3l0g Day 2007, part Two
As it happens, BlogDay(tm) 2007 has very strict 5 rules about how to do this thing. Anyway, we here at Tech IT Easy are not that good at following any rules and anyway, who are they to tell us how to do this thing. Blogs are about decentralized individual empowerment, not following a centralized bureaucratic system! Earlier today, Vince already wrote about his 5 blogs and now its my turn to give you 5 other blogs.
While Vince’s selections probably reflected the blogs that might somewhat be blogs that are in the Tech IT Easy’s scope, my 5 blogs for you today, are my personal choices. They are not new and they are pretty famous, but not that famous as blogs. Furthermore, selecting five was a really hard task for me, as I only follow regularly 28 feeds and roughly two thirds of them are what someone might call blogs, rest are news feeds. I totally agree that what the founder of 3l0g Day-thingie says, “Did you know that the majority of blog readers read a very small number of top blogs?”. I know I do.
Anyway, here we go, in no particular order.
Double Fine Action News - Not so much a blog, but a place for Tim Schafer to ramble in a a disguise of a company’s news page. Tim Schafer, of course, is the evil genius behind the amazing game Psychonauts and one of the evil geniuses behind many LucasArts’ famous adventure games. I would gladly donate my left kidney for Tim, even if he didn’t need it, for making Grim Fandango. For this accomplishment and others, he’s duly categorised in Wikipedia as one of the lucky few “Living people“.
Grumpy Gamer - Now, this blog is anti-new in the drunkenblog sense, the latest post is from April. But it’s written by Ron Gilbert and there are some pretty odd links in the sidebar. In Wikipedia, he’s categorised unceremoniously to “Year of birth missing“.
Reddit all? - A blog by the guy who draws the little aliens for reddit.com, the social news or something-along-the-lines site. Posts only occasionally have anything to do with reddit.com or the alien. But there are cuttlefish.
Call Me Fishmeal. - by Wil Shipley, who loves and loves to write and loves to write about mac software. Right now he’s somewhat silent, because while he usually writes about “pimping up code”, he can’t as the new, and according to him, cool frameworks in Mac OS X 10.5 are still under NDAs. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t write about TED conferences or cars with unpainted carbon fiber body. He also has an arch-nemesis, whose blog just didn’t make the cut this year.
Releaselog - Now, this site is a a bit different as its about the warez scene and usually just posts info about recent releases to the underground tubes of the interwebs. Once in a while, though, there are good posts about the whole warez/copyright/p2p-discussion combined with occasional scene drama.
Seriously, there’s no way I could’ve tried to follow the rule 2 of BlogDay Club (”you don’t talk about..”). I can’t be connected with what current laws define as illegal or in couple of cases abobe, the guys are freaking famous and I’m just a fan of their amazing work. In a way I really enjoy that they blog, because it shows that they’re just people, it’s nice to see what makes them tick - what are their interests, and it’s great that they can express their ideas not only through their work. Before you would’ve have needed to run to some conferences or hunt down magazine’s with interviews about these guys.
So, happy BlogDay, whatever that means to you in these undefined web2.0 days.
hey watch Jeremy I may go ahead and post about a dozen …
Comment by ceciiil — August 31, 2007 @ 3:55 pm
woops that was Kari - apology.
anyway “watch out Kari etc …”
Comment by ceciiil — August 31, 2007 @ 3:56 pm
Feel free to do so… There’s still many hours of BlogDay letft, especially depending on one’s timezone!
Comment by Kari — August 31, 2007 @ 4:23 pm
Hey l33t Kari, great picks from you too! And Cecil, feel free to share your fab-five also, the more the merrier. Blog-day = Web2.0-christmas!
Comment by Vincent van Wylick — August 31, 2007 @ 5:49 pm