Monday, June 10, 2013

Best Blogs 2012 - Collection of Various Lists

Blogging Hosts and Platforms


1. Blogger
2.Wordpress
3. Livejournal
4. Edublogs
5. Opendiary
6. Tumblr
7. Travelpod
8. Busythumbs

More

Typepad.com
Blog.com
Yahoo 360  // Service Discontinued
Freevlog.org
Multiply.com
Windows Live Spaces // Service Discontinued
Xanga.com
Netcipia.com
Weebly.com
Soulcast.com
Journalfen.net
Blogabond.com
Blogs.bigadda.com  // Indian Service
Blog.co.in  // Indian Service
Perfspot.com // Indian Service
Blogs.rediff.com
Hubpages.com
Opera Community
vox.com
9rules.com
newsisfree.com
peopleconnection.aol.com
members.freewebs.com
bravenet.com
angelfire.lycos.com
boingboing.net
snap.com
squarespace.com
diaryland.com
blog-city.com
zefrank.com
antville.org
blogher.org
blogrankings.com
textamerica.com
weblogs.us
bloghub.com
portal.eatonweb.com
blogsearchengine.com
blogowogo.com
bloghi.comweblogger.com
blogrox.com
inknoise.com
bloggar.cjb.net
blogsome.com
salon.com/blog
fotopages.com
blogdrive.com
twoday.net
blogspirit.com/en
jaiku.com
blogs.botw.org
weebly.com
ziki.com
alivedirectory.com
blogger.de
pitas.com
blog.co.uk
insanejournal.com
blogharbor.com
terapad.com
motime.com
easyjournal.com
findory.com
20six.co.uk
myblogvoice.com
weblogalot.com
viddyou.com
deadjournal.com
lsblogs.com
blog.ca
danchan.com/weblog
ourstory.com
supersized.org
etribes.com
21publish.com
thespoke.net
iseekblog.com
blogates.com
loudblog.com
upsaid.com
writetomyblog.com
openserving.com
beanrocket.com
blogslive.net
bloki.com
botablog.com
thumblogger.com
zorpia.com
maktoobblog.com
zoomshare.com
memebot.com
tabulas.com
snapvine.com/blog
weblog.ro
blogster.com
tblog.com
blurty.com
ebloggy.com
today.com
clearblogs.com
aeonity.com
blognow.com.au
bloghoster.net
weblog.com
thoughts.com
blogr.com
alkablog.com
shoutpost.com
2pt.net
blogeasy.com
mydeardiary.com
blogstudio.com
okayblog.net
deardiary.net
seo-blog.org
blogupper.com
phlog.net
blogdog.com
wikyblog.com
globenotes.com
my-journal.com
blogladder.com
livelyblog.com
blogs.xanco.com
atom5.com
blogtastic.com
johndoe.org
journalfiend.com
jeeran.com/blogs
avblog.userplane.com
blogtv.com
blogs.skaffe.com
getjealous.com
blogsavy.com
blogit.com/Blogs
journalhome.com
conservablogs.com
hosting365.com
my-diary.org
blogetery.com
newblog.com
bloxster.net
blogyx.com
manhattanservice.com
dakotablogs.com
blogtext.org
blogmyway.org
dragid.com
blogadr.com
outblogger.com
blogbeee.com
iuplog.com
blogiversity.org
blogthing.com
blogomonster.com
egoweblog.com
myblog.net
inube.com
journalhub.com
blogcheese.com
wordcountjournal.com
livelogcity.com
blogbud.com
blogcityusa.com
theblog.cc
reger.com
blogpod.com
planet-travels.com
talkingforest.com
crablog.com
tooum.com
bahraichblogs.com
rememory.com
monkee.biz
blog-dir.blogspot.com
myitblog.com
xlogz.com
shoutpost.com
hyperblogs.net
blogsarena.com
blogsboom.com
nowblogging.net
zeroblogs.com
eblogger.com
bloty.com
theblogs.net
www2.globbo.org
blogspex.com
blogisme.com
pagebuildr.com
blogmole.com
shinyblogs.com
myhappyblog.com
webcamfreeblog.com
speedytown.com
tennerblog.com
avatale.com
lonelymind.com
knowwizard.com
blogonfly.com
blogema.org
ebzzo.com
jaoblogs.com
blog.allyouwant.cn
perfectfreewebhosting.com
free-blog-site.com
greatestjournal.com
mytypes.com
buddypress.org
mindsay.com
freewebs.com
pagebuildr.com

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Visitors for a blog post

Quotations



God made all animals that walk on the earth (the sixth day), on the same day. He created man separately in His own image with the intent that man would have dominion over every other living thing on Earth (Genesis, 1:26-28)

All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of bidrs.  (I Corinthians, 15:39)

When we look at living creatures from an outward point of view, one of the first things that strike us is that they are bundles of habits.  - William James, American Psychologist and Philosopher


Great men may mould history, but it is good men who make the earth wholesome. - Emerson

So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories. - Don Miguel Ruiz, the Mexican spiritual author, The Voice of Knowledge, 2004

Where is the life we lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T.S. Eliot

Unless man increases in wisdom as much as in knowledge, increase of knowledge will only be increase of sorrow.  - Bertrand Russell, Impact of Science on Society (1952)

Tips for Academic Research and Writing




Plan your research in for time chunks: this morning, today, this week, this month, next few months, this year, next three years. Have a clear idea for what you want to achieve in these time periods and try to stick to this as much as you can.

Make a start. Once you have an idea for a piece of writing, create a file and folder  for it on your computer and write down anything, however rough and however brief.  It can always be polished and developed later or even discarded if you decide eventually not to go ahead with the idea.

Organise your writing into different computer files and folders: articles in progress, submitted articles, accepted articles, conference papers, blog posts, book proposals, grant applications etc.

Organise your PDF journal article collection under topics in folders on your computer.

If you are feeling unenthusiastic or have hit a wall on a topic – leave that piece of writing for a while and work on another piece of writing.


Use your writing in as many different ways as you can – conference papers, articles/chapters, books, blog posts. Turn the small (unrefereed) pieces into bigger (refereed) pieces whenever you can and vice versa. What starts out as a blog post can be later developed into an article.  Conversely some of the main arguments of an article can be used in one or more blog posts.




References

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/11/28/lupton-30-tips-writing/

http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2012/05/14/stylish-academic-writing/

A long list
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jbednar/writingtips.html

http://emedia.leeward.hawaii.edu/lrc/handouts/acad_writing_checklist.pdf

Quotations




A lone species-the human, fornow- has grasped th earth's future in its hands, casting on it a resonsibility never before borne by any other species.  - Martine Rees

Humankind, with the devices it has on hand, is potentially the maker of its own demise the the demise of the cosmos.    Martin Rees in the Book, Our Final Century (2004)

Martin Rees - Earth in its final century
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"An unexamined life is not worth living" -  Socrates

"Is man a tiny boad in a tempest, raised one moment on the foaming crest of a billow and dashed down into a yawning chasm the next, rolled to and fro at the mercy of his own good and bad actions, a powerless, helpless wreck, in an ever-raging, ever-rushing uncompromising current cause and effect, a little moth placed under wheel of causation, which rolls on crushing everything in its way, and waits not for the widow's tears or the orphan's cry? -  Swamy Vivekananda

"Is man a mere condition to be overcome- for the good of the world?"  - Friedrich Nietzsche

Suffering is the central fact of human life and it is its denial that causes more suffering - Buddha

We have to recognize that there is a metastasized cancer in the body of man. If humankind is to survive, we have to deal with that metastasized cancer. We have to cut out the parts that need to be cut out, in a surgical way. We have to heal the parts that can't be cut out.   - William Tiller, Stanford professor and author of Science and Human Transformation

The savage brutal competition which drives us to tear each other's flesh, and which makes man an embodiment of merciless malevolence -  William Lane, Creed of Humanity

If God is laid aside, then all our hopes, big and small, rest on nothing. - Pope Benedict XIV

Without sacrifice nothing can be achieved in life - Russian Philosopher P.D. Ouspensky

We must let the spiritual being play on the physical body as the master mucisian plays on a wondrous lute or harp. - Theosophist and author Gottfried de Purucker (Man in Evolution, 1941)

We cannot find our soul with our mind; we must harness our heart. - Gary Zukav (The Seat of the Soul, 1989)

As a species we have forgotten how to love. But love alone is not the key. The key is knowledge of heart intelligence.  - Elaine Matthews (Heartbeat of Intelligence, 2002)

In the quest for ultimate meaning, the transcendalist route is much easier to follow. That is why, even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart. - Edward Wilson, in book Consilience, 1998.


Man in Context, Chapter 1 of the book, Man's Fate and God's Choice by Bhimeswara Challa