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February 22, 2005
What blogs do you read?
We all read blogs - I read a lot over the day, at work. Lucky, that I can actually define it as part of my job.
Okay, a lot of us will probably read the same blogs. I guess we all read Seth's blog, Gaping Void, Tom Peters, or, closer to home, Jeff's blog or Mack's.
I read most of those via Bloglines, which allows me to access updates straight away (you can subscribe to AlwaysWoW! via Bloglines as well).
All of those are great, great blogs - helpful, enlightening, insightful and full of humour.
But think about the consequences!
If we all visit the same blogs, don't we start to talk about the same staff, get the same points of view, and the same perspective?
I make it a point to, at least sometimes, venture out of the unusual. To see a different design (not that it helps with mine), get different ideas and just to have fun outside the box.
I am starting off with one blog that is on my list and just start to click at the links in their sidebar.
While doing this, I came across Jon's, John's, and John's blogs (a lot of great Jo(h)n's in the US. Others are Brandshift or 43Folders.
So, which blogs do you like? And what ways do you take to read something new and different?
Posted by Andreas at February 22, 2005 06:10 PM
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Norzu - Waiter Rant? That sounds like a great name and topic for a blog.
Hazel - yep - time is becoming, may be always was, a limiting factor. See my last entry about more and more noise in the blog sphere and if there are more blogs than readers
Posted by: Andreas at February 23, 2005 01:53 PM
You can check out http://waiterrant.blogspot.com. It's written by a waiter obviously, and has been getting attention by the BBC, New York Times and some other media. It tells of the (mis)adventures of a waiter in a New York bistro.
The Japanese blogs I read include those by a football fan, a baseball player and people I just came across while blog-hopping.
Posted by: Norzu at February 23, 2005 12:15 PM
mean time, i only read blogs listed on my favorites section. i like humour too, but somehow, time is damn limited to spend.
Posted by: hazel at February 23, 2005 11:21 AM
Sashi - this fits - I forgot humuor as possible category :)
Posted by: Andreas at February 23, 2005 10:53 AM
I like a lot of humourous ones, like Dooce.com plus some techy ones by Wil Wheaton, Jason Kottke and Joi Ito.
Posted by: Sashi at February 23, 2005 08:44 AM
Norzu - this is interesting. First, the Japanese ones - understandbly - may be I should start reading German blogs - but I don't know any as of now. But food-related ones as a diversion? That is unusual. I think. What do you think?
Posted by: Andreas at February 23, 2005 07:33 AM
I read some Japanese blogs, so that I don't forget my Japanese, then some food-related blogs as a diversion to the popular ones.
Posted by: Norzu at February 23, 2005 12:22 AM
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