The program for the blogging workshop comes out today and is open for enrollment.
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Bloggers or techno-lovers out there mightn’t be aware that all of Federation Square is the biggest free Wi-Fi site in Australia. So if you’re planning on coming to my talk at the Melbourne Wrtiers’ Festival, hey, why not lug along your laptop too?!
For those who can’t come and are interested, I’m working on getting permission to get the session videoed. Haven’t heard back though yet.
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I’m curious: what blogs do you consider are the best personal blogs out there?
These don’t necessarily have to be your absolute favourites, or the most ‘popular’ (indeed, I often ask myself why the ‘popular’ ones end up so praised); but the best in terms of the owner blogger’s depth, articulation, freedom of thought. They don’t necessarily need to reveal all and sundry about their lives, but what they do do is done in such a way that you walk away feeling like you know them. You don’t have to always agree with their opinion, either.
I think we all know though when we stumble across a personal blog that just works: where the design, words, photos, and layout all combine in a way that’s close to ‘perfection.’
What do you think? Which blogs work for you?
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Blue Milk, cast iron balcony, crazy brave all pretty good.
Degraves’s last blog post..Today we argued in front of our child
I love bloggers who write with open honesty.
I also love a bit of variety, some photos, different subjects, not too many of the bloggy things,memes etc, you know?
I also like blogs I can relate to.
With layout, I find the magazine style very hard to look at and I don’t like having to click away from the previous post to see the one before it. I like to scroll down, so if I am behind I can catch up easily (like today, on your blog).
I guess different things apply to different people. One wise blogger once said to me, there are people looking just to be entertained and when they don’t get that they click away and then there are other readers who are genuinely interested in how life is going.
I kind of like the idea of being able to share in people’s lives.
tiff’s last blog post..I hope I’ve taught them well.
Wait, did I answer that properly?
Did you want names?
tiff’s last blog post..I hope I’ve taught them well.
Only if you want, Tiff.
Thaks for those degraves. Some new names, some old ones I know too
Slouching Mom, Motherscribe, Under the Mad Hat, Raindrops, Tossing Pebbles – that’s a start. But I have lots of favorites, you among them.
Oh, you already know about Slouching Mom. In fact, now that I think about it, I may have found her from your blogroll . . .
SouleMama is always amazing to look at. Provokateur is always up to something.
PlanningQueen’s last blog post..He’ll Be Ok: Growing Gorgeous Boys Into Good Men (Part 4)
My favs are the ones that leave their heart on their sleeve. Funny and silly, but thoughtful too.
Oh and something that will turn me off immediately is if they start to get cliquey.
Otherwise I don’t have any absolute favourites. I mean I have over 200 blogs in my feedreader!
Kelley’s last blog post..Green is the word, the word that you heard.
You sound like me Kelley. It’s hard to single people out, I know.
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