blogwatch: gift guides galore
We were amazingly honored to be included in the Wall Street Journal this week in a story about Blogs for Shoppers, especially considering the caliber of the other blogs also included. Here’s a quick tour (and a couple of side steps):
At PopGadget’s Gift Guide you’ll find all kinds of bizarre goodies. Look at the luxury list, where you’ll find everything from a deluxe bbq-to-go to high class doggie rooms from Neiman Marcus (above) for oh, $7,000!
Design*Sponge’s Gift Guide is so jammed with gorgeous things, it makes you wish it was early November so you’d have to time to savor all her picks.
BabyGadget has a ton of gift ideas for little ones, because after all, they’re the most fun to shop for.
Speaking of babies, have you seen Babble? It’s from the folks who started Nerve, the hippest dating site, who have stopped dating and started having babies. Check out its blog Stroller Derby. The whole site is amazingly rich and engaging, with smart writers like A.M.Holmes contributing.
And, one more newsy item. Domino’s site got a facelift and we like it. There are bigger photos to drool over and a real honest-to-goodness blog. Be sure to peek in on Brooke’s renovation. (Santa, did we mention that we want a country house?)
Don’t forget BravoTV.com. Now that’s a killer gift guide. I am getting the rocket for Gloria my little friend.
Nerve isn’t a dating site. :) When it started in the mid-late 90s, it was an arty/literary porn/erotica site, if that makes sense, and it mostly still is. I think they still have a subscription area, even. I haven’t looked at it in years.
They eventually added personals, but the personals are (TMK) run by a different company, Spring Street, and are the same personals that The Onion and Bust have, along with some other sites (Salon used to have them too but I don’t know if they still do). I think there are distinct, weird audiences of Nerve readers (and people who just logged in thru Nerve because they heard of it as a dating site), Onion readers, and Bust readers: when I was there, logging in through Bust, I constantly got slightly inappropriate email from guys who had logged in through Nerve, and email that was consistently less forward from guys who had logged in through The Onion. But I got engaged to the second or third guy I ever actually agreed to meet with from there, so while my emailing period was long, my dating period was short.
I’m not sure when MightyGoods.com started putting up Xmas items, but they’ve been pretty cool this year. I’ve never been disappointed with their recommendations when I’ve actually purchased them.