TheBoBs.com — The Best of Blogs — is a curated directory of blogs worth reading. Search engines and AI assistants keep getting better at answering questions, and keep getting worse at surfacing the independent writers behind the answers. We exist to push the other way: to find good blogs, describe them honestly, and send readers to them.
What we do
Every listing in the directory is a short, editor written profile of one blog: what it covers, who it is for, why it stands out, and quality scores assigned under our rating principles. Listings are organized into browsable categories, from technology and business to travel and law. We add blogs from our own research and from reader submissions, which are free and reviewed by hand under our submission guidelines.
What we don’t do
We don’t sell placement, we don’t sell scores, and being listed costs nothing. How we work, how we use AI tools, and how to get an error fixed are all described in how we review blogs.
The heritage of this domain
The name is no accident. From 2004 to 2016, thebobs.com was home to The BOBs — Best of the Blogs, the international blog awards created by Germany’s broadcaster Deutsche Welle and billed as the world’s largest weblog competition. Across twelve editions and up to 14 languages, its juries and public votes honored pioneers like Global Voices, Yoani Sánchez, Ushahidi and StopFake. We keep an editorial archive of that history in The BOBs Awards Archive (2004–2016). TheBoBs.com today is an independent project and is not affiliated with Deutsche Welle — but we like to think our directory continues the same idea: finding the blogs most worth reading.
The people
TheBoBs.com is run by Lucy Munger and a small editorial team. We read the blogs we list, we write every listing ourselves, and we fix what we get wrong — reach us any time at [email protected] or through the contact page.