May 31, 2007
Simon Lindsay, RIP
A unique Kiwi blogger, Simon Lindsay, passed away this morning. Mr Dodderyoldfart, as he called himself, authored Rest Area 300, Confessions of a New Zealand Road Worker. It was possibly the only blog written by a road worker with such charm, intelligence & humor. Here is a eulogy by a reader-friend.
I had a few beers with Doddery on Christmas 2005, and he hosted me at his house when I visited the north island. We watched a Scottish bagpipe band accompanied by lamas lead the local Christmas parade, and talked politics, life, blogging & literature.
He will be missed.
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May 15, 2007
Blogger’s Birthday
Darren Barefoot’s Idea Du Jour for April 25, 2007: Blogger’s Birthday
Scripting News’s 10 year anniversary post, April 1st
What kind of a computer are you?
What Some People Are Saying About Cynical-C Blog
"My blog is more of a hobby than anything else, something to do for fun when I get home from my bookstore job. I've never dreamed of making a living from it..."
“You Become What You Think About” and Some Other Notes On Tom McMahon’s Philosophy of Blogging
12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know
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March 16, 2007
Your vs. You’re
Are you feeling tempted to start a blog of your own? Here are some ways to bypass the trend. How to Dissuade Yourself from Becoming a Blogger
10 most common typos in blogging
A blog about Hotel hallways
“OMG! Cat Pictures!” The Evolution of Blogging, Cat Version
How To Drive Traffic to Your Blog - The Advice of a 12 Year Old
Nothing drives traffic like controversy - 10 Great Blogger Temper Tantrums
Bruce Sterling gives blogs 10 years to live
Help! Over 32,000 page views today, and 95% of them come from Google Image. I have a feeling nobody reads this blog anymore...
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February 03, 2007
View From Your Window
A blog about marathon running & juggling: "While I'm not unique, I am rare. An endurance joggler who has been joggling marathons since 1996, I'm on a quest to joggle 44 marathons. I do it because I can and it makes people smile"
A blog called The View From Your Window (Many views from Bratislava, Slovakia, including this nice one. Andrew Sullivan had a series of readers submitted posts since June 2006)
“This post has no actual content. I'm only putting this up so I can tag this post with what Technorati claims are the current most popular tags in the registered blogosphere”
Blogger Cass Brown who wrote about accepting, living with, laughing at and dying from cancer, died on January 5, 2007
10 Literary Blogs To Read in 2007
A nice blog about art and design: Highlight of my day
Legal Guide for Bloggers from the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
A long list of blogs that have been published as books
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December 20, 2006
Everybody panic
A group of bloggers and online influencers got to sit down last week with Bill Gates. It's a rush once the world's richest man and one of the most influential people in business and world affairs sits right down across a table from you. A bunch of us were overwhelmed by the sheer magnitude of the moment. I have never met a President of the United States but this sure felt like it for me… Our Sixty Minutes with Bill Gates
From Mustard Man and “Duke sucks” to UFIA and “No cure for cancer”: A simple rundown of Farkisms and clichés
If you could make one wish for the world, what would it be? The Million Dollar Blog Post
A newer blog that Traces the history of interaction design through the history of the button, from flashlights to websites and beyond
(I should do a similar My Year In Blogging for 2006, but I have no time right now… Any loyal readers want to help composing it?..)
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November 27, 2006
A Blog Timeline
The evolution of a blog design, as conceived by MBoffin. Inspired by it: Yahoo in time and wikipedia timeline. (Designed by Computerroriginaliascience)
FRN, a new blog about trains and the people crazy about them
Mad Libs Fill-In-The-Blog, from “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”
Donald Crowdis, the World’s Oldest Blogger. (The only blogger born in the 1910’s, according to The Ageless Project. From Boing Boing)
(Unrelated photo above from Negatendo)
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November 11, 2006
For Bloggers Only
Different ways for bloggers to say Sorry I haven't posted in awhile
Theresa Duncan’s Wit of the Staircase
Chutzpah, White Truffles & Alain Ducasse, from The Amateur Gourmet, a post that Guy Kawasaki called “One of the cleverest blog postings I've ever seen”
21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch
Mr BaliHai of “Eye of the Goof”starts a discussion about the wide-spread phenomenon of dwindling referrals, in For Bloggers Only
What do bloggers’ first posts look like?
I am away on a short vacation to China at the moment. This post had been pre-blogged for your enjoyment
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October 06, 2006
101 Blogathon 2006
The Are You Blogging This? song by librarian David Lee King
Ardell DellaLoggia of Seattle Area Real Estate Blog and Greg Swann of Bloodhound Blog answered a challenge from Sellsius Real Estate Blog to set a single day blogging record by writing 100 blog posts in one day
Blog carnivals are when someone takes the time to find really good blog posts on a given topic, and then puts all those posts together in a blog post called a "carnival" (?). Here are some Recent Carnivals
Know Any Married Bloggers?
A Korean Blog List. The unofficial list of Korean related weblogs which are written in English
Academic & thick essays on blogging. (From Daily Web Thing)
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September 18, 2006
OC flasher strikes again!
80 favorite pictures from the beautiful photoblog of Trey Ratcliff
The Ultimate Blog Post by Lore Sjöberg
No Day at the Beach - Bloggers Struggle With What to Do About Vacation
Unrelated: A Fallen woman in bikini – among catheads
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August 27, 2006
Happy Blog Appreciation Day!
I am copying the inverted concept of Blog Appreciation Day that I found on Neil Kramer's blog. If you send me a copy of your monitor displaying grow-a-brain on it (with or without you), I’ll add the photo to this post. If you have a website, I’ll link back to it. (And if it's a crazy picture, it's ok)... Let’s see if it works...
Elsewhere: The Business Cards of BlogHer conference
The real reason why no one reads your blog. Ever wonder why the traffic to your blog is so terrible? I too am concerned about increasing my readership, so I decided to gather some information to help me decipher why my traffic sucks. What I found wasn’t encouraging
Indexed: A blog of charts and graphs
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So here we go... (Click on any picture to enlarge)
"If we can't be free at least we can be cheap." Frank Zappa. From John, at Singlenesia, Isle of Mystery
From Gary, County Durham, UK @ Thumbrella - Words To A Void
From Bing Ru
From Karen @ Verbatim on her Macbook Pro@
From Cuidado on Prince Edward Island, Canada who blogs at cre8ive1, Pictures and Pursuits and at Photos and Pursuits where this picture was taken
From Spain, Sergio Alvaré who blogs at Tecniart
From Cam, collector of old and unusual cameras for more than 35 years
From Harold S.I. the 2nd
From Borborygme, who’s been beautifully restoring a 1964 Citroen ID19 Hot Rod
From Kerry Woo in Nashville, Tennessee, who blogs at Wonderdawg together with Steve “Superman” Martin
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July 31, 2006
Circus blogs
Buckles Blog for discussion of American Circus History
Also: Bill Strong's Yesterday's Towns and a blog of Carson & Barnes Circus, now celebrating it’s 70th season
The half-life of an online posting? 36 hours
Top 100 Military Blogs
Ten Reasons Why Blogging is My New Cup of Tea
Blogs from the middle East: Lebanese Blogger Forum, Moroccan Blogs, blogs from Kuwait and Jordan
Winners of the 2nd Annual European Weblog Awards
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June 24, 2006
Getting traffic for your blog
Agence Eureka, a French blog with nostalgic photos from the 40’s and before
Natalie d'Arbeloff Interviews with God on her blog. (In 15 parts)
Cancer Giggles is an idiot's guide to accepting, living with, laughing at and dying from cancer. (Thank you, Julie)
Peter Skuse ‘s blog about everything you need to know about Keeping Chickens at Home
Seth Godin’s advice How to get traffic for your blog. No 56: Write stuff that people want to read and share.
The "Mock 10" Signs of Blog Addiction. Found at Bloggers Anonymous for blogging addicts
Darren Barefoot’s has written about 3500 entries on his blog. Here is how one post developed a ‘Long Tail’: It’s about sleep paralysis, and now the page is becoming this little sleep paralysis support community. Every week or two, somebody comes by and leaves their description of an episode. “It’s cool to think that the page has turned into something more than a brief blog entry, and might be a little solace to those suffering from the disorder.”
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May 28, 2006
What kind of blog reader are you?
Let's Buy Us A Damn Webby. “We'd like to congratulate the winners on being successful enough to have the dough to enter the competition. What can we say? We prefer recognition when it's not pay-for-play, and we'd way rather spend that $245 on beer.”
Sorry I can't blog anymore now that I'm married; my husband doesn't allow it: A nice excuse to stop blogging
Gimme Your Stuff, the cultural exchange blog where you can swap items of significance to your area with items from others around the world
Blogs with a face. “A site matching blogger visages/symbols to their individual URLs and grouping the images into a (presumably) ever-growing collage”
Today’s “Blog Of The Day” is Ambrel, the online home of Nikola Tamindzic, nightlife photographer/provocateur. Many More Unusual blogs Here
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April 27, 2006
Blog’n’Fly
Can I Crash? - a service that lets you lend your sofa to travelling bloggers. (20 years ago, I was active in one of the original hospitality clubs, Servas International, and last year, when I visited New Zealand, I used a similar, non-bloggy service called Couch surfing, both of which worked very well. I even met & stayed with a couple of Kiwi bloggers, and had a very good time with them, which led me to think that such “Blog’n’Trip” thingy should work. Obviously, it does.)
A blog about Camilla The Hen
A blog about a small village in Botswana that's documenting the spread and impact of HIV/AIDS there
“One morning last month, I woke early, finished a book I'd been reading, and shut down my blog. I had kept the blog for nearly five years, using it as a repository for personal anecdotes, travelogues, and the occasional flight of fiction—all of which I hoped, eventually, might lead to a novel. And then, somewhere between the bedsheets and 6 a.m., I realized something: Blogging wasn't helping me write; it was keeping me from it…”
The 19th Floor, a blog by lawyer Mark Siegel from Minnesota
Today’s “Blog of the Day” is Optical Illusions Etc. Warning! Some illusions on this blog may cause dizziness or possibly epileptic seizures. If you’d like to recommend an excellent, fresh blog for consideration, please email me.
By the way, nearly 5 months too late, I am finally moving today to my new house. (Oops, the sequential order of this photo album is all screwed up...) If the electricity, gas & internet are not hooked up by tonight, blogging may undergo some disruptions until further notice. See you later.
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March 26, 2006
Dyslexics are teople poo, literally
Blogging - We’re going to need more monkeys (And other Motivational-Style Posters below)
Literally, A Web Log. An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word “literally”
Blogging Frustration. I post and post and post. Don’t get me wrong. I actually enjoy it... But, man, I’m always hoping to get some links. And, they do trickle in. But, dude. How will anyone even find me? (From Jeremy Zawodny)
I am looking for blogs written by low-wage, night-shift employees (such as convenience store clerks) who use their blogs to chronicle interesting experiences from their working lives. Any suggestions?
Most-linked Blogs in September 2000: Many of the blogs popular back then are still pretty popular today, though not to the same extent. (From Rebecca’s Pocket)
My tip of the day to Taiwanese marketers: If you absolutely insist on naming a condo project "Blog" because you like the way it sounds, you would be well served to at least register the domain name that you plaster all over the adverts
Turn your blog into a bound book. (Should I print a few copies?)
We didn't start the weblogs, a Billy Joel Parody
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