Today is BlogDay, the day in which you can learn and discover new and truly valuable bloggers that you don't know about.

BlogDay was initiated with the belief that bloggers should have one day which will be dedicated to know other bloggers, from other countries or areas of interests different than your own.

Today, all participating bloggers (and anyone can indeed join in) will recommend five other bloggers o their sites.

"In one long moment today, bloggers from all over the world will post a recommendation of five new Blogs, preferably blogs different from their own culture, point of view and attitude."

BlogDay strives to open up the opportunity for the whole blogosphere and its readership to make a sudden leap forward, a conscious self-expansion that integrates and grows in one swift move new interconnections, information pathways, news sources and potential partners.

BlogDay is an initiative of Nir Ofir, Editor in Chief of an Israeli Portal: Tapuz.co.il. Nif is known for founding Israel's first commercial Weblog service and as the creator of the "BlogTV" service –Live Broadcasted web logs. You can read more about him right here.

More info about BlogDay 2005 right here.

Here is my personal list of five blogs I haven't paid as much attention too as I should have. They are outstanding good examples of the varied typologies and great diversified uses that news and information sites (you still want to call them blogs?) can have:

1) BuzzMachine
http://www.buzzmachine.com/

RG: The man sees the media future. Through his eyes you can pick and understand what the new media revolution is all about and how, whether you like it or not, is going to affect you too.

by Jeff Jervis
New York - USA

2) Kottke.org
http://www.kottke.org/
Home of fine hypertext products

RG: Insightful, witty, elegant commentary and analysis of design, media and online communication issues.

by Jason Kottke
New York - USA

3) The Long Tail Blog
http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/

RG: An absolute must-read for anyone interested in being part of revolutionary new markets opening up for independent publisher, artists, videomakers and musicians of all kinds.

by Chris Anderson
San Francisco, California

4) Brilliant Ignorance
http://brilliantignorance.blogspot.com/
Viewpoint, comments and information on anything to everything on this planet - uh! em! ok in this Universe

RG: A tresure trove of true gems.

by Sudeep Bansal
Lucknow, UP, India

5) Hyperguru
http://www.hyperguru.com/
Knowledge will save you

RG: Food for thinking: daily brain pills for independent thinkers

by Massimo Curatella
Rome, Italy

What are yours?

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