Have you ever heard professional people ask, "How could a blog benefit my business? What would I do with a blog? Why do I need to consider having a blog? What would I blog about?"
The following unusual and special interest blogs prove the point: any business can use a blog. Note that these are not all business blogs. I've included blogs on philosophy, science fiction stories, cartoons, ham radio, free expression rights, biology, art, bird watching, etc.
I don't endorse every blog listed, nor do I approve of every aspect of them. Some may even deviate in some ways from usability and blogology guidelines.
These blogs are simply here to serve as examples of adventurous blogging in unexpected terrain. It's my hope that this interesting variety of blogs will inspire you.
Just take a few moments to visit them and see what you think, see how they're using a blog for their specific purposes. It could be very eye-opening and in some cases (e.g., The Home Depot Bet Blog), rather amusing.
Unusual Blogs: Examples of Innovation
Kurzweil Accelerating Intelligence
http://www.kurzweilai.net
10,000 Birds
http://www.10000birds.com
World's Dullest Blog
http://www.wibsite.com/wiblog/dull
Cigars in the Sand
http://cigarsinthesand.blogspot.com
Drug War Rant
http://blogs.salon.com/0002762
A Police Chief's Weblog: Chief Dan Carlson
http://edenprairieweblogs.org/
html/dan_carlson.html
A Fire Chief's Blog: Chief George Esbensen
http://edenprairieweblogs.org/
html/george_esbensen.html
The Blog from City Hall: City Manager Scott Neal
http://edenprairieweblogs.org/
html/scott_neal.html
Ad Rants
http://www.adrants.com
Glutter
http://glutter.typepad.com
A Seismology Log
http://seislog.blogs.com/seislog
Real Climate
http://realclimate.org
Boing Boing
http://www.boingboing.net
ePhilosopher
http://www.ephilosopher.com
Wo's Weblog
http://umsu.de/wo/
Log Blog
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/
A Gag Reflex
http://www.agagreflex.blogspot.com
The Home Depot Bet Blog
http://typicalcrap.net/home_depot/
hdlog.shtml
Pesky the Rat
http://www.mackerelstreet.com/
pesky/pesky.html
Lambda the Ultimate
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org
ScrappleFace
http://www.scrappleface.com
The Rambler Musicology
http://johnsons-rambler.blogspot.com
SIMPLICITY
http://weblogs.media.mit.edu/
SIMPLICITY/
Epistemic Frontiers Project
http://www.openefp.com/frontiers
Milo Vermeulen Photoblog
http://milov.nl
Fides Quaerens Intellectum
http://blog.johndepoe.com
AKMA Disseminary
http://akma.disseminary.org
Glowlab
http://glowlab.blogs.com/news
Global Multimedia Protocols Group
http://gmpg.org
Pharyngula
http://pharyngula.com
Catalogablog
http://catalogablog.blogspot.com
Bag and Baggage
http://bgbg.blogspot.com
Green Cine Daily
http://daily.greencine.com
The Red Couch
http://redcouch.typepad.com
Cosmos Blogmos
http://www.cosmosblogmos.blogspot.com
Art Test Explosion
http://www.arttestexplosion.blogspot.com
KB6NU's Ham Radio Blog
http://www.blurty.com/~kb6nu
Jerz Literacy Blog
http://jerz.setonhill.edu/
weblog/index.jsp
Simon Waldman/Guardian Newspaper
http://www.simonwaldman.net
futuristicky
http://electricgirl.blogspot.com
I hope you enjoyed checking out these blogs. Perhaps you discovered a few to bookmark as favorites. Maybe you even have decided to write a post about one on your own blog.
Come up with your own list of Unique Blogs and email it to me.
[Comments on all my blogs have been temporarily turned off effective today, to deal with a comment spam attack.
This attack against my blogs will not succeed--and I will retaliate.
The attackers don't know what weapons I have at my disposal, but they're about to find out soon.
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[signed] Steven Streight
aka Vaspers the Grate
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