Although blogging is not really a new concept, 2007 marked the beginning of blog mania. Everyone is buzzing about what’s happening in the blogosphere.
Living Life Abundantly proudly presents the Top 50 Best Blogs of 2007 Award.
The Winners Are:
1. InspireByAction: Coach TC inspires with her great blog about achieving accelerated success through business and career coaching.
2. TopShelf: Diane’s blog is the must read blog for truly savvy entrepreneurs as she provides indepth book and blog reviews with her goal being “to read all the books and blogs that come my way, so that you don’t have too!”
3. BrianTracyInternational: Brian shares his business insights and wisdom on a range of topics including financial, professional, personal, and entrepreneurial success.
4. PaulaNealMooney: This niche blogger, believer, seo girl, shares her very effective and precise online money making strategies. She also publishes the well known ‘Paula’s List of Blogger and Webmaster Salaries.’
5. AverageBro: His tagline says it all “Warning: Opinionated Blackman Ahead!”
6. Field-Negro: Absolutely-positively-no-holds-barred commentary on the world of entertainment, sports, and politics, by a lawyer in Philly, who was “Raised in the house, but field certified.”
7. LawMapping: Is a virtual learning environment blog that helps lawyers design and enjoy fulfilling professional lives.
8. Taxgirl: An authority on taxes, Taxgirl provides useful tax news, tax info and tax policy help.
9. ElectronicVillage: This ‘virtual village’ is one of the most influential blogs in the “afrosphere” offering insights, input, and information not always easily found in the blogosphere.
10. CourtneyTuttle: Court’s Internet Marketing Blog breaks down internet marketing in such a user friendly way that even a 5 year old can understand.
11. Copyblogger: Brian Clark offers awesome copywriting advice for bloggers and online marketers.
12. Problogger: Darren Rowse, a pioneer in professional blogging consistently provides top-notch tips to help bloggers earn money.
13. Lorelle: This is one of the most informative blogs for WordPress users interested in doing more than the norm with a WordPress blog.
14. AndyBeard: Shares his opinions and gives expert advice on niche marketing, affiliate marketing, blog search engine perfomance, and Wordpress.
15. Racialicious: Fearlessly touches on all issues pertaining to race, pop culture, and media representation.
16. ThinkProgress: A hard hitting blog that seeks to provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies.
17. DumbLittleMan: Jay White’s blog offers practical tips and solutions to making every day life easier.
18. Makalesi: Smart, witty, citizen of Earth with one of the most thought provoking blogs on Myspace.
19. DonaldTrump: The Trump University Blog is fueled with advice about real estate, leadership, and entrepreneurship.
20. BlackMaleAppreciation: A blog devoted to sharing positive news about Black males that disprove negative stereotypes.
21. WhatAboutOurDaughters: A blog focused on organizing action to “combat destructive portrayals of African American women in popular culture.”
22. BloggingBlackMiami: Vanessa B. shares what’s going on in the “magic city” Miami.
23. WhyBlackWomenAreAngry: An awesome blog that explores the reasons Black Women are perceived as ‘angry ‘ and how to change the ‘angry’ perception.
24. DaveyD: Hip Hop, Social, and Political Commentary at its Best Uncensored.
25. TheUnapologeticMexican: The tagline pretty much sums it up “He’s not shy.”
26. LatinitaSoyMe: UCLA sociology & chicano studies major who plans to change the world.
27. BitchPHD: Intelligent discussion & debate among friends, colleagues, and peers.
28. JackandJillPolitics: An interesting blog from the Black Bourgeoisie perspective on American politics.
29. ThinkingSerious: This is a great blog for web 2.0 techies and entrepreneurs.
30. LifeHacker: For the best technical tips, tricks, and diy info this blog is the ultimate resource.
31. WeTheChange: “Be the Change You Wish to See in the World” is what this blog is about, Development for Conscious People.
32. EddieGGriffin: Insights from the brilliant mind of the author of “Breaking Men’s Minds: Behavior Control and Human Experimentation at the Federal Prison in Marion (IL).”
33. TodayIsThatDay: This motivational blog is all about Empowerment and personal development.
34. GuidingVision: Sandra’s blog takes “small actions to make a difference in the world” to the next level.
35. WhenLeastExpected: An honest introspective blog by a fearless author driven to inspire on those “dark days and lonely nights when all seems lost.”
36. FreshSqueezedLiving: Coach Kennedy’s blog is dedicated to providing practical advice on healthy living for busy professionals highlighting food, fitness, and relaxation.
37. BlogOfHerbs: Chinese and Western Herbalist shares extensive knowledge on natural herbal remedies.
38. DrSanity: M.D. Pat Santy shines a “psychological spotlight on a few of the insanities of life.
39. RespectfulInsolence: A thought provoking blog authored by a surgeon/scientist expounding on medicine, quackery, science, pseudoscience, history, and pseudohistory.
40. ChangeYourThoughts: Steve’s blog is a guide to changing your thinking to change your life.
41. TheBlackFactor: The ultimate blog offering resources and strategies for combatting racism and discrimination in the workplace authored by a Human Resources Professional.
42. ShoeMoney: Jeremy Shoemaker’s blog lays the foundation of how to make money online and how to apply his motto of: “prioritize potentially profitable projects.”
43. NewWifey: A courageous blog that takes a look into the day and life of a newlywed and the merging of two lives.
44. GirlsPower: The acronym says it all: Growing Infinitely Realizing Life Successfully Preparing Our Women Earning Respect.
45. StevePavlina: Smart people interested in living up to their full potential read this blog daily! Steve’s blog is geared towards maximum personal development and conscious living.
46. PointlessBanter: Laughter is medicine to the soul. This blog is a daily dose of laughs, sarcasm, and clever wit that will keep you coming back for more!
47. MediaTakeOut: If celebrity news is your thing, you will love MediaTakeOut. This blog is beating TMZ to the punch consistently, breaking the good, bad, and ugly in the fish bowl lives of celebrities.
48. DailyStab: “Gossip So Good, It Hurts.” That says it all!
49. TheSweetGossip: This blog delivers the goods on celebs in a sweet way, for those that indulge in the guilty pleasures of “juicey gossip, rumors, and photos.”
50. MemoirsOfADater: This is the must read blog for anyone DATING, looking to date, or in need of dating and relationship advice.”
If you’re not reading these blogs you should be! If your blog didn’t make this years top 50. take notes from these hot bloggers, and I’m sure you’ll make the list next year 
Congratulations to the winners. Your contributions to the blogosphere are appreciated. Your hard work is not in vein. Keep blogging and I’ll keep reading
One more award and this one goes to the Best Blog Community of 2007. The winner is: BlogCatalog’s: Bloggers Unite
Bloggers Unite is an initiative designed to harness the power of the blogosphere to make the world a better place. By challenging bloggers to blog about a particular social cause on a single day, a single voice can be joined with thousands of others to help make a real positive difference; from raising awareness for cancer, to an effort to better education systems or support 3rd world countries.
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December 26th, 2007 at 3:53 pm
Brilliant list, I actually visit quite a few of them as learning tools for my niche blogging campaigns. I’m still learning, and a lot of those people have helped me out tons.
December 26th, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Thanks! How kind of you to include me in your list.
Be blessed,
Paula
December 26th, 2007 at 8:15 pm
Wow, thanks so much for including me! I love writing my blog and it’s so nice to know that folks are reading.
Have a wonderful new year!
December 26th, 2007 at 8:21 pm
[...] Thanks so much to Marenda over at Living Life Abundantly for including me on her “Top 50 Best Blogs of 2007″ list! [...]
December 27th, 2007 at 6:53 am
Great list! Congratulations to all selected.
December 27th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Oh my! Marenda, Thank you so much for honoring my efforts to make a difference with this award. I had no idea that you were reading my blog.
Congratulations to the rest of the bloggers who received this award.
As a sign of respect, I tip my hat to you.
Manchild
December 27th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Thanks for the great list. I’ll make sure to read them at least once a week
December 27th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Tons of great blogs on there. My fav is LifeHacker =)
December 28th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Great list Great blog …..thank
December 28th, 2007 at 9:51 am
Thanks so much for including my blog on your top 50 blog list! And, thank you for all of your fantastic posts here on Living Life Abundantly!
Congratulations to all blogs receiving this award!
Take GREAT Care!
TC
December 28th, 2007 at 11:43 am
Thanks Marinda for including me in your 50 Best Blogs. I am truly honored. Also, thanks for recognizing some of my Afrosphere colleagues also (#6, #9, #21, and #28). I will pass the word on to them of this great honor.
December 28th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
Thank you so much for recognizing TopShelf Book Reviews! Such an honor.
Diane Danielson
December 29th, 2007 at 5:13 am
This is wonderful! Eddie G. Griffin (BASG) informs me that there are five of our AfroSpear blogs on your list of the best sites for the year!
# 6 Field-Negro
# 9 ElectronicVillage
# 21 WhatAboutOurDaughters
# 28 JackandJillPolitics
#32 Eddie Griffin
December 29th, 2007 at 10:57 am
Excellent list and congrats to the AfroSpear Blogs!
December 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
gracias!
December 29th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
I really appreciate being mentioned in here.
December 30th, 2007 at 6:18 am
Marenda, I am truly surprised and honored. I will fly your Top 50 award ribbon with pride on my Electronic Village blog! Your list demonstrates that you are truly living life abundantly!
Have a glorious new year!
Villager
December 30th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Just giving credit where its due. You all have wonderful blogs that everybody should know about and be inspired by. I THANK YOU!!!!!
December 30th, 2007 at 2:19 pm
OK, Marenda, you got me this time. I am so honored to have Blogging Black Miami receive such an honor. You are living what you preach and that gives me so much inspiration.
Have a fabulous 2008, my sister.
Peace - Light - Love
V
December 30th, 2007 at 7:12 pm
Oh, wow! Thank you for including me! I definitely did not expect it nor would I have ever found out if I hadn’t seen that shoutout from TheUnapologeticMexican. Thank you!
December 31st, 2007 at 12:01 am
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January 1st, 2008 at 6:33 am
Your list demonstrates that you are truly living life abundantly!
Have a glorious new year!
Villager
January 1st, 2008 at 6:35 am
You are living what you preach and that gives me so much inspiration.
Have a fabulous 2008, my sister.
Peace - Light - Love
January 1st, 2008 at 11:20 am
Happy New Year Mirenda! Your blog is currently BBR #96 (out of 605). Thanks for your support of our blogging efforts over at the Electronic Village!
peace, Villager
January 4th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
Wonderful list.thanks for sharing
congrats for all the blog owners
January 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Superb list. I love Courts blog.
January 5th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Great list! I especially like Court’s blog as well. Maybe can make a solid list like this! I think i will just need to keep writing solid stuff on my blog. Stuff that people can use.
January 7th, 2008 at 11:45 am
Thanks so much for the shout-out to Racialicious!
January 8th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
Congratulations for achieving the best award.I think i should remember for your concept.thanks for the post.
January 9th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
Due to my inability to read for long periods of time, I don’t read many blogs =/
But I am aware of LifeHack.. That’s a fantastic website. I’m glad it made the list.
And I wonder if Tax Girl knows the plebs don’t have to pay tax. lol
January 11th, 2008 at 10:39 pm
Wow your list very useful for me, thank’s
January 13th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
Courtney Tuttle for the win! He really has a great blog.
January 13th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Very nice list of websites.
Some of those have very, very nice layouts.
January 20th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Congratulations to all selected bloggers.
January 24th, 2008 at 11:19 pm
I think this is a real nice healthy list of blogs. Thanks for sharing with us so we can bookmark this page and come back from time to time and check out the blogs on the list.
February 1st, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Thanks for compiling this comprehensive list of blogs. Many of them are in fact some of my favorites. I think the best thing about a list like this is that whether you’re interested in sports, technology, business, or basically any other hobby you can think of, there is a blog out there for everyone! It’s just a matter of finding the best one out there, and thanks to lists like these, you’ve made it all that much easier!
February 8th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
Short, detailed, useful analysis - thanks!
February 9th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Great list of blogs. Thanks for sharing
February 14th, 2008 at 6:08 am
Those people in the list are both persistent and smart.
You need a lot faith to keep on blogging at their early days and smart enough to attract people attention by providing excellent contents.
February 20th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Very nice post for blog lovers like me. i will forward to my friends because they are also blog lovers like us….
February 26th, 2008 at 4:52 am
Wonderfull list! I found many nice blogs here, thanks!
February 28th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Great list. I already have about 300 blogs in my Blog Reader (some of which you have listed here), but I am going to add a bunch of these to my category to check out and see if they have useful information for me.
February 29th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Hey Marenda, nice resource but you added one too many of the http:// at the beginning of the link to The Blog Learning Center. If you could edit it that would be great. Right now it’s landing on a server error page.
BTW, didn’t know you were an up and coming record mogul. Go ‘head with ya’self.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:41 am
One of the best leadership building websites out there that I highly recommend to people trying to change their values in life and get our of life what they deserve and learn from a person named Orrin Woodward who has help hundreds of people do the same as well as helping me. I find his Blog very helpful in every aspect of my life. Check out his website at. http://www.orrinwoodward.blogharbor.com/blog
check it out.
March 8th, 2008 at 10:44 am
Correction to blog address
http://orrinwoodward.blogharbor.com
April 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
Thanks for this superb list!
Keep up the good work in you blog
You are now bookmarked
May 13th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Great list, I haven’t heard of most of them and I found some gems out of the bunch. I always love finding new blogs that I can get into. thanks!
May 23rd, 2008 at 4:32 am
Really good list of the best blogs. I noticed that the majority of the blogs featuring in this lsit dealt with the subject of “Living Life To The Fullest”
Bookmarked your blog
June 5th, 2008 at 11:16 am
Yeah this is a great list… some of these I haven’t ever read before, so I will be sure to gobble up this content… in the next year or so, lol. Cheers!
June 17th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Thank you for this information.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:24 am
It’s amazing how many of the top ten you suggested I’d actually read! We must have similar tastes.
Anyway, great list, I’ll be having a hoke later at lunch to uncover some more of your gems
cheers
July 10th, 2008 at 5:59 am
I find more great blogs through lists like ths than any other way!
Brilliant list - thanks
July 16th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Great list of posts - I’ll have to check some of them out.
My favorite on your list is stevepavlina.com - if anybody is into personal development it’s an absolute goldmine!
Jeremy Reeves
http://www.controlbeatingcopy.com