Every Wednesday, I go on a brief tour of the blogosphere to see what the other bloggers have been writing about in the previous week. Some weeks, I try to stick to a certain topic, but most weeks, it’s quite the hodge-podge of variety. If you want to be featured in a future speedlink, be sure to follow me on Twitter and send a tweet to let me know what you want to share.
We start out by visiting Ray Ebersole. He has been working in the education field for a number of years, but he finds that he is taking on a totally different perspective now that his daughter is starting kindergarten this year. It’s always worthwhile to see things through another set of eyes.
Next up, we have a post from Raul Pacheco on the future of his personal blog. Most of us know Raul for his liveblogging and social media exploits, but that is not his primary career! His “day job,” as it were, will be taking up more time soon so his personal blog will have to take a back seat.
Over at Freelance Switch, we find Jason Finnerty giving a brief highlight to Freelance Camp Vancouver. As you may recall, the camp was held a few months ago and I was a featured speaker there. Just because you work for yourself as a freelancer doesn’t mean you need to work by yourself!
Over in Pittsburgh, Bob Buskirk is not only excited about the prospects of the upcoming NHL hockey season; he’s also pretty happy about his first Consol Energy Center experience. It’s the new home of the Penguins, having left behind the severely aging Igloo of old. Yup, Sid the Kid has something new and shiny.
Closing out this speedlink is Violet Blue. She takes a moment to talk about some banned books in 2010. The American Library Association fights against these attempted banishment of books across the United States, stressing the “essentialness of intellectual freedom.” What’s your view on censorship?
Thanks Michael, it has been an eye opener with children with my job and at my age of 50. It has been a lot of fun as a Dad. We went to the Kindergarten Bike Rally on Tuesday night and Camille had a ball. She got her bike and is using training wheels, but to see her smiling as she rode her bike around the nus loop with the other kindergarten kids is what makes being a Daddy special.
In my eight years in the school district I have never had the pleasure of seeing that as a father with the feeling of pride and love that comes with that smile and look when she rode by saying “I love this Daddy! Thanks for getting me my bike.”
I am not a big fan of censorship to be honest. If people want to like something, or read something then they should be allowed to at their own free will. As long as nobody is hurting anybody or doing anything to others or imposing their beliefs on others than it’s fine by me.
Till then,
Jean
I find it disturbing that books are still getting banned during out day and age, but unfortunately, prejudice will always be with us.
@book buy, I am not sure if its an issue of “prejudice” as much as its an issue of everyone having different beliefs, whether it be religious, political, you name it. Basically in my opinion when it comes to issues like that or any similar issue it all boils down to a few people thinking something is bad… so they try to take away that privilege from others too, that’s the way I see it.
Till then,
Jean