Five non-librar(y|ian) blogs
To do the latest biblioblogosphere meme, I had to pull up my non-work Gregarius install. For obvious reasons, all my work blogs have to do with libraries, librarians, or markup!
Five blogs I read that don’t come out of librarianship:
- Norm Walsh’s blog, which has no title other than its URL. I know a surprising lot of top-tier markup slingers, among whom Norm “Mr. DocBook” Walsh has no trouble whatever holding his own. Plus he’s a nice guy who has a Goth-kitty of his own and is good with a camera. Norm’s on my work blog list, but he still counts, because he’s not a librarian!
- Tenser, said the Tensor. Linguistics and skiffy geek stuff, often combined.
- Feminist SF - The Blog! Not as frequently updated as I’d like, but it’s got some amazingly thoughtful posters.
- Vitia, by a rhetorician whose research interest (which I am about to butcher horribly, I’m sure) is the intersection of labor theory with the writing classroom. Don’t miss the latest ongoing Friday-fiction series.
- The Madison Wisconsin Housing Bubble Blog. Do I live here? Yes, I do. Am I thinking about buying another house here? Not until the funny money’s flushed out of the market and the shadow inventory (especially those condos) gets taken care of, no.
One of these days I should go looking for more non-library blogs; the non-work Gregarius install is pretty light. Some writers’ blogs are phenomenal (I ran into Deep Genre in the course of working on That Dratted Book, and quite liked it), but the thing is, I’m not a fiction writer, so I don’t need and have only marginal interest in the advice those blogs tend to (very kindly and patiently) shovel out with a backhoe to the many aspiring fictioneers.
But the above gives you a general idea of the sort of thing that catches my eye and holds it.