Forbes.com's Best of The Web Picks The Best Blogs in 20 Categories; More Than 140 Web Site Reviews; More Than 3,000 Previous Reviews Are Available at www.forbes.com/bow

Business Wire, July 27, 2005

NEW YORK -- The summer 2005 issue of Forbes.com's Best of The Web (www.forbes.com/bow) uncovers the most worthwhile blogs in 20 different categories. No small feat considering the more than 14 million blogs in existence today.

Blogs reviewed in this edition range from professional, fully-staffed, Web forums -- like the popular technology blog Slashdot and Duct Tape Marketing, a blog devoted to small business resources -- to insightful personal journals like BuzzMachine.com, a series of meditations on the future of media and SlavetoTarget.com, a shopping blog run by two Target addicts.

Summer 2005 Best of The Web blog categories include: Art, Automobiles, Blog Tools, Careers, City, Economics, Health & Fitness, Literary, Marketing, Media, Medical, Meta Blogs, Music, Political, Shopping, Small Business, Sports, Technology, Video Blogs and Video Games.

Some of the "Forbes Favorites" include:

Career Blogs: Monster Blog http://monster.typepad.com/monsterblog

Automobile Blogs: Autoblog http://autoblog.com

Blog Tools: WordPress http://wordpress.org

Shopping Blogs: Mighty Goods http://www.mightygoods.com

Meta Blogs: Technorati http://www.technorati.com

Economics Blogs: EconLog http://econlog.econlib.org

Literary Blogs: GalleyCat http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat

"The majority of blogs aren't worth a click, but blogs should not be ignored because they represent a powerful new force in information dissemination and collaboration," said Matt Schifrin, Editor of Forbes.com's Best of The Web. "There are standouts, and our grouping of some 100 of the best blogs in a host of categories cuts through the noise of millions of these sites."

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