Blog Day 2006

by Tom Ziller on Aug 31, 2006 8:46 AM PDT in Links

Today is Blog Day 2006. I didn't know about this until, like, 45 seconds ago. Ok, now it's about 55 seconds. I read it at Celtics Blog. It sounds like a neat idea. (70 seconds.) The idea is to help promote newer, smaller, different blogs to your own audience. So I've decided to promote some of my favorite Sacramento-based blogs. (I also have unsolid plans to add these blogs to a section of my blogroll down on the lower right. Oh, and 120 seconds.)

Sacramento Land(ing) is the best local real estate blog. I'm pretty dumb about real estate in general, and I've been trying to educate myself over the last year or so. SL(ing) has definitely helped a ton.
The Sac Rag is the snarkiest collection of Sacramento minds on the Web. That snark is usually great - except when it's bashing the arena proposal. Which is like everyday now. So, um, don't read The Rag until after November 7, OK?
Arranging Matches is run by frequent Sactown Royalty commenter Carl. Along with excellent analysis of the Kings and various Sacramento and tech topics, Carl also takes some great vacation photographs. Like, stunning. In particular, the Seattle/Vancouver sets are excellent.
Uneasy Rhetoric is written by John. He writes about everything that is Sacramento, and in particular downtown, midtown, wine, and creating a livable, walkable, bikeable community. A great blog stick in your RSS reader - John makes every post count.
The Barnesyard is about movies, mostly. The writer really likes movies. And he's really smart. And he always has lists of best movies in a certain genre, or best directors of an indeterminate time period, and other things. He also goes to some Kings game, and provides the insight you could get from going to the arena.

So today, read a blog you've never read before. It's amazing what's out there.

(420 seconds, at least.)

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Re: Blog Day 2006

Hi,
My name is Jim Dunn. I run a blog called The Detroit Pistons Today. I am planning on putting together a huge regular season opening day post. This will include a writer for each specific team. I am contacting you on this matter because I would like you to write an article on the Kings. In the article, you may put whatever you want. I would like it to be somewhat of an article about the opening regular season game that your team is playing. The star-player match ups, and what you think the outcome of the game will be. Not from a fan's perspective, how you really think the game will turn out. It will take me a while to get this set up, so I would appreciate it if you got back to me as soon as possible. If you choose to accept it, I would also be grateful if you could write your article and send it to me near the beginning of the regular season. You can contact me any time via email at bigmaninthepost@aol.com. Thank you and I hope to hear back soon.
Sincerely,
Jim Dunn

by bigmaninthepost on Aug 31, 2006 11:43 AM PDT reply actions

Re: Blog Day 2006

Well, you should probably contact me personally instead of commenting on my blog, then. It's not terribly difficult - my email address is in my right sidebar where it says "Contact." And when you do theoretically contact me personally instead of commenting on my blog with this request, then you should provide a link to your site. Also, since you appear to be new to the basketblogosphere, you might want to rethink your project before asking 30 bloggers of whom you may not have had any prior contact with to submit an article for your site to post. Just a thought.

by Tom Ziller on Aug 31, 2006 1:51 PM PDT up reply actions

Nice!

TZ channeling evanmeagan...good stuff. <evil grin>

by otis29 on Aug 31, 2006 3:20 PM PDT up reply actions

Re: Nice!

Thanks.

by evanmeagan on Sep 4, 2006 7:54 PM PDT up reply actions

Re: Blog Day 2006

Ouch!Poor guy!What an intro to the blogging sphere(wince).

Maybe BigManinthePost can get some help from evanmeagan for an alternate blogging perspective.

Or link into the MotorCityBlogspot at DetroitBadBoys for a start.

by Rhondda Nunes on Sep 6, 2006 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions

Re: Blog Day 2006

Thanks for the plug, TZ. I hadn't heard of the Barnesyard, and I'm a bit of a movie freek myself, so I've subscribed.

I'll be off the continent for a few weeks, so you won't see my usual inane (insane?) commentary for a bit. I do plan to upload some photos to my site while I'm gone. Don't let the Kings sign any more middling free agents without me.

by Carl on Aug 31, 2006 2:54 PM PDT reply actions