Read Moar Blags!

from xkcd So doing my regular tour of duty reading blags I couldn’t help but be a little put off by Holly from decor8 ’s article in Real Simple titled Cutting through the Design Blog Smog  which was referred to on Apartment Therapy Los Angeles . Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for people spending less time on the computer and getting out into nature or whatever, but I don’t know how cool it is to urge people to limit their blog reading to ten or less.  Blogging is considered the whipped fluffy topping on the writing community so it’s seemingly acceptable to tell people to limit their intake.  While there are some really shitty useless blogs (mine being one of them) clogging up the world, at the end of the day each blog is the efforts of a real person to put their own words, voice and opinions out into the world to be judged by strangers.  It’s not always easy.  It’s a bad analogy but you wouldn’t tell s...