BLOGGING: Recommendations

After flying around the internet a bit, I do want to second the Great Lettuce Head’s additions to his links. In particular, for writers I strongly suggest Mark Bernstein’s info on 10 Tips on Writing the Live Web; common sense and guidelines that will brighten anyone’s blog.

And although I can recommend Pedablogue, I must admit that I went deeper and darker into the author, Michael Arnzen, and have set up a link on Spinning to his Gorelets Site because I want fast and easy access to this fascinating wealth of information on the horror-ible facts of life. What else would you expect from one who has had a 40-year affair with Poe?

I’m finding more blogs and sites on my own as well, but just marking them as private Favorites for now and checking them regularly to see if I really need to send you there before I set them up as links. You’ll also find that on weblogs in particular, you can follow paths that lead ever onward from link to link and happen upon something just sensational in your travels. Suggest a map for the directionally dysfunctional such as I, (a handicap in Interactive Fiction, I can tell you) or you’ll lose that site and never find it again. I like sites and blogs that are updated regularly (one of Bernstein’s points as well) and find myself checking them out daily if they’re really well-written and present interesting items–of course, that are of interest to me. There’s a whole world out there, so there’s no need to settle for anything less than stimulating to your own personal tastes.