As it happens, BlogDay(tm) 2007 has very strict 5 rules about how to do this thing. Anyway, we here at Tech IT Easy are not that good at following any rules and anyway, who are they to tell us how to do this thing. Blogs are about decentralized individual empowerment, not following a centralized bureaucratic system! Earlier today, Vince already wrote about his 5 blogs and now its my turn to give you 5 other blogs.

While Vince’s selections probably reflected the blogs that might somewhat be blogs that are in the Tech IT Easy’s scope, my 5 blogs for you today, are my personal choices. They are not new and they are pretty famous, but not that famous as blogs. Furthermore, selecting five was a really hard task for me, as I only follow regularly 28 feeds and roughly two thirds of them are what someone might call blogs, rest are news feeds. I totally agree that what the founder of 3l0g Day-thingie says, “Did you know that the majority of blog readers read a very small number of top blogs?”. I know I do.

Anyway, here we go, in no particular order.

Double Fine Action News – Not so much a blog, but a place for Tim Schafer to ramble in a a disguise of a company’s news page. Tim Schafer, of course, is the evil genius behind the amazing game Psychonauts and one of the evil geniuses behind many LucasArts’ famous adventure games. I would gladly donate my left kidney for Tim, even if he didn’t need it, for making Grim Fandango. For this accomplishment and others, he’s duly categorised in Wikipedia as one of the lucky few “Living people“.

Grumpy Gamer – Now, this blog is anti-new in the drunkenblog sense, the latest post is from April. But it’s written by Ron Gilbert and there are some pretty odd links in the sidebar. In Wikipedia, he’s categorised unceremoniously to “Year of birth missing“.

Reddit all? – A blog by the guy who draws the little aliens for reddit.com, the social news or something-along-the-lines site. Posts only occasionally have anything to do with reddit.com or the alien. But there are cuttlefish.

Call Me Fishmeal. – by Wil Shipley, who loves and loves to write and loves to write about mac software. Right now he’s somewhat silent, because while he usually writes about “pimping up code”, he can’t as the new, and according to him, cool frameworks in Mac OS X 10.5 are still under NDAs. That doesn’t mean he couldn’t write about TED conferences or cars with unpainted carbon fiber body. He also has an arch-nemesis, whose blog just didn’t make the cut this year.

Releaselog – Now, this site is a a bit different as its about the warez scene and usually just posts info about recent releases to the underground tubes of the interwebs. Once in a while, though, there are good posts about the whole warez/copyright/p2p-discussion combined with occasional scene drama.

Seriously, there’s no way I could’ve tried to follow the rule 2 of BlogDay Club (“you don’t talk about..”). I can’t be connected with what current laws define as illegal or in couple of cases abobe, the guys are freaking famous and I’m just a fan of their amazing work. In a way I really enjoy that they blog, because it shows that they’re just people, it’s nice to see what makes them tick – what are their interests, and it’s great that they can express their ideas not only through their work. Before you would’ve have needed to run to some conferences or hunt down magazine’s with interviews about these guys.

So, happy BlogDay, whatever that means to you in these undefined web2.0 days.

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Hello everybody,

Today is blog-day, the day we geeks celebrate the new digital age, where every word, thought, sight, and sound is digitised and broadcast to millions of households. So what blogs to we love? After some intense debate (not), and in no particular order, here are five blogs that I would like to extend the digital roses too:

New Music Strategies

Artists face challenging times with the internet and the consequences it has had on the valuations and consumption of music. Andrew Dubber helps navigate this confusing world, and does so in a human, personable way. I would especially advise people to check out his manifesto, which he published in the form of a free ebook.

T.L.L.T. – Things That Look Like Things

The world needs more people like Christian Ceres Merry, who through some weird mental twists and turns always manages to find pictures on Flickr that blow me away.

Fortuito.us

Matthew Haughey, the founder of the infamous MetaFilter, has to update his blog more often. I would just like to make that a public statement. However, the few blogposts he did write (5 I think) are all digital gold.

Start-up Review

Nisan Gabbay, founder of SUR, and the other well-esteemed bloggers are creating a public service for everyone with their case-study-styled blog on today’s web-start-ups. They, to me, represent all the potential that new media can have and I hope we can someday follow in their example. [/end gush]

And last, but not least!

Paleo-Future

Another quirky blog, one that reminds us of futures that never were and the infinite potential that our minds have.  The author, Matt ??, has an amazing eye for this kind of content and I’m always wondering what he will uncover next.

So, that’s it! I sincerely hope you liked it! While these blogs may be very diverse in nature, they represent the limitless potential of user-generated content, simple creativity, and altruism (edit: typo). 

Please, feel free to suggest other blogs you have enjoyed in the comments. I’m sure the blog-authors will appreciate it!

Your dedicated Tech IT Easy team!

Some last minute maintenance for 3l0g day: http://technorati.com/tag/BlogDay2007 and http://www.blogday.org/. I will also notify the authors that didn’t comment yet about their “nomination.”

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