The rules for winners of the Thinking Blog Award are outlined by originator Ilker Yoldas:
1. If you are nominated, 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' - you can find more details here - with a link to the post that you wrote (there is an alternative gold version if silver doesn't fit your blog).
Obviously all blogs make you think even if it's only 'I can't be bothered with this'. A lot of my interest comes from reading between the lines. It is reckoned that 55% of communication is through body language, 38% through the tone, speed and inflection of the voice and only 7% by what is actually said. Apparently we have little to go on when knowing some one only through what they write in the blogosphere.
Are people who rant and rave as dissatisfied, angry and confused as they appear?
Are people who cut themselves off from the 'real' world really as anti-social as they seem?
Is humour used to disguise cowardice?
Are people who present themselves as being nice and wholesome disguising a dark side?
Do some people reveal more about themselves when commenting on other people's blogs than they do on their own blog?
Do some people have lives and jobs that are so demanding that they have to 'vent' through blogging?
Are a lot people just looking for a pat on the back?
Are there others that think that blogging is a career move?
Or could it be just fun?
I strongly suspect that most people blog for all these reasons at some time. It just depends how they are feeling that day. It's a bit like horoscopes - there's usually something there you can relate to.
I, for one, would never use humour to disguise a miserable, lonely and desperate life, when getting out of bed is a struggle and there is nobody around that understands the pain I'm in and the control I have to exert just to make it through the day...............or do I? (Is it the BeeGees? .... Tragedy, de dum de dum de dum de dum, Tragedy. Lo, TG Ed.)
Sorry Ilker, I think it would be wrong to nominate specific writers so the blog stops here, on this strand anyway. Actually Lo, the terrible Goddess has made me rethink [nothing new there then] and I have decided to nominate people who were desperate enough to have put themselves up for appraisal by The World Blog Council.
Renalfailure
Sensibilitities
And as the world Turns
Miss adventure continues
My life is murphy's law
