Well, I have two vlogs now (the one I started in this class that is now a communications device between myself and my children) and another that I resurrected from an unused blog I had originated in 2001 when I was taking CMC with Robbie McClintock which is the one I use for testing stuff out. So--what are my vlog- and blogrolls like? That's the purpose of this post!
On the
test site, I have the following:
One man's ceilingDancing on the ceilingLinguini on the ceilingCrib ceilingThere is only one thing these sites have in common, and that is that they have the word ceiling in the title of the blogs--and "ceilings" is the theme of my test vlog! I actually like the "Linguini on the ceiling" site and found out that the writer is actually a contributor to another site I found and listed on my "real" vlog site...
On my "real" site, I have links to these sites:
Sites about vlogging:
Vlog Map Community This is a geographical directory of vlogs--if I chose to list my vlog with them (which I'd never do, as I have privacy issues), I'd be the 12th vlogger listed for New Jersey!
Adrian Miles'
"vlog 3.0" and
"videoblog::vog 2.0" For whatever reasons, I like looking at/reading what Adrian Miles (yes, this is the guy I posted about earlier) has to say about the state of the "art" of vlogging.
Humorous sites:
Help my patients is a goof on psychotherapy--just the thought of a therapist going on line to solicit help for his patients strikes me as insanely funny...
Go fug yourself (newer site) and an older
version I found these sites on the Vloggies site (before this year's Vloggies were awarded), I think, and I find them hysterical. When my daughter was a teenager and we would get stuck in the checkout line at the grocery store, every now and then I would buy a
Star, just for the fun of it. When we got home, the first thing we did was open up to the double page spread on what various celebrities wore--and then we'd hoot like crazy--especially at the "Would you be caught dead wearing this" section. My daughter called me one day after I put these links up and she was feeling awful--a really bad cold--and I guess just wanted to be comforted a bit--so I told her to go to these two sites--that it would be just like the two of us at the kitchen table laughing out loud. She actually did it, and when she was feeling better reported back that it was as close to that old experience as we could probably get these days considering that she's living so far away...
Sites about life in Germany/the "expat" experience:
German JoysGermany doesn't suckAn American Expat in DeutschlandBroke in Berlin -- left the blogosphere -- discovered 12/5/06
Berlin BitesHeisse ScheisseQuarter Life CrisisI'm interested in how Americans fare in Germany because (yes! you guessed it!) that's where my daughter is living, and I want some idea of the challenges she's facing (and some different points of view other than hers) and a better idea of what the day to day life is like and what the issues are... I actually have been reading "Germany Joys" for a couple of years now--it was link sent to me by my son-in-law, and then found "Quarter Life Crisis" about a year ago when I stumbled across it because the author had written some shareware I was interested in. I'm relatively new to the other sites--sites I came across since starting this class.
"News" sites:
Digg This site pulls together articles from various news reports all over the globe. It kind of interesting. I first looked at it because it was a site mentioned in that Habermas article that Richard told us about the first day of class and I wanted to see what it was all about.
Spot-on This blog also pulls together news from all over, but not a hodgepodge of articles as with Digg. There are a number of journalists who contribute to this blog, and they select the pieces to showcase and comment on. I came across this looking for expat sites--two of the journalists who write for it are now living in Europe. Interestingly enough, one of the American contributors also is the author of "Linguini on the ceiling."
Miscellaneous sites:
Jewschool claims to be the web's "leading progressive Jewish weblog, featuring 30 contributors from 5 countries" and promising "alternative views and culture"--and it delivers on that promise--I just find it an interesting site--not preaching, not begging--just interesting to look at every now and then.
Bitch PhD strikes me as a human interest story does in the newspaper--I like to check it every now and then to see how she's doing and what she's railing at.
My Mom's Blog by Thoroughly Modern Millie is a vlog/blog put together by Millie Garfield and her son Steve. Millie, at eighty-something, has been proclaimed the world's oldest blogger. Her son Steve is fairly well known in the vlogging community and has certainly had a hand in getting his mom blogging, and is in charge of the camera when she makes a clip to post on her vlog. This is just another site I go to every now and then to see what's up in her life. There is a hysterical/real/sorta-sad-in-a-way series of videos about "I can't open this" in which she presents various products to her son to open because she just can't manage--which is pretty bad because this senior citizen is certainly competent and living on her own, and to be stopped down by being unable to open the Stretch-Tite box or an "easy open" coffee can--it's just not right!