Tag Archives: great-blogs

Blog Tending as the New Zen Garden

This is an interesting article about Ta-Nehisi Coates’ approach to blogging.  I’m only an occasional visitor to his blog, but I’m always amazed at how deep and learned the conversation is.  A little bit of guidance from the blogtender goes a long way to weeding out the obnoxious pests that infest thought-gardens Internet-wide. At the […]

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99% Invisible

A hard-to-impress friend posted about this blog the other day, so I knew it was had to be impressive.   Irregularly updated, but pretty fascinating.  I’ll have to check in on this one in the future. The Walled City gained a reputation as a sort of den of iniquity—there were high levels of prostitution, gambling, […]

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The Sneeze – Half zine. Half blog. Half not good with fractions.

http://www.thesneeze.com/mt-archives/000715.php This is a terrific little piece by The Sneeze blog. For years, the writer’s father has had a signature doodle that appears on cakes, cards, etc. The writer decides to interview his father about it, and the result is a sweet, funny trip down the father’s memory lane.

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http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/ This site’s been on my personal bookmarks page for a while, but I’ve neglected to Stumble it. Given that I should really be looking for a job or working instead, now seems the perfect time to correct my oversight… Colourlovers blog is for those types who keep their Pantone guides wrapped in brown paper […]

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