Found Blogs

Hi, everyone. Great job with the found blogs. It’s true: there’s a blog about everything. Just fifteen of you doing cursory searches sent me links to blogs (ostensibly) about life in London, knitting, silly photos, senseless humor, software product development, an Arlington neighborhood, the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Washington Capitals, poetry and music, gay marriage rights, feminism, video games, perfume, motherhood, cooking, the future of the Internet, cubicle life, company news, corn avoiders, the corn industry, life with diabetes, running, skyscrapers, television, politics, education, fashion, Gene Kelly, live music, the New York Mets, practical life tips, global women’s issues, getting older, wine, interior design, neuroscience, skepticism, the federal government, celebrity buzz, and indie music, not to mention several others that file under unclassifiable. Someone also sent along this site, http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/, which is a terrific clearinghouse of (supposedly) top-notch blogs.

You’ll find a sampling of your found blogs listed below. Don’t worry if you don’t see any of those you sent on the list; my first goal was to not overwhelm you with samples. I’ve also avoided listing blogs that are a) subsidized by a publication or organization, b) mostly linky, c) mostly visual, or d) the work of multiple people. (This is because your blogs won’t be a) subsidized by a publication or organization, b) mostly linky, c) mostly visual, or d) the work of multiple people.) That doesn’t mean those kinds of blogs can’t be very useful to us in certain ways, however, so I’m glad to have the links.

Please send some time browsing through these blogs and thinking about what you can bring to your blog–-as a writer–-that might provide it with some unusual quality and help it to stand out from the crowd. We’ll address that question and other topics, including ideas for your own blogs, on Tuesday.

http://projectabsurd.wordpress.com/

http://crankypm.com/

http://www.imawkward.com/blog/

http://www.dccheapseats.com/

http://jjgallaher.blogspot.com/

http://www.feministing.com/

http://www.timegoesby.net/

http://www.grapeinabottle.com/

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/

http://obscuresound.com/

http://theknittingrubicon.com/

http://cuberules.com/

http://no-corn.blogspot.com/

http://www.sixuntilme.com/

http://fakemonkeys.info/imarunnernow/

http://www.televisionaryblog.com/

http://www.quickanded.com/

http://theoreticalheuristics.blogspot.com/

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