I strongly encourage you to head over to Maria Schneider’s blog and nominate your favorite for her Top 25 blogging contest. And thank you to Georganna Hancock and Devon Ellington for nominating me. I appreciate the honor!
The trouble with blog contests is they have to exclude someone. Seriously, how can you include all your favorites when you have one vote? Worse, sometimes your favorite has no category in which to be, well, categorized. Like Carrie Link’s daily life revelation on Fully Caffeinated or Devon Ellington’s glimpse inside her head at Ink in My Coffee – how do you lump great reading into a category? And the Aquarian side of me wants to know why should we anyway?
So pick your favorites and let me know about them here. Go on – pick more than one. Post the name and the link and tomorrow (or the next day, depending on the number of responses) I’ll make our own Top Blogs list. This is your chance to honor those you read religiously (and maybe even your own blog you’ve worked so hard to create?). Let us know what blog you can’t start the day without.
These are top blogs. The blogs don’t have to be about writing (though it’s cool if they are). Just tell me where you go and why. We get inspiration from so many places, it seems a shame to exclude a blog just because it’s not writing-specific.
Where should we look first?
Let's see. Here are just a few of the blogs I check every morning:
Yours
Screw You
Swan's Blog
Andrew Sullivan at the Atlantic
Cute Overload
HuffPo
Passive-aggressive notes
I also check some legal blogs and a few neighborhood blogs.
Forgot to add the why:
Yours–great business and writing information, and it feels like I'm talking to colleagues around a water cooler.
Screw You–often hilarious and helpful to know what silly payments are being offered.
Swan's Blog–I like hearing about how she's handling productivity issues, which I suffer from too.
Andrew Sullivan–great eclectic mix of topics.
Cute overload–just nice to smile sometimes
HuffPo–another good, eclectic mix.
Passive-aggressive notes–great for a laugh.
Love Swan's Blog, too! Screw You is another personal favorite. 🙂
I like Andrew Sullivan. He's got a great style. The others -not heard of, but I'll check them out!