Tuesday, February 1, 2011
3 blogs of epic proportion!
The time... 5:40pm. The location... my apartment (more specifically my couch). The ambiance... well the lights are on and there is awesome dubstep music emanating from my laptop speakers........ Seems like as good a time as any to write a blog post! I was on stubleupon.com the other night (for those of you who have never experienced stumbleupon i HIGHLY recommend it, great for passing the time and overall just amazing) when i stumbled upon (lol) a website called thisblogrules.com, after wandering the site for a while i came across a very interesting blog title "(Off) The Grid, the Bad and the Ugly". by a guy named Will Conley. Basically the blog is about people in the US who have chosen to live "off the grid". Now this Will guy provides some figures (ie. there are roughly 200,000 people who live off the grid) but i'm not exactly sure how reliable these figures are, aside from that i found this blog to be really interesting. Will also took the time to include a trailer for a documentary all about these people living off the grid in New Mexico called "Off The Grid: Life on the Mesa" which i definitely intend on checking out! Another blog i came across (this time not on stumbleupon) was about the calorie content of common foods you could find if you were in a survival like scenario. Unfortunately there is no author posted but he/she does go into detail about what vegetables one should have in their garden just in case, as well as how many calories are in certain wild animals (from bear to squirrel) as well as fish and insects (interesting). This unknown author conveys this info via charts which he/she stated was gathered from a website and not personal knowledge. Sure this might not be useful at the present moment, but hey it doesn't hurt to plan a head right? The last blog i came across is one of the musical variety, again with an unknown other this blog was a lot more personal then the others. The author talked about when he first discovered dubstep and how before dubstep he used to listen to hardcore music (which even after dubstep he still does). I could really relate to this blog in the sense that this exact same thing happened to me! It made for an interesting read because i could relate to the blogger which i think helped him convey what he was trying to say. This is my first blog ever, and really my first time ever looking at other blogs and needless to say it's an interesting experience. In my opinion i find them useful because you can choose what you want to read and what you don't, not to mention you get quick up to the minute updates that would be impossible to achieve with any standard none digital form of media. And finally blogger itself. Entertaining? Interesting? Useful? All very true although at first i found the interface a tad confusing to use, but like any new program the only way you can get better at it is to just play around with it........ or if you're to lazy to do that then you can follow this motto...... like any new program the only way you can get better at it....... watch tutorials on youtube.
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