The Thinking Blogger Awards
We're proud to say that our friend Stephanie West Allen was recently awarded the Thinking Blogger Award by the Eide Neurolearning Blog and that she passed it along to us.
Hey listen!! If Hollywood and the music industry can award themselves tens of thousands of real gold-plated statuettes a thousand times a year, why can't we give ourselves gold and silver virtual awards for contributing more "genuis" to the thinking world in any single day than the entire entertainment industry does in any decade you might want to name?
(Cf. Jerry Seinfeld's hilarious bit on award-giving during his speech accepting HBO's first "annual" HBO Comedy Award -- "you don't give awards to comedians," says he).
Stephanie has graciously asked me to play this meme tag game under the following rules:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn't fit your blog).
Stephanie asks that we "tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all - blogs that really get you thinking!" rather than those, say, with the highest first weekend box office gross (i.e., X-Men).
The following blogs make me think:
- Geoff Sharp's Mediator Blah Blah, who writes like a truly great comedian; he makes it look easy; it hits your insight-center before you have a chance to self-censor; and, it's way deeper than you think;
- the Electronic Intifada (which may not actually be a blog but which I read as if it were one),
- Lawrence Solum's Legal Theory Blog, for the truly geeky wanna-be academics in the crowd like me;
- George Wallace's cultural blog A Fool in the Forest (the blog equivalent of Finnegan's Wake); and,
- Gini Nelson's Engaging Conflicts Blog for its audacious eclecticism.
And because the Electronic Intifada may not actually be a blog, I'll add
Hugh ("we don't need no stinkin' awards") McLeod's Gaping Void (the blog equivalent of Kingsley Amis' Lucky Jim).
