Hump Day Reading for the Restless Soul

by Amy Derby on August 27, 2008

Since joining twitter I’ve found a bunch of new blogs to read, and of course I’m still keeping up with my old favorites! Here are some of the highlights of what I’ve been reading this week.

First, some fun stuff going on:

Killer Titles Group Project at Problogger

Blog Community Building Contest (With Prizes) at Business and Blogging

$25 PayPal Contest at Profitale

Caption This at Freelance Writing Jobs

Liz Gets a Plugin at Successful Blog

Danger Will Robinson! The Downside of Our Digital World from Terry Starbucker

260 Ways to Break WordPress from Lorelle on Wordpress

Are You Advertising One Knee or Two? at Men with Pens

Are you a Pooh-Bear? at Someday Syndrome

Email Marketing Tips: Introduction to Email Copywriting from Chris Garrett

Michael Martine Quits at Remarkablogger

Rock Your Business Tip #1: Choose Magnetic Contacts at Rock Your Day

Balls-On Marketing: Why You Need To Strut Your Stuff a guest post by Dave Navarro on IttyBiz

Summer Is a Great Time to… Cheat and Save Money! at Maximum Customer Experience

Slam Poetry’s Wonder Woman at Writing Forward

Have your own faves? Share in the comments! I’m always on the lookout for something new to read…

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1 Wendi Kelly - Life's Little Inspirations 08.27.08 at 4:05 pm

Wow, nice list, I’m going to have to book mark this. My regular list is long enough! But some of them look really good so I won’t want to miss them!

Thanks for the reccomendations!

Wendi Kelly - Life’s Little Inspirations’s last blog post..Wide-Eyed Walking

2 Laura Spencer 08.27.08 at 5:23 pm

Thanks for the link to our contest! I hope that lots of your readers enter.

(BTW, I love the blog’s “new” look.)

Laura Spencer’s last blog post..How to Use Old Blog Posts Tip#12 - Create a Calendar!

3 Terry Starbucker 08.27.08 at 5:50 pm

Hey, thanks for the link! See you in Twitterville.
All the best,

Terry

Terry Starbucker’s last blog post..Danger Will Robinson! The Downside of Our Digital World

4 Amy Derby 08.27.08 at 6:14 pm

Terry — Any time. I’m following you now. ;-)

Laura — You’re quite welcome. Looks like a fun contest, for sure. :-)

Wendi — I know. My list is getting TOO long I think. LOL I thought of about 25 more posts I should have added to this list after I hit ‘publish’. ;-)

5 Kelly 08.27.08 at 6:15 pm

Amy,

It’s a bit old now (July), but in my inbox it’s the Post That Won’t Go Away… my friend Paul is either thrilled or wishes he never wrote it.

http://idea-sandbox.com/blog/2008/07/what-is-burger-king-thinking/

Every word (picture) is true, no matter how hard it is to believe.

Read it and some of the five million comments. It’s a hoot.

Thanks so much for the link! Going to read Terry’s right now…

Regards,

Kelly

Kelly’s last blog post..Inspiration Points: It’s You—Yes, YOU—Seeing the World at Dawn

6 Amy Derby 08.27.08 at 9:15 pm

Kelly — Sometimes you should tell me to pee first. That was SO funny. LOL

Ok, who else has one??

7 Mike Golch 08.27.08 at 11:01 pm

Amy, I joined ENTRECARD and found so many different blogs it is not funny. the great thing it is free,and I enjuy the different blogs that run the gamlet of theings from writting to cooking to humor to you name it and it is probuly one of the catagories. I feature a different blog on my side bar almost daily. not to mention that I have an award that I giving away.

Mike Golch’s last blog post..I saw this elsewhere,and decided to do the same thing!

8 Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome 08.28.08 at 2:15 am

Thanks for the inclusion in the list! I’m excited to go through and check out the other articles.

Cheers,
Alex

Alex Fayle | Someday Syndrome’s last blog post..Are you a Pooh-Bear?

9 Cath Lawson 08.28.08 at 5:02 am

Hi Amy - you have some of my favourite blogs listed there. And also some I’d like to check out. I’m really enjoying Alex Fayle’s Someday Project.

Cath Lawson’s last blog post..What Is Your Responsibility As A Writer?

10 Amy Derby 08.28.08 at 12:25 pm

Mike — That sounds like a really fun thing.

Alex — I’m a sucker for anything pooh-bear. Eeyore is my role model. Hehe.

Cath — I’m enjoying Alex’s too. What a great blog!

11 Ellen Wilson 08.28.08 at 2:25 pm

Amy,

I know the world has ended when Amy joins Twitter. Oh no! Well I will have to tune in to the end and see how it all develops. You can find me on Twitter too if you want! Sometimes I am looking for someone to talk to and can find no one.

I’m sorry I have nothing to add to your list.

Hey, I hope your root canal went okay.

Ellen Wilson’s last blog post..How to Critique a Short Story

12 Melissa Donovan 08.28.08 at 3:17 pm

Well, I have a lot of reading to do! And I’m already a bit behind… Thanks for including Writing Forward with all these great posts. :)
Melissa Donovan’s last blog post..Slam Poetry’s Wonder Woman

13 Amy Derby 08.28.08 at 10:49 pm

Ellen — Hey! I added you to my follow list. [the world has only ended a little bit]

Melissa — It’s a great post. I’m loving the slam poetry series.

14 Michael Martine, Blog Consultant 08.29.08 at 1:05 pm

Hey, look, all my buds are here! Nice to be in such excellent company. Thanks for sharing my post with your readers, Amy!

Michael Martine, Blog Consultant’s last blog post..Time is Running Out - Possibly Only 1 Client Spot Left

15 Amy Derby 08.29.08 at 1:07 pm

Michael — And thank you for being so excellent. :-)

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