Yes, I know, the concept is hard to grasp. Think of them as being like blogs, but with a subject matter other than politics, and you may start to get the idea. Anyway, I want to read stuff outside my usual field of obsession. I want to read interesting people who have funny, insightful, articulate, sad, angry, delightful, unexpected, thought-provoking things to say about, well, life. And, if you please, I’d like your help in finding them.
Suggestions?
Valiantly Blogging on a Number of Matters of the Utmost Importance, for the Benefit of All!
About me
- Tom Freeman
- 1977 vintage, British, lacking in class. Tendencies towards cynicism and naivety. Intermittently GSOH. Fan of beer, cats, comedy, cake, politics, philosophy, sunshine and stuff. Bit of a lefty. I'm @SnoozeInBrief on Twitter.
What am I on about?
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Blog archive
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February
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- Breaking news: Gordon Brown about to call election...
- Word of the day: thitherto
- Brown’s gold standard
- ‘I have never hit anybody. And I’m not a crook.’
- "A future fair for all"
- Economical letters to the editor
- I saw the picture and couldn't resist it
- New Labour, new slogan
- I’ve never shot fish in a barrel before, but…
- Like shooting fish in a barrel. With a Gatling gun...
- Correction: credit misallocation
- Mature debate on the ‘debt crisis’
- Seeing through walls
- More Tory posters
- Cameron blames Brown for wisteria claims
- Scientists admit: global warming ‘a big hoax’
- An ode to quantitative easing
- BAE, ‘bribes’ and ‘settlements’
- Wanted: non-political blogs
- Image management fail
- Tories caught out on dodgy crime stats
- A good result but a measly outcome
- When can you make a citizen’s arrest?
- Higher or lower? The Tories, interest rates and th...
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A roll of your finest blogs
- 21st Century Fix
- A Very Public Sociologist
- Amused Cynicism
- Anthony Painter
- Anticant's Arena
- Arbitrary Constant
- Arts & Letters Daily
- Atheist Ethicist
- Bad Conscience
- Banditry
- Barefoot Bum
- Between Hammer and Anvil
- Bickerstaffe Record
- Bleeding Heart Show
- Bloggers4Labour
- Bob from Brockley
- Bob Piper
- Bookforum
- Butterflies and Wheels
- Chris Paul: Labour of Love
- Cicero's Songs
- Citizen Andreas
- Coffee Shop Philosophy
- Common Endeavour
- Conor’s Commentary
- Consider the Evidence
- Contentious Centrist
- Crooked Timber
- Dangerous Idea
- David Thompson
- Daylight Atheism
- Digital Cuttlefish
- Disgusted Beyond Belief
- Don Paskini
- Duncan's Economic Blog
- Enemies of Reason
- Ephems of BLB
- Euston Manifesto
- Excuse Me Whilst I Step Outside
- Fair Deal Phil
- Fat Man on a Keyboard
- First Drafts
- Flip Chart Fairy Tales
- Freethinking Economist
- Friendly Atheist
- Gauche
- Harry's Place
- Hopi Sen
- In Search of High Places
- Johann Hari
- John Rentoul
- Jonathan Derbyshire
- Labour and Capital
- Labour Matters
- Labour Uncut
- LabourHome
- Left Foot Forward
- Left of the Line
- Left Outside
- Liam Murray
- Liberal Conspiracy
- Local Democracy
- Luke Akehurst
- Mark Vernon
- Mars Hill
- Martin in the Margins
- Maryam Namazie
- Matthew Taylor
- Mediawatchwatch
- Mick Hartley
- Middle of the Line
- Mike Ion
- Ministry of Truth
- My David Cameron
- Neil Harding
- Never Trust a Hippy
- Next Left
- Nick Cohen
- Normblog
- Obsolete
- Oliver Kamm
- Olly's Onions
- OpenDemocracy
- ParburyPolitica
- Paul Linford
- People's Republic of Mortimer
- Philosophy, et cetera
- Pickled Politics
- PoliticalBetting.com
- Poor Mouth
- PooterGeek
- Rantings of a sub-editor
- Rullsenberg Rules
- Sadie's Tavern
- Scott Adams
- Shuggy's Blog
- Skipper
- Skuds' Sister's Brother
- Small Town Scribbles
- Snowflake5
- Soho Politico
- spEak You’re bRanes
- Staggers (New Statesman)
- Stephanomics
- Stephen Law
- Stumbling and Mumbling
- Talking Philosophy
- Though Cowards Flinch
- Thoughts, Arguments and Rants
- Three Score Years and Ten
- Tom Watson
- Touchstone Blog
- Tygerland
- UKPollingReport
- Um...
- Wardman Wire
- Westminster Wisdom
- We’ll Get It Right Next Time
- Wholly Rude
- WongaBlog
10 comments:
Rationally Speaking, The Meming of Life and Common Sense Atheism might be worth a look. I don't see them in your blogroll.
http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/
http://parentingbeyondbelief.com/blog/
http://commonsenseatheism.com/
Thanks to your request, I've realised that pretty much all the blogs I read are either political or focus on atheism/religion.
I've been trying, I really, really have. For some reason a general election year is diminishing my interest rather than stoking it.
In the meantime:
A couple of arty ones that I just find interesting - might bore you but....
Art & Perception
Creative Review
A blog on how creative types organise their day - sounds dull but isn't
Daily Routines
A friend of mine who writes well and produces good film & music reviews.
Words. Sentences. Stuff.
I know some guy who writes innuendo-laden posts about his stapler so I'll fire that link through later...
Tom, this link is to the winners of the Scottish Roundup Top personal/general blogs - I'm not going to comment on their quality. I have few non-political blogs on my blogroll - there is a point where you just can't take anymore politics, you have my sympathy.
You do know that interesting people who have funny, insightful, articulate, sad, angry, delightful, unexpected, thought-provoking things to say about, well, life sometimes also write books and stuff, don't you?
Anyhoo, semi-randomly - John Scalzi, author, CE Petit, lawyer and smart guy, Language Log, linguistics (this last one I'm guessing you know of, but these lists aren't just for you).
Thanks for the ideas, guys. I'll check them out. And yes, I am aware there there are other media than the internet, but I think time has caused me to forget how to operate a book. Although I seem to recall they have a fairly intuitive, user-friendly interface, so maybe I could pick the knack up again...
My daily reads include http://kottke.org/ "a weblog about the liberal arts 2.0", http://daringfireball.net/ for Mac related tech stuff (I have no idea if that would interest you), http://www.swiss-miss.com/ for design and http://butdoesitfloat.com/ for, well, pictures.
Yep, Kottke and Waxy are great for time-sapping interesting links. I also like Apathy Sketchpad, defective yeti (sadly infrequent these days) and Cabinet of Wonders. I've been reading Little Red Boat since the year dot, and there's the awesome Mind Hacks, which regularly eats up my day.
Looking at my Google Reader list, I'm surprised at how few personal blogs I follow, actually (outside of B4L, anyway). Must fix this.
You are certainly welcome to come over to my place, which however, may only meet your high standards about 10% of the time, he wrote sycophantically ;-)
Hey great post. Thought I'm not sure I agree with you 100%. Keep em coming. Are you interested in having anyone guest post opposing views?
I started a non political blog in late November that is doing much better than I anticipated. I started blogging and creating a website all at once. The website is www.foeggy.com and you can get to the blog from there.
The blog concept is a place to come for practical tips, tools, techniques and tactics to reinvent yourself with. i talk about self reinvention in a practical way for healthy people that wants some tips. In December, between the website and the blog i got over 1000 pageviews so that is way ahead of where i thought I would be first full month.
Come over and take a look, the blog is here on blogger www.not-old-fashioned.blogspot.com
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