I had a really nice surprise this morning - Wormtown Taxi posted his list of 10 excellent blogs and mine was one of them - woot!
So, now I’m going to spread more blogosphere-love by sharing my favorites.
There are a few that are already part of this fun “Excellent Blog Award” list-making game that I also read every day: Daily Worcesteria, Hyphoid Logic, Wormtown Taxi and Papamoka Straight Talk but just repeating everyone else’s lists is kinda cheating so I won’t count them as part of my “official” list. I did want to at least mention that I really enjoy reading what these folks have to say. They are all “most excellent bloggers”.
I’m sure my post won’t be as entertaining as Hyphoid Logic’s list, but here it goes…
Claudia’s most excellent blog choices
Bread and Love
This is a friend of mine in the “real” world - and she’s just fantastic. Her blog is a really cool bit of homeyness and good food. It’s just really “her” which is why it rocks!
Worcester Love
OK, not a blog really in the sense that they haven’t structured their web site in what would would be called a “blog” type format but they most certainly are vlogging and I totally love it! I can’t wait for the next season.
Punky Style
I really like this fun blog! She’s got a great sense of style and a very fun way of delivering it. The design on her blog fits perfectly too - NICE JOB!
Web Designer Wall
OMG!! I would not know what to do without my Web Designer Wall fix - tutorials, art, inspiration and freebies from an incredible designer/artist. (did I gush enough yet? I do not think so). Go look for yourself.
Earth Friendly Gardening
I found this cool blog while working on a project at work. There’s a lot of great information and beautiful pictures. It’s just really well done.
Pie and Coffee
While I don’t always agree with the point of view I do like this blog , it’s got good, thoughtful content. Since I’m not one of those people that needs to have everyone agreeing with me all the time it works for me. Certainly gives me stuff to think about and I like that.
TrainStopping
Oh my… this one made me totally re-think my previous thinking about possibly using the commuter rail to get to Boston for work. I’m not loving the Pike but it doesn’t look like the train will cure everything either. Great information and much more realistic than stuff written by folks that don’t actually use the thing.
Aral Balkan
Lots of tips, information, reviews and whatnot from web guru, Aral Balkan. Yep, more geek stuff. Can’t help it - I totally love it
Jeffrey Zeldman Presents
And MORE web-geekness. Zeldman is another leader in web design - just brilliant. (yes, if you are a web geek you should know him). His blog is always entertaining. Includes links to Happy Cog and A List Apart. All three sites are must-read if you build sites.
Pink Granite
Just a really nice blog about living in Central Massachusetts. It’s great to see all the different voices online.
Ok, that’s it for now. My list of 10 excellent blogs. Like it? Didn’t like it? Did I miss something? Let me know. I’m always looking for feedback and new stuff to read
Update on all the blog-love
I just wanted to thank the bloggers who showed me link-love during our “Excellent Blog Fest”. The eWard was originally awarded to this blog by Wormown Taxi. And then by Papamoka Straight Talk. Their comments were really nice - thank you both! The link-love for this blog also was shared by Train Stopping and Daily Worcesteria. I also got a lot of great comments on this post.
Thank you everyone! Although it’s not an official award from any big organization, I guess you can say we all had an outbreak of mutual-blog-appreciation. It was really nice. (aaawwwww - sweet!)
