I love the idea of Blog Day as a way of featuring new and emerging bloggers. Oh yeah, I guess that’s us! Give us a year to discover the hidden gems out there in the blogosphere. But for now, I want to just highlight some blogs that are each an authority in their own space (yes, helping the rich get richer…sigh) but perhaps never often listed together!
1. Wangjianshuo’s Blog - Wang Jianshuo is one of the pioneering bloggers in China. He writes about his own life in Shanghai and provides great resources to travelers to Shanghai and China. He also has very nice photography on the site. I met him over coffee in Palo Alto, a super sharp and engaging guy.
2. Travel-Betty - Tracy’s mission is to enable “fearless independent travel for women.” Its a great mission, but what I really like is her concept of the 30-second vacation, short video clips that aim to take you away from your everyday. I guess vacations are getting ever shorter here in America.
3. Occam’s Razor - I’ve watched from afar as former colleague Avinash Kaushik was the Peter Parker of Intuit’s Web Commerce Group but then became the Spiderman of Web Analytics. Here’s an example of both great blogging and great analytics, two great tastes in one. This post cured me of my desired to get Dugg. Quality over quantity.
4. HobbyPrincess - Fashion, crafting and technology. I’m neither a crafter nor am I fashionable. I do support my wife’s yarn habit though, so that counts for something.
5. TheSilentI - Glennia has some great tips for traveling with kids. And she has been an inspiration to us for what Kango can do to help parents to travel with their kids, as well as a personal kick-in-the-pants to take my 2 kids to exotic places (like where my wife and I used to go before we had the kids).
5 and 1/2. CreativeThink - I think I ran into the Whack Pack and the Ball of Whacks when I was working at Microsoft a long time ago. Roger’s blog is good for a zen-slap anytime you need one. I guess some people have blogging in their DNA because Alex of Kango fame appears to be the most widely read blogger at the company with his exploring cartograms post.
Lets see, what are the instructions again? Add a link to Blog Day’s site. Now it says to add a technorati tag for Blog Day 2007
I guess that’s it. Now isn’t this an eclectic list?
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2 Responses
Great list, Kango! I remember the Whack Pack from grad school when I was trying to tap into my creative mind. Can’t wait to check out all these other great bloggers.
Thanks so much for including me! I’m glad you like the 30-seconds vacations although I sure HOPE I’m not leading the charge for shorter vacations in America.
Ack!!
@Elliott: Thanks for the “shout out.” Yeah, Alex is writing some interesting stuff. Good luck to all the Kangonians!