Mike O'Risal at Hyphoid Logic has lashed me to the boards, forced me to kneel, and dubbed me a recipient of this meme...Like a chainmail letter, it requires me to cast forth into the blogosphere an awarding of ten more Excellent Blog Awards...
And now I must arise to the occasion by naming what I consider to be ten Excellent Blogs and confer the award to them. So, in alphabetical order, here they are:
If you're not checking Daily Worcesteria every day, then you're missing WoMag's Scott Zoback doing his backchannel best. When things of interest happen in Worcester, Scott will liveblog it, too.
Bill Randell's FlyORH is not only informative for the locally focused here in Worcester, but when he gets a head of steam going the blog gets updated quite often. I check it out every day.
I get the impression that Claudia Snell is usually up to her eyebrows handling work and everything else, but when she posts something to her I'm From Worcester blog, it's always worth a few minutes of careful inspection.
Kathy's Of Stitches, etc blog is excellent. She's the love of my life, and everything she does is excellent.
Matt's blog Papamoka Straight Talk with (at least) two other regular contributors sucks me in day after day. The fact is, any political posts that I end up making usually come about after getting my meager quota of attention on politics awakened by reading this blog.
Mike Benedetti's blog on Pie And Coffee-Worcester includes the weekly 508 Podcast links which, if you haven't subscribed or listened to out of archive yet, completely closes the door on any further notions of the Worcester online scene having any lack of content.
Brendan Melican, who I suspect has much more on his hands each day than musing about what to post on his blog, RadioBall, is always Hi-Q and excellent when he does post.
Commute-a-holic and Train Rider tell it like it really is in the Train Stopping blog. You can read about the Worcester to Boston commuter rail PR in the T&G, but when you read this blog you find out what's actually going on.
LB Worm's new Wormtown Punk blog is truly the heart and soul of Wormtown brought back into view with a running thread of Wormtown Press postings from the very beginning.
Juliet does the Writing Inverse blog that, although she'll sometimes not post for days on end, usually serves up some of the most casually tossed off literary gems you can find coming out of this town.
3 comments:
Thanks for the kind comments Jeff. We really appreciate your support of Papamoka Straight Talk.
For the record though, I've been inspired by some of the posts you have touched on here at Wormtown Taxi.
Again, thanks Jeff
Thank you so much for the love :-)
I agree with Papamoka - your blog has always been a favorite of mine - and a great source of inspiration.
BTW - I am indeed a very busy monkey and there's no end in sight. I should start looking into getting a stunt-double or something - ha!
Jeff,
Thanks so much for mentioning the Train Stopping blog as an Excellent blog!
The goal of Train Stopping is to open a dialogue so that commuters have a place to vent their frustrations with the system. Our state government needs to step up and ensure that the commuter rail is a reliable form of public transportation because now it's barely passable. We're tired of the blame game happening between the MBTA and MBCR, we just want the commuter rail to run like it used to ... on clockwork, where interruptions and late trains were an anomaly as opposed to the norm.
Someone needs to tell it like it is on the commuter rail, especially since the Worcester-Framingham line has the poorest performance out of all of the lines run by MBCR/MBTA and the recently implemented schedule changes don't address commuters' needs. This is absolutely unacceptable because the Worcester line is one of the most used lines out of the entire commuter rail system. Why should Worcester-area residents have to contend with being treated like second-class citizens.
We at Train Stopping are more than happy to fill the bill until the problems are addressed.
Thanks again!
Train Rider
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