Unabashed

Where are all the cool blogs? I know there are some out there, blogs written by people who have an interest in writing about cool stuff, interesting subjects, with witty flair, but damn if I can find many. Sure, recently I found Al over at Life and Lawns on Blogspot (or rather, he found me), but so far he’s been the exception rather than the rule. I’ve looked through Technorati, searched the Google Blog Search, checked BlogCatalog and MyBlogLog but I haven’t been very lucky with my searches, I guess.

MySpace or LiveJournal haven’t shown me what I’m looking for. Most people that have MySpace pages don’t use their blogs much, and the rampant friending in lj just gives you a bunch of people who you really have no connection with. I’m not opposed to lj, I just haven’t found many ljs that I would like to read consistently.

What am I looking for? Content; and I think personal blogs can provide it for me at a maximum dose of two or three posts per day (any more than that and I begin to feel overwhelmed). Give me someone with a small blog who posts “where to buy the best sorghum syrup” or “here’s how to build a better outdoor theater,” you know: articles. Diary-type entries are okay sometimes, even desired, because you like to know what’s going on with the writers you like, don’t you? But I also want articles of interest. How to do this and why to do that, what star is lining up with Jupiter right now or how to rid your personal space of noise pollution. Just content; is that so much to ask? It doesn’t even have to follow a specific topic, topical blogs being all the rage right now, of course, but in a personal blog it’s difficult to have a specific topic, so you write about what you like. Certainly there’s someone out there who wants to read about stuff you like, right? Right: me.

Now: Do you know of any good blogs? Shoot me a link please :-)

Update: I’ve got plenty now, thanks. Some of them are even ljs, which makes me happy.

written by Matt Mitchell