Bibi announces that today is the third annual BlogDay:
Here are the BlogDay posting instructions:
1. Find 5 new blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link and a link to the BlogDay web site
Today, sayeth the site, "bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new blogs, preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers."
So I did it using Blogger's "Next Blog" button, and here are my five, although I won't be notifying the bloggers that I'm mentioning them (let them get your hits as a nice surprise!):
1. Vörös Liliom, a very pretty Hungarian blog of which I cannot read a single word but which contains beautiful photographs accompanied by what appears to be poetry. Probably worth it if you can read the language or want to go through Babelfish.
2. On the Tombstone of Luis Casati, who says, "I seem conventional only to myself presently, which is most inconvenient. Sometimes." In this fairly new blog, Luisa chats about her daily life, passes along YouTube videos, and discusses books and music. This may be a keeper.
3. Princesa says, "Soy una pequeña princesa que no hace otra cosa que estudiar para unas oposiciones que parece que no acaban nunca. Mi reino...la patria perdida que espero encontrar algún día." The princess' royal diary seems by turns upbeat and contemplative, but my Spanish is por merde these days so I could be wrong.
4. Really Nothing To Say. I love this concept, it's quite perfect for our blog-obsessed culture. In turn it led me to The Very Silly Blog, "the second silliest blog on the planet." Maybe I have the silliest because of my Silly Sites? I have to count these two as one.
5. Lastly, a blog for the Italian football club AC Fiorentina, in Italian of course, entitled 1529 FV QVI CHE NACQVE IL CALCIO. I have no idea but, um, Go AC Fiorentina! Lots of YouTube highlight videos; mercifully violence-free.
Also, PSoTD asks his entire blogroll, "What should the federal holiday 'Labor Day' mean to America? And how should we appropriately honor the day?" Didn't he do this last year? Yes, yes he did. But that was slightly different, as it was oriented more toward the personal than the political. Politically I believe Labor Day should be commemorated as first and foremost the Workers' Holiday, the one celebrated on May Day throughout most of the rest of the world. It should no more include CEOs in the celebration than Secretaries Day should morph into Administrative Professionals Day and suddenly even someone who isn't a secretary or receptionist is getting taken out to lunch or flowers or whatever and no, I'm not bitter, not much. See what happens when you ask me these things, Wayne?
Here are the BlogDay posting instructions:
1. Find 5 new blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link and a link to the BlogDay web site
Today, sayeth the site, "bloggers from all over the world will post recommendations of 5 new blogs, preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude. On this day, blog readers will find themselves leaping around and discovering new, unknown blogs, celebrating the discovery of new people and new bloggers."
So I did it using Blogger's "Next Blog" button, and here are my five, although I won't be notifying the bloggers that I'm mentioning them (let them get your hits as a nice surprise!):
1. Vörös Liliom, a very pretty Hungarian blog of which I cannot read a single word but which contains beautiful photographs accompanied by what appears to be poetry. Probably worth it if you can read the language or want to go through Babelfish.
2. On the Tombstone of Luis Casati, who says, "I seem conventional only to myself presently, which is most inconvenient. Sometimes." In this fairly new blog, Luisa chats about her daily life, passes along YouTube videos, and discusses books and music. This may be a keeper.
3. Princesa says, "Soy una pequeña princesa que no hace otra cosa que estudiar para unas oposiciones que parece que no acaban nunca. Mi reino...la patria perdida que espero encontrar algún día." The princess' royal diary seems by turns upbeat and contemplative, but my Spanish is por merde these days so I could be wrong.
4. Really Nothing To Say. I love this concept, it's quite perfect for our blog-obsessed culture. In turn it led me to The Very Silly Blog, "the second silliest blog on the planet." Maybe I have the silliest because of my Silly Sites? I have to count these two as one.
5. Lastly, a blog for the Italian football club AC Fiorentina, in Italian of course, entitled 1529 FV QVI CHE NACQVE IL CALCIO. I have no idea but, um, Go AC Fiorentina! Lots of YouTube highlight videos; mercifully violence-free.
Also, PSoTD asks his entire blogroll, "What should the federal holiday 'Labor Day' mean to America? And how should we appropriately honor the day?" Didn't he do this last year? Yes, yes he did. But that was slightly different, as it was oriented more toward the personal than the political. Politically I believe Labor Day should be commemorated as first and foremost the Workers' Holiday, the one celebrated on May Day throughout most of the rest of the world. It should no more include CEOs in the celebration than Secretaries Day should morph into Administrative Professionals Day and suddenly even someone who isn't a secretary or receptionist is getting taken out to lunch or flowers or whatever and no, I'm not bitter, not much. See what happens when you ask me these things, Wayne?
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