I may have to change my FT signature line!

Congrats on the ranking, Ric

There are certainly lessons to be learned from mommy blogger packaging.

I personally prefer the single-author home-made blogs over the more “professional” blogs that pump out post after post while trying very hard to sound cool (think Engadget or Gizmodo in the techie community). The really important stuff gets picked up somewhere else anyway, so the individual bloggers are ultimately also good filters for me.

Debbie Dubrow has been on top of the mommy blogger community for quite a while.

Heather Cowper with “Heather on her Travels” has a cool site and good writing with loads of tips for someone entering the blogosphere. I should be following more of her advice.

RickSeaney and FareCompare blogs should be familiar to FlyerTalkers. Airfare info.

Gadling, Jaunted, Peter Greenberg, Vagabondish, and Uptake.com Vacation Blog are large sites with a variety of travel writers backed by the bigger bucks. These are sites a travel writer can go and get work published for exposure.

I am surprised Hotel Chatter (a site I follow), Jaunted’s sister site, is not on the Top 100 list. These sites were picked up by Conde Nast last year.

Travel Blissful is the only top 10 site I have not read. I see Erica Johannson is a solo blogger. Cool.

These blogs are an eclectic mix. The blogosphere is the wild west and reminds me of the punk music scene of the 1970s.

The beauty of the blog movement is the potential to just go out and start a blog and build a community as an individual or small group with little start-up financing.

The small site content may not be perfectly produced, the design may be rather basic, but the sense of value for a community of readers can be just as high as you will get from a corporate packaged, highly financed, content producing machine of blog writers in a large site.

On the technorati rating — I had never even heard of any of the top 10 blogs. Or top 20, I think (I might have missed one in scanning the list, of course). And my RSS reader has about 40 feeds in the travel category, yours being one of my favorite (because of the detailed analysis).