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I don’t like thinking. It hurts. But The Curmudgeon has made me think by tagging me to come up with 5 blogs who qualify for a Thinking Blogger Award

Well, his blog would certainly qualify for being one, but I guess I can’t tag back, so here’s five blogs that make me engage my brain cells. If you are a recipient, don’t feel you have to do it (David already has I believe, Scott Adams won’t even notice), but I would be interested in your choices.

1. Untwisted Vortex – RT’s blog is only a recent addition to my daily reads, but I’ve already had a bit of a trawl through the archives, as there’s always something good to read. He’ll throw in a funny video or disposable post, then hit you with a post like this on Transparency, that just, well….makes me think.
2. John Chow Dot Com – John’s blog really seems to polarise people into love or hate, but I’ve got a lot of time for him. Sure, he’s rich, he’s brash and he’s decidedly evil, but he loves what he does, and that comes across in his posts. He gives a lot back to his readers, as well as gaining from them, and thinks incessantly about how to make money online. He gives me a lot to think about for improving my blogs. John is also one of the rare major league bloggers to visit his commenters blogs, and to give them a shout out – I have seen him pass through Thermal on MyBlogLog, God knows what he made of it
3. David Airey – David started his blog as an offshoot to his creative design website, and although aspects of design still feature prominently in the blog, it is beginning to evolve into something wider, with Davids design approach investigating the many facets of blogging. Very definitely a blog to make you think about your own blog, and how it appears to the world.
4. The Dilbert Blog – The blog of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, is very much a blog to make you think, and is an essential visit. Scott’s ability to write from a totally objective point of view, and force people to confront very different thoughts and viewpoints is a masterclass in serious blogging, wrapped in a humourous shell. Read this blog to laugh, get angry, get challenged and most of all to be made to think.
5. eJabs – I’ve not really read a blog like Matthews before, and he totally reveals the advice to keep your blog focused on a singular niche, to be the absolute bollocks I’ve always thought it to be. One moment, it’s a simple piece of blogging advice, the next its an article on how to order and eat sushi. Rarely have I read an eJabs post and come away thinking ‘meh’, there is always something interesting to feed the greay matter.

There are some rules to this meme at the thinking blog link above, but I’m not going to bore you with them here So, go on, have a read, just make sure you come back…..

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