Totally Off Topic Bloggy News

This is pretty much totally off topic but it could fall under the follow your instincts, beat your own drum, don’t just keep doing what you’re doing because everybody else is, and let’s just say that, in the spirit of diversion, can apply to following your green business dreams.

There are a few blogs I read that have little to do with the environment and two of my favorites were recently honored at SXSW – which many a b5er attended BTW. Not that I needed any validation to justify these internet sidetracks from my work day but apparently there are a lot of people checking out these two great blogs and diggin’ them as well so you might like to check them out.

There’s Dooce, the website of a recovering Mormon, SAHM with great style and wit, took home four Bloggies including Best American weblog, Best-designed weblog, Weblog of the Year and Lifetime Achievement Award. Damn, girl. And she looks fabulous in the article over at Wired. But the best part (and most related to the follow your dream theme here) is the back story she posted on making lemons into lemonade.

Then there’s Confessions of a Pioneer Woman who is “plowing through life in the country one calf nut at a time” with great stories and amazing photographs of life in big sky country. She took home Best Writing of a weblog with posts like the ongoing true love story Black Heels to Tractor Wheels and, well, honestly everything she writes over there is worth reading. The Pioneer Woman Cooks, not for vegetarians but this weblog took home Best food weblog. Just one glance and you’ll start salivating. My next mission is to make this salad from TPWC.

So that’s the off topic Bloggy news, big congrats to all the Bloggies winners!