Best Blogs for Sheer Entertainment
This list was initially judged by a group of fifty people. The factors considered were:- Variety of entertainment areas covered: Blogs that focus exclusively on one area, such as sports, movies, games, or tech, while still entertaining, were penalized slightly based on the narrowness of the subject matter.
- Authorship / Literary quality
- Layout: Presentation of the blog, including blocking, titling, paragraphing, etc.
- Research: The comprehensive nature of the material.
- Artistic sense: Interplay of music, video, animation, and storytelling.
- Balance of content: The mix of analysis, fantasy, opinion, factual reporting, and instruction.
- Audience opportunities: The extent to which the blog allows for audience participation and opens new entertainment possibilities for readers, enriching their lives in ways they may not have previously considered.
- Longevity: The blog's reliability in offering its audience new, high-quality content over a significant period of time.
- Miscellaneous: Elements such as tone, uplift, smile factor, merriment, intelligence - essentially, all the components that contribute to the entertainment experience.
This blog carries a huge variety of entertaining material from magic to national air acrobatic teams, to bridge, to gold panning instruction, to the history of comics, to new explorations of outer space. In other words, if it's entertainment, eventually it will be treated at ToysPeriod, and it will be treated in a memorable, authoritative way.
As a result, ToysPeriod is the group's top choice for dependable, sheer entertainment week after week, month after month.
Great site - although currently little known (likely to change, the Internet moves fast), it looks to me as though the Toy Tech blog is a gem worthy of the top spot. Where else will you find origami and architecture in the same quality format?
I thought all "entertaining" blogs just spat out a single pithy paragraph with a picture. Not these guys. Waiting for the book.
This blog is terrific, and a close second to ToysPeriod. Its treatment of marine life oddities, interesting stories regarding the solar system, and various tech subjects allows the blog to respond to both a wide variety of interests as well as provide a nice balance of fact and entertainment.
Visit WebsiteThis choice for number four was disputed only because of its narrow focus on Lego. However, that aside, the uplifting content of the blog, especially as it grants attention to the creativity of thousands of Lego lovers, can only bring smiles to the hearts and minds of all who view it.
Visit WebsiteThis blog is entertaining in that it carries a huge variety of gadgets that can only be described as fun. I mean, where else are you going to find photos of every single item ever offered on the Concorde? These items reek of chic, and some would say decadence in an upper echelon sort of way.
Very underrated. She reminds me of the girl from "Bad Moms." I like that personality. And she actually has observations!
Racheal Lee Bradford is just hilarious. I definitely recommend her.
This site, although it focuses on news, primarily of the political type, has a flair that qualifies it in the minds of the fabulous fifty choosing these blogs as entertainment. Whereas most talking heads simply bend the news to reflect their ideology, Hot Air tends to blast news into the desired shape, and therein lies the entertainment value.
For those who rise each morning and retire each night mumbling about tech code and the IPO market, in addition to the latest goings-on at Facebook, TechCrunch feeds the maw opening wide to receive. And, of course, those in need of the reasons Cisco stock is going to soar during the month of November can depend on TechCrunch for the inside scoop.
For the tech, TechCrunch is that bed of roses labeled entertainment.
Again, the in-depth coverage of a wide variety of sports attracts thousands of fans to this blog, and rightly so. Up-to-the-minute reporting mixed in with human interest stories that may affect the scores next weekend, and you have a winning mix if you are looking for credibility as well as entertainment.