Other Voices
I’d just like to point you all to a new page I’ve set up called “Other Voices” — you can find the link to it over next to the sun seal under “Pages”. It’s my Blogroll 2.0.
I’ve been meaning to set up my Blogroll properly for ages. The links were falling out of date, it no longer reflected my own reading properly, and frankly I thought that having a tiny little link buried over on the sidebar was a sorry way to repay the authors I enjoyed reading so much. Really I’d like to do reviews of all my favorite bloggers, much like Kara-Leah Masina is doing, but my blogging schedule simply won’t allow it.
Instead I’ve set up a whole page of links, and next to each link are a few words drawn from the author’s web site. The quotes are intended to give a tiny taste of the author’s style, and hint at what the web site is about. I had a lot of fun finding just the right quotes…
In some cases, I had to compress the quotes to fit them under my word limit. If you’re an author, and you feel like I picked a bad quote for you or mangled your words, BY ALL MEANS let me know and I’ll change it however you like. I don’t want you to feel misrepresented; and I want to send people your way, because I think the world would be a better place if more people read your stuff. ‘Nuff said.
May 9th, 2007 at 11:55 am
Jeff,
What a wonderful way of presenting the sites - I’ve been struggling with this myself as the wonderful articles I read on my favourite sites deserve much more than a place on a list.
Thanks too for adding my site - it’s such an honour for my writing to be added alongside those inspiring authors.
Hope you got my e-mail about ‘guesting’ on my site - It would be amazing to gift you a page.
Take care,
Damian
May 9th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
Love the ‘roll!
I want to create a community-driven link set on my Behind the Screens / Spiritual Blogging pages — like you, I don’t have the time for in-depth reviews, and I am thankful that Kara-Leah has taken on the mantle.
K-L’s Reviews of sites within our community are becoming a strong Hook/Flagship Content for her blog; she’s already accomplishing something specific and needed, we’d all like to do something similar… I’m just glad someone else has gotten around to taking it on FOR me, right?
Between the two of you, I can link out to many of the same valuable sites that I would also choose to mention.
I’ve written to K-L to request that she create a new Category for her Reviews, so that we can all link directly to her evolving Review archive, in one simple spot.
May 9th, 2007 at 1:11 pm
Jeff,
I agree with Damian - this is great! I would love to do something similar. I’ll have to pester Blogger, because I don’t have the ability to create pages that don’t appear as blog entries.
Also, thanks for including me on your blogroll. I really do feel honored.
Love,
Jonah
May 9th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
WOW! I got tingles just reading through all of the Other Voices you have posted. What a wonderful way to compile a blogroll! I have added that page to my blog roll, and will update my review of Druid Journal to reflect this. This way my readers can instantly connect in with your blogroll too.
I’m really enjoying writing the blog reviews, and I’m stoked it’s galvanized the community like this. Strengthening our ties and support for each other only energizes the work that we can each do.
Many blessings,
Kara-Leah
May 9th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
OK, now that’s synchronicity! I just stopped by to grab a link so I could put Druid Journal on my blogroll and saw that you have included my blog in Other Voices. I take this as a high compliment — heartfelt thanks. Haven’t written anything this week so I’d better get to it!
May 9th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
Gracious, Kara-Leah, you do rise early, don’t you! The sun hasn’t risen in New Zealand yet, has it?
Thanks for the extra links and such — and for everything you’re doing.
Jonah, the limitations of Blogger are why I went with WordPress in the first place, even though I couldn’t type a single character of PHP or CSS. (This is why it’s taken me ALL WEEK to put up the “Other Voices” page.
) And as for including you: of course! And I love your poetry.
Slade, thanks for the encouragement! I ’spect you noticed you were the only blogger to appear twice. That number will only increase as you multiply your Virtual Incarnations over the years…
And Damian, I’m looking forward very much to adding my voice to yours on your site! And you honor us with your presence at least as much as we honor you.
May 9th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
Edge — awright! I’ll be hanging on my Google Reader!
May 9th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
-ears perk- Did you say PHP??
That’s tempting. I like blogger because it’s integrated with my Google account. Now that Google has taken over and they have retired the Old Blogger, they claim to be working on new features. I don’t feel like moving my blog, so, hopefully they’ll catch up.
I’m glad you like my little poem. I’ll be sure to add more as inspiration hits.
May 10th, 2007 at 7:40 am
One way to describe me is a walking contradiction. And you captured that perfectly from the quote you chose.
Thank you for the inclusion. It means a lot.
I did not the forward slash (\) is showing up in contractions (don\t)
May 10th, 2007 at 7:45 am
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May 10th, 2007 at 7:51 am
Mornin’, Nio!
Something I really like about your work — and I think the quote shows it very well — is how you explain your own internal contradictions in such a way that they make perfect sense. Reading the post in which you wrote that — about wanting to be alone and among others at the same time — your feelings are so vivid and clear that you make me feel that way myself.
Yeah, the slashes are a bummer. Wordpress adds them when I make multiple edits to that field (which I had to do in a number of cases when I found that the quote I’d chosen was too long for the database field (and yes I know in theory I could have gone and changed the size of the database field, but dammit Jim, I’m a blogger, not a programmer)). When I try to edit them out, Wordpress sticks ‘em right back in.
I’m due for a Wordpress upgrade; maybe it works better in the latest versions. I’ll try it then.
May 10th, 2007 at 8:31 am
Mornin’ Jeff. I should be studying, but I’m waiting for my brain to wake up. A cup of decaf green tea may be in order…
Thank you for the compliment. I write in stream of consciouness, so that’s why (I think) my writing is so vivid.
Yes, a big bummer about the slashes. Maybe the upgrade will help.
May 12th, 2007 at 8:12 pm
Thanks Jeff. I’m honored.
May 12th, 2007 at 10:41 pm
Thank you Jeff. I think you picked the perfect quote !
May 14th, 2007 at 4:57 pm
We at “The Gods Are Bored” are so honored to be on your roll! To what address shall we send the shoo-fly pie?