Just in! New blogs!

I tend not to write about other blogs and I try not to just link to stuff I've found on the web. I like to be a little more in depth for you, my beloved listeners. I also tend to think that you lot read all the same blogs as me. That's probably wrong, but probably broadly right.

Anyhoo. Here's some new blogs I've found. I hope I'm illuminating you a little bit with these.

Martha Stewart's Blog
I'm not a Martha Stewart fan at all. But she's got a blog and that (in my opinion) is exactly the sort of thing Martha Stewart should be doing. I've being reading it for about 5 months, and you know what? It's brilliant. It's updated regularly, it's well written, it has good pictures, it's honest, it's interesting and it's refreshing. You get the feeling she writes a lot of it, she probably doesn't, but t feels like she does.

Here's some photos from a helicopter trip she took over her farm.

Feels better than all those fake cutaways of Surallen's Canary Wharf empire, doesn't it?

Here she is out and about at the White House Correspondents Dinner. No pictures of her with the President, but lots of genuine 'night out' photos.

It's good. Subscribe and be surprised.

Mark Porter
Mark Porter is probably a genius. I say probably because I don't want to sound like an over excited football commentator. He's Creative Director at The Guardian and he won a D&AD Black Pencil for that redesign. I'm the only person I know who's not a huge fan of the redesign, but it's massively popular and to win a Black Pencil is a huge achievement. Even more so for a newspaper redesign.

He only started blogging two months ago and as you'd expect he writes about graphic design and editorial design. Here's a review of the FT Magazine's redesign and here he is talking about the Mirror's ongoing redesign. Interesting and valuable stuff from someone at the top of their game.

Jan Chipchase
Jan is Principal Researcher, User Research at the Nokia Research Center. He blogs about the future, which sounds awful but he actually spends his day researching the future, so it's a fascinating glimpse at weird and wonderful things all around the world. Like the Golden Week in Japan. Jan is also an 'on the road' project management expert. Find out why, on the road, inanimate objects have names. Laptops = Names beginning with L. Dispatches from the frontline, you should take a look.

David Jones
David is IT Director for AEG Europe  (owners of The O2 ) in London. He blogs about the effective use of IT at home and at work. Here's a good post about the (frankly horrific) possibility of using your mobile on the tube. Here's another good post about how the BBC manages it's different web design relaunches. Good stuff.

id8
I'll declare an interest from the outset here - I'm on the Board of Advisors for id8 and we designed their business cards last year. Based in Chicago and San Francisco they've just started a blog and it's going to be exciting. If you're interested in usability, interaction design, start ups or the emerging technology iRise then pop over there and subscribe.

Comments

[Andrew]

Brilliant links, cheers!

I'd be a bit surprised if Martha Stewart didn't (mostly) write her own blog. She's spent birthday weekends at scientific conferences (http://phylogenomics.blogspot.com/2007/08/scifoo-camp-day-1.html ) - Google even baked her a cake! - and her boyfriend's an former space tourist who was in charge of making Word, so it wouldn't be out of character...

[Vicki Brown]

Yes great links, thanks. David Jones is lovely. Some of his friends have quite interesting blogs too - have a look...

[Steve O]

Thanks for the Mark Porter blog link. Good stuff.

[haracas]

Everthought of having a blogroll with blogs you like or frequent?