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Blog Day

Today is Blog Day, when bloggers around the world have been invited to write about five other blogs. We were asked to seek new sites, especially ones from around the world which are out of the realm we would normally read.

Although I have no shortage of sites to read most of my online reading follows similar veins related to design. So I thought a good way to begin my search was to look for blogs mentioning places I’d like to travel to. Here’s what I found:

1. Portugal - João Leitão of Portugal has an impressive body of posts in his Travel Diaries. There are 14 posts on Kazakhstan alone and refreshingly, none of them mentions Borat. I like that he’s posted lots of pictures and even some music videos from the places he’s been to.
2. Venice - Weird Venice isn’t updated often, but the latest post there at the moment gives sage advice for tourists in any city: Get up at 5am and see the city as it awakens. Luckily the author also links to Venice Daily Photo. I’ll definitely spend more time on that site when I finally make my dream trip to the Venice Biennale.
3. Miscellany - I discovered in my travels (hah) that wordpress.com/tags allows you to find all kinds of WordPress-hosted sites based on their tags. Currently “Life” is the most popular tag. Go figure.
4. South America - Dave’s New Adventure is filled with good writing and lots of pics. Each post closes humorously with a picture and caption of “The author hard at work…” at something that changes each time (…flirting, trying not to fall off a cliff…).
5. New York city - I also found something from a little closer to home: NYC Bloggers. It claims there are a million blogs in the city, and links to about 6200 of them. Similar to the Techcouver project, it organizes information based on a transit map.

So that list isn’t exactly 5 blogs, but I hope you enjoy it nonetheless. And if you’re still short on things to read (fat chance, I imagine!) then Christine and Mhairi have shared some interesting links as well.

Posted: August 31st, 2007 under Computers & Tech, Culture Consumed.
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