O. K. , Freunde , Amigos , Companeros und Genossen of The Blogosphere , in|ad|ae|qu|at playz the game and sings along*** the lines of Blog Day 2007 .
1. Find 5 new Blogs that you find interesting
2. Notify the 5 bloggers that you are recommending them as part of BlogDay 2007
3. Write a short description of the Blogs and place a link to the recommended Blogs
4. Post the BlogDay Post (on August 31st) and
5. Add the BlogDay tag using this link:
http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2007 and a link to the BlogDay web site at http://www.blogday.org
In alphabetical order :
# 1 : DIAL ‘M’ FOR MUSICOLOGY
Great Label , Grand Slams , Explicit Thinking : Jonathan Bellman , Phil Ford und Richard Wattenbarger ist Nichts Menschliches fremd , wenn es um scharfe Debatten von Musikalien geht - ganz gleich , ob Pop oder Klassik , Neue Musik oder Alte Hypes . Oder wie sagen die Herren Akademiker selbst :
“DIAL ‘M’ FOR MUSIOCOLOGY is an academic blog, but it wants to be friends with everyone. Welcome to all critics, musicians, bedroom air-guitarists, louche aesthetes, prickly autodidacts, and random passers-by !”
Contempo Colloquies :
Warning: strong language
The Tone-Deaf Scientist Sings of Love
Foltermusik
Music Blogging as Torture
Fluffy puppies
# 2 : INFORMATION AESTHETICS
You think there’s no need to annouce this first range POI anymore ? - Andrew Vande Moere’s newsletters from all Tomorows Projects of Data- Visualization come on the dot - right out of Key Centre of Design Computing & Cognition ( Faculty of Architecture, Design & Planning @ University of Sydney ) . Thinking is model- making , model- making is thinking . Visual Metaphors , optical patterns : encoding , decoding of message . And there’s lot of nice and inspiring massage coming with all these arrows and circles and curves and shapes . In|ad|ae|qu|at ows some debt of gratitude to this staggering digest to visuals and / or cognition : Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries ( 1 , 2 , 3 ) and Strange Maps ( 1 , 2 ) . Thanks Andrew !
Contempo Colloquies :
sensor-based affective diary
building facade semaphore
typographical motion graphics
real abstract polaroid images
measuring tape belt
# 3 : LA RÈPUBLIQUE DES LIVRES
“Le Blog” @ Le Monde of writer and critic Pierre Assouline . Selbstdarstellung : “Une vingtaine de livres, des milliers d’articles, et presque autant d’émissions de radio. Tout ça pour dire la passion de la chose imprimée et la curiosité vis-à-vis de ceux qui arrivent à mettre un mot après l’autre.” - Man hoert den Stolz der aeltesten Demokratie und die Debatten , welche der Arbiter Elegantiorum im Bloggebiet anzettelt , koennen sich sehen lassen . Ein Literaturpapst très à la Francaise , nach dessen Predigten das Fussvolk teils andaechtig bebt , teils erzuernt erzittert . Beste Einblicke in den fuer die Restwelt meist schwer nachvollziehbaren franzoesischen Buchbetrieb .
Contempo Colloquies :
Le Maître et Cendrillon
Band of brothers
Polars : les femmes plus violentes ?
Le goût des autres, le vrai
Fin de l’énigme “G” [ > Yasmina Reza's portrait of Sarkozy, L’aube le soir ou la nuit , and to Whom The Book may Be Dedicated ]
# 4 : SHORTLIST - FOR ART AND CULTURE
Agitative , animating , appealing , arousing , arresting , astonishing , bracing , breathtaking , commoving , dangerous , electrifying , exhilarant , eye-popping , flashy , groovy , heady , intoxicating , intriguing , lively , mind-blowing , moving , neat , overpowering , provocative , rip-roaring , rousing , sensational , stimulating , stirring , thrilling , titillating , wild , zestful … German mag on “architecture , design, graphic, photography, film, internet, art, flash, literature, music, dance, science, modular life, exhibitions and portfolios” . Guter Griff ins Volle , tolles Timing - Best Practice- example , that German blogosphere has more to show than the average omphaloskepsis!
Contempo Colloquies :
Twile | Traum-a
artemiade
Psychotronic weapon
Criminalization of critical science in Germany
Lifestyle Advertising
# 5 : THE FRONTAL CORTEX
If contributing to Seed- Magazine wasn’t pedigree enough , Jonah Lehrer’s Hitch- Hiker’s Guide thru’ the Universe of Neuroscience provides you with essential Enlightenments . - How ratio fails . How we outsmart ourselves . How we do fall in the same ole traps all the time . And How Scientific Research is Not The One and Only . - Lehrer graduated from Columbia University in 2003 with a degree in neuroscience , and spent the next two years studying 20th Century Literature and Theology at Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship . Articles for Nature , New Scientist , MIT Technology Review - contributing editor to NPR’s Radio Lab . Currently he’s finishing up his first book, PROUST WAS A NEUROSCIENTIST ( to B published @ Houghton-Mifflin, November 2007 ) . What an agenda !
Contempo Colloquies :
Contradictions
The Psychology of Hotness
Fixing Ourselves
I Love Paper
Vick and Animal Cruelty
*** Vielleicht ist da alles ja nur eine muede PR- Masche des kriselnden Unternehmens Technorati - aber : Soll sein ! Jedenfalls eine gute Gelegenheit , fuer einmal ueber den Tellerrand des ueblichen 99 Blog- Feed hinauszublicken .
You’r not, of course, in my five for this day, but in the one of my friends who did something for this BlogDay2007 !
See you !
ah , Olivier : I am very fine @ your blogroll as U R on mine : and THIS will last much longer than a single BlogDay …
Happy Blog Day 2007! Please stop by my Blog Day post and leave your link!
http://dave-lucas.blogspot.com