136. From Matthew Stublefield

Blog Title SilverPen Publishing
Blog URL: http://silverpenpub.net
Blog Tagline: Commonly Creative in the Creative Commons
What makes the blog worth visiting?
SilverPen Publishing is a site dedicated to writing for the sake of writing, rather than to make money, and is an experiment in giving away my work for free. I wanted to see if someone could do with words what webcomic artists do with their comics, but SilverPen Pub is also a developmental tool; for now, the work on there is in progress, and as full books are written, they will be self-published and available on the site for free or purchase, depending on what the reader wants to do. SilverPen Publishing runs on WordPress-MU with a separate blog for each project, and most everything is done through blog entries rather than static pages.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
One of the keys to a successful blog is knowing your niche and having a solid theme to your writing (so readers get what they expect and desire) but not being so narrowly focused that you run out of things to write. Unfortunately, when you’ve got half a dozen completely different topics on which you want to write, it can be difficult organizing that into a single blog. Therefore, I use WordPress-MU to modularize my blog and have a single site that houses numerous projects. I can now add as many different topics as I want, manage it all through a single back-end, and my readers can see the content they desire while ignoring the rest. It’s all about choice: will you let your blog limit you, or will you use it to achieve your goals?

137. From jerry, age 70

Blog Title drannaks dribbles
Blog URL: http://drannak.org/blog
Blog Tagline: Non semper ea sunt quae videntur
What makes the blog worth visiting?
Read about the trials and tribulations of a kid growing up in the 40’s and 50’s…
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
If you are over 50 and blog to get love and adoration from one and all, you will be disappointed with the negative responses unless you “twitter”…

138. From Dex

Blog Title MetaMakeMoneyOnline.com
Blog URL: http://www.metamakemoneyonline.com/
Blog Tagline: Distilling the best internet marketing posts – we read hundreds of blogs so you don’t have to
What makes the blog worth visiting?>
I think my blog is worth visiting because … I work hard to find great blog posts from bloggers – both big and small. A lot of bloggers have a great voice but need an audience. I’m willing to promote any blog post with great, useful content whether they have 1 daily visitor or 100,000.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Some advice? Do what I do … Blog about what you love, with passion. Blog to benefit others, not to benefit from them. Stay the course, because it’s always worth it. Great content will always find a great audience, don’t settle for anything less, and finally, the blogosphere makes it easy to be generous to our fellow bloggers, so be generous, and reap the rewards tenfold.

139. From Todd Ramsey

Blog Title The Todd Blog
Blog URL: http://toddblog.net
Blog Tagline: It’s pretty fun if you say it fast.
What makes the blog worth visiting?
The ToddBlog is my personal web blog, but more than just post about what I ate for lunch or my favorite cats, I try to post questions about very real struggles or quandaries I’m facing. The posts are short, cover numerous topics and I try to make them enjoyable and worthwhile to read.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Get over the question “Who will care what I write about?” That’s the absolute quickest way to kill whatever inspiration might be headed your way.

140. From Mark Yokoyama

Blog Title Everybody Loves Free Stuff
Blog URL: http://blog.epromos.com
Blog Tagline: (I guess the title IS the tagline)
What makes the blog worth visiting?
Call them what you will – promos, giveaways, schwag or tchotchkes – everybody loves free stuff. This blog is dedicated to the best, worst, most creative and most entertaining promotions and products.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Find a topic in which you are truly an expert, and write the best blog in the world about that topic. If you’re considering a topic where you could never have the best blog in the world (e.g., restaurants in New York), change your focus to a topic you can be the best at (e.g., restaurants in your neighborhood). Write well, use photos & post regularly.

141. From Andrew Dlugan

Blog Title Six Minutes Public Speaking and Presentation Skills Blog
Blog URL: http://sixminutes.dlugan.com/
Blog Tagline: none
What makes the blog worth visiting?
Helps you will become a more effective and confident public speaker. Includes weekly public speaking blogosphere spotlights, speaking tutorials, book reviews, and speech critiques of excellent speakers.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Lao Tzu once wrote “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Blogging is a perilous journey where every step — every article you write, every comment you leave, every subscriber you hook — brings you one step closer to your ultimate goal of a successful and outstanding blog.