From the Vagabond Scholar blog:
"Welcome to a tradition started by the late Jon Swift/Al Weisel, who left behind some excellent satire, but was also a nice guy and a strong supporter of small blogs. As Lance Mannion put it in 2010:
One of his projects was a year-end Blogger Round Up. Al/Jon asked bloggers far and wide, famous and in- and not at all, to submit a link to their favorite post of the past twelve months and then he sorted, compiled, blurbed, hyperlinked and posted them on his popular blog. "
Satirist blogger Jon Swift/Al Weisel sadly died in 2009 of an aneurysm. Batocchio, who writes the Vagabond Scholar blog, picked-up the round-up mantle in honor of Jon Swift.
I was on the edges of Jon Swift's blog circle, via Tom Watson, and so I ended up in his round-up. It continues to be a wonderful collection of big/famous blogs and smaller/not famous blogs, all nestled together by Batocchio. I submitted my post about stumbling upon the BBC Desert Island Disc website & Yoko Ono's song selections. One of which her mother sang to her, and my mother sang to me: The Songs Our Mothers Sang to Us.
What is most wonderful about the round-up is the clear evidence that "blogs are dead"—which has been hailed since shortly after they began and heightend as Twitter and Instagram entered the scene—simply isn't true.
Happy Reading, you readers' readers, get thee to the Vagabond Scholar.
2 comments:
Thanks for participating (great entry) and for spreading the word!
My pleasure, B, thanks for doing all the heavy lifting to make it easy to read all these wonderful blogs.
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