{"id":661,"date":"2006-11-08T03:10:29-05:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T08:10:29+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/reading-material\/"},"modified":"2006-11-08T03:16:47-05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T08:16:47+00:00","slug":"reading-material","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/11\/08\/reading-material\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading&nbsp;material"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><p>Prompted by <a href=\"http:\/\/kimota94.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/welcome-to-blogosphere-mind-gap.html\">a (mild) tweak from Matt<\/a>&#8212;and yeah, there <em>is<\/em> a certain pattern to the subject matter around here :)&#8212;I thought I&#8217;d post links representing a tiny excerpt of the online writings that keep me informed, entertained, and occasionally outraged:<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h3>Technology<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Tim Bray never fails to have something of interest at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/\"><cite class=\"title\">Ongoing<\/cite><\/a>.  It&#8217;s not entirely accurate to list the site under technology (although he is Sun&#8217;s Director of Web Technologies), because he&#8217;s just as likely to post a review of a great CD in his <cite class=\"title\">5 &#x272d; &#x266b;<\/cite> series, or photos of his travels in Vancouver and around the world, or his analysis of the political situation in the Middle East.  But technology&#8217;s what took me to the site originally, so there ya go.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.intertwingly.net\/\"><cite class=\"title\">Sam Ruby<\/cite>&#8216;s eponymous blog<\/a> is generally more tech-oriented than <cite class=\"title\">Ongoing<\/cite>, but always as engaging, whether he&#8217;s writing about web services, personal projects like <a href=\"http:\/\/intertwingly.net\/code\/venus\/\"><cite class=\"title\">Planet Venus<\/cite><\/a>, or just pointing to other items of interest around the web.  Anyone at work who&#8217;s heard me talk (and talk, and talk) about syndication or moan with displeasure at our intraweb (and other servers) ultimately has Sam to blame.<\/li>\r\n<li>Ditto on assigning blame to Eric Meyer, who writes about CSS (and other things) at <a href=\"http:\/\/meyerweb.com\/\"><cite class=\"title\">meyerweb.com<\/cite><\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/diveintomark.org\/\">Dive Into Mark<\/a>, Mark Pilgrim&#8217;s recently-restarted blog, is one of the ones I&#8217;ve been reading longest, and is almost certainly the first I subscribed to via RSS.  He&#8217;s big into technological freedom these days, a topic that&#8217;s lead to discussions of things from backing up terabytes of data to website accessibility.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>Music<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Lenni Jabour&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/lennijabour.com\/html\/lenni_jabour_pensees.html\"><cite class=\"title\">petites pens&eacute;es<\/cite><\/a> are a monthly snapshot of the loveliness that can be found in day-to-day existence, if you just know where to look.  <em>sigh<\/em><\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kristinsweetland.com\/onroad.htm\"><cite class=\"title\">On the Road<\/cite><\/a> is Kristin Sweetland&#8217;s occasional journal and a jumping-off point to disparate and distant parts of the web that make perfect sense together once you start to understand a bit of who she is.<\/li>\r\n<li>I came to Scott Andrew&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scottandrew.com\/\"><cite class=\"title\">lo-fi acoustic pop superhero!<\/cite><\/a> site for the JavaScript techniques, and stayed for the music and insights into the world of indie musicianship.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>Politics<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickmercer.ca\/\">Rick Mercer<\/a> takes few prisoners and eats sacred cows for breakfast.  His blog posts are like scripts for the <cite class=\"term\">streeters<\/cite> he performs on his weekly comedy show, made only slightly less biting by being in print.<\/li>\r\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikewatkins.ca\/\">Mike Watkins dot net<\/a> (which is actually a <code>.ca<\/code> domain) is the blog of a Progressive Conservative&#8212;you remember what those were, right?&#8212;who I came across during the last Canadian election campaign.  He&#8217;s very vocal about the arch-conservative turn his party has taken, and also happens to live in turncoat David Emerson&#8217;s riding.  It&#8217;s surprising sometimes how much his opinions match mine, me being a <a href=\"http:\/\/politicalcompass.org\/\"><span title=\"-5.74\">social libertarian<\/span> on the <span title=\"-5.25\">economic left<\/span><\/a> and all.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<h3>Friends and Family<\/h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li>Donna&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/denim.my-expressions.com\/\"><cite class=\"title\">denim<\/cite><\/a> blog has been through a few sites and incarnations, but it&#8217;s currently a place where she posts snippets about her life and travels, accompanied by photos taken with her vast array of cameras.<\/li>\r\n<li>I&#8217;ve mentioned that brother <a href=\"http:\/\/edjanes.ca\/\">Ed<\/a> and sister-in-law <a href=\"http:\/\/tarahogeterp.ca\/\">Tara<\/a> both have blogs; as far as I know we&#8217;re the only three in the family that do.<\/li>\r\n<li>Coworkers <a href=\"http:\/\/homepage.mac.com\/croptop\/blogwavestudio\">John<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/marsman.ca\/\">Mike<\/a> haven&#8217;t had a lot to say on their blogs recently.  Perhaps this tweak of my own will shame them into a post or two. \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n<p>A short coda, just for interest&#8217;s sake: of the current <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/pop\/blogs\/\">Technorati Top 100<\/a>, I read exactly&#8230; wait for it&#8230; <strong>one<\/strong>.  And it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/\"><cite class=\"title\">A List Apart<\/cite><\/a>, which is really more of a magazine than a blog.<\/p><\/div><div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prompted by a (mild) tweak from Matt&#8212;and yeah, there is a certain pattern to the subject matter around here :)&#8212;I thought I&#8217;d post links representing a tiny excerpt of the online writings that keep me informed, entertained, and occasionally outraged: Technology Tim Bray never fails to have something of interest at Ongoing. 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