Laughing Squid, which was founded in San Francisco in 1995 as a film and video production company, has been an award-winning arts, culture, and technology blog since 2003. Readers may look to this offbeat weblog for what's breaking these days in music, painting, sculpture, comics, and culture. With a backlog of around 4,000 posts, this is one of the deepest blogs on the web, and since it often...

The Tropics of Meta is an interdisciplinary blog that "aims to offer a fresh perspective on history, current events, popular culture, and issues in the academic world." Launched in 2010, Tropics of Meta is authored by a team of scholars and writers and is currently edited by three history scholars: Alex Sayf Cummings, a professor at Georgia State University; Romeo Guzman, a professor at California...