BlogDay2007 is here! Here are five blogs that I have found especially interesting:

Presentation Zen: Focused on creativity, design and giving good presentations whether at conferences, classes, work or wherever. Although it’s primarily about public presentations, it also has lots of great advice about being creative and presenting information (eg statistics) clearly - relevant for most of us who do this type of work now and then.

Juice Analytics: On a similar theme, Juice discusses how to present information, dashboards, data visualisation and data mining. This blog veers into business intelligence territory, a good field to follow.

Science Library Pad: I’m not a science librarian, but I have a strong interest in eResearch, the future of scholarly communication and researcher behaviour and science blogs are where it’s at. This blog does a great job of summarising trends and technology as they apply to libraries.

Gaping Void: Smart, funny cartoons about business, life, creativity etc (note: some language).

The Journey Itself is Home: Tour blog by various members of Björk’s band and crew. Fascinating because it gives insights into life on the road, a good example of what many bands are doing with blogs now.

Blog Day is a good time to reflect on what’s in my reader. Right now, I don’t have any non-English blogs that I’m reading, which should be recitified. You can auto-translate feeds using Yahoo! Pipes so it’s easier than ever to keep up with happenings in Europe, Japan and elsewhere (even if the translations aren’t always perfect).

This year I’ve added lots of feeds about research, presentations, and leadership. I’ve dropped a lot of journal TOC feeds (ironically, I just added the TicTOCs project blog).

Blog Day 2007
Blog Day