This morning I woke to more than a thousand items in Google Reader and more than seven hundred in Bloglines. When that happens it’s always interesting to me how I gravitate toward certain blogs and leave the others in the pile. I’m curious how Lingamish fits in that scenario for you. Is it one more voice in the noise or do you check it even when others get left behind.
- When you visit here what are you expecting?
- What do you wish there was less of?
- What’s your favorite thing about this blog?
P.S. Respondents will win a free limited-edition lingapotamus calling card.
Answer the three questions in the comments and feel free to be brutal or ridiculous.
i don’t.
(which is kind of odd because now i’m wondering what i’m doing here commenting if i don’t read here. oh the dilemma….)
by the way, the image above of your pink and yellow business cards? very, very gay.
1000 unread items! What are you doing to yourself? I read you because you are on my reader. I met you through other blogs. So we have established a relationship. I don’t know much outside of the Poisonwood Bible on missionaries in Africa so you got my attention. I call it your creativity that keeps it.
I limit myself to about 70 blogs and some of these have gone silent recently… I see Google is ahead of me in automating Hebrew translation. I was working yesterday on a parsing algorithm for identifying roots. It’s not working yet.
I do have some interest in Bible translation, but I’m really in it for the cool hippo and because I know I’ll need you to improve the font on another book cover of mine some time in the future…
I read you for your sense of humor. I also am faced with rather many blog posts in Google each morning, though I’ve dropped Bloglines and put all my subs in Google so I don’t have to log in two places.
If you lose your sense of humor, I’m out of here!
thx all-jim
1. Variety — Interesting Graphics
2. Less Politics — More Spiritual Content
3. Humor!
Thanks David — I enjoy seeing what you come up with each day!
Why?
Mostly the sorts of pages that you have in your top 20 list. They’ve become very rare now though. There’s too much metalinga now.
And I’m sorry, but honestly none of the Cyber-psalms have ever done it for me. I no longer try to read them. (Though #47 was good.)
because you ask us such great questions
which make us think you really want to hear our answers. You do don’t you?
It’s either co-dependency or conversation, if not both.
Plus you’ve got a cute mascot logo, coffee mugs, jingles called cyberpsalms, a tagline, photos, personal stuff, important personal stuff, random mundane stuff, snarkiness, friendliness, weirdness, right-wing-left-wing-what-are-you-really stuff, contests that ask us to do stuff. Not a stuffy blog at all; just lots of cool stuff. Lingamish is that blog that makes you want to blog. (Some of us cynical people, who find your blog to be our favorite, wonder whether you’re doing social psychology experiments on us.)
It’s usually one of the first blogs I look at when I open Bloglines in the morning. Kurk explained my reasons far better than I could.
1. I read it because I want to have an example of how silly my coworkers can be.
2. I wish there were less silliness. Just kidding–each day needs some silliness in it.
3. My favorite thing is how silly my coworker is.
Seriously, I really don’t know why I read your blog, and I sometimes glaze over. But I agree with a previous poster who says you are killing yourself with 1000 things to read a day!?! That’s crazy. Or perhaps you have the personality that can go a mile wide but an inch deep, so maybe you can handle it just fine. That would exhaust me.
The answer to this is obvious – we come here to stroke the lingapotamus. This has a deeply calming and inspiring effect upon us – I’m waiting for the time whenthe lingapotomus changes colour as I stroke it though.
bises
I’m never sure which of your many blogs I read, or which I ought to read… I have several on my Bloglines. I read for stimulating ideas, sometimes for the humour. I manage my “unread items” by culling dull blogs, so I don’t end up with a thousand unread items – though this is an ongoing process. But there is no point in having piles of unread junk, better to have a small pile of unread potential gems
Umm, probably your unique perspective on life, etc. The lingapotomus is also a fun distraction for my photochopping skillz.
1. Pictures of Nabataean pottery (I’m soooooo disappointed each time!).
2. Truth and introspection (how ‘nineties!).
3. The Hippo (of course!).
4. Never – only in the shower (I bet you’re wondering what question you should have asked to elicit this highly revealing answer).
Oh, sorry — I would’ve commented on this sooner, but I only read this blog when I’m unspeakably bored and have nothing else that I could possibly do.
1. I expect to learn something new – and I do.
2. No suggestions for improvement – thoroughly enjoyable for me.
3. The best part is just keeping in touch with a friend and his family.
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