Grand Cards: Card Blogs
Showing posts with label Card Blogs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Card Blogs. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 25, 2009

What Kind Of Blog Are You?

This morning, Jane Wells' Funny Business blog on cnbc.com asked a question: What Kind Of Blog Are You? In it, she introduces the Typealyzer, a device designed to to figure out the persona of a blogger based on a blog's writing style. I was intrigued, and in short order found out that I was in a group known as "The Performers":
The entertaining and friendly type. They are especially attuned to pleasure and beauty and like to fill their surroundings with soft fabrics, bright colors and sweet smells. They live in the present moment and don´t like to plan ahead - they are always in risk of exhausting themselves.

They enjoy work that makes them able to help other people in a concrete and visible way. They tend to avoid conflicts and rarely initiate confrontation - qualities that can make it hard for them in management positions.

Oh, and I can't forget the screenshot of my brain-mapping (amazing what they can do with electrodes and USB Ports these days)

How interesting! In my eyes, this lends credence to the theory that blogs can be an expressive outlet that releases thoughts and feelings that would otherwise be cooped up. Clearly, this blog plays into my aesthetic and fun-loving sides and hits a home run with my need for order and detail, which comes through particularly strong in my collecting. As someone who puts on this blog purely for my own enjoyment and to provide useful information to the world, I hope that this blog comes off as fun-loving and enjoyable as my Typealyzer results suggest.

So, I pass the question on... What Kind Of Blog Are You?

UPDATE
They can analyze your Sport Type as well, and I am classified as an "Artisan" which means that I love Motor Sports, Football, Boxing and other sports that "get the adrenaline pumping".

Huh? Analytical Fail. Does this cast into doubt my persona type? Or, are they dead on but fail to understand that baseball gets my adrenaline pumping more than any of those other sports because of all of the high-pressure situations that accompany a game with no clock?

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Formatting Note

The "Card Blogs of Merit" list in the sidebar has been given a slightly more prominent position. I have moved down "Essential Reading" and renamed it "The Bigger Picture" as I feel that it provides a larger sports context to our more card-specific pursuits. I will add new links to either of these lists as I see fit.

A note on the "Card Blogs of Merit:" I will add blogs to this list on occasion but I see no reason for it to be a super long blogroll. Rather, I will limit it to card blogs that I read and enjoy on a daily basis. Criteria for inclusion is interesting, well written content that I like. That said, there may be some additions (and subtractions) over time, but I am not strictly limiting myself to a defined number of blogs a la Wax Heaven's "Heavenly Seven." If your blog is not there it is because a) I don't know about it or b) haven't really gotten into it yet. I apologize. Please do not be offended. There are many blogs that hit my personal RSS feed and when I find that I read some much more than others, I will add them.