Post Of The Day

Today's award goes to the poignant post You Forget, I Remember, by Singapore-based OzLady. She takes us into the world of memory loss and how it touches a close relative.

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Hook, Align And Sinker

Addiction? Mate, I Thought You Said `A Diction'

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Are you a blog addict? I've been thinking about this subject a lot since last week, when US-based Deborah Gamble gave us the highly recommended blogpost Addicted To Blogging. In her warm, funny, inimitable way, she really started the ball rolling and I'd like to share one paragraph from her post:

6:00 AM - Barely conscious, rolling over in bed with fuzzy dreams quickly draining from my mind, and reality coming into sharper focus, first cognitive thought for the day is, "What can I blog about this morning?" Fall back asleep loosely creating photos with funny captions, clever anecdotes, and long-winded tell-all tales in my mind.

Other bloggers must have been functioning on ESP, because India-based RK wrote How To Identify a Blog Addict. He presented the post in a typeface akin to handwriting, which was a really appropriate and creative touch. I won't steal his thunder, but here are two of the points he made:

``You are more interested in increasing the hits on your blog than increasing your salary'';

``You photograph (to post the shots on your blog) of the person who is running away with your wallet instead of shouting for help.''

Then the theme was picked up by another entertaining blogger, Singapore-based OzLady, who produced Seven Ways You Know You're Addicted to Blogging. She's looking for readers to help compile the top signs by which you know you're addicted to blogging. Among the signs she has listed are:

``Your thoughts are now phrased as blog entries, as if there is a blog reader in your mind'';

``You only take photos of things that will be interesting to your blog readers and old Aunt Betsy doesn’t cut it.''

So if you have any opinions on the subject, do visit each of their blogs and give them your feedback. And if you happen to see OzLady's Aunt Betsy, please take a photograph of her, just for old timers' sake!

And post 'em on ya blog!