E-mail Editions

I started writing Bouncing Around the Blogosphere e-mails to friends about a year ago. I didn’t want them to be lost to posterity, so I decided to compile as many of them as I could find and repost them here for your enjoyment.

3.23.09 Lunch Bag Art
Lunch Bag Art features daily posts by one loving dad who doodles on his kid’s paper lunch sacks every day. So cool and so adorable. 

 

 

 

 

3.25.09 Betty Crocker

By sharing their personal cooking stories, Betty Crocker contributors Andi, Jill and Catherine add the spice of their everyday lives to each blog entry, sprinkling product plugs and recipes here and there. This blog also features project ideas, cooking tips — even the lowdown on new apple varieties — making this one blog you can really sink your teeth into.

 

 

 

3.26.09 AdFreak & BrandFreak

AdFreak is one sassy, sarcastic blog that offers updates and opinions on current advertising campaigns. Each post is a fun, quick read and their blogroll will lead you to all kinds of great fodder pertainint to the advertising industry.

 

 

 

 

Earlier this year, AdFreak introduced BrandFreak, which it hailed as “a kind of Jamie Lynn Spears to AdFreak’s Britney.” BrandFreak’s purpose: to explore amusing and quirky marketing stories (a Parkay iPhone app?) with a primary focus on brands. (Since I’ve written this e-mail, they’ve also launched TweetFreak and MediaFreak.)

 

 

 

 

3.27.09 Web Designer Wall

I think this blog is a thing of beauty. It just makes me happy to glance in its general direction.

Web Designer Wall is the public blog of Nick La, a Toronto-based freelance illustrator and web designer who also runs N.Design Studio, IconDock and Best Web Gallery. Nick started the blog as a means of sharing his enthusiasm for and knowledge of desing. His blog posts touch on design ideas, tutorials and general discussions about modern web design trends.

 

 

3.31.09 Grain Edit

Grain Edit is focused on classic design work from the 1950s, ’60s and ’70s and the contemporary designers who draw inspriration from that time period. Site content includes interviews, articles, designers’ libraries and examples of rare design annuals, type specimens, posters and vintage children’s books.

 

 

 

 

4.1.09 Cake Wrecks

In honor of April Fool’s Day, I thought I’d send out something a little light and fun to laugh at. We’ve all seen the gem from — was it Walmart? — with “Best Wishes Suzanne Under Neat That We Will Miss You” written in frosting on a cake. Well, here are a few more cakes that’ll have you thinking, “What the…” Ace of Cakes, they ain’t, although those undead skeleton cakes are pretty cook. Have fun and Happy April Fools’ Day!

 

 

 4.3.09 The Bride’s Guide from Martha Stewart & Offbeat Bride

I was an avid reader of Martha Stewart’s wedding blog while I was planning my own wedding. One thing I really liked was how you could search by topic: reception, the groom’s attire, invitations, flowers, favors, etc. And, believe me, when you’re planning a wedding, anything that makes your life a little easier is very much appreciated.

 

But if Martha Stewart isn’t your cup of tea, take a peek at Offbeat Bride, which offers a much different spin on a white wedding  

 

 

 

 

4.7.09 mental_floss

Brain getting a little bogged down from all that mental buildup? You could probably use a little mental_floss. This blog is the side dish to the main meal that is mental_floss magazine, a bi-monthly publication founded by two Duke students that aims to serve up educational facts and trivia with a heaping helping of humor. The blog features morsels from the magazine as well as news bites and other Internet fodder.  mental_floss is basically a blog-within-a-blog with various authors contributing different features such as Miss Cellania’s Files, The Daily Lunchtime Quiz and Morning Cup of Links. So, what ‘cha waiting for? Didn’t your momma always tell you to floss?