Archive for August, 2008

7 Blogs for Blog Day 2008

It’s Blog Day today. You’re supposed to introduce your readers to 5 other blogs.

I couldn’t choose just 5 videobloggers to highlight. And anyway, you can see all the videoblogs I watch via the link at the top of the page.

So I thought I’d just do it straight. Here are all the non-videoblog blogs that I read regularly and love :

Speechification
“A blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded.”
Even now I’ve moved to Canada, I listen to BBC Radio 4 when I’m working. All day. Constant noise. Making me smarter, happier and less lonely all at once. I use their Listen Again service, and use Speechification as my guide to the day’s highlights.
This started out (I think) as an extension of Steve Bowbrick’s Listen With Bowbrick Twitter account. Now they’ve got a team of 6 people writing it.

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All Canadian

A ’son et lumi‚àö?£re’ for British Columbia’s 150th Birthday today.

Shot on the dock behind the local halibut burger bar.

Everything about this, and about that sentence, is Canadian.