Blogs for the Taking -or- Follow Friday My Ass

If you're on twitter, you're familiar with Follow Friday.  If you're not familiar with it, don't worry ... you will be.  Or maybe I'm being dumb and Follow Friday actually started somewhere else.

I dunno.

At any rate, twitter is small and narrow and incredibly, um, brief.  There's a bigger internet out there, and people are staking their claims left and right.  For those of you who take the time to write a blog longer than 140 characters, I salute you!

Everyone's Favorite Friendly Muslim has blog here.  What's impressive about his Wordpress blog is that he's insanely eloquent and well-spoken.  Which is not to say that his videos give off the impression that he LACKS the eloquence, it's just that most of us, by now, simply think of him has the lamp-humper.

Let me attempt to set the record straight: Ibrahim is far more than an inveterate lamp-fucker.  In this particular post, he debates whether or not our real-life social interactions are suffering at the hands of our web-based social networks.  I left a comment and you should, too.

On YouTube her name is TheStarvingSoprano (well, on one of her accounts ;) but in real life her name is Em.  Not to be confused with Ziggystarla who is also Em.  Or Emily.  Same difference.  Or not.  One is British, the other is American.  British Em has tapped into the new and improved tumblr (a twitter competitor that is WAY more robust--and by improved, I mean COMMENTS!  Back when I tried out tumblr, comments were not allowed).  The brutal honesty with which she produces videos on YouTube is expertly transferred to her writing.  Since her tumblr blog allows for comments, you should leave one.  I did.

Finally, YouTuber LittleShiela (the exuberant bottle-rocket who baked Talking Heads a birthday cake) has tapped Blogger for her corner of interwebular ramblings.  Recently, she was a regular online and then disappeared for while ... this blog here explains what happened and is a great example of what it means to "know yourself".  It was good enough for me to comment on, so you should too.

Bookmark these blogs, subscribe to their RSS feeds, follow them, or do whatever it is you do when you find a good blog to read.  Personally, I like to do a one-footed jig while wearing a hat made of banana peels ... but that's just me.

Stay creative!