160. From Marcus Taylor

Blog Title Invisible Green Photography
Blog URL: www.invisiblegreen.com
Blog Tagline: Beauty with expression
What makes the blog worth visiting?
InvisibleGreen.com has beautiful photos to help you enjoy the world when you can’t get out in it.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Blogs about photography and photoblogs are two different animals. A blog about photography has a lot of text, and discusses a lot of things related to photography. It might even contain a lot of photos, but if the main focus of the site is the text, then what you’ve got is a blog about photography. On the other hand, a photoblog expresses itself through the photos. Yes, it can include text, to provide context, or an explain why a particular image was chosen, but the text should not interfere with the message the image is trying to communicate.

161-162. From Robert Neville

Blog Title Stage3 Consulting
Blog URL: http://www.stage3consulting.com
Blog Tagline: Small Business on Auto-pilot
What makes the blog worth visiting?
If you’re an entrepreneur or small business owner, then you’ll want to read my blog. A large number of people I’ve encountered that start a business end up working more hours than ever before just to keep their business running. This is a shame since those same folks probably went into business as a way to achieve freedom from the 9-5 grind. I talk about strategies and techniques to reduce the amount of time the business owner has to spend personally.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Don’t be afraid of laziness.
I had teachers and other people telling me that I was lazy my whole life and I believed them.
Later, I realized that they were all wrong. I wasn’t lazy. I just couldn’t stand inefficiency. It would drive me mad if I had work any harder than necessary. I had let my teachers and employers beat my creativity out of me. I’d believed them that there was something wrong me because I was constantly searching for the shortcut, the easier road.
That’s not laziness…that’s a relentless obsession for efficiency and effectiveness.

Blog Title RobNeville.net
Blog URL: http://robneville.net
Blog Tagline: The Renaissance Geek
What makes the blog worth visiting?
Nothing. There is nothing interesting there at all. I don’t write *about* anything. I don’t write on anybody’s schedule. For some reason, people find the blog interesting – despite my best efforts to make it otherwise.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Don’t follow anybody’s rules. Don’t set out to make money blogging. If you do (end up making money), that’s great, but if you’re trying to – well, that’s like trying to be cool – the minute it becomes a conscious effort, you lose it. Don’t be afraid. That’s YOUR name at the top of the blog – write what YOU think, not what you feel others want to hear. Will some people hate it? Will some people be offended? If no one hates your blog or gets offended by it, then I’d say you’re doing something wrong. What your blog needs most is YOU.

163. From Angie
Blog Title angie*
Blog URL: http://angilio.blogspot.com/
Blog Tagline: angilio: loud and proud
What makes the blog worth visiting?
Big laughs from a short girl: A carefree, engaging blog about city life, fun finds, good reads and random-but-relatable tidbits all from the perspective of a happily sarcastic twenty-something graphic designer in Chicago.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Be honest and don’t second guess yourself. Its an open forum and the more real you are…the more readers you’ll attract. And – have fun!

164. From Laural

Blog Title Mamasphere
Blog URL: http://mamasphere.blogspot.com
Blog Tagline: All things mama and more
What makes the blog worth visiting?
I’m an Oregon grown feminist hippy girl, married to a macho Brasilian boy with a crazy traditional Brasilian family, raising a bi-lingual four year old daughter who has four imaginary sisters, trying to fit into ultra hip San Diego. My blog is my saving grace.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Never give your blog address to anyone you work with! Never never never. Not even the security guards. There WILL be a time you need to vent, or want to share something crazy that happened to you at work, and you can’t because of the water cooler gossip circuit. ‘Tis a shame, because those could’ve been some great posts.

165. From Heather Rast

Blog Title Insights and Ingenuity
Blog URL: insightsandingenuity.com
Blog Tagline: Connecting the bunny trails with verve and moxie
What makes the blog worth visiting?
Make uncommon connections between marketing, branding, consumers, and communications influencers.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
Write with a clear, distinctive voice that truly reflects your personality and position, not to mention your passion.

166. From Melody Platz

Blog Title The Happy Wanderer
Blog URL: www.melodythehappywanderer.com
Blog Tagline: Writer, Melody Platz, travels all around and shares the fun.
What makes the blog worth visiting?
The Happy Wanderer is worth a look because people are always saying, “I wish something good was going on.” My blog provides a constant stream of entertaining adventures, encouragement to visit and enjoy the great things available to them, and if they visit me often enough, my sense of joy and hope will rub off on them and they will start to see good things going on all around them.
Blogging advice or a short bloggy quote:
I believe experiencing travel is a state of mind. You don’t have to leave your state, or even your neighborhood, to meet great people and do exciting things. Last week, I traveled to live auto show with real cars, Pittsburgh’s Vintage Grand Prix. I took shiny car pictures, met heroic volunteers, and realized that there are awesome events all over the country like this. All people have to do to enjoy the fun is show up and look around.