Friday, January 25, 2008

Guest Editor's Picks -- January 25, 2008

Welcome to this week's
Guest Editor. My name is Will, and as you can tell from my photo I have
a silly sense of humor. I work at AOL as Vice President of Products and
Technology. Here I lead many of the product development team from our
AOL Silicon Valley campus in Mountain View, California. As you know, we
have a bunch of hard working employees, who work hard on AOL products
for you, and it's been my pleasure working with such a team. Vish on
the blogs team asked me to write a spot on this blog, so here
goes....


About
me....


I blog quite a bit --
WillSpeaking is my main blog that describes events going
on in the technology space - and sometimes just in life. I also blog on
AOL's
Animalhubbub.com under the pen name of "thealleyforcats".
Every now and then I help the myAOL team out on
the 
myAOL
blog.
Finally, I used to write on the
AOL
Pictures
blog, though haven't done that for some time.


Thank you,
J-Landers!


I've seen so many great
bloggers that use AOL or AIM Journals. It is a delight to read your
thoughts, your ideas, your stories. I've seen some real tear jerkers
too. All I can say to J-Landers is keep them going! You really do make
a difference. If what you write can help someone else - give them
advice, help them through a rough spot or even bring a smile to
someone's face - well, that's the main
thing.   


Here goes -
my choices.


Footprints
in the Sand
is a delightful blog to
read. It has some great articles on it, and I love the cat photos,
too! 


My
Photo Lounge.
Did I mention I am a
photo buff? I like this blog - it's got some great photos, and some
great videos too. 


Movin
on with MS.
This blog is new, and I
am looking forward to reading blog entries, and for the support our
JLanders will give to our avid blogger. As I said above, 
writing of your own challenges you can often help other people too.


Sometimes
I think
is Krissy's very active
blog. With some very touching blog entries, and some great ways to take
place in photo contests this is a good read.


Calmwater by
JC.
  This blog has some
really, really good photos. JC works at AOL. She is a keen
photographer, and blogs on many subjects. Enjoy lots of her photos and
thoughts on travel, life and other things. 


SomewhatFrank
is a really good blog written by
Frank Gruber. For technology people (ok, so I am a "geek"),
this blog will help you out. Frank created this to stay upto date on
technology and updates it nearly every day with what is going
on. 


And
finally...

I know a lot more Journals are out there!
Happy blogging to all of you! Since I am originally from the UK, I am
happy to see UK J-Landers here too.


--Will--


16 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, I've been to your site before. Congrats on being Guest Editor

Dan

http://journals.aol.com/slapinions/Slap-Inionscom

Anonymous said...

I would like to know why the Guest Editor and the highlighted/recommended journals are no longer on the BLOG AOL CONNECTION page? I have such issues with that drab ugly no personality page. It was for US in the the beginning, now I just don't get it. Especially since you have brought back some type of focus on journals of interest (take a look at the Blogger page).

Anonymous said...

Here is the link though I am certain you all have it. http://blogsofnote.blogspot.com/

Anonymous said...

Congrats on being guest editor Will and thank you for pimping my journal.  I was surprised.  It's only a couple months old and I hope to post more often since spring is coming.  I love to capture the different seasons though I think the snow pics will be the only ones for another 10 yrs.  LOL
~D
http://journals.aol.com/heavenlybama/my-photo-lounge

Anonymous said...

These look like some great picks...some I know..others I do not but will check out.  Thanks for that.
And congrats on being a pick yourself!!

Nancy

Anonymous said...

Congratulations on being chosen as guest editor this week.Great choise of blogs.Have  a lovely weekend Take Care God Bless Kath astoriasand http://journals.aol.co.uk/astoriasand/MYSIMPLERHYMES

Anonymous said...

congrats on being the guest editor; these look like interesting blogs to check outr; I know Footprints in the Sand and that is an awesome one as well as Krissy's!

betty

Anonymous said...

Great picks! I enjoyed each one -Missy

Anonymous said...

Congratulation on being picked as Guest Editor.
Goin' over to check out the ones I don't know.
Thanks
Carolxx

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Anonymous said...

Great choices!  Val =)
http://journals.aol.com/valphish/ThereisaSeason

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Anonymous said...

Great PICKS!!!!
Ang

Anonymous said...

Some good choices.
Pete.
http://journals.aol.co.uk/pbaldrey/PetesPlace

Anonymous said...

I've been so out of the loop lately that I didn't even know the Guest Editor Picks was back in commission.  Awesome.  
And a special thanks to this week's guest editor Will for alerting me to an old friend's blog.  Sammie stopped blogging a while back and I was thrilled to see her name on your picks.
Thanks,
Dorn~

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