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Five blogs we recommend for Blog Day 2008.
Max Gladwell is featured in the Idealist.org Blog Day 2008, where bloggers pay homage to five of their brethren. So we’re paying it forward.
If you’re a blogger, we encourage you to participate. This is about connecting people with quality sources of independently produced content.
The following are in no particular order, though it’s written as a countdown. We read so many great blogs. These are by no means the top five…if it were even possible to rank them as such. They’re just five good ones that you should know about.
5. Ari Herzog is a consultant on technology policy and online communication. He writes the eponymous AriWriter blog. Topics primarily focus on social media with insights into current events like the presidential campaign. His extensive how-to on organizing your life online is especially useful and valuable. This is what blogging is about.
4. Ecoplitology is penned by Timothy B. Hurst, who has PhD credentials in his particular area of expertise: energy policy. As a result of his blogging experiment, Hurst was inspired by the power of the social web. “The more I learn about the emergent social media phenomenon,” he writes, “the more I understand its potential for acting as a vehicle for substantive social and ecological change.” Like many of us, his recent posts include some compelling political insights.
3. Mashable! is one of our staple blogs. It’s one of those blogs that transcends the medium and qualifies as a bona fide news source. When news on social media and Internet technology hits, you can be sure that Mashable! will be one of the first to write on it. But the deeper analysis and context that you get from writers like Kristen Nicole adds an essential dimension that you don’t always get from breaking-news tech blogs.
2. Leading Green is the green business blog from Harvard Business Publishing. Which means you’ll find leading experts in sustainability and management offering valuable insights about how business can (and should) integrate green strategies to gain competitive advantage and ultimately increase profits. As a excellent complement, see Umair Haque‘s Edge Economy, which provides superior analysis on business strategy, specifically in the technology space.
1. Muhammad Saleem is a respected name in social media who’s also involved in a number of green-living blogs and related ventures. EcoUrls and WebEcoist are two of the latest. Saleem also guest blogs for many of the leading tech blogs with excellent analysis and foresight about emerging social media trends.
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1 Blog Day 2008: Ecopolitology’s Five | ecopolitology // Aug 31, 2008 at 11:53 am
[...] finding out that our friends at Max Gladwell added ecopolitology to the 4th annual Blog Day on August 31, 2008, I decided it would be a good [...]
2 Open Thread: Blog Day 2008 - Your Favorite Environmental Politics Blogs : Red, Green, and Blue // Aug 31, 2008 at 2:44 pm
[...] and areas of interest. Well, I had completely forgotten about it until our friends at Max Gladwell reminded us. The idea is that on August 31 (today), participating blogs will post a recommendation of 5 new [...]
3 Eco-Cide: Exploring Ecology // Aug 31, 2008 at 5:36 pm
[...] Blog Day was created with the belief that bloggers should have one day dedicated to getting to know other bloggers from other countries and areas of interest. The idea is that on August 31 (today), participating blogs will “post a recommendation of 5 new blogs; preferably blogs that are different from their own culture, point of view and attitude.” I had completely forgotten about it until our friends at Max Gladwell reminded us. [...]
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