The blog-of-blogs, www.paddlingplanet.com, is a must-read for kayakers; especially those who, like me, are winter-bound. Even if you just like pretty pictures. Paddling Planet is a compendium of blogs whose editors request inclusion. Rene Seindal - who runs a kayak tour business in Venice, Italy - is the editor and the premise is brilliant. Paddling Planet has a bot that checks the registered blogs (over 50 now) for new entries and then simply copies the posting photographs and all and presents it in one long web page. This makes it remarkably easy to keep up with kayakers all over the world. Blogs from the USA are well represented but so is the UK, Norway, Canada, and other geographic areas. What I like to do is just sit on the sofa and scroll through reading quickly through the entries. Sometimes the photographs tempt me into translating the writing (not all are in English) if I don't read the language but often just the photos are enough all by themselves. If the article is especially interesting I just click on the heading and my browser opens a window to the original blog. Since I entered my own blog, www.nwkayaking.net, my reader count has bone up 300% and climbs more every month. I am just egocentric enough to believe that sometimes I actually write something useful and Paddling Planet puts that out for everyone else to read. Of course, it puts out all my banal crapola, too. Oh well. If you have a blog - even if it's entirely devoted to your local area - that is mostly devoted to paddle sports please register yours with Rene so I can enjoy it. The list of registered blogs are lined up in a right sidebar. It's amazing how many there are. And how good they are!!! Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 26 2010 - 08:41:34 PST
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