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techcrunch.com
The digital universe surveyed for management and investors. The editor, Michael Arrington, a corporate attorney who was raised in England, can influence the fate of start-ups and established web brands alike. Highly accessible to non-business readers.

treehugger.com
The most popular among sustainability blogs. As arch-enemy of corporate “greenwashing”, it has “the Wal-Mart effect” constantly in its sights. Scrutinises climate, GM, toxins, pollution, carpooling, personal health, fashion and travel.

ted.com
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design: click on the Themes link for visions of the digital future encapsuled in 18-minute bites by world-leading minds. Navigation is a chore, so pop these names into the search: Jeff Han, Neil Turok, Martin Rees, Bill Gross, Amy Tan and Hod Lipson. The blog craves your creative feedback.

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artfagcity.com
Written by Paddy Johnson (a she), it’s New York’s best art blog, strong on reviews, gossip and news. A recent post covered the vexed topic of how to “distinguish fine-art photography from an advanced Flickr user”. Tough call.

nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.com
Owen Hatherley, a 27-year-old Londoner, is unstinting in his exposure of contemporary guff. “The infantile appeal of the organic”, London Transport’s co-opting of the Goldsmiths guru Michael Craig-Martin and the outbreak of “austerity nostalgia” all come under his starchy, modernist glare — as bracing as being happy-slapped with a mackerel.

artforum.com/diary
The American magazine’s Scene & Herd blog (see what they did there?) is the art establishment’s society page. Like Tatler in cooler attire, but written with a knowing dash — and the sidebar is good for news.

hollywood-elsewhere.com
Gossipy, pleasantly cynical blog from Jeffrey Wells, for those who want to feel they are in the loop with all the Hollywood chatter.

greencine.com
A top stop for those whose film tastes are off-piste; good for news and comment on indie, art-house and cult films. Tonight (Sunday, from midnight GMT), Greencine will be running a live blog on the Oscars that will presumably be intentionally funny, unlike the real thing.

saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon
This page is fast becoming a Facebook for emerging artists. As well as having a daily magazine, with contributors from Berlin to Beijing, it allows members to post their reviews of shows, but it’s no love-in. “ArtyPete”, for instance, finds Andreas Golder “daft and shallow”.

woostercollective.com
This hip showcase/blog is a virtual street corner for graphic designers and graffiti artists, from Brooklyn to Buenos Aires, to hang out on. It’s your first port of call if you’re searching for the next JR, Blek le Rat or, indeed, Banksy, whose takeover of a pet store in New York is featured.

modernartobsession.blogs.com
Posts can be sporadic on this frantic, ranting blog by a collector. As he works on Wall Street, one constantly hopes he’s not topped himself. Yet that’s unlikely, given how bullish he was lately about the art recession: fewer galleries than restaurants have closed in NYC, he writes, and the discounts on recent Sugimoto, Sherman and Knoebel works are “total common sense” (“Did you see the shows?”).

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