Blogroll Keepers #10

Here are some blogs and newsletters I’ve started following since the last of these posts. A list of some of the ones I currently follow are on my blogroll page.

§ Blogs

• Book of Joe, by the “world’s most popular blogging anesthesiologist,” is celebrating its 20th anniversary but I only discovered it recently. Several daily posts about interesting things, quirky products, etc.

• Chaplin-Keaton-Lloyd film locations (and more) finds where scenes from silent movies were shot in Los Angeles. I find it quite fascinating to see the old stills compared with present day, even though I hardly know LA at all.

• GroundZeroArt is a newish blog started by Kirk Tuck after he got fed up with, and deleted, his long-running Visual Science Lab blog. About his professional and personal photography in Austin, Leicas, swimming, and more.

• New Escapologist is primarily a print magazine thats “about escaping the overbearing world of work, consumerism, and anxiety,” and which I only came across recently. This is their blog.

• The Ranty Highwayman is a British blog about road design and transport, in quite a lot of detail.

• Sippey.com by Michael Sippey has links to, and quotes from, interesting things. You know, good blogging.

§ Newsletters

• Construction Physics by Brian Potter is long essays about “buildings, infrastructure and industrial technology”, generally US-focused.

• Converge is a newsletter by Guy Moorhouse of “hand-picked links in design, creativity, the web and beyond” every month or two. Not a lot, but good stuff, nicely presented.

• Culture: An Owner’s Manual by W. David Marx whose fascinating-sounding books I still haven’t read, is usually really interesting. “…covering pop culture and its hidden mechanics.”

• Dirty Feed by John J. Hoare is a companion newsletter to his excellent blog. There’s some overlap but enough separate stuff, and interesting links – generally about UK TV comedy – to be worth subscribing to as well.

• The Imperfectionist is Oliver Burkeman’s “twice-monthly email on productivity, mortality, the power of limits, and building a meaningful life in an age of bewilderment.” I used to enjoy his Guardian magazine columns and only recently realised he has a newsletter.

• The London Minute by Michael Macleod is a brief dailyish email of news highlights about the city. Just enough news, and fills some of the gap left by London in Bits’ absence.