www.HORBAWRONG.com (creativity's hub)
 

If you're on twitter, you're familiar with Follow Friday.  If you're not familiar with it, don't worry ... you will be.  Or maybe I'm being dumb and Follow Friday actually started somewhere else.

I dunno.

At any rate, twitter is small and narrow and incredibly, um, brief.  There's a bigger internet out there, and people are staking their claims left and right.  For those of you who take the time to write a blog longer than 140 characters, I salute you!

Everyone's Favorite Friendly Muslim has blog here.  What's impressive about his Wordpress blog is that he's insanely eloquent and well-spoken.  Which is not to say that his videos give off the impression that he LACKS the eloquence, it's just that most of us, by now, simply think of him has the lamp-humper.

Let me attempt to set the record straight: Ibrahim is far more than an inveterate lamp-fucker.  In this particular post, he debates whether or not our real-life social interactions are suffering at the hands of our web-based social networks.  I left a comment and you should, too.

On YouTube her name is TheStarvingSoprano (well, on one of her accounts ;) but in real life her name is Em.  Not to be confused with Ziggystarla who is also Em.  Or Emily.  Same difference.  Or not.  One is British, the other is American.  British Em has tapped into the new and improved tumblr (a twitter competitor that is WAY more robust--and by improved, I mean COMMENTS!  Back when I tried out tumblr, comments were not allowed).  The brutal honesty with which she produces videos on YouTube is expertly transferred to her writing.  Since her tumblr blog allows for comments, you should leave one.  I did.

Finally, YouTuber LittleShiela (the exuberant bottle-rocket who baked Talking Heads a birthday cake) has tapped Blogger for her corner of interwebular ramblings.  Recently, she was a regular online and then disappeared for while ... this blog here explains what happened and is a great example of what it means to "know yourself".  It was good enough for me to comment on, so you should too.

Bookmark these blogs, subscribe to their RSS feeds, follow them, or do whatever it is you do when you find a good blog to read.  Personally, I like to do a one-footed jig while wearing a hat made of banana peels ... but that's just me.

Stay creative!

 


Comments

novanine

Tue, 05 May 2009 2:45:31 pm

I shall check out said blogs.

I don't understand this RSS thing and it intimidates me.

Sorry for weird commentings, I just woke up.

 

Em

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:13:04 pm

RSS confuses me also... Thanks for the Vlog shout out!! I'm actually contemplating opening mine on Wordpress as it seems tumblr is little used and setting up comments was an arse!


 

Em (correct Link)

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:14:29 pm

Just correcting myself - I should maybe list my name as Emily to save confusion?? Although all who know me call me Em.

 

Ibrahim

Thu, 07 May 2009 5:04:11 am

Um.. I don't know what to say Krumbine.. You heap praises on me that - even if I weren't being my overly-modest self (what an oxymoron) - seem excessive and unjustified.. But beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder, they say.. so be it!

THANKS!! :)

 

Ibrahim

Thu, 07 May 2009 5:32:40 am

and LOOLLLL @ poor technologically-impaired Jezzabelle!!

 

krumbine

Fri, 08 May 2009 9:46:08 am

Yeesh, from the sound of things, we might have to have an RSS tutorial or something. Not that I'm a proponent of RSS--I personally favor visiting the individual sites, you know?

@novanine: if all your weird comments are only posted when you're awake, you must be CONSTANTLY waking up all day long!

@Em: No worries, I know who each of you are and won't be confusing you ;)

@Ibrahim: ... I love you.

 



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