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 Facebook and Tumblr and Google Reader (yay, shared items!) 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]
- Daring Fireball [elegant prose in tech-y clothes]
- The Setup [tools + processes]
- Get Rich Slowly [money + sense]
Writers! Writers! Writers!
- 3x3x365 [3 friends writing one story each per day]
- dooce [mommy/tequila blogger]
- jew eat yet? [essays + reminiscences]
- Privilege [perspective from mid-life avec class]
- RealDelia [ex-pat perspective + killer links]
- Roger Ebert [criticism + memoir]
- The Rumpus [culture + writing]
- 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]
- Ben Casnocha [entrepreneurship + lifestyle design]
Culture-y
- Head Butler [book & media reviews]
- Magic Molly [life in the head of a smart girl from NYC]
Marketing & communication
- Chris Brogan [social media + community]
- Conversation Agent [overviews + interviews]
Improve your ass!
- Escape from Cubicle Nation [entrepreneur's advocate]
- The Happiness Project [engineer your destiny]
- Brooks Palmer [clutter-busting + self-awareness]
- The Fluent Self [destuckification]
- White Hot Truth [fire-starting]
- Michael Hyatt [self-dev + leadership]
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]
- kottke.org (links) [trusted filter]
- anyone from my Tumblr follows [scroll to bottom of the page]
A-a-aht…
- crackskull bob [technique + wit]
- cubby-blue [cubs + journal]
- Chris Glass [photos + tees + beauty]
…and design
- David Seah [investigative design + partner on Google Wave project]
- heather parlato [design + DIY + delicious]
Where The Communicatrix Magic All Began
Updated 10/14/11.
