A while back I blogged about BlogShares, a “stock market of blogs” game that I (used to) play when I have time. One of the things that players do to maintain a high “value” is to get as many other blogs as they can to link to their own blogs. This is by way of encouraging all of us to read each others’ blogs.
Over the time I’ve been playing, I’ve amassed a fair number of links from various blogs. I’ve visited all of them and I must say that there are some pretty erudite folks out there! And while we all have differences in political and social outlooks, the one that unites us is a passion for space and/or astronomy. I doubt if I would have found some of these blogs if it hadn’t been for Blogshares. It’s another common denominator between us all because it really does force us to go out there and read the blogs as we buy shares in them. I wonder how many people who play the stock market do as much due diligence on their buys as some of us do in our blog-reading? Hopefully, most of them do.
I thought I’d share many of the the links in my Blogshares Blogroll. So, look over in the left column there for a category called (oddly enough) “Blogshares Blogroll.” (NOTE: I’ve since stopped playing Blogshares due to an inordinate amount of questionable behaviour by other players. The blogroll has been deleted and the best ones merged into a list you can see here.) my Browse around and let me know which ones strike your fancy. I think you’ll find, as I did, that while most of them are chiefly about space and astronomy, there are a few that are about other interesting topics, including law and politics. That’s the thing about blog-surfing—it introduces you to a myriad of viewpoints; as many as there are people.
One of the topics I’ve seen popping up on various blogs (including a few in the blogroll) is last night’s eclipse of the Moon. Of course, we were clouded out here in New England for some of it. But, we did see a partially eclipsed Moon as we were driving to a concert later in the evening, and it was magical! If you ever wondered what such a thing might look like from the Moon, graphic artist Hana Gertstein came up with a pretty good composite illustration (above).
Did you get to see the eclipse last night? Did you blog about it? Take any friends out to see it? How was it?
