Blogs of the year

I have been following this blog for some time now and it is one of the few I try never to miss. Told with gut-wrenching honesty, Lucky Jimm’s story is at times pathetic, but almost invariably sheds some light on the situations that dog us all as human beings. I cannot recommend this blog enough.

As an antidote, perhaps, Katie Sokoler’s blog is a burst of life-affirming colour and joy. There is no sadness here – just beauty and fun. Again, I can’t recommend this blog enough.

For my own part I have been struggling with the experiment I started some months ago, where I attempted to bring my online presence into one space. I have found that knowing potential clients are reading my blog prevents me from writing anything particularly personal, which is a shame, as I got a lot of very positive feedback earlier in the year when I was writing more open posts. Looking through my blogroll on Google Reader recently has been a rather dispiriting experience. Very few people seem to be blogging in an honest or experimental way these days and a lot of the old blogs I used to follow have dried up, died or become very work-related.

I’m thinking that now Belle de Jour has been outed and is apparently still allowed to make a living as a scientist, perhaps the rest of us might take heart and be a little less afraid to blog about our thoughts, our problems, the minutiae of our daily lives, rather than the minutiae of our working weeks. I’m going to try and be a little braver in my blogging from now on.

P.S. If I’m missing out on any really good blogs, please do let me know.