. That will give you a list of posts where I give brief reviews of blogs that I find interesting: whether because of their design or content or style - or for no particular reason other than I like it!

Search for Blogs

You can search for blogs using Google or any other search engine. Type in a keyword or topic that interests you and “blog”. Alternatively, Google Blog Search searches blogs only - just type in a keyword and see what comes up.