Category: just for fun

I tried to resist the meme. Honestly, I did. But the allure of the five bloggers who make me think pass-along was just to great. And, since Karine Joly was kind enough to include this blog in her top-five list, I felt obliged to keep this meme alive.

Before I share my five, I should say that I don’t always want to think when I’m surfing blogs. At least, I don’t always want to think hard. I’m usually looking for entertainment, or snarky commentary. But, when I am in the mood for thinking, here are some bloggers I can trust to usually get the mental juices flowing:

1. crazymonkey. I don’t read Greek, which makes crazymonkey very difficult to comprehend. But the site employs lots of pictures and the occasional English phrases, and the links are usually mentally stimulating. Sure wish I knew what the monkey was saying, though.
2. Andy Shaidlin’s blog, alumni futures, because it makes me think about alumni stuff.
3. Michael Stoner’s mStoner blog. Typically thoughtful posts from a thoughtful guy whose photo makes him look even more thoughtful.
4. A recent find: American Copywriter. Read today’s entry and I think you’ll get why I’ve got a crush on this blog.
5. Snark Hunting. A blog all about naming and branding. I read this a lot during the past several months as our campus went through the angst of changing our 43-year-old name.

There’s plenty of other thoughtful blogs out there, but in keeping with the letter as well as the spirit of the meme, I’m sticking with those five.