Looking for new blogs to read
I tried an experiment last night. I have my favourite blogs that I read, some by friends and some I've collected over the last few years, but there's this whole world of blogs out there that I feel guilty for not knowing more about. I teach writing, and since some of my students write blogs, I need to know more.
So I spent half an hour clicking "Next Blog" at the top of blog pages, and here's what I learned.
So I spent half an hour clicking "Next Blog" at the top of blog pages, and here's what I learned.
- Spammers have blogs that outwit whatever randomization algorithms Blogger has attached to the "Next Blog" function.
- The interweb displays text in waaaaay more languages than I thought it did, and there are more non-Roman alphabetic systems than I was aware of. This in no way helps my understanding of other cultures.
- There's vastly less teen angst in blogs than I thought -- maybe it's off in places like Facebook now? -- except among girls in English-speaking Asian countries.
- Did I mention spammers' blogs yet? And their pop-ups?
- I'm embarrassed by my extraordinarily low tolerance for people who don't rapidly jump off the screen at me as Smart or Interesting or Literate.
- I would rather watch Stephen Fry host QI on alloftv.net than browse through random blogs. You should, like, totally watch it.
- I'd rather spend time with an empty blog that reads well than an issue-filled or opinionated lump. Same criteria as for dinner guests.
Comments
Well, I watched the first few, but then they started failing -- the flash movies hosted at guba.com won't load, and the late-episode ones on YouTube are no longer available. Sob.
And I have to say that the dot and line movie you cited was fantastic. I watched the whole thing through this morning when I should have been finishing prep for my first class of the day. The closing pun is masterful, but I was caught up in the culture/counterculture debate implied in the contest between chaos and line for the dot's love. Any luck finding your copy of the book?
Sadly, I still haven't found the book...sigh...
in the order they are listed:
1. http://www.boxsweeper.com
2. http://tv-links.co.uk (but all of there links are already included in boxsweeper)
3. http://alloftv.net
4. http://joox.net
I've been wandering happily through boxsweeper, though, so maybe I'll let anon comments continue for a bit.... :-)