blogs for fun

so the blogs I follow are as follows; gizmodo, io9, dc comics the source, and marvel comic blog, looking for group, and pvp. The last two are online comics but their curators do a little blog under each strip, so you find out a lot about them. I'm a bit of a fan boy geek so all these sites are one of the ways I find out what's going on in the world with science fiction, comic books, movies, and all that fun stuff which is a waste of time. I highly recommend gizmodo if your a gadget person, the amount of neat "toys" being introduced. io9 is a bit of everything in geek stuff, so its great for seeing whats new in everything, I also find that io9 has the most for comments under their posts. in a lot of cases their ridiculous, but every now and again you get a worthwhile comment or shared link from someone that leads to a interesting thing.

The world of blogs

so this week I spent much time going through several blogs about adverting and marketing. There are a lot, and they all seem to cover a lot of the same thing. But a few offer insight to things around the world which we don't get to hear about normally, or see as adverting here in Canada. I found I like George Parkers rants quite good, a combination of straight talk with colorful language, which made it enjoyable and fun to read. The psfk.com was a good one with a lot of sections and I liked how you could pick to read through just advertising if you wanted. the adrants.com and adverblog.com were good as well. I must admit I have stayed away from reading blogs or even doing one outside of for school assignments. I probably will still stay away from writing a blog outside of it being required (until I have something regular to say which I feel is worth having people read.) But I do think after visiting these sites and seeing that they offer more than I thought, up till now I really thought blogs were places to either seek attention for them selves or just bitch about whatever, These sites showed a much richer value than I realized or knew. The idea of taking a quick look every day or two offers examples of adverting and what's happening in the industry which for well anyone going into it or in it should be keeping up on and looking at to see what's new what's been done and well see what is working or not, what's offending or being loved its almost like a tool to be used and in this industry we should make use of every tool we have.