Thing #1: Blogs

I have created and contributed to several blogs, so Thing #1 is not new to me, but many of the Things coming up in Playtime 2.0 are as new to me as they are to everyone else. So I'll be playing this game, too.

I read a bunch of library-related blogs. This idea (Playtime 2.0) actually came from reading blogs, I think it was Michael Stephens who originally wrote about Helene Blower's 23 Things.

I also read an eclectic variety of non-library related blogs:
Boing-Boing - "A Directory of Wonderful Things" (actually very strange things!)
Olive Tree Genealogy blog
The Outfit: A Collective of Chicago Crime Writers - 7 local writers including Sara Paretsky
Alaska 2008 - a blog some friends of mine set up for their vacation in Alaska
Santa Claus blog - Periodic Updates From North Pole, Inc. Chairman & CEO Santa Claus (this is a strange one, too. The writer has posted year-round since 2006)
And a few more that are equally strange.

Perhaps you'll find some interesting ones, too.
In Thing #2 we'll learn how to easily keep track of the blogs we want to read.