blogs the communicatrix recommends
One of your more fraught features on a blog has got to be The Dreaded List of Links.
What should be a harmless, helpful guide more often becomes a Gordian Knot of obligation and anxiety: Do you list everything you’ve ever read & liked? Only what you’re reading right now? Friends? People you want to be your friends?
Or—horror of horrors—are you just linking to stuff you think other people will find you cool for linking to?
Didn’t know the blogroll was so much like high school, did you?
Like it or not, though, we live in an age of little time and a great need for trusted filters. I spend more and more time using Twitter and Facebook and Tumblr to filter my own crazy stream of info. And good people find other good people via these damned lists of links. So. A list, for you: of what I read regularly, as of this writing, and what I’ve read before—or irregularly, as of this writing.
Happy trails!
Current regular reads (in no particular order):
- Seth Godin [vision + insight]
- Ben Casnocha [entrepreneurship + lifestyle design]
- Daring Fireball [elegant prose in tech-y clothes]
- Marginal Revolution [wake up & learn]
- Michael Hyatt [self-dev + leadership]
- The Rumpus [culture + writing]
Writers! Writers! Writers!
- D-girl [script analysis + Hollywood perspective]
- dooce [mommy/tequila blogger]
- jew eat yet? [essays + reminiscences]
- john august [screenwriting]
- The Pioneer Woman [photos + stories]
- Privilege [perspective from mid-life avec class]
- RealDelia [ex-pat perspective + killer links]
- Roger Ebert [criticism + memoir]
- The Urban Sherpa [stories + curios]
Change, dammit!
- I Blame the Patriarchy [radical(ly awesome) feminism + critters]
- How to Save the World [sustainability + change]
- Chris Guillebeau [travel hacking + global domination]
- James Howard Kunstler [peak oil + general doom]
Culture-y
- Head Butler [book & media reviews]
- Grant McCracken [anthro + econ]
- lonely sandwich [ephemera that maybe shouldn't be]
- Magic Molly [life in the head of a smart girl from NYC]
- This Distracted Globe [film overview + analysis]
Marketing & communication
- Chris Brogan [social media + community]
- Client K [zen-like food for marketing thought]
- Conversation Agent [overviews + interviews]
- Nathan Bowers [internet demystification]
- IttyBiz [selling + swearing]
Improve your ass!
- 43 Folders [freeing/focusing attention]
- Escape from Cubicle Nation [entrepreneur's advocate]
- The Happiness Project [engineer your destiny]
- Brooks Palmer [clutter-busting + self-awareness]
- The Setup [tools + processes]
- Penelope Trunk [entrepreneurship + life navigation]
- The Fluent Self [destuckification]
Politics
Diversions
- Cool Tools [excellent stuffs]
- Dlisted [well-written gossip]
- If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Lot of Dead Copycats [artful nonrandom photos]
- Neven Mrgan’s Tumblr [curator of awesome]
- ReBlogging NonSociety [de-fusing bombastery]
- kottke.org (links) [trusted filter]
- Cookie Carosella [dating + aging]
- Take Your Face Off [questions + answers]
A-a-aht…
- crackskull bob [technique + wit]
- cubby-blue [cubs + journal]
- The Reindeer Project [2009 paintings in 365 days]
- illustration friday [participatory art]
- Chris Glass [photos + tees + beauty]
…and design
- David Seah [investigative design + partner on Google Wave project]
- Design Observer [fancy writin']
- Draplin [yeoman/genius]
- heather parlato [design + DIY + delicious]
- Presentation Zen [presentation design]
Where The Communicatrix Magic All Began
Updated 8/25/10
