Re: Most influential blogs

**J* D* <j*@xcountry.tv>**

I don't find GardenRant "commercialized" at all. It's intelligently  
written, lively, the writers are knowledgable, the commentors often as  
thought-provoking as the writers and it's not filled with  
flashing .gifs, annoying music players, dancing babies and other  
bandwidth-sappers. There may be ads on one side column but I don't  
'see' them the same as I don't 'see' ads in a magazine or newspaper.  
(shhhhh! Don't tell advertisers that there are people like me).

I'm a faithful reader of the Rant and many, many other blogs about  
gardening, including those of some members of this list (waves to  
Doug, Graham, Susan, Eliz, Carlo, Dee, Yvonne, etc). I read so many  
because I enjoy the quality of writing, have become friends across the  
miles with some other bloggers, and it's very intriguing to learn what  
it's like to garden in climates far, far different from mine.

As for influential, how do you define influential? To my mind, the  
most influential blogs are those that encourage others to garden more,  
be better stewards of the world around them, and are positive and  
amusing rather than preachy and haranguing. Can't comment about  
whether any of them are cool or trendy because I'm not :-).  So I just  
read them because I enjoy and learn from them.

cheers, jodi

Jodi DeLong, MA
“Atlantic Canada’s Garden Writer”
4775 Hwy 358, RR3,
Canning, Nova Scotia, Canada B0P1 H0
My online resume: www.bloomingwriter.ca
My Gardening blog: bloomingwriter.blogspot.com

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