{"id":1248,"date":"2007-04-19T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2007-04-19T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2008-01-14T02:10:37","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T07:10:37","slug":"a-thinking-meme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=1248","title":{"rendered":"A Thinking Meme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Considering I was briefly pulled away from the InfoBlogoSphere and am currently busy catching up on all the news(?), a worthwhile blog meme is probably the last thing I need to expedite getting back up to speed. However, having been included on <a href=\"http:\/\/kuipercliff.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/13\/my-thinking-blogger-nominations\/\">KuiperCliff&#8217;s list (Link)<\/a> and finding myself both in excellent company and flattered by those associations, how can I not? So here goes with my five nominations for &#8220;Thinking Bloggers&#8221; (who also, I suspect, aren&#8217;t very well known):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/ghostfeet.wordpress.com\/\">ghostfooting<\/a> &#8211; A librarian\/writer giving a lot of thought to emerging information technologies. There should probably be someone like this on a few design teams; a kind of free radical. Hopefully, he&#8217;s done moving around (you might recall him by his other\/previous blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/ishush.blogspot.com\/\">ISHUSH<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.designsojourn.com\/\">Design Sojourn<\/a> &#8211; If you want chum, head over to Core77. If you want a designer who engages people while trying to make sense &#8211; sometimes painfully &#8211; of all this stuff, head over to his blog. Process counts.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.simulation.cc\/weblog.php\">Simulation weblog<\/a> &#8211; Maintained by someone working in the half-real, half-virtual world of simulation, some of what&#8217;s written goes over my head&#8230; and that&#8217;s a good thing afaic. I only wish he was more talkative.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meshverse.com\/\">The Meshverse Journal<\/a> &#8211; This is a recent addition to my blog roll and if I could choose only one &#8220;virtual technology&#8221; blog to read, this would currently be it. I don&#8217;t doubt I&#8217;m going to learn a lot from reading this blog over the next year. There are others, but I don&#8217;t know of any that makes me feel so unprepared.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/search\/\">Technorati search<\/a> &#8211; I follow a number of professional and popular blogs, especially marketing and business sites (but only because there&#8217;s so damn many of them). But at a certain point I feel I&#8217;m losing touch with the rest of the world. Probably the one thing that gets me thinking the most are simple questions or overlooked observations made by average people who don&#8217;t follow any of what I discuss here. To find a few diamond-in-the-rough insights, I have some Technorati search feeds to which I subscribe. If you&#8217;re not doing this, I highly recommend it. This is one kind of wisdom in the crowds that&#8217;s both available and worth searching.<\/li>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p><em>Those of you I have &#8220;tagged&#8221;\u009d above, here are the rules of participation:<\/p>\n<p>If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think. {Note &#8211; find the meme origin by tracing back through the person who nominated me: <a href=\"http:\/\/kuipercliff.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/13\/my-thinking-blogger-nominations\/\">KuiperCliff<\/a>. Do this because there are plenty of blogs I would have considered &#8211; like Architectradure which is already on my link list at right &#8211; but which can be found through following the links back.}<\/p>\n<p>Optional: Proudly display the &#8220;Thinking Blogger Award&#8221; with a link to the post that you wrote (<a href=\"http:\/\/img201.imageshack.us\/img201\/421\/thinkingblogger2ql6.jpg\">here is an alternative silver version<\/a> if <a href=\"http:\/\/img255.imageshack.us\/img255\/5020\/thinkingbloggerpf8.jpg\">gold<\/a> doesn&#8217;t fit your blog).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Considering I was briefly pulled away from the InfoBlogoSphere and am currently busy catching up on all the news(?), a worthwhile blog meme is probably the last thing I need to expedite getting back up to speed. 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