Monday, April 11, 2005

Blogs That Are Unique

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.



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