YET MORE EXTRAORDINARY WEBLOGS

The Cassandra Pages have sumptuous artwork, topical poetry and wonderful quotations, such as this one from Eric Maisel:

The writer is something of a shape-changer and trickster, someone a little more treacherous, eccentric, and unpredictable than she at first appears, because she is continually buffeted and transformed by an inner life invisible from the outside. She may speak to you in complete sentences about what her day was like, but inside another life is being lived, one full of beauties and monstrosities, upheavals and transgressions.

Apothecary’s Drawer from UK writer Ray Girvan is, well, it’s hard to describe. A pure ‘linker’ blog, it’s full of connections to unusual sites on mind-stretching subjects. A periodic table of desserts, information on non-reversing mirrors, and why exercise lowers your blood pressure, for example. Just go read.

Unbound Spiral blogger Stuart Henshell collects the best blog posts on business innovation, knowledge and learning, and adds his own insightful commentary. Here’s an excerpt where he describes his young daughter’s online behaviour, a peek into our cultural future:

I’m also fascinated how AIM adoption amongst all her friends in the last year is changing communications patterns. I don’t think I’ve ever had six or more buddy screens open at the same time. Yet for her it’s common place and I think she loses interest when it is less than three. It changes how I communicate with my kids. IM is great and makes me more accessible… The kids are no longer shy or embarassed to “talk to boys” — they have time to think about their responses.  The old phone paranoia is gone.

Rogers Cadenhead’s Workbench has technical advice specifically for Radio and Salon bloggers. Some of it’s a bit advanced for me, but I wish I’d known about this terrific site back when I started blogging. Some good advice in recent posts on indexing your posts, disaster recovery and dealing with slow uplinking.