Taggage and Baggage
Cats: Uncategorized|My very favourite Bad Tempered Zombie tagged me for this meme. I’ve been falling down on my meme activity lately – sorry Beth and Moxie.
So here is my attempt banish my shame.
This meme requires you to link your five favourite sites and then tag five others to do the same.
BBC Radio. Without question, the best public broadcaster in the world. I tune in first thing in the morning and listen for most of the day. Radio Four offers superb documentaries, arts coverage and world news. But my true love is Brit radio comedy which is sharp, fast and witty. The Now Show, Ed Readron’s Week and the News Quiz being amongst my faves. Radio Two offers Jonathan Ross, the funniest man in British Radio, and Humphrey Lyttleton’s Best of Jazz. (I found Russell Brand here two years ago.) Radio 7 offers the archive of Brit radio comedy which is classic. Radio 6 is good for music.
The Language Log This blog is for word nerds. Being a typist, I take an interest in language, idioms, dialect, changing usage, regional usage and inscribed meanings. This blog is well referenced, funny and smart. This site is in my blogroll.
Meish.org Unbeknownst to her, Meg of Meish.org has taught me heaps about blogging. She’s a New Media guru based in London who has been blogging since the 90s. She’s head of new media and communities at The Guardian newspaper which is on the cutting edge of on-line content delivery. She’s also a photographer, sharp social observer and a good writer.
Lynda.com Because I am self-employed, it is necessary to keep my IT skilz up to date in order to remain relevant. I’ve taken courses and studied books. But one of the best sources of skilz knowledge is this site. It offers courses using Quicktime movie clips that allow you to learn at your own pace in your own office. I’ve learned many Photoshop skilz here, also Dreamweaver and Excel. Now I’m doing the Flash course.
Tagged and Bagged Because this blog title is so similar to the Taggage and Baggage meme, I thought I’d throw it in for fun. The Tagbagger scans the nooks and crannies of the city, photographing graffiti tags and public murals. The blog offers colourful slide shows and informed commentary and decoding. It explores the debates around graffiti as art, public expression, advertising and vandalism. For the most part, it interprets graffiti as underground art, but it pulls no punches when taggers vandalize public spaces.
Oops, forgot Flickr. One of my faves, but that makes six.
I tag these people to tell us about their fave sites
Write Procrastinator (Because of the rich and fertile mind that lurks within)
Megan (because she puts her money where her mouth is)
BeckEye (because she loathes memes, but will probably post five sites on Idol reject Michael Johns and I want to see what she’s been reading on him)
Dick (he doesn’t have a blog but can post his five faves in comments here)
Dale (because he’s rejected my meme tags before and to quote the knife-wielding Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction “I won’t be ignored”)
April 20th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
What a fine list! I shall be snooping through those with great interest. And do I feel superior because my tag was answered whilst others’ were not? Oh yes I certainly do.
Still, I can’t wait to see how Beckeye and Dale blow you off this time.
April 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
Done.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
How dare you call Michael a “reject.”
*sigh* I will try to get around to this. I think I have like 4-5 memes that I still haven’t gotten to and everyone probably hates me.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Zombie, Superior is thy name.
WP, thanks
BeckEye, just call it the Michael Johns Meme. The word reject was obviously just a plant to get your attention.
April 20th, 2008 at 8:49 pm
But Beth and Moxie are superior too, it’s just that they tagged me while I was away.
April 20th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
I’ve never been able to do this tagging thing. I get too confused about whose site you’re supposed to leave comments on, etc.
April 21st, 2008 at 11:05 am
Well thankyou for your inclusivity of the blogless. However, this is the only blog i visit…no, not because it’s the only one worth visiting, but because I have self restricted my on line playing.
So sorry other bloggers, it’s not that you are not worthy, it’s because of the velocity of rotation of the planet.
April 21st, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Great links!
BBC Radio is up there on my list as well (especially BBC 6 Music). I shall have to venture and click over to Lynda.com I like to read about IT stuff even though I can usually never implement it.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:15 am
Excellent choices all.
April 22nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
Chance, good thing I didn’t tag you
Dick, guess I’ll have to wait ’till I see you this summer to find out which sites interest you, other than this one, of course.
Allison, let me know what you think about Lynda.com
Dr. Monkey, welcome to GT! Thanks