Question of the Day

~ Laura

What blogs are you reading? Any new ones? What about them amuses you? Is it the personal stories or the political commentary? Do you read the comment sections? Are you getting more into the blogs or is it all getting rather stale? Any advice for bloggers about how to make their work more interesting?

(Please don’t include this blog in your answer, since we know that it is nearly perfect in every way. Feel free to plug your own blog.)

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15 thoughts on “Question of the Day”

  1. Lately I’ve been reading lots of blogs about work. Some favorites are New York Hack and Waiterrant and Cocktail Doll.
    I love the immediacy and unfiltered-ness (yes I know that’s not a word–I told you, no Ph.D.!) of blogs, which makes these windows into lives unlike my own so interesting. Of course, that’s what I like about this one too, not being an academic or a mother.
    Re advice, blog every day–it’s frustrating to go back several days in a row and find nothing’s changed. And cultivate an active comments section, of which this blog and its readers are masters (and mistresses).

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  2. I read the ones on my blogroll regularly and only put ones on it that I like to read. So you can make inferences bout my tastes from what I link to. Do a lot of people do this or do they see their blogrolls as more bibliographical in nature?
    Wondering what people think of the about-to-be-official-dKos-v.-Tacitus site, Swords Crossed…I mean, once you get past the mockable title. Is this kind of move to bring real internal debate to political blogs workable? How can it avoid devolving into the Steven vs. Stephen thing the Daily Show made so much fun of back in the day?
    I find nakedly partisan blogging absolutely bring unless it’s done with a sense of humor, and then only when it’s with a really good sense of humor.

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  3. I’ve been frequenting somewhat geeky law blogs:
    LawCulture
    Concurring Opinions
    PrawfsBlawg
    Empirical Legal Studies
    Fascinating how much law professors have gotten into blogging. There’s way too much about law school rankings; but otehrwise, quite interesting.

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  5. I love blogging. But I’ve yet to tap into the magical well of insight that others seem to sip from at will. Seems the best blogs are ones where the writers consistently have insightful things to say about any of a range of topics.
    My favorites (btw I’m a liberal and a 1st year law student, so that probably skews my interests):
    Whiskey Bar (the best of the best, maybe making the entire internet worthwhile … but often on hiatus)
    Legal Fiction (fantastic writer and great group of mostly civil commenters from across political spectrum, but busy this last week and a funky font thing the last couple days)

    Malcolm Gladwell     (“the” Malcolm Gladwell)
    Unclaimed Territory (another fantastic writer with a fantastic good post/boring post ratio)

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  6. I feel like an outlier with my response, but lately I’ve been reading tons of baseball blogs (at the expense of political and social blogs, I imagine). It started as I began developing a baseball blog with several friends. There were two baseball blogs I was already reading fairly regularly, Baseball Crank and Baseball Musings. But to create my own baseball blogroll, I figured I should check out more and that has snowballed.
    Does blogroll responsibility encourage one to read more blogs? You put a blog on your blogroll and feel compelled to check on its blogroll too. Then, as time passes, you need to check on it, if just to see if it’s still up.
    BTW, I like Malcom Gladwell’s blogging too, but he doesn’t post often enough for me to remember to check it regularly.

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  7. Half-Changed World, Raising WEG and One Good Thing (sorry, don’t know how to do hyper links). Like this blog I think they both have a nice mix of the personal, the political and the philosophical.

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  8. A lot of what I read are big-name blogs, so I won’t bother mentioning them. And work recently banned blogspot blogs, so I’ve been reading some of my favorites (Tiny Cat Pants, Eve Tushnet, and Writing As Joe) less.
    That said–three newish-to-me blogs that I read a lot.
    Hugo Schwyzer
    http://hugoboy.typepad.com/hugo_schwyzer/
    Camassia
    http://www.notfrisco2.com/camassiablog/
    Both have a considerable focus on “what doees it look like to live as a Christian in the world,” and are generally fascinating. Hugo’s comment section is a must-read.
    Half-Changed World

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  9. Megan at ‘from the archives’ is funny and cute. She’s an engineer and has a very unique voice. Lives in Sacramento and thinks it’s fun, so that’s worth something.

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  13. Allow me to advertise my superficiality and generally bring a note of trashiness to these proceedings.
    I love, love, love Go Fug Yourself, celeb fashion commentary that has made me laugh until milk came out my nose: http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/
    The ‘tude on The Superficial is kinda gross sometimes, but I love me some pointed celebrity snarkage:
    thesuperficial.com
    And the writers blog on Grey’s Anatomy is a hoot:
    greyswriters.com
    Now, I must get back to reading Star magazine and watching Footballers Wives and otherwise wasting my expensive degrees.

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  15. I have my blogroll mentally categorized for which mood I’m in: friends, parents, academia, acade-parents. So when I don’t feel like going down the whole roll, I just pick the category.
    One of my favorites is an acquaintance from college–an artist, mom of two, who writes so transparently about her art, her kids, her faith, her dreams, and her struggles with making them all jive: New Eyes

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