Ten favourite female bloggers

In honour of Ada Lovelace day, I thought I’d put together a ‘top 10′ list of female bloggers. Then, I realised – I hate ‘top 10′ lists of bloggers. It’s always so hard to justify how to place people and whether the list should be based on traffic, influence, or a list of 100 other variables one could rate a blog on.

To avoid this problem, I decided to put together a list of my favourite female bloggers. This list is completely biased towards my own personal taste in blogs but I think there is a lot that any blogger can learn from each of the bloggers in this list.

10. Tina Roth Eisenberg – Swiss Miss. Minimal words but fantastic taste when it comes to design.

9. Skellie – Skelliewag. Maximal words and advice on on blogging, entrepreneurship, web content, social media, happiness in work, creativity, learning, expertise and business. The thing I love about Skellie’s blog is the amount of detail and care she puts into each post and that she doesn’t plaster her site with adverts for ‘miracle launch products’ as other bloggers in her niche tend to.

8. James Chartrand – Men with Pens. No, I’ve not gone mad. This still is a list of female bloggers. For anyone who doesn’t already know James’ story, it really makes great reading. If you’re interested in writing, you need to have Men with Pens in your RSS reader. It’s just plain great!

7. Gala Darling – gala darling. Fantastic fashion blogger who I believe also writes for Cosmopolitan. Gala’s blog proves that you injecting your own personality into your blog is every bit as important as writing in short sentences, using bullet points, SEOing everything, blah blah blah.

6. Cyan Ta’eed – Freelance Switch. Cyan’s blog helped me become a freelancer so I guess I am a bit biased here. If you want to break out of the cubicle, Freelance Switch is full of valuable, realistic advice the cartoons on the blog are hilarious.

5. Karen Cheng – Snippets of Life. Karen’s lifestyle blog has won awards all over the place. The thing I like most about it, though is the food photography adn really simple recipes.

4.Xeni Jardin – Boing Boing. Xeni Jardin is the co-editor of Boing Boing and her articles regularly appear in major magazines and newspapers. She is also a keen language learner and has studied more than a dozen languages.

3. Naomi Dunford – IttyBiz. If a friend asks me questions about marketing, blogging or anything related to running a small business, I tell them to go straight to IttyBiz, sign up for all the e-mail courses and spend as much time as they have free reading through the site. It’s just the most sensible, entertaining and valuable advice out there.

2. Ariana Huffington – The Huffington Post. The Huffington post is huge and tops the major newspapers as a go-to source for political news in the US for lot of people. I think this blog proves the political influence blogs can have nowadays.

1. Gina Trapani – Lifehacker. As the founding editor of Lifehacker, Gina is responsible for one of my absolute favourite blogs of all time. Lifehacker teaches you how to do everything in the world, and should be compulsory reading for everyone in the universe.