"The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline. Jim Rawles, who calls himself a guns-and-groceries survivalist, says traffic to his survivalblog.com has tripled in the last 14 months.

Mr. Rawles doesn’t concern himself with résumé-writing ( Read more... )

well, that week-in-the-life meme certainly put a stop to any serious diary-type blogging, didn't it?

I hope you enjoyed the pictures of my fabulous existence here in Brooklyn, the hip mama's paradise. I feel like I learned a lot from this meme:

1. My life isn't really that bad
2. I only took pictures of pretty things. There are lots of pretty things.
3. I ( Read more... )

I just read this blog piece by Ethan Zuckerman
http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2008/04/25/homophily-serendipity-xenophilia/
and found it pretty interesting.

The one thing I think he completely missed is the potential for
passion or life situations to bring you into contact with people you
have one BIG thing in common with but are otherwise ( Read more... )