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Jumping from blog to blog is like flying around in the pages of a *Giant Anthology of Awesome*. I love to dip into other people's lives and into their obsessions. Seriously, I love it.
As a web producer for BlogHer, I do a lot of hand-waving technical back-end infrastructure stuff and product/editorial strategizing. Julie Douglas and I are the company's developers, working with php, SQL, and Drupal. But, I also look at new blogs and blogs in the network that need tech support. This means helping to monitor all 2500 blogs in the network. Sometimes I'm supposed to be fixing a blog template, yet end up being sucked into that person's world, reading all the way down the page, commenting, clicking back through archives, following links or cracking up at photos.
There's an incredible diversity of interests and backgrounds in our network of (mostly) women bloggers. In my personal blog-reading I tend to read stuff by people a lot like me: geeky women in their 30s and 40s, who are into science fiction and fantasy, writing, computers, and progressive activism. So one of the things I value most about BlogHer is that it leads me to read blogs by people I might never know otherwise. Suddenly I'll be up in the personal life and thoughts of a conservative Mormon midwestern mom with 6 children who likes to talk about Bible study, or a serious businesswoman writing about financial issues, or a woman from the Philippines who writes about cooking gourmet Filipino food, or a 20 year old art student from New York who loves to go out to nightclubs and on long camping trips. Stuff that I otherwise never do or think about. This seems so beautiful to me, that online, we can hear other women's stories unmediated by any filter. I'll end up, over the course of a day at work, IM-ing links to new blogs to my friends and co-workers, and now I'd like to share some of the blogs that catch my interest -- with an emphasis on giving you a sampler of people who are very different from each other.
There will be a lot of exclamation points. That's how I roll.
Here's some blogs that caught my eye this week at work:
Fab Grandma is an amazing blog! Karen travels around North American in her RV, blogging and working seasonal jobs for the National Park Service, with her husband. Another gluten-free blogger. How to Enlarge Your Breasts Overnight! Prepping the Grand Canyon for its summer season! Gluten Free Coconut Cream Pie! I like to read this and just kind of pretend I'm Karen, because her life is too cool.
Jenee from Cocoa Fly covers books, entertainment, and news from the perspective of a hip, eclectic black woman. She's been a reporter for NPR, Time Europe, Marketplace Money, and SurfSantaMonica.com. Long thinkalicious posts on tv shows, like Everybody Hates Chris! Critique of how Essence talks about strip clubs! Wanda Sykes, with video clips, can't beat that. I'm really loving Cocoa Fly's political views and analysis of pop culture!
http://www.pistolsandpopcorn.com/ An edgy & fun mom blog by a mom of a 5-year-old in Brooklyn. Jodi says, "I've been an English Teacher in Seoul, a Bartender in Japan, a Substance Abuse Counselor, Record Store Owner, Night Club Operator and Coffee Slinger (not all at once) in Utah, and a Events Promoter, Children's Room Designer and Muay Thai Kickboxing Instructor in New York." Grown-Up Banana Pudding at the Smoke-a-Thon! And I can totally identify with Jodi's advice on parenting in Live Dangerously, Live More.
http://www.thegarbers.blogspot.com/ A blogger living in the land of Milk & Honey. Momming and prayers. Lots of nice photos here! Traci is pregnant and in the hospital right now, in pain but in good spirits, blogging photos of her feet in those fuzzy hospital socks! Her husband bleaches the toilet three times a week, now that's romance; give him some blog comment love! And though
