My Top 5 and Bottom 5 Feeds
Welcome back seasoned blog readers from the long weekend. Didja have fun? I sure did. Let’s get right to it:
Over at Brian's place he wrote an interesting post about his Top 5 feeds, the ones he Just Can’t Live Without, and since everyone (and in particular, bloggers) love lists, I’m going to make one with the appropriate blogger commentary following. Here we go…
#1 (with a bullet): Pink is the New Blog – Trent is funny, interesting, consistent, and updates daily (sometimes more). He takes none of his work seriously, and that makes it that much more enjoyable. Think of this blog as a great dessert to reading Well Formulated Content all day. With sprinkles. Pink sprinkles.
#2 Sand in the Gears – Just incredible writing. I’ve never seen a writer as entertaining, touching, and gifted with the ability to string words together in a meaningful fashion as I have here. Tony Woodlief, you are a peer!
#3 WWDN - Wil Wheaton. Geek, dad, writer, actor, activist, video game junkie, RPG flirt. The man emcompasses celebrity and blogging in one brilliant package. If any celeb wanted to know how to do blogging right, this is the guy to learn from.
#4 The Moxie Cinema Blog – Watch before your very eyes as a vacant building becomes a full-fledged independent cinema. Building from the ground up, Dan and Nicole struggle to pay bills, get loans, get air vents cleaned up and drywall hung. I’ve been reading this one for awhile now, and I can safely say it’s only gotten better, and Dan’s sense of humor is priceless.
#5 Scoble – Yes, it’s almost cliche to say you read the Great Scobe, but hell, facts are facts. It’s always been up in the air for me to write one big post per day or several little tidbits throughout the day. One garners more hits, that’s for sure, but one works better for me. Scoble is the short-poster. I’m the long-poster. We can live in harmony, not unlike Ebony and Ivory.
Okay, and now for something a bit more interesting, here are my Bottom 5 blogs I’m happy to say I don’t seek out or read on a daily basis (but that’s not to say I don’t read them from time to time):
#1 The Superblogs: BoingBoing and Metafilter (and Fark). Why? Too many damn stories. No distinct voices. I guess Cory is the voice for BoingBoing, but sometimes too much is too much. It’s like drinking from a fire hose: You get so little out of it from the pain necessary to consume it all. I’ve never dreaded reading a huge feed as I have the ones stuck on these sites.
#2 DailyKos – Aren’t I supposed to be an avid reader because I’m a borderline nut liberal? Eh, I guess so. It’s interesting to a point but I find politics so shallow and boring it’s hard to get fired up about them unless they’re taking away our liberties or something.
Yeah, that last line was a little ironic joke thing. Let’s move on.
#3 Chris Prillo – Just don’t find him as fascinating as some. Seems like he was always first to self-promote, but who can blame a guy who lives off web revenues? Regardless, just not my cup of tea. I feel like less of a blogger just to say that. Shouldn’t we respect our web elders? Or something?
#4 Doc Searls – Oh boy, I’m getting edgy now. Firstly, the damn feed has every blog post as “[Unnamed]” with the first few words of it being the actual title in bold. Ugh. Secondly, he makes me look like a tagline writer. That is to say the man can write a lot. And you thought my posts were long-winded. The guy is knowledgable, blah blah (obligatory cover-my-ass-from-flames statements go here), but I don’t seek out his work.
#5 Instapundit – First up, partial feeds. This will get you read less than if you put “Evan suxors” on your page in bold letters (at least then I can come by and see the latest Evan Suxors Hate Update). Secondly, politics are nice, but I will happily admit I spend little time thinking/studying/commenting and most certainly blogging on them.
With that said, it was kinda funny to see state senators smacked down when caught taking bribes. Yeesh.
And with that, I hope you share your top 5 (and bottom 5!) on your own blog, or in the comments. If the former, feel free to shoot me an email and I’ll try to link em here.
A heart that’s full up like a landfill
A job that slowly kills you, bruises that won’t heal
1 Comments:
You need to really check out the cracklog.........
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