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blogs the communicatrix recommends

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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 have be your friends? Is your policy one of reciprocal linkage?

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? Neither did I. That’s why this page disappeared for some time.

But like it or not, one of the ways people find what’s good is these damned lists of links. It’s fast and easy and there are a lot of demands on our time.

So I’ve put it back up, albeit in a much abbreviated incarnation. If you were here and are now gone and I have hurt your feelings, I’m sorry. If it’s any consolation, I took links to some of my other blogs down. And hey, while I have a not-unreasonable amount of Google-juice, it’s not like I’m a 500-lb. gorilla; me listing you here would not go far towards making you internet-famous.

These links? They’re stuff I feel it necessary to point out to people right now. No more, no less. Unless you’ve been off the planet without WiFi for the past 10 years, you’ve probably heard of some; that’s good, because it will give some context for the others.

Thanks for understanding. And happy surfing.

Culture-y

2 Blowhards [art & culture]
Grant McCracken [anthro + econ]
This Distracted Globe [film overview + analysis]

Marketing

Seth Godin [vision + insight]
Conversation Agent [overviews + interviews]

Change, dammit!

I Blame the Patriarchy [feminism, the advanced class]
How to Save the World [sustainability + change]
Chris Guillebeau [world traveler on steroids]

Writers I’m digging right now

RealDelia [perspective + reviews from an expat writer]
Privilege [perspective from mid-life avec class]

Improve your ass!

Escape from Cubicle Nation [entrepreneur's advocate]
The Fluent Self [destuckification]
The Happiness Project [engineer your destiny]

A-a-aht

crackskull bob [technique + wit]
cubby-blue [cubs + journal]
The Reindeer Project [2009 paintings in 365 days]

Design-ish

Chris Glass [photos + tees + beauty]
Daring Fireball [elegant prose in tech-y clothes]

Diversions

Neven Mrgan’s Tumblr [curator of awesome]
ReBlogging NonSociety [de-fusing bombastery]
If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There’d Be a Lot of Dead Copycats [artful nonrandom photos]

Loved along the way, still visited on occasion

No one can read everything all the time—communicatrix-dot-com, excepted, of course! But each of these has either influenced or helped or amused (or all three) me at some point, and features good writing and/or stuff, and is well worth a mention and a visit. Explore as you will!