Guy Kawasaki, is the man behind the blog “How to Change the World” via the url http://blog.guykawasaki.com/ The blog reads really like a personal blog where he shares with his readers his thoughts on his area of expertise and some of his life experiences. You’ll find him blogging about things like why he got the new iphone, his tour of the Negro Leagues Basketball Museum, how to use LinkedIn to find a job. Perhaps he does need to prove anything with the blog. After all, he has authored nine books and made a name for himself as a writter. The blog could just serve as a platform for his readers to get to know him better on a personal basis. He does however use his blog to promote his other website, Alltop. It is a great platform to promote it given that his blog has already gathered a large crowd of readers.  So Mr. Guy Kawasaki, show us the way to change the world.

ICanHasCheezBurger. What a cute and funny name for a blog. The same can be said for the pictures of cats you see posted all over the blog. These pictures are known as lolcats.  A lolcat, is an image combining a photograph, most frequently of a cat, with a humorous and idiosyncratic caption in (often) broken English. (Wikipedia). The idea is really simple, cat owners submit photos of their cats with a caption inserted in the photo (lolcats). Believe it or not, as simple as it sounds, it drew a huge crowd of readers.

In September 2007, ICanHasCheezBurger, started by Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami was sold to investors for about $2 million, according to an article by Time.  Who could have imagine that a blog  filled with user submitted pictures of cats could be sold for that much in the same year it was created.

LifeHack.org was founded in 2005 by Leon Ho who was then a Manager of  Software engineering at Red Hat.   LifeHack  started out as blog on productivity and personal development offering great advice for self improvement to anyone with the interest and determination.  Today, you’ll find Lifehack is still on the same topic it started out with years ago, yet it  stays relevant to the readers by being sensitive to the changing times and the pace of modern life.

So what is Life hack? Wikipedia defines it as “productivity tricks that programmers devise and employ to cut through information overload and organize their data.” If you like to know more on this term, please visit Wikipedia’s definition of life hack. At Lifehack.org, the idea is pretty much the same, except that the productivity tricks are devised and applied to life problems instead.

Today, Lifehack offers a truly diverse range of articles which are written by a host of writters. For example,

• Face Adversity with a Smile
• Scoring 100% in Time Management
• Self Doubt: A Disease that Doesn’t Discriminate!

They all make great reading for anyone seeking self improvement no matter how young or old. Leon Ho has a blog of his own titled Walk and Run, just in case you want to know a little more about him.  No crowd of readers there.

TechCrunch was started in 2005 by Michael Arrington as a site that brings you news about internet companies and internet related products. You will often read about the internet giants like Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and lately Twitter amongst its post. TechCrunch also keeps its readers updated about venture fundings received by internet companies and news of latest acquisitions of websites.

In a short span of 4 years, it has amassed 3.6 million readers (Feedburner).  At this time of writing, TechCrunch sits at No.2 position in the “Top 100 Blogs” list by Technorati.  There is surely a massive and growing crowd at TechCrunch.