Blog walkabout, 6 May 2007
Welcome to the first of my blog walkabouts, where I take a look around a few blogs to see what others are saying.
Kelly Cho’s Catch a Falling Star talks about life from the perspective of a Japanese/Chinese girl, born and raised in Brazil and now working as a realtor in Los Angeles. Kelly talks about real life in LA, technology, and Second Life, amongst other things. An enjoyable and thought-provoking read.
Wayne Hicks’ Electronic Village is a “virtual village”, created in the African tradition. There’s an interesting article there about what it means to be African American and deaf, and about the mission of the National Black Deaf Advocates. Quality writing here.
From my blogroll, the excellent Untwisted Vortex, RT Cunningham’s blog from the Philippines, is always a great read. RT’s been blogging for almost a year, and has built up a loyal readership due to his perpetual willingness to help others, and to give back to the blogging community. Unmissable.
Eurica Teichmann from South Africa must be kept busy, having no less than 8 blogs listed on her Blogger profile. I took a look at Feline Talk, which has some wonderful cat photographs. These include city cats dreaming they’re in a “cat band”, and cats sleeping in all sorts of weird positions and places, as only cats can.
Syaf The Geek from Malaysia wants to make computing fun, and he manages it pretty well too. Covering a broad range of subjects including blogging, Firefox and hardware, I found this blog a comfortable mix of things which coincide nicely with my own interests.
Silken is yet another blogger running a multitude of blogs, this time in the USA. I had a look at “Did You Know?“, a blog full of unusual information. I had no idea that the Houston Museum was paying people 25 cents each for cockroaches to enable them to set up an exhibit on the creatures.
Rachael Preddy, who’s already on my blogroll, authors Green from Bristol in the UK. This is a personal blog about, amongst other things, her search for permanent employment, augmented by scrummy recipes. I hope Rache’s career path works out for her, and wish her the very best.
Narendra Venkata Sakibanda’s TechTreak is a blog from India about technology and beyond. I found the roundup of wine-related Web 2.0 websites useful, as I had only heard of two of these before. Nice fresh design too.
Nathanael’s Despair and Coffee is a philosophical blog from the USA, in which the author ponders questions of existence and writes with incision and elegance. I tried to put myself into his shoes, asking “how many mornings before thirty”, but in my case it was all too late. However, an excellent read.
Tara’s a freelance graphic designer, also based in the UK. Her Graphic Design Blog is absolutely gorgeous. I’m as artistic as a fencepost, but I know quality when I see it, and this blog has it in spades. I particularly enjoyed her post on the loves and hates of a graphic designer.
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