This week’s blog challenge is:
What’s the most unusual subject for a blog you’ve found?
There are a lot of bloggers out there, but who have you found blogging about the most unusual subjects? Please do not list yourself. Let’s celebrate the diversity of others in blogging.
So much of the time we spend studying our little niche in the world, focusing on blogging about blogging, about WordPress, about cars, sports, and typical things. Look beyond the most common subjects. What would you not expect a blog to be about? An odd hobby, subject, animal, person, job, some off-beat subject you would not think about having blog value. Go find those bloggers.
I’m not looking for bloggers blogging about these things in unusual ways. I’m looking for blogs about odd ball subjects, topics you would not expect to find much to talk about on a blog.
How are they blogging about the strange subject? Are they writing, podcasting, video, or sharing photos? Do they make the subject interesting? Do they make you think about what you blog about and how you could blog it better? What makes their blog fascinating, making their unusual subject matter compelling?
Remember, all comments or trackbacks that feature your blog will be deleted. I want you to think about other people blogging on unusual subject matters.
I run across all kinds of strange blog topics all the time. It’s your turn to go hunting!
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Obsessive Consumption, where the author Kate Bingaman-Burt draws one thing a day, which she’s bought.
I wish I had the url for this one blog I saw a long time ago. It was an entire blog about vikings. I never forgot that I saw it, because who can blog and blog about vikings, of all the crazy topics? It’s not my sort of deal, so it’s not like I visited again. But that had to be one of the oddest I’ve seen.
I have a friend who blog about this week’s treasure found in 70’s rock. I think he’s the only one I’ve seen written about LP’s as a usually thing.
Thanks for this challenge…
It made me remember a blog I once found, where the blogger describes some pictures: pictures he could have taken, but did not…
I lost the URL, but thanks to this challenge I found it after a few searches: Unphotographable
The way he describes every ‘picture he did not take’, is so graphic, that you see the picture before your eyes, and make you wonder which picture is the best: the one the blogger did not take, or the one your imagination makes out of it…
(And now I added it to my RSS, so I can’t loose the URL again)
http://www.clipspringer.com is (or was) an entire site devoted to bachelor pad products.
One of my daily reads is Waking Ambrose( http://bitterbeirce.com), a blog with an esoteric group of commenter’s which uses a word from Ambrose Bierce Devils Dictionary post Bierce’s definition, then posts a definition of his own. The folks wo comment also attempt a definition of their ownr.Every day but Wednesday, where he post miscellaneous things from poetry to political skepticisms, and the weekend where he has serial stories running, both written and audio versions, with some episodes read by his readers.
JohnChow.com , he is great, he teach me how to make money by blogging activity…
A lovely, well-written blog about cremation and cremations urns: http://www.urngarden.com/cremationblog/
@ juns:
Unfortunately, everyone copies John Chow, so I wouldn’t call him unusual or fitting for this challenge. Want to try again to find really unusual?
I’m delighted with the VERY unusual bloggers found by my creative fans! Wow!
I love this blog and don’t know why: observations about life in the form of Venn diagrams and graphs drawn on index cards. Indexed.
Dale
@paragraphcity
That blog is just brilliant!
Hmmm… maybe it’s not unusual enough, but my blog on attracting wildlife to small outdoor spaces like patios or balconies is unique.
It’s definitely a niche, being at the crossroads of wildlife watching, gardening, and small outdoor spaces, but, oh, so hard to keyword simply!
Cindy Rae
Here’s one: What doesn”t kill me.
I thought this blog quite odd when it first showed up in my tag surfer, but I have grown to like it. Each post is a brief completion of this sentence, “What doesn’t kill me …”
Examples are:
… is inevitable
… SHATTERS illusions
… makes me queasy
Pesan Lewat is very unique. It’s about painting on truck. Only in Indonesia.
I’ve always been in awe at:
Strange Maps – http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/
and
http://www.brandonbird.com/
the last one IS a blog… just it’s updated surrounding the main reason why people go to his site – to download a printable life-size version of a christopher walken mask…..
There are a lot of blogs about depression… a lot of blogs written by people chronicling their depression, but I’ve not come across many blogs that are writing about active therapy. Write Out of Depression posts exercises and then a “read about” post… something unique, I think.
I wrote about Environment-Friendly Coffin 🙂
@ dinu:
Yes, but the goal of this is to highlight what OTHER bloggers are blogging about covering unusual subject matter.
My favourite unusual blog is not unusual in its subject matter (crafts) but rather in its presentation: http://fizzyfibres.blogspot.com.
Susie writes about freeform crafting in a freeform style and font presentation. I find it very inspiring.
My absolute favorite is this, the Blog of Unnecessary Quotation Marks
On my blog, where readers can learn about my new book, Self-Disclosure Changes from Within, a very unique post concerns, “Who thinks organs speak?” This is about the idea that consciousness continues on a cellular level after death of an organ donor. It points out organ recipients often develop new habis, idiosyncracies and inclinations they did not have before their transplant surgery. Changes in personlaity can often be linked back to the organ donor. Check it out and share views!
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