Blog Update 05
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Long overdue changes have been made to my blog roll. I've added a group called Watu (People) under which I've added a few African exports like myself. White African is my friend Hash and I've been visiting Afromusing for a while now since a comment was made on this blog a while back.
Under the Vicariously section I've added Miriam. She had me in stitches last week when she wrote:
Little Christian kids think they have it bad - worrying about going to hell and all. Ha! Little Buddhist kids worry about the fact that they don't exist.
She's an intersection of Tennessee, Minnesota, Costa Rica, Mexico, India, Nicaragua, China, Tibet, Thailand, Nepal, France and England. I also put a reference to Dervala back; she's blogging again irregularly, this time from San Francisco (previously Brooklyn, before that Canadian wilderness and before that... well, the world). Vicariously is ordered alphabetically now as well, that way I'm not favoring anyone. I debated separating the people I do know personally from the ones I don't, but I visit all these blogs for the same reason so I didn't.
No changes to the Photo Blogs for the moment. Sam, Geert, Rachel, Justin, and Monasette add all the verve I need for the moment.
I added a new section called Form, Function for the art, architecture, and design blogs I have been visiting. I like these blogs because they are wonderfully multidisciplinary. Some new blogs on the list are Archidose, City Comforts, Design Observer, Gizmodo, Inhabitat, Signal & Noise, and Xblog.
Write, Think is somewhat unchanged though I moved Venustas to Form, Function. Arts & Letters and the Language Log are a lot to keep up with but I may add some new locations in the short term.
Web People has changed slightly. I added Cringely whose tech industry rumor mongering is always entertaining, if not accurate. His excellent book Accidental Empires is a great history of the personal computing industry. I put Philip Greenspun back on the list too.
Coders is a set of technical blogs I frequent. Some new people on that list are Dare Obasanjo, the garrulous Microsoft (okay, technically MSN) pundit, Darren Niemke who patiently answers my random questions on instant messenger, Drew McLellan whose current 24 ways project is really interesting, and Robert Scoble, another talkative Microsoft employee.
Feel Good is the same, just the business/motivational/marketing type magazines. Any time I need a "pick-me-up", I browse over there and find some article like How to be Creative! or some other entry whose title could just as easily be followed by an exclamation mark.
Radio Userland, the software I use for my blog, is cumbersome and unfriendly for updates like this so I don't make them too often. At some point next year I'll have the painful experience of migrating this blog somewhere else (I'm thinking Type Pad). In the meantime, enjoy and if I missed anyone, let me know.
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