The Best Unsung Blogs of 2006

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Chris Vallance | 15:20 PM, Monday, 4 December 2006

Do you have a favourite blog or podcast that's not very well known but you really like? Inspired by this post from Fimoculous, "The Best Blogs of 2006 that you (maybe) Aren't reading" (via Boingboing) We'd like to invite readers and listeners of Pods and Blogs to suggest their Unsung Blog/Pod of 2006. We'll try and feature interviews with a few of the recommended bloggers and podcasters (and the people who did the recommending) on Five Live in the run-up to Christmas. To get the ball rolling I'm going to point out the blog Or Does It Explode... I often forget to check it, but there's always something thought provoking there. Leave your suggestions in the comments - with a note about why you chose your nominated blog/pod

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At 06:24 PM on 04 Dec 2006, Roberto Carlos Alvarez-Galloso,CPUR wrote:
I nominate as an unsung blog the blog by the Libertarian Party [lp.org]
At 02:04 PM on 05 Dec 2006, Dean Whitbread wrote:
I'd like to nominate The Podcast of Pointless Singing

http://pointlesssinging.blogspot.com

A group podcast with a unique angle:

"...original recordings of improvised and spontaneous vocal performances, made for no reason whatsoever. What's the point? The point of course is that these random mumbles, murmurs, croaks and grunts are the root of all composition, as delivered by a million highly-trained professional sopranos, tenors, and baritones - and yet, where can you listen to this kind of ground-level, grassroots, intimate human material? Nowhere. They just don't get recorded, even though Pointless Singing is an important cultural activity and social freedom enjoyed by billions worldwide!

Yet we all make these vocals. Maybe you make them in your car, maybe in your kitchen, maybe in your bathroom, maybe when you just woke up, maybe in the time just before you went to sleep."

A great example of podcasting at it's quirky best.
At 03:10 PM on 06 Dec 2006, mohamad wrote:
I'd like to nominate http://jenzade.blogsky.com/ which is about Jen, invisible creature's.
this guy lives with them and says that they are everywhere.
i really love this weblog.
he had shoed me some of those invisible creatures too.
At 07:23 PM on 06 Dec 2006, Delta Taph wrote:
And you're not allowed to submit your own blog? ;)
At 11:51 PM on 10 Dec 2006, Jane wrote:
If I may can I nominate two blogs firstly blonde moments for witty, erudite and urbane writing. Hannah is a student at Edinburgh Uni she writes very, very well.

Secondly I would like to nominate my partner's blog Becky's T*Blog Ok I'm biased but we met because of her blog, she is a funny, clever and inventive, thoughtful writer oh I can I point out one of the best transgendered bloggers in Britain today and I don't think that is all just my bias.
At 03:48 PM on 11 Dec 2006, Cathal Murray wrote:
I'd nominate Smaller Than Life.

Where else could you see a daily picture of an abandoned bath mat?
At 05:55 PM on 11 Dec 2006, Hannah wrote:
Recommendation:

http://mylifeisgodscomicstrip.blogspot.com
At 11:41 AM on 16 Dec 2006, hoomanjiya wrote:
The Best Unsung Blogs of 2006 :

http://siavash-music.mihanblog.com

Siavash Ghomayshi Fans
At 10:53 AM on 20 Dec 2006, farid wrote:
this is my blog MAYBE is a good blog
At 02:06 PM on 22 Dec 2006, The Girl wrote:
Definitely JonnyB's Private Secret Diary:

http://jonnybillericay.blogspot.com

It's a brilliantly written, very funny, satirical site. Whoever thought Norfolk could be so hilarious?
At 09:54 PM on 28 Dec 2006, Julie Hurst wrote:
Tory Radio - www.toryradio.com has been a great new podcast in the last year. It brought you the famous mincing metrosexual quote from Francis Maude. Its interview with Lord Tebbit showed announced to the world he backed David Camerons hug a hoodie policy, and Ken Clarke announced to the world that he introduced speed cameras to the UK.

One of the best political podcasts in the UK over the past year, and all of these "scoops" have come about from a podcast independent of the party itself.
At 01:13 AM on 23 Jan 2007, Jonathan FeBland wrote:
Totally off-the-wall ideas. Wide ranging from serious philosophical & current affairs matters to the most trivial minutiae of everyday so called life. The writer of this blog is a compser, writer, novelist, poet, artist, conceptual artist etc. and uses all of his skills in putting together this highly original piece of work. The Blog is by Znethru and is called Soupcons - Idees Nebuleux.

Website link - http://znethru.blog.co.uk/
At 11:56 PM on 04 Feb 2007, web tasarim wrote:
its wonderfull
At 10:42 PM on 27 Jun 2007, Ted Roberts wrote:
I would like to suggest

www.elstonandhopkin.co.uk/blog

A blog all about a Snooker business in the East Midlands.
At 11:27 AM on 21 Jul 2007, mehdi wrote:
only Andy

Andy's Fan's veblog
At 09:49 AM on 21 Feb 2008, web tasarımı wrote:
They just don't get recorded, even though Pointless Singing is an important cultural activity and social freedom enjoyed by billions worldwide!
At 09:53 AM on 21 Feb 2008, web tasarımı wrote:
It brought you the famous mincing metrosexual quote from Francis Maude. Its interview with Lord Tebbit showed announced to the world he backed David Camerons hug a hoodie policy, and Ken Clarke announced to the world that he introduced speed cameras to the UK.