15 Sites You Should Be Reading Every Day
Recommended Reading
By AJ Vaynerchuk Oct 6th |
On his or her first day, every new VaynerMedia employee is directed to a list of recommended reading. These are sites and blogs that we feel are on the cutting edge of “what we do”: social media, branding, business, web design & user interface, technology, etc. As our first blog post, we are going to introduce you to that list. We don’t expect you to read each of these sites every day (we know you don’t have that much free time), but please take a look, find which sites best fit you, read away, and of course, feel free to suggest other reading through the comment section.
Social Media
- TechCrunch – A top tier blog that covers the tech scene in a big way.
- Mashable – Another top tier blog that does a great job putting out useful content while also covering the latest in social media.
- ReadWriteWeb – One of the best when it comes to covering technology in an in-dept and unique style.
Aggregators/Social Bookmarking Sites
- popurls – A great snapshot of the web. For one reason or another, this has been a mainstay in my daily reading.
- TechMeme – When it comes to covering the tech industry this is the quickest way to get headlines of what is important.
- Hacker News – A great mix of technology, entrepreneurship, design and development.
Web Design & User Interface
- Smashing Magazine – My go to place for everything that makes the internet “pretty.”
- Design Newz – I haven’t read too much from this site, but one of our (awesome) designers swears by it.
Personal Blogs
- Fred Wilson – A great blog that covers the business side of entrepreneurship and start-ups by NYC Venture Capitalist Fred Wilson.
- Mark Cuban – A great blog by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban which focuses on business with some tech mixed in.
- Seth Godin – A blog written by author and web entrepreneur Seth Godin covering marketing, advertising and all things web.
- Gary Vaynerchuk …Maybe I’m biased on this one, but my brother Gary Vaynerchuk does a great job talking business and web on his personal video blog.
Mixed Bag
- AdAge – A great website / publication that covers a lot of mainstream advertising and marketing news.
- LifeHacker – One of the most popular blogs on the web dedicating to making your life better, more interesting and more efficient.
- Mixergy – A great video blog run by Andrew Warner that interviews entrepreneurs with business tips and success stories.
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Author: AJ Vaynerchuk
AJ Vaynerchuk holds a bachelor's degree from Boston University in Advertising with a concentration in Computer Science. He has worked with his brother Gary in social media for the last 5 years. At VaynerMedia AJ is responsible for running day-to-day operations. He enjoys spending time with his family, reading on his Kindle, and following the New York Jets.
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I would add a 16th: http://blogs.zdnet.com/weblife
Mager my man, you do a great job. Anyone reading this, I’m also recommending his blog as well. Great friend, great writer, great mind for the space.
For design I also really love qbn.com – visuelle.co.uk – and – fleuron.com
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Great list!
Patrick, thanks so much for the added suggestions. Gonna have to pass them along to our designers.
How have you been? Good to hear from you! Shoot me an email if you ever need anything. aj [at] vaynermedia [dot] com.
No digg.com on that list?!?!?
Jamie, Digg is definitely a great website and resource. For one reason or another it hasn’t truly entrenched itself into our daily reading. Thanks so much for the suggestion!
What an awesome list.
I miss getting daily VM links in my inbox!
We miss you!
Really glad to see the blog up AJ.
Excited about the conversation that develops here.
One more to add to the list might be http://www.psfk.com – good crossroad of design/trends/ and brands.
Stephen, thanks for the kind words, the whole VaynerMedia team is also excited for conversation on here.
Thanks so much for the suggestion, I’ve seen PSFK before, haven’t spent enough time there thought!
Top 3 for me
GV and AJ anything
Tech Crunch
Mashable
Thomas, super kind of you to put Gary and I on your list! No doubt that TechCrunch and Mashable rock too!
Thanks for this list. I knew of some of them but there are a few I will add to my daily list. Thanks, and I love the site!
Chase thanks for the kind words. I definitely know that most of these are well known, but felt that I should give each site the attention they deserve.
Some of my faves that weren’t on the list:
alistapart.com, fuelyourcreativity.com, wireframes.linowski.ca and almost all of the envato.com sites.
Yeah they all deserve props that is for sure!
great post guys!
Rich, thanks so much! Glad you liked it.
Great post AJ. It’s always interesting to see what other people read. I’m a big Mashable fan as well. Excited to check out popurls.
Curious what RSS tools you all use? Google reader? Mail?
John to be honest, RSS is kind of falling off the map for me. When I actively used it, Google Reader was best!
Clay Shirky’s website. http://www.shirky.com
This guy covers the internet since the early ninetees. Also watch his presentations on TED talks. Like this one:
http://www.ted.com/talks/clay_shirky_how_cellphones_twitter_facebook_can_make_history.html
Awesome stuff!
For a more in depth & thought provoking concepts, Umair Haque is the man http://blogs.harvardbusiness.org/haque/
AJ – You’re in NYC; you should be all over Silicon Alley Insider – http://www.businessinsider.com/alleyinsider
Seeing Gary next week in Tempe!
Dave, super solid point. Going to add Silicon Alley Insider into my mix!
Shout out to some sites that may not be “every day checks” simply because they don’t push new content on a daily basis but are still totally worth reading when they do push new content:
http://www.onstartups.com
http://www.seomoz.org
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com
Jordan thanks for your additions – all great ones.
http://sethgodin.typepad.com is great daily reading on marketing and social interaction.
WOWZERS (does that word still exist?ekkk) – loving your work AJ, and your super interaction on here. That’s a pukka deluxe list and the whole post really got me fizzing added with the consistent updates you are giving to your users. Great list, you GUN!Keep em coming.
Sam, thanks so much for the kind words! Look for more useful content soon
For design I also really love qbn.com – visuelle.co.uk – and – fleuron.com
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Great list!