Work has been a bit quiet today so I’ve spent some time blogsurfing (or whatever it’s called) checking out what others are getting up to in the blogosphere. I followed quite a few ‘next blog’ links on the navbar, read some of the Top 100 blogs listed on Technorati – http://www.technorati.com/, then tried to fathom out why anyone would find ‘memes’ interesting, let alone contribute to one. http://thedailymeme.com/ has links to most of them, including photo challenges for the brainstawmers amongst us.
Finally, I settled on Post Secret http://postsecret.blogspot.com/ and then spent a good hour or two checking out some postcards mailed in to the author’s Washington address, bearing the happy/sad, depressing/uplifting, funny/unfunny secrets of their anonymous writers. The blog doesn’t actually show any images at the moment, as the best have apparently been published in a book, or are available at an exhibition currently showing in Georgetown. But you can find past ones for free on Flickr or through Google Images – just enter Postsecret or Post Secret as a search term and voila!
Overall it has been an enjoyable day. Bob brought in some bagels and cheese for lunch, and now I only have a couple more hours to kill before going home.
Roll on the weekend!
4 comments:
Hooray! You've made a blog. I was reading about those postcards just the other day in a local paper, it sounds quite bizarre and interesting. I'm pretty sure that book was just published - I'll keep an eye out for it.
Looking forward to more entries! Now to see if there's a 'Baty' wiki...
I'll second that - great to see Turpidity up and running! I never knew the Turpin name had such a rich history. I bet there's no wiki for Baty, being a fairly uncommon name...
I love the postsecret site, really touching and engrossing. There's actually some cards up on the site now. I wonder whether some of the cards at least are the authors creation, in the end I guess it doesn't matter too much.
Chris Baty was the brains behind NaNoWriMo (see Wiki). No wonder our blogs are so lengthy!
Thank you for this contribution. The concept behind NaNoWriMo is fascinating - I initially thought conspiracy theory and scam, but it seems better than that and I'm tempted to join up next year. In their 'what is NaNoWriMo' page, they have the glorious phrase -"Make no mistake: You will be writing a lot of crap." which is right up my street.
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