Top 50 4/5
Apr 19th, 2008 by lavonardo
The analysis of the top 50 blogs has now reached its penultimate part. Let’s see whether the entries 31-40 bring any new additions to the regularly read blogs.
- Gapingvoid
- Surreal, yet very topical business cartoons. Read this semi-regularly like two hundred years ago, might have to pick it up again. At least the few strips skimmed off the top seem worthwhile.
- Dirtydirty dancing
- Lo-fi pictures of people in parties. No thanks.
- Crooked Timber
- Prolific multi-author intellectualism. Might take a look or two, but seems to be on the hefty and dry side (at least to my inner surfing self equipped with a 23-second-attention-span).
- Beansprouts
- Another green blog, and at least semi-interesting at that. Not enough to lock me in, however.
- The Offside
- A quality football blog, with coverage from all over the world, not just the premier league. This might come in useful once the Euro2008 fever starts its inevitable upward ramp.
- Petite Anglaise
- Haircut, by an englishwoman in France. Which makes for interesting proceedings. But not interesting enough.
- Crooks and liars
- Another political blog. This time with a liberal lean.
- Chocolate and Zucchini
- Well-written and variable food blog - with lots more than just recipes. If I were more of a cooking man, this would get multiple looks.
- Samizdata
- A multi-author blog that questions the current policy in UK. And other countries. Kinda militant, on topics that don’t cross the event horizon in Finland. Thus hard to follow. The blog’s glossary comes heavily recommended - if you can stomach the very word-happy writing.
- The daily dish
- Yet another expat blog, not heavy on the haircut at all.
Read-ratio is lower than ever, at 0% the selection inspires very little confidence, though the two interesting entries will draw me in a few times, that’s for sure.
Hi, thanks for visiting Bean Sprouts and saying it was “at least semi-interesting”. I’ve just had a look back at a couple of months of your archives and found it at least semi interesting, too. I especially like your photography. I’m a poor photographer, but because of the blog I now take photos most days, and simply the extra practice has improved my shots. You also introduced a new word to my vocabulary. I’ve never heard the term “haircut blog” before, but as soon as I read it I knew exactly what it meant.
Thanks for the comment.
I did go back for a second look, and the crop of recent articles was indeed enough to pull me in as a reader. Thus the review of Guardian’s list was successful.
And I agree about the photography bit - practice is really the only way to improve, and being “forced” to find imageful content is a good way to get some practice.