When all the work for the day is done and I have nothing else better to do, what I do to amuse myself sometimes is travel through the blogosphere. That seems to be a common pastime for bloggers and non-bloggers alike nowadays, and after some time, I have come to call some of the blogs out there as my favorites. I go visit them on a regular basis.

Among the blogs that I consider to be my current favorites are:

TechCrunch. It is hardly surprising that I list this as one of my favorite blogs, given my bent for gadgets, technology stuff and just about anything related to the Internet. According to the blog’s profile itself, TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing new Internet products and companies. They also post profiles of companies that are making a significant cultural and/or commercial impact on the Internet. TechCrunch is considered by Technorati, CNet, CBS and many other news organizations to be one of the most important blogs existing in cyberspace.

The blog is edited by Michael Arrington, whose background is in corporate law and who is also the author of the TechCrunch companion blog, CrunchNotes. Forbes Magazine and PC World, to mention a few, have named Mr. Arrington among the most important people on the Internet today.

Mashable. Mashable touts itself to be the largest blog on the Internet that is focused solely on anything that has to do with social networking. They claim that they register approximately 4.5 million page views every month. Anything that has to do with the popular social networking websites, particularly MySpace, Facebook, Xanga and YouTube, are covered by Mashable. Mashable also has community pages where members can interact with each other as well as post photos and videos. Members can also avail of free codes that they can use on their blogs and social networking accounts.

Aside from fresh news on the world of social networking that are updated regularely, Mashable also provides tools, resources and consulting services for anything concerning social networking and related software, the new media, blogging, podcasting and other relevant technologies in partnership with Advantage Consulting Services, Inc.

The Museum of Modern Betas (MoMB). This is basic vocabulary for any geek and techie, but not all laymen would know that beta in techspeak refers to a version of an application, website or gadget. As Wikipedia defines it: A beta version is the first version released outside the organization or community that develops the software, for the purpose of evaluation or real-world black/grey-box testing.

The Museum of Modern Betas is a photo-blog that lists websites and applications based on the Internet that are currently in the beta stages. MoMB also tracks the progress of these websites and applications until they graduate from and move beyond the beta stage. Ironically, the author of the blog claims that MoMB itself is in its alpha stages (meaning that it is still in its earliest stages of development), and he still has a lot of work to do on the blog.