Friday Blog Question: What's your favorite website?

I don’t necessarily mean the website you go to the most – I mean, www.igoogle.com is my home page, so I have no choice but to go to it most every day. So that doesn’t count. What I mean is which site do you find the most useful? Or the most enjoyable? Or the most utilitarian? Frankly, what site do you think is the best destination on the web for whatever reason, and why?

This is a surprisingly difficult question. Because I've been working in the Internet business for 15 years, I'm a bit cynical. Also, I'm interested in basically everything in the world, but highly interested in essentially nothing. I'm like a diner at an all-you-can-eat Chinese buffet featuring Sweet N Sour information. Ultimately, if I look at it from a time spent perspective, I probably devote more waking hours to the Convince & Convert blog and Twitter than anything else. Of all the sites out there, the one that I find the most consistent value in at the moment is probably Mashable. It's the one site that really keeps me fired up about the state of the Web industry and what it's capable of in the future. Jason Baer

Lifehacker is my favorite site, and has been for quite some time – although, I subscribe to their RSS feed so technically I don’t visit it. I just love the writing there, and the interesting topics. If you haven’t been to Lifehacker before, it is a site that centers on how to use technology to be more productive. There are lots of how-to’s. Most of the apps I use on a daily basis I heard about first on Lifehacker (Omnifocus, Evernote to name a few). William Smith

I don't go here every day, but I really like dictionary.com because it helps expand my understanding of the English language. If I don't understand something I'm reading or if someone said something puzzling, I look it up. It helps me appreciate the meaning of the words as used in their context. There are still many new words I will continue to hear or read, so dictionary.com is a favorite in my eternal quest for knowledge. Rosa Millan

This sounds cliche, but I love Facebook with a passion. It helps me connect with friends and family and some of the applications that I play around with (like the bumper sticker one)provide hours of meaningless enjoyment when it's 3 a.m. and I can't sleep. Plus, Facebook is actually where I found this internship and have done everything from sell textbooks to find babysitting help for my niece. Let's put it this way - even my cats have their own Facebook page, which I need to check... brb... ;o) Michelle Talsma

My favorite site at the current moment would have to be http://tadalist.com/, It lets you create basic todo lists and is available anywhere. I like todo lists, Chaos Theory anyone? haha Nick Hammond

Google Reader. It's not so much a site as a tool, but I come back to it so often it that it gets the nod. Joseph Jaramillo

I’m addicted to ESPN.com. People that know me well think it may be a problem. Relevant stories, multimedia formats, timely info, quality content. Chris Sietsema

I've long been a fanatic of Skeptic Magazine - so www.skeptic.com always has some of my favorite reading. There's nothing quite so entertaining to me as science mixed with dashing people's most closely held beliefs. Eric Reid

About the Author: Eric Reid

I am the Social Media Services Manager for Off Madison Ave. I've been with the company since 2006, when I was hired to do SEO, and link building in particular. When social networking sites started cropping up, at first I started using them to create backlinks - but they weren't the best for that, given all of the "nofollow" attributes. However, I did see the potential for all of the direct referral traffic they represent. Since then I've been actively pursuing both tactics for clients: Links that can help them for search, and social postings that get them involved in the conversation. It's about the coolest job you could ever get. ;)

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