13. From Delaney Kirk

Blog Title Ask-Dr-Kirk
Blog URL: www.delaneykirk.com
Blog Tagline: none
What makes the blog worth visiting?
Dr. Delaney Kirk Offers Tips on Taking Back the Classroom and Becoming a More Effective Teacher.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
One of the things I’ve realized is that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Whether it’s advice on teaching or how to blog (or pretty much anything else), there is a community of people on the web to help answer your questions. You just have to reach out.

14. From Romana Mirza

Blog Title Find creativity in the world.
Blog URL: http://www.romanamirza.com
Blog Tagline: get outside of the world you live in
What makes the blog worth visiting?
This blog gets you out of your bubble. It exposes you to other professions, cultures, and work that will inspire a new thought or spark a discussion around an idea or project that’s important to you.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Please have a purpose and a way of categorizing your information. Too many categories make it really hard to navigate and easy to give up on a blog. Having a purpose will help you to organize your content which will make navigating your space more intuitive for us, now that’s nice reading.

15-16. From Jessica Fritsche

Blog Title paper graffiti
Blog URL: http://www.papergraffiti.com
Blog Tagline: none
What makes the blog worth visiting?
On my blog, I write about the humble venture of being a writer, and all the thought processes, tools, tips, tricks, roadblocks and successes that come along with the profession!
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
“I think the biggest lesson I’ve learned is that there is no police force, Internet or otherwise, that is going to come and smack me around if I miss my goal. The only thing I can do is just keep pushing ahead. I can’t go back to yesterday and meet the goal I set for myself–I just have to meet, and even exceed, the goal that I make for myself TODAY. Beating myself up about missing a writing goal, or not missing a day of blogging, is not going to do anything but make me feel bad about myself.”

Blog Title Daily Tech Diva
Blog URL: http://www.dailytechdiva.com
Blog Tagline: none
What makes the blog worth visiting?
I am passionate about technology really enjoy sharing my tech experiences and my gadgets with the Internet at large.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
I think that the environment you write in can be as important as what you’re writing about. It should be a place that you feel productive, creative, and happy. Having [my writing space] come together in an organized manner is spurring me on to use the space creatively.

17. From Rick Grant

Blog Title New Media Observer
Blog URL: http://newmediaobserver.blogspot.com
Blog Tagline: A look at new media tools and the ways companies are using them by trade journalist Rick Grant.
What makes the blog worth visiting?
This is New Media information for companies that are not in the New Media business but trying to understand it.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
New Media folks will tell you that blogs are about starting conversations. In a perfect world, that’s quite true. But in the B2B space where I work, your blog gives your prospects a view int your thinking process. They may not comment much, but they’ll check out your blog whenever they perform due diligence on your firm.

18. From Tim King

Blog Title J. Timothy King’s Blog
Blog URL: http://blog.jtimothyking.com/
Blog Tagline: Stories of a Self-published, Entrepreneurial Fiction Author (née Software Guy)
What makes the blog worth visiting?
I believe the biggest draw to being published [by a third-party publisher] has nothing to do with success. Rather, it’s the same draw that makes college freshmen endure cruel and dangerous hazing rituals, and then turn around and subject others to the same torments. (from “Why I Never Want to be Published” http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2008/03/17/why-i-never-want-to-be-published)
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
If you’re a Christian who thinks libertarians are just conservatives who want to do drugs (insert offensively dismissive guffaw here), tune out now. I’m going to upset you, because I’m going to offend your sensibilities, not to mention your prejudices. If you’re a libertarian atheist, what I’m going to say will make you think I’m crazy, because I’m going to talk about how important religion is to my libertarianism. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
(from “Here’s Talking about Religion and Politics” http://blog.jtimothyking.com/2007/11/21/heres-talking-about-religion-and-politics )

19. From Beth Robinson

Blog Title Inventing Elephants
Blog URL: http://www.inventingelephants.com
Blog Tagline: Thinking towards the whole
What makes the blog worth visiting?
My personal journey as a chemist/MBA/artist/writer towards figuring out how to combine many different points of view to create something new.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
It’s okay to stop what’s not working and try a new path. My first blog was easy, but it took five, or maybe six, depending on how you count it, tries to make a second blog that lasted more than three months. It’s amazing how often the same themes will keep popping up until the day you realize, oh, yeah, that’s it, that’s what I meant to be writing about all this time.