It's Blogroll Amnesty Day!
What is Blogroll Amnesty Day, you ask? It's an opportunity to blog about the value that smaller, non-A list blogs bring to the blogosphere, and to suit our actions to our words by linking to, and blogrolling, underrecognized blogs -- which for the purposes of B.A.D., are defined as blogs that get less traffic than our own blogs. So help yourself to a brioche and read up.
One of the great things about other bloggers' blogrolls is that you discover wonderful, intelligent, engaging, laugh-out-loud blogs you would most likely never have discovered on your own. Some of the blogs below I've known about for a while but just hadn't gotten around to blogrolling yet. Some I came across while searching on Truth Laid Bear or Technorati, and didn't know about before now. And still others I found by perusing bloggers' blogrolls.
Read. Link. Blogroll. It's the B.A.D. thing to do.
The Crone Speaks: CEPetro in a new incarnation, still much, much more than an average woman.
Brendan Calling: If you're a right-wing idiot, don't pick up the phone.
The Apostate: The apostate is a Pakistani woman raised Muslim in Saudi Arabia, now an atheist by belief and a paralegal by trade, living in California.
The Bilerico Project: group blogging on lgbtq issues, and more.
Bitch Ph.D.: What draws me to a blog is some mysterious combination of subject matter, attitude, writing style, and design. This one has all of the above. It's really good.
Bloggasm: Simon Owens' media blog, "with an emphasis on online media and journalism."
Blue Wren: Wren is a writer, "liv[ing] in a small mountain town with Mr. Wren, a psycho dog and a kingly cat." Or is that a kinky cat? She has gorgeous photographs of cats and her outdoor surroundings.
Mock, Paper, Scissors: This is really three separate blogs, interweaving satirical art with standard blog posting. The concept and the implementation of it blows me away. I've never seen anything quite like this blog before.
There are hundreds -- thousands -- more blogs equally as good as these 11, just waiting to be discovered and appreciated. The vast majority of blogs are small blogs. Just imagine how much more interesting and varied the blogosphere might become if we all link and blogroll five or six on a regular basis.
Just sayin'.
6 comments:
Kathy, thanks for the link.
Looking over my own blogroll, I found yours got lost, most likely in the move. That omission has now been rectified.
Hope all is well with you.
Thanks, Ms. Archcrone! :-)
Thank you for the link-love. I should join this blogroll amnesty day business, but I don't think there are blogs that have less traffic than myself!
Thanks for the link and the props, Kathy! I don't think anyone has said anything nicer about Mock, Paper, Scissors.
You are on my radar and being added to the blogroll at MPS.
Best regards,
Tengrain
Hey, thanks for the link. I always appreciate one coming from the side that typically considers me the other side.
Hey, thanks for the link. I always appreciate one coming from the side that typically considers me the other side.
You are more than welcome, Callimachus. From what I can see, your blog is not what I would call "the other side." You have liberal bloggers in your blogroll, plus anyone who writes stuff like this:
Yet I don't think we ought to mistake capitalism for a positive good. It works in the way biological evolution works on species: with reactionary slowness, terrible suffering, and colossal waste. Its driving force is self-interest, which is a nasty balance of greed and fear. The lowest impulses, yet the most potent ones. It's nothing to be proud of, even if it gets the job done.
And it works best when both elements -- fear and greed -- are at work on both the capitalist and the producer. If the rise of domestic populism and international communism (and, briefly, fascism) as seemingly viable alternatives to capitalism had never happened, would the bosses in the United States have been willing to quickly give in on issues such as the 8-hour day, pensions, health-care coverage, and paid vacations? Is it coincidence that the collapse of that horrid sham alternative represented by the USSR coincided with the loss of bargaining power by workers against bosses in the U.S., and the incremental give-back of what had formerly been thought of as workers' privileges (and now can only be found, it seems, in the contracts of public school teachers).
cannot be all bad. :-)
I've just added you to my blogroll as well. :-)
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