Blog BOOST! # 2

We've Been BOOSTED! This is to say thank you to the host/hostess of a blog that paid us some attention and in so doing gave us a statistical boost, large or small.  We're hoping that the readers of our Been BOOSTED! post will stop by your blog to review you as "the source", thereby giving you a boost. (Not that you need it!)

Kestrell over at The Blind Bookworm Blog BOOSTED! us  in a post where she talks about disability and relationships by offering links to other bloggers' posts, including mine!

Meet Blue Wren.  She's a writer and a journalist from the west coast.  We've crossed paths in the blogosphere several times - amazing how that happens!  We've decided she's a "keeper".  We've included her on our blogroll.  Thanks for the recent link, Wren!

Thanks to Penny L. Richards at Disability Studies, Temple U.  She managed to include one of Steve's posts in her recent Disability Carnival despite the fact that we missed the deadline.  I try to visit Penny's blog every day.  There is so much there to learn...

BOOST IT! Forward... This is our attempt to  give a blog a boost by "paying it forward"...
You can support this effort by visiting the referenced blog and if you like what you see (we're assuming you will) perhaps you too can give it a BOOST!  This might be a new blog that could use a BOOST! Or it might be a blog with many readers that just happens to be new to us, therefore we're not sure you've seen it.  Or, we might just BOOST! a blog because we like a post.

Spread the word!  Daniel Goldberg at the Medical Humanities Blog will be hosting the next Disability Carnival.  He says:

"The theme for Disability Blog Carnival # 8 is "contact."  I know that is somewhat mysterious, but I certainly hope it is interpreted expansively."

So send him your links ASAP!

Dave Hingsburger doesn't need a BOOST! from us I'm sure, but you need to read his post, The Good Girl.  Dave gives abuse prevention workshop for people with disabilities and wants us all to know that there is such a thing as being too good.

And I know Kay doesn't need a BOOST! from us as we've been BOOSTED! by her many times.  (Thanks Kay).  On her blog The Gimp Parade she posts what she calls Saturday Slumgillions which are always interesting and full of info.  Here is just one of her links there:

Amanda of Ballastexistenz has a really great 8 minute video called In My Language, dedicated to Ashley X. I think it is fairly accessible to those with either sight or hearing impairments, she shows us through singing and rhythym how she communicates with her environment, and when she speaks using an electronic voice machine, she also provides subtitles. Update: Partial written transcript here. Discussion at Metafilter here.

I've seen this video and I highly recommend you do the same.  Amanda writes about autism from her point of view. 

Comments

[kathy podgers]

What a lovely sociable post! So chatty, and sharing! I have added a link to your blog on my blog, I think I found you when the shape of money stories came out. I posted another photo today, but this time I described the photo, and what it means to me. I hope you enjoy it.

[Daniel Goldberg]

Thanks for the boost!

[Penny]

Whee, I feel like I've been bounced in the air from a big blanket...

Just a heads up, Kestrell is "she." And she does indeed rock.

[Connie & Steve]

Thanks all. And thanks for the heads up Penny!

[DAWGOregon]

Me thinks our blog got a boost or sumthin' as my post about Martin Luther King showed up over at the Carnival. Thanks to whoever did that!

[Connie & Steve]

Hi DAWGOregon,

That'd be Penny Richards who done give you that BOOST! But we're glad you stopped by. Welcome to the Planet of the Blind! We look forward to getting to know you.

[Kay]

BOOSTED! Yay!