I’m thinking of paring my RSS feeds down again, as I’m feeling a little overextended at the moment, and could stand to spend less time reading stuff on the Internet. This brings up the obvious question of which blogs to keep, and which blogs to jettison, and that, in turn, lends itself to a reader poll type post.
The concept of “Desert Island Books/Albums” is well known in pop culture– what are the books/ records/ whatever that you would want for entertainment purposes if you were stranded on a desert island. Of course, the idea of “Desert Island Blogs” makes much less sense– “What sites on a global communications network would you want to access from a desert island?” is kind of a silly question– but that’s the basic idea. So,
Imagine that some evil global conspiracy has kidnapped you, and are holding you in a remote island fortress. To maintain your sanity, they agree to allow you to follow the RSS feeds of a half dozen blogs. Obviously, this blog is one. What are the other five?
These could be science blogs, gadget blogs, political blogs, cute-cat-picture blogs– whatever you like. What five sites do you find absolutely indispensable?
Leave your answers in the comments, but DO NOT INCLUDE LINKS. If you try to put five links in a comment, it will be held for moderation by the spam filters. Just leave the blog name and/or author name– we can use Google to find the actual sites.