Best Business Blogs

The nominees are in for our annual ranking. If you haven't read these blogs before, we recommend that you try them once. These are truly some of the best business thinkers of out times.

This year we have changed our methodology. We are now only including blogs of individuals and excluding groups, companies, newspapers and brand blogs. Why are we doing this? Because we want to celebrate the individual writers. Not corporations. We do not want to be influenced by business models or advertising to skew the results. We just want to rank the best writing, period. So here they are…

Best Business Blogs 2011

Rank	Prev. Year	Blog	Author	Topic	Alexa Rank	Google Page Rank
1	1	Seth’s Blog	Seth Godin	Marketing	4,926	7
2	2	How to Change the World	Guy Kawasaki	Career	24,758	7
3	3	Robert Scoble	Robert Scoble	Technology	31,219	7
4		Zen Habits	Leo Baubata	Work Life Balance	6,160	6
5	7	Calculated Risk	Bill McBride	Finance	35,109	7
6		Small Business Trends	Anita Campbell	Small Business	7,559	6
7		Chris Brogan	Chris Brogan	Social Media	8,815	6
8	11	The Big Picture	Barry Ritholtz	Economics	11,592	6
9		A VC	Fred Wilson	Venture Capital	11,881	6
11		Economist’s View	Mark Thoma	Economics	80,071	7
11		The Simple Dollar	Trent Hamm	Personal Finance	18,162	6
13		Grasping Reality	Brad DeLong	Economics	88,144	7
13		Brian Solis	Brian Solis	PR	18,280	6
14	21	Global Economic Trends	Mike Shedlock	Economics	18,661	6
15	19	Brazen Careerist	Penelope Trunk	Career	19,584	6
16	5	Greg Mankiw	Greg Mankiw	Economics	138,803	8
17		Both Sides of the Table	Mark Suster	Venture Capital	22,128	6
18	23	The Baseline Scenario	James Kwak	Finance	162,967	7
19	22	Blog Maverick	Mark Cuban	Entrepreneurship	38,848	6
20		Rortybomb	Mike Konczal	Economics	331,674	7
21		Pharmalot	Ed Silverman	Pharma	139,984	6
22	25	Tom Peters	Tom Peters	Management	207,921	6
23		Calacanis	Jason Calacanis	Entrepreneurship	237,982	6
24		Microfinance Open Book	David Roodman	Microfinance	268,420	6
26	30	Work Matters	Bob Sutton	Management	308,931	6
26		ProBlogger	Darren Rowse	Blogging	1,855	5
27		Ben Casnocha	Ben Casnocha	Entrepreneurship	426,735	6
28	32	Pharma Gossip	Anonymous “Jack Friday”	Pharma	495,275	6
29		Timbuktu Chronicles	Emeka Okafor	Africa	548,150	6
30		Interfluidity	Steve Randy Waldman	Economics	966,712	6
31		Five Cent Nickel	Anonymous “Nickel”	Personal Finance	62,070	5
32	26	Presentation Zen	Garr Reynolds	Presentations	70,596	5
33		Neuromarketing	Roger Dooley	Marketing	104,099	5
34		FarmGate	Stu Ellis	Agriculture	125,422	5
35		Drew’s Marketing Minute	Drew McLellan	Marketing	131,226	5
36	41	All Things Workplace	Steve Roesler	Leadership	460,877	5
37		The Aleph Blog	David Merkel	Investing	492,222	5
38		HR Bartender	Sharlyn Lauby	HR	615,934	5
39	37	CEO Blog-Time Leadership	Jim Estill	Leadership	672,817	5
40		Toilet Paper Entrepreneur	Mike Michalowicz	Entrepreneurship	68,984	4
41		Re: The Auditors	Francine McKenna	Accounting	783,030	5
42	42	Random Roger	Roger Nusbaum	Personal Finance	809,572	5
43	45	The Practice of Leadership	George Ambler	Leadership	866,459	5
44	39	Tom Asacker	Tom Asacker	Marketing	1,076,888	5
45		Management Craft	Lisa Haneberg	Management	1,179,209	5
46	44	Ageless Marketing	David B. Wolfe	Marketing	2,689,486	5
47		On Product Management	Saeed Khan	Product Management	483,214	4
48		Economics of Contempt	Anonymous Lawyer	Finance	599,049	4
49		Stuart Bruce	Stuart Bruce	PR	706,996	4
50		Software Project Mgmt.	Pawel Brodzinski	Project Management	972,513	4