Language weblogs/Sprachblogs

I read the headers of a large number of blogs in a feed reader, so I couldn't help noticing that a number of translators' blogs had taken up the idea of posting their favourite language blogs. The ball was started rolling by A ♥ for Language Blogs by Judy and Dagmar Jenner, who were thinking of #followfriday on Twitter (something I am not a fan of because there's not enough space to say why you should follow these people). It's been taken up by several others, including Michael Wahlster at Translate This!. Michael even found a plagiarism of his own entry where everything had been renamed. I liked Michael's idea of only mentioning the blogs he likes that no one else has mentioned. That's what I'm going to do too. One he mentioned was completely new to me: BIK Terminology, by Barbara Inge Karsch. I've put that on my list. On top of this, I don't read a lot of translation blogs in detail. There are lots out there directed at people who want to make their business grow, whereas I sometimes want my business to go away. My favourites include love german books by Katy Derbyshire. I recently gave her a plug on the ITI GerNet journal Netzblatt. Katy appears to tell it like it is about the world of translation and publishing in Berlin. Mind you, I can't remember her ever running down an actual book. I read her because I like to read German books too. I'm also a reader of the possibly obscure Desbladet. Des has succeeded in escaping the UK and is now living in the Nether…