What are the best blogs/sites to generate big buzz?

3 points·rami··13 comments

i'm part of writewith, a yc startup, and i have a side gig writing for venturebeat. the readership skews towards investors and established entrepreneurs. so although it has a smaller readership than TC and some of the others, there's a lot of value in getting covered by it.

email me at eric at writewith dot com if you have a good story idea.

I agree with Eric.

VentureBeat is great with high quality content and a relatively savvy readership.

So far I have: TechCrunch GegaOm ReadWriteWeb WebWorkerDaily LifeHacker

I would suggest that any rss feed aggregated through http://web20.originalsignal.com/ should all be on your radar.

Why are people so concerned about buzz?

Buzz is for people who cannot build a useful product.

Once you have a useful product, it's not 'buzz', it's marketing. Hire a suit for that.

Buzz = free marketing :)

Right, but it's completely out of your target market. To me, buzz means 'Oh, hey, they'll never actually use it, but it looks cool'

Steve Rubel from micropersuasion.com will disagree with you :) Few marketing keywords: meme and word of mouth

For me it's Scholastic News and Nick.com.

(In other words: shouldn't this depend on your product and your target market?!? Or is everyone just building generic Web 2.0 apps that only appeal to alpha geeks?)

Business 2 Beta, and some of the Inc. blogs can be good a well, also there are a few ZDNet blogs that might be applicable.

http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub

I have eHub in my bloglines collection, but gave up trying to track sites because, after a while, they all become a blur of vowel-deficient clones.

Nothing like TechCrunch.

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