Stuff I’ve Read:
- Blogging Rules that Aren’t Really Rules
Lisa writes about the “good old days” of blogging, when we blogged what we felt like blogging when we felt like blogging it rather than turning blogging into a business with rules and guilt over not following the rules. I could certainly identify with a lot of her thoughts.“Perhaps three or four of the ten of you who read this blog with any degree of regularity will understand when I say I miss the good ol’ days of blogging, you know, back when we traded awards and buttons and memes and participated in weekly carnivals. Maybe my inner cynic is showing but blogging seemed funner then, easier somehow. There were no rules or best practices to follow and certainly no blog experts or or consultants or books or conferences or lists of ranks (yes, there really are all of those things in abundance).
We all just blogged our blogs apart from any blogger guilt.”
Podcasts Listened to:
- Prophets of Doom (from Dan Carlin’s “Hardcore History”)
We listened to this 4 hours long podcast on the way up and back to Kansas City for Daniel’s nieces’ birthday party–and I listened to the rest over my lunch hour over the next couple of days. Carlin tells the fascinating story of a polygamist Anabaptist cult that took over the city of Munster, Germany in the 1500s. It’s probably not a story of interest to everyone, but those who are interested in the history of cults, in medieval warfare, or in torture might find this story interesting. Dan Carlin is, as always, a thoroughly unobjective reporter (that is, he makes no pretense that he likes to interpret history as well as report on it)–which is fine by me so long as one is honest about it.
Thanks for including my post :) That podcast sounds…intriguing!