"Here are “15 Blogs All Bloggers Should Read.” A lot of of times bloggers, especially new ones, do not know where to look for help. Well, look no more." - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

I share this only to point out how much I disagree with this article. Of the 15 blogs listed here as "must reads", I only subscribe to ProBlogger, and the rest don't look interesting. How can you make this list without TechCrunch and Scobleizer, for instance? Here's who I'm reading and sharing: http://www.louisgray.com/live... What about you? - Louis Gray

Interesting: I've only heard of 2 on that list. Seems like an overstated blog promotion list. - Mark Trapp

Louis, not all bloggers are tech bloggers -- most of them aren't. It seems this list was aimed at "all bloggers" and helping them with thinking about blogging and the various tools, strategies etc. - Robert Seidman

So how many of them are must reads to you Robert? - Louis Gray

I enjoy Copyblogger and DoshDosh too. But this post smells of half-linkbait, half-brownnosing. - Andy DeSoto

How many of them are must reads to me is irrelevant. But, what's relevant is this: if you're blogging about "sports" or "politics", Scobleizer and TechCrunch probably aren't "must reads". I now see you for the "tech-ist" that you are. :-) - Robert Seidman

i don't know what i think yet, because i heven't read these blogs. i'll formulate an opinion long after it's relevant to comment, but a couple of them look interesting to me. note that i'm not a blogger yet (i've written two posts), so as someone who is neither a part of the superset writer nor the subset blogger, i don't think those look entirely worthless at a glance. lots of "make money" things i'm not interested in, though. - idnan

@Andy .. it is ... a screen shot of the site and a simple one or two line description the majority are making money online type blogs - Steven Hodson

Steven, don't ProBlogger and CopyBlogger have the aim of helping people figure out how to make some money too? - Robert Seidman

cool, thanks Louis!! I appreciate you sharing this. - Susan Beebe

@Robert - never said anything against any of the blogs .. just making a statment that I - like Andy - felt the post was linkbait. It wouldn't have been so bad if the writer had included some more information about the blogs etc - Steven Hodson

@Steven: sorry about that, it was Louis and some others who had shown support for Problogger and Copyblogger. Since whatever the blog that wrote this list has "Make Money Online" branding in its page titles, I'm not particularly surprised! ;-) - Robert Seidman

Robert, I am unabashedly "tech-ist". :-) - Louis Gray

So sick of lists, - Andrew Feinberg

Nice list, but got to give it EPIC FAIL status. What it should have said is every blog a blogger who is interested in making money should read. For the record though, I read a good portion of those blogs - Duncan Riley

I can admit that I subscribed to at least half of those blogs before I read this article. I don't subscribe to TechCrunch and have only read it when linked to from somewhere else. It all depends on your goals and your blogging knowledge (I just started blogging). This list was primarily aimed at Make Money people and a couple of those blogs appear to just be friends or something...obviously no proof on that :) - Rahsheen ™

A couple favorites in there, and several I find utterly spammy and unreadable. - Chris Baskind

Another angle to look at "best" blogs is perhaps in terms of their "value" http://bit.ly/89uj9 . - Hayk H.

I have to admit that I'm subscribed to some of these blogs, although they are not my favourites by far. It's just that I have to keep track on what's new in the Blogosphere, so that I'm able to report on that. Most of them I really hate, because it's all the time about moneymaking via blogs. I try not to mention them in my posts. :-) - Ton Zijp

+1 on Duncan Riley's comment. If all you are interested in is blogging for profit, then maybe these are must-reads. But if you are not then why read any of them? - Tom Quinn

Because blogging for profit and blogging for influence, reputation, or reach have a lot of similarities: create a lot of interesting, meaningful content and people will visit your site and happily consume whatever content you produce. - Andy DeSoto

I disagree. Most of these sites appear to be all about making money while blogging. - Corvida

sure, let's just put techcrunch on every "must read" blog list - yea that's a great idea... c'mon people. if that's the case, then certainly over a short period, the list will be one blog. probably the same in every single category. - Allen Stern

@corvida, bloggers love to blog about blogging... it's very meta... and navel gazing - Jason Carreira

I've read most of those blogs and most of them certainly do have their good points. There is certainly a heavy emphasis on how to monetize your blogging in a number of those blogs or on social media marketing. However, there's plenty of other good blogs out there if you want a good read or want to learn some new stuff. The title/theme was too overarching to match the material, IMHO. - Mark Dykeman

what's with the bitching, sure we all hate lists, but this one ain't that bad - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Making money while blogging and building a blog that is a "success" both come down to a single goal: Traffic. I'm sure nobody on this list will doubt that problogger is a good blog...so you can't just discount all the smaller blogs on the same topic. This type of thinking is why there is an echo chamber in the first place. As Morpheus said, "Free your mind" :) - Rahsheen ™

@Jason Carriera That's why this list isn't the best or even in the top 50 of must reads. - Corvida

I think you're partially right, Vincent. I remember reading a comment from Chris Brogan that his posts that contained lists were always the most popular even if there were more valuable posts without lists. People like to make them and I guess like to read them even more. You go over to the IMDb discussion boards and it is ALL about making lists of favorite/best movies. They are quick to read and easy to decide whether you are on the same page as the author. - Liz

Doesn't appeal to me. But if it was called "15 blogging about blogging blogs must reads" it would be OK - Sarah Perez

Sarah, I think you should repost this list on your blog with "15 Blogs Sarah Perez Doesn't Care About" and see how that post does relative to other posts ;-) - Robert Seidman

Agree with Louis. I do not find many of these valuable. I do like looking at Smashing magazine for the design eye candy. The rest of the list I could simply and do live without. - Franklin Pettit