Around The World In 80 Blogs
Update: This post is now closed to comments as a new and improved list is available here: The mad race continues
Aren’t you in the mood to see something new? As a way of warding off the Summer blues, I thought we should go on a little adventure in search of new and exciting blogs that are smart, funny, creative or colorful.
To get things started I’ve listed the first five blogs. Now I want you to share some of the blogs that you have recently discovered.
The First Five Stops On Our Journey…
80. R – What An African Woman Thinks: Incredible writer. No photos. No cats. Just the gig.
79. Eugene Cho – beauty and depravity: When I first saw the name of his blog I was trying to remember what the Greek word “eugenecho” means… Kinda like iMonk, but edgier.
78. Scott Gray – a lectionary beyond belief: I caught his riff at Doug’s place and then he let loose with a long improv on Snow White at BBB that had my jaw flapping.
77. Nora McNamara – mmm-BELLY-may Days: Beninese blogger babe. Check out Red and Siphoning. She’s one to watch.
76. Jan Chipchase – Future Perfect: A roving conceptual maverick for Nokia that gets paid to travel the world taking pictures of bathrooms, elevators and…phones. It’s a big crazy world out there, and Jan’s right in the middle of it taking pictures with his phone.
Now it’s your turn…
How to participate:
- Paste a link in the comments, like this: http://lingapotamus.wordpress.com
(Don’t worry about all the fancy codes.) - Give the name of the blog and why you like it.
So this entry might look like:
75. http://lingapotamus.wordpress.com
Lingapotamus: A weird and wonderful hippo blog.
And, in order to get our journey off to a good start I’ve decided to ask every blogger on my Links page to participate. Help me out, old friends. Who are you reading these days?
Tagged:
Ancient Hebrew Poetry, Ben Witherington, Better Bibles Blog, Chrisendom, ГЛАС СТЕФАНА, εν εφέσω, Euangelion, MetaCatholic, Teaching OT in faraway places, THIS LAMP, Dr Jim West, SmartChristian.com, Think Christian, Aristotle’s Feminist Subject, Beyond Words, Cam’s View of the World, Eclexia, Gentle Wisdom, He is Sufficient, internetmonk.com, Iyov, Kouya Chronicle, Kruse Kronicle, Sufficiency, Suzanne’s Bookshelf, The Empty Nest, The Ongoing Adventures of ASBO Jesus, Threads from Henry’s Web, Today at the Mission, Accra by Day & Night, Ben Byerly’s Blog, chapa100, Diário de um sociólogo, Moçambique para todos , NDAGHA, Rob and Lois in Benin, The Former Optimist, White African, AfriGadget, Boing Boing, Engadget Mobile, Mashable!, MobileActive.org, SansBlogue, textually.org
Update: This post is now closed to comments as a new and improved list is available here: The mad race continues
Hey, I need to read the small print of those restrictions first! No point in going for a prize without checking I qualify.
OK, I’ll go ahead anyway and take the risk. I nominate:
Jeremy Myers – TILL HE COMES blog, for his cool mountain picture and, more than that, for his posts on church planting and being a missional pastor or non-pastor.
Bob listed five or six at his blog: http://stenagmois.blogspot.com/2008/05/lingamish-has-tagged-round-world-in-80.html
I have a feeling we’re going to have some math troubles here…
Yes I listed 6 but started at the wrong number! Since my eye remembered your example. But since I listed 6, my ending number is really OK. But who will read the sequence in series?
Following from Bob’s numbering:
69. Shakespeare Geek — the weird and the wonderful about Shakespeare, without any academic noise. Just pure enjoyment.
68. A Dialogue on Infinity — a philosopher and a mathematician belt it out, and aren’t scared of getting a little technical. Read Dante’s Universe as a 3-Sphere as an example of the marvels of this blog.
67. In terms of pure day-to-day content, I subscribe to Web Worker Daily.
66. For topics on music and theology, I’ve been enjoying Greg Willson’s blog, gregorious thoughts.
You tagged me twice, but here’s the first, at the moment I’m reading:
65. unseen mae la: Photos of Refugee Life Taken by Karen Refugees
Tim Cowley living in the bush of Mozambique has an even slower Internet connection than I do. Here are his recommendations:
Rather than try to wait for a slow download, here’s my post for you to
add re: what blogs I like to check out:
64. Cool Tools – http://feeds.feedburner.com/CoolTools
This blog lets me in on some of the coolest inventions on the market
for
all kinds of stuff you didn’t even know you need!
63. Lifehacker – http://lifehacker.com/index.xml
Full of great suggestions to “improve” aspects of our digital
lives…especially in tune with Mac user’s needs (though plenty of
PC-user recommendations as well)
62. Digital Photography School –
http://feeds.feedburner.com/DigitalPhotographySchool
For people with digital SLR cameras who want to learn all kinds of good
tips and tricks to improve their photography.
61. Spend Some Time – http://motambala.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default
New to the blogosphere, the single woman on our team here in Mozambique
shares her hilarious experiences mostly to her friends at church back
in
California!
TheOoze
60. http://www.theooze.com/articles/article.cfm?id=1997
Cool eccentric theology blog that I picked up thanks to Nora at mmm-Belly. The article above is about story, context, narrative, basically all the emergent incense and chanting that gives theologically narrow guys like myself a naughty thrill.
You want to ward off the summertime blues?
Well, I have it on good authority that there ain’t no cure for the summertime blues, so I won’t take up this meme.
Anyway, it isn’t summer where you are!
The vicar’s sermon made you cranky? Take Bassam for a walk and you’ll feel better.
Eddie does make some great points; you do need 80 more or so technorati ratings; & you tempt us into thinking we have some stake in this memic game:
59. http://christianfeminism.wordpress.com/
Christian Feminism
Because some redundancies are just not obvious enough
58. http://aremenreallyhuman.blogspot.com/
Are Men Really Human
Since there’s still that argument over at BBB as to whether the Greek aner / andres is really anthropos.
57. http://stranzblog.blogspot.com/
Of life, laughter and liturgy . . .
We need to live, laugh and liturgize more — and who better to do that with than an English Pasteure Traductrice who lives in France and works in Switzerland?
56. As a relief from hippopotami and because it has MO in the URL, I’ll nominate Mighty Optical Illusions.
55. Prof. Mark Vitalis Hoffman’s Biblical Studies and Technological Tools is just full of useful information. For example, here is a discussion of a useful and extensive (free) Notes for the Study of Greek”.
Hey, David, could you promote this list a little more? I think those whom you have nominated have not “pulled their weight” in contributing to this list.
I agree that our partners in crime have been in hiding. Now that we’re a quarter of the way around I’ll put up another post to remind them of their responsibility to the higher good of society.
Tim, what an incredible website that is with the photos of the refugee camps taken by people who live there. Brilliant and powerfully beautiful. Thanks for the link there, and thanks, David, for this idea. I’m enjoying exploring around to these new (to me) places online (as if I needed more blogs to read
)
You, young lady, are supposed to be giving us some links! First, Eddie revolts and now you.
54. Greg Laughery from Switzerland blogs at Living Spirituality, which speaks for itself: http://www.livingspirituality.org/
53. LeRon Shults lives in Norway but blogs from all over the world about the deep anthropology of the Spirit : http://leronshults.typepad.com/my_weblog/
52. Dustin Schuur, who’s from my town but lives in Mexico and blogs poetically about a holistic gospel: http://schuur451.wordpress.com/
51. Pam, a United Methodist probational minister whose sense of social justice is big enough to span both sides of the pond: http:pambg.blogspot.com
50. My daughter Rebekah will be in Edinburgh, Scotland all summer. Her blog is under construction, but you can follow its progress at: http://www.radiantwithin.com/Blog/Blog.html
I can’t help it if all the good blogs I’ve found come from people I’ve discovered through you, so you already read them, and you already know who they read. I don’t get out much! But I’ll be sure to let you know if I discover something amazing.
I’ll keep looking, though!
Hey, you scammed by big find to kick this thing off with nary a thank you. (Of course, if you found her on your own, I apologize.) Most of the others I follow are pretty well known already.
Oops. HT: Ben.
Yes, I got her from you. Her “accent” is really difficult to place. She says she’s Kenyan but speaks perfect snarky American chic. Compare Victor Kaonga who speaks flawless Malawian English. I just don’t get her.
And you had better give me some links or it’s “flush” and you’ll be off the list.
49: http://scotteriology.wordpress.com/
Scotteriology. He stopped blogging for a while (school related hiatus maybe?) but he’s back. It’s a great mix of funny and insightful.
And 48: http://blog.makezine.com/
Make Blog. A site devoted to do-it-yourself everything. It’s a testament to the intuitive nature of humans and the vastness of the internet that they can consistently find people making pretty much everything from their own homes.
Did my suggestion in the first comment ever get a number? We were not originally asked to provide our own. If not, it will have to be:
47: Jeremy Myers – TILL HE COMES blog.
That is unless someone has beaten me to no. 47.
Chris from Think Christian! I’m in the big time now. Thanks for stopping by your royal blogstarness.
David,
Seriously?! The big time?! Your stuff has been invigorating me since I started writing for ThinkChristian! You’re one of my blogstars!
That said I think I need to add number 46: http://donteatalone.blogspot.com/
Don’t Eat Alone. The guy that writes it is a cook with some phenomenal thoughts on living the Christian life.
Wow. I’m feeling pretty nice about now.
45. Velveteen Rabbi. Not just a great blog name, but the thinkings of a poet-writer-rabbinical student
44. A ‘Goula Blogger — while we are waiting for Rick Mansfield to one day restart his blog (any bets on the likelihood of it starting up again before the year 2010) we can enjoy the wry comments of his pal, Chuck Grantham.
43. Torn Notebook. Thoughts from a Malaysian immigrant who converted from Buddhism to Catholicism.
42. Google Blogoscoped. Polite and insightful commentary on the search company everyone is obsessed with.
Jim coughed up these…
41, 40, 39, 38, 37
The brainy guy at the bottom is Eddie Arthur so that one doesn’t count.
Only 36 to go!!!
36. http://www.lolcatbible.com/
This is complete nonsense unless,
wikis count as blogs
you love cats
you are a cat
you think translation means something else
you are wasting your time over here at Lingamish anyway
David says it counts as 36
37 or 36. http://hellburns.blogspot.com/
Hell Burns. It’s not what you think. This is “the media journal of Sr. Helena Burns, media nun,” which is much better.
34? The Immanent Frame _ I don’t think it has been mentioned yet. This post on the variety in Islam is one that might help avoid some stereotypes.
http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/immanent_frame/2008/05/29/misrepresenting-islam/
33-30 From James McGrath:
Thoughts in a Haystack
Find and Ye Shall Seek
Forbidden Gospels
Ponderings on a Faith Journey
A guy in the pew
29-27 from Doug Chaplin:
I think you’ve said this already, but it’s worth repeating:
“I have a feeling we’re going to have some math troubles here…”
Ummm, I think J.K.’s right, so I’ll let David add the numbers in.
Since this blog is “around the world” I thought to list these two blogs which I recently discovered, both with perspectives from two cultures:
~~ http://www.thedisplacedafrican.com/
(A Kenyan blogging from Australia). His most recent post is a video on which he was interviewed, and he expresses concern that he is the fastest talker he’s ever heard… which made me smile since “you talk too fast” is something I hear almost as frequently as “you think too much”
~~ “Abba, Father, I Know You Love Me” (blog of a Kenyan living in the U.S.) again with some interesting reading and perspectives. I thoroughly enjoyed this post, with some interesting perspectives on a theme I like to visit a lot: “Joy is Not Happy; Smile is Not Happy” at http://www.kenya.fm/?p=43 (Sorry I don’t know how to do the links thing in a comment.)
Thanks, e. You’re off the blacklist now.
Pshew, what a relief