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Better education through blogs

By Carrie Connolly

Fort Wayne Reader

2005-08-08

The middle of August signals that a new school year is about to begin in the Mid west. Blogs are also a great place to get an education.

www.soundmoneytips.com will help get your personal finances in order. Another good place to look is www.smartmoneydaily.com Sometimes commiseration is what you really need and www.budgetingbabe.blospot.com is the place to find it. This Chicago gal is holding her purse strings tight and not afraid to groan about it.

www.gadling.com features another way to scrimp and save known as dental tourism. Follow an American to Hungary as she gives a new meaning to Gadling’s focus on engaged travel.

www.bloggingblogher.com is another blog from the Weblogs, Inc collection. This blog has coverage of the Blogher convention for women bloggers that took place at the end of July in San Francisco’s east bay area. Will it spur the rise of more A- list female bloggers?

Look no farther than Fort Wayne for www.gloriathecolumnist.tripod.com/edgeofgloria. Look here for more of what you love in the Buenos Diaz column. www.sistertoldjah.com hails from North Carolina and is nothing like the similarly named rap artist. This southern blogger would be most likely to link to www.blogsforbush.com.

Back to the education theme, www.jihadwatch.org by Robert Spencer de-mystifies Islam. This site is really informative but at the same time deeply disturbing. www.littlegreenfootballs.com takes on the issue of African famine. These blogs don’t fall into the light reading category by a long shot.

The heat of August calls for fajitas and that’s on the menu at www.momsfood.blogspot.com Chicken fajitas in a slow cooker as well as a recipe for homemade barbecue sauce. Sounds like back to school food to me. Or don’t cook at all. Just go along for the ride at www.arthurhungry.com as Arthur details his restaurant dining throughout Boston, San Francisco, and his most recent stop, Paris.

www.fwmn.blogspot.com had a Blog Challenge open in July. Start your blog and Nathan offered to hook you up with what every blogger needs. He offered to put new blogs on his blogroll and chat them up with the local media. Go see if he will extend his offer through August. Need help? www.problogger.net will give you a nudge with the August feature, “31 days to build a better blog.” What else do you need? Pictures are nice. Go to www.flickr.com and post your digital photos right to your blog. Who knows, maybe the next blogger on the A-list will be you.