Happy Blog Day to you all!

I’d like to mention here some of my favorite blogs, for you to celebrate today. I think this is a meme of a kind. Lillie made her choice of Magic Fives and she’s done me the honor of including eWritings. For me it is hard to choose a favorite out of the many I read (not so often lately, I give, but August ends today and I hope September will bring more time for the things that really matter).

My first choice is called Upper Fort Stewart and it is a blog about books. It is one of my favorite reads, although I rarely take the time to comment. But you know me: I only comment when I have something to say. Anyway, this blog has got it all: design, structure, good content and a great fellow blogger to add at your list of friends. Bookmark this blog. It’s really worth your time!

As no one really said I am not allowed to mention blogs in other languages, I’d like to recommend for my Italian readers the WebFruits Blog. This is a great resource for web designers and the host Sonia is a very talented designer too. I see she’s changed the design of the blog: great work!

Another wonderful place to be, and this is not the first time I recommend this blog, is Beaman’s World. There are many reasons for you to go there, but my personal reason has a lot to do with poetry and… Germany.

A blog I simply love is called Micro Persuasion. Clean layout, clear writing, a great resource for professionals and novices, this blog is authored by Steve Rubel. Yes, you’ve probably heard his name. He is a guru of a kind, but he excels at… modesty.

Last, but not least, I give you a link to an article on blog usability. No, it is not a blog, but it is a resource, one of the best of its kind if not the best. Jakob Nielsen, the author of this remarkable web page, is one of the most committed minds of the Web: he introduced the very concept of web accessibility, wrote books on this theme and he is still actively involved in making the web a valuable resource for all.

I cannot go today without announcing the Google and The Eiffel Tower entry at The Dog Yard and without embedding this cool YouTube video here: it’s a parody on how people will use Google search in the year 2020.