Blog walkabout, 8 July 2007
Welcome to another blog walkabout! I missed last week’s walkabout due to other pressures, but things have returned to normal, I think.
First stop today is Blue Beaver Beer, from Tim Ebl and Ernie Wiegand in Alberta, Canada. I had to laugh at the scan of a page from a local newspaper that appeared to show something unusual on the menu. Ewwww! Thankfully, appearances can be deceptive. There’s a lesson in design for all of us there.
The mysterious Lis, from Singapore, takes care of three blogs (where do people find the time?). About Every Little Thing is an eclectic melting pot of random facts, opinions and humour. The amount of planning Lis put into preparing herself to watch Apocalypto is beyond reproach, as is her review of the movie. Brilliantly funny stuff!
Nafurai is an excellent blog on the subject of blogging. The author, Maurizio from Switzerland, is doing a fascinating project compiling a database of WordPress and Blogger blogs with a custom-built Java application. At the time of writing, he has over 112,000 blogs in the database. Yikes!
Alicia Sparks is a freelance writer and editor who writes both Mental Health Notes and Writing Spark. She’s running a poll on the subject of books versus movie adaptations. Why not hop over there and vote? I voted “there have only been a few movies that have done the books justice”. Indeed, I can hardly think of any.
Odlum Online is a technical blog written by Andrew Odlum from the US. It covers web design and development. This is a superb resource for CSS techniques such as explaining how to float an image into a paragraph of text. Indispensable.
Over to Morocco now, for Maryam Montague’s My Marrakesh. This is gorgeous, filled with exotic photographs and accompanied by interesting narrative. A truly beautiful travel blog. I can also recommend Maryam’s photographs on Flickr; they’re so colourful you can almost feel the heat.
Neria Sebastien from St Lucia in the Caribbean runs Neria’s Whirl. Neria gives us a mix of lots of different news - celebrities, sport, health, weird news and a sprinkling of video discoveries. It was the first time I’d heard about high heels for women drivers, which I think are a great idea.
Susan Suarez has a self-named blog which has been set up to help others build traffic and revenue from their own blogs. In addition, she also runs Got2BeGreen, a solid, practical environmental resource, and Housing Lot Online, for people looking for a mortgage or home loan. All three are full of useful, practical advice, and are also fine examples of clean web design.
Riley Central is run by Damien Riley from California, USA. I loved looking at his photographs of Victorville, and enjoyed reading the description of the town in which he lives. Damien is another blogger who demonstrates good web design, too.
Let’s close with today’s second blog from Singapore, Missy Zee’s Zynamic Gala. I like how she uses the crime metaphor throughout the site: confessions, witnesses, close-up evidence. Very clever. Missy has just been through LASIK surgery on both eyes. I’m so glad to hear she’s feeling better, and that all went as planned.
Well, that’s all for today, folks. Have a good week!
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July 8th, 2007 19:23
Hey, thanks for the pingback, but I’m not from the US.
I’m swiss.
Feel free to suggest me something to look for on my blog’s database.
July 8th, 2007 20:14
Maurizio, my apologies. I’ve amended the post to reflect the fact that you’re from Switzerland
But your BlogCatalog profile says that you’re from the United States, which is where I got that information:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/nafurai.html
July 8th, 2007 20:16
This is amazing. I was actually doing the same thing when I came across your blog of course I call my Blog Stumbling versus a Blog Walkabout but the idea is the same. Hope you don’t mind if I include you in mine for today. Excellent work by the way.
July 8th, 2007 20:31
Susan - cool! A nice coincidence.
July 8th, 2007 20:36
Oh I see you use ScriptFire and I just added it so I am going to try it out as well.
July 8th, 2007 21:57
[…] begin our journey today with The Far Corner blog where interestingly enough blotcher is doing the exact same thing, of course he calls his a […]
July 8th, 2007 23:18
Hey Baxter,
Thanks for the link. I am glad to hear that you like my site. In yet another coincidence I just started up a new feature where I will be linking to various articles every Saturday. I am actually creating a dedicated page to those sites that have something similar. I am thus going to add both this site and Susan’s site.
Thanks again. I hope everyone has a great day today.
July 9th, 2007 09:50
Thank you so much for including me in your round up! I am flattered. I am passionate about beauty in all things and love to share that passion on my Marrakech-based blog.
July 9th, 2007 17:17
I just registered with BlogCatalog and I think is really annoying to fill all those stuff.
I usually say where I come from just when I’m asked by a human being. People have some strange feelings about Switzerland sometimes.
July 9th, 2007 18:19
Andrew: I’d recommend your blog to anyone looking to get into web development. I’ve been tweaking on the very fringes of PHP, but I haven’t gotten into CSS yet (though I bought a couple of books about both, I haven’t had time to read them yet). And I look forward to reading your recommendations on Saturdays; the spookiness continues!
Maryam: no problem. I really did enjoy your blog. I’d love to visit North Africa at some point. Everything looks so exotic and, well, different. Different lifestyle, different pace. I always enjoy reading blogs from anywhere off the beaten track. Great work!
Maurizio: Asking where you come from enables people to look up bloggers from a specific country. If I’d been looking for someone from Switzerland (and I do often browse by country for the walkabouts), I wouldn’t have found you! It also helps the BlogCatalog folk with demographics. And I can assure you that, personally, I have no strange feelings whatsoever about Switzerland, or any other country for that matter. The walkabouts always have an international perspective, which is quite deliberate.
July 10th, 2007 09:17
Eh, I’m not that mysterious. I’m just too boring to describe. Also, I need to start watching movies that require less preparation work. Way too tiring!
July 10th, 2007 19:06
Lis, anyone who has only a single name (either first name or second name) falls into “mysterious” here
And I’m not surprised you’re tired after all you did!
July 10th, 2007 19:16
Thanks for stopping by a few of my sites. You’ve got a great site here.
-Susan
July 11th, 2007 14:32
Baxter,
I hope that my CSS lessons have taught you a thing or two. After I cover a little bit more on CSS I am going to start tackling PHP, Javascript, and everything else that can come in handy for potential web designers. My hope is that I can turn those books of yours into reference guides only.
July 11th, 2007 17:48
Susan: thanks for your kind comment!
Andrew: I’m looking forward to it already.
September 20th, 2007 21:38
Actually I’m working on my design web, it will be done soon, for now I have a blog. I’m looking for the NZ Maori term for ‘walkabut’ I remember from my travels it went something like ‘tipi hari’ or tempe harrie, pronounced tippy-hadie. I’ve looked on the web but I am botching it so badly, nothing is coming up.
I like your site, you got a lot going on.
keep up the good work.
thanx -
Dln
December 8th, 2007 05:22
wow! i hope someday, i’d earn your admiration also… i’ll go check out the blogs that u posted here