Journals
Holly, Girl In A Box
"Besides the fact that everyone who keeps an on line journal, including me, has at least these two character traits in them, narcissism and exhibitionism, there are far more reasons for keeping an online journal. To me it serves several purposes. One, is a form of release, when I was younger I was a cutter, it was a form of release. Now instead of picking up a razor, I pick up a pen. The other purpose it serves for me is that it keeps me writing. Writing everyday or at least everyother day no matter what you may write about is good writing practice and keeps your creativity from growing stagnant. and lastly I keep a journal, so that I can look back and remember, and see how many steps it took for me to finally walk into the sun."
Terri, FootNotes
"I like the discipline that keeping an online journal has helped me develop, for one. Even if I'm not writing every day, at least I'm thinking about writing every day. As opposed to thinking about thinking about writing. That's progress. I like having a visual account of this happy time of my life. I know I'm going to enjoy reading it in later years. I like having a means of telegraphing messages to people ... even people who aren't even reading (or BREATHING, in some cases). It's extremely cathartic. And I like having all of my stuff conveniently in one spot: the new journal entries, the old journals from college, the Memory Books I wrote when the Tots were little, photos of my family, vacation pictures, favorite e-mail from friends and readers, my cartoons, the trashy summer novel I wrote with my friends. The archives may be getting a bit unwieldy ... but it sure saves on closet space."
CubicleGirl
"I'm the girl who works in a cubicle. If you ever saw me, you wouldn't know it. If you ever met me, I like to imagine you'd remember me. If you read me, I'd like to know it. [...]I write in online journals because I do. I like to prove to myself that I exist. This seems to work."
Ken, Weekends & Paydays
"My kick-ass life as told electronically to you."
Pamie, Squishy
"If you stick around you'll meet pamie, a writer, actor and Austinite living in Los Angeles who shares her life with you every single weekday (she takes some holidays here and there). You'll meet Eric, her boyfriend. Taylor and Cal, her cats. [...] Keep searching and you'll find out more than you ever wanted to know about one young lady and her never-boring life. And maybe, just maybe, if you look in the right places,
you'll find out why girls are weird."
Jon-Jon, The Jon-Jon Diaries
"Put simply, I'm doing this because:
1. I can
2. I'm pretty good at it
3. No one will do it for me
4. I'm a product of Western Civilization, and I want a legacy, dammit
On my death-bed (if I'm lucky enough to die in a bed), I'll be able to look back on this body of work and say, "At least I wasn't quiet about it."
Dana, Bobofett
"Lastly, I started this journal because I had something to say and someone to say it to. I followed in the footsteps of the people I'd read before and thought that it was something I wanted to do, in a genre that exactly suited my personality and voice. Whether I'm accurate all the time or not remains to be seen. Keeping a journal is a kick in the ass, and I'm having a great time doing it."
Jessie, Internet Persona
"But I can write this. I don’t pretend to think that everyone likes (or would like) the way I write or the things I write about. I don’t expect to be famous because of this journal. (It’s fairly ludicrous to even mention “famous” and “this journal” in the same sentence.) But I like what I’m writing. And I do expect that some of you will read something I’ve written, and that some of you will FEEL something because of what you’ve read. Because of what I've written. And that motivates me. Because that would be really cool."
Dora,Words Diminish
"When I decided to change the name of my online journal in April 2000, I chose this title because it's meant something to me for nearly half my life, and because there's so much more to life than the words we cling to as we try to describe it. Words diminish. Writing this journal has been the closest I've come to finding the words of my life."
Shelley, shelleyness.com
"I am living a charmed life. I know I am. But I'm loving every minute of it."
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News & Stuff
IronMinds
Periodico El Norte
The Onion
Chicago Sun-Times
Fox News
Kick!Sports
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Music
Ozomatli
J. Davis Trio
Culture1.com
Cafe Tacuba
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the rest will be added soon
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