What are the best blogs/sites to generate big buzz?

[rami]

[ereldon]

i'm part of writewith, a yc startup, and i have a side gig writing for venturebeat. the readership skews towards investors and established entrepreneurs. so although it has a smaller readership than TC and some of the others, there's a lot of value in getting covered by it.

email me at eric at writewith dot com if you have a good story idea.

[dshah → ereldon]

I agree with Eric.

VentureBeat is great with high quality content and a relatively savvy readership.

[rami]

So far I have: TechCrunch GegaOm ReadWriteWeb WebWorkerDaily LifeHacker

[KB → rami]

I would suggest that any rss feed aggregated through http://web20.originalsignal.com/ should all be on your radar.

[jaggederest]

Why are people so concerned about buzz?

Buzz is for people who cannot build a useful product.

Once you have a useful product, it's not 'buzz', it's marketing. Hire a suit for that.

[rami → jaggederest]

Buzz = free marketing :)

[jaggederest → rami]

Right, but it's completely out of your target market. To me, buzz means 'Oh, hey, they'll never actually use it, but it looks cool'

[rami → jaggederest]

Steve Rubel from micropersuasion.com will disagree with you :) Few marketing keywords: meme and word of mouth

[RyanGWU82]

For me it's Scholastic News and Nick.com.

(In other words: shouldn't this depend on your product and your target market?!? Or is everyone just building generic Web 2.0 apps that only appeal to alpha geeks?)

[Mistone]

Business 2 Beta, and some of the Inc. blogs can be good a well, also there are a few ZDNet blogs that might be applicable.

[ivan]

http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub

[jamesbritt → ivan]

I have eHub in my bloglines collection, but gave up trying to track sites because, after a while, they all become a blur of vowel-deficient clones.

[zaidf]

Nothing like TechCrunch.