Category: Blogosphere

These days its hard to keep track of all the blogs on blogging out there. BlogCruiser is a weblog that reviews blogs. They recently checked us out and awarded us nine stars (BlogCruiser: Radio Free Blogistan). Thanks! Glad to hear the design is pleasant though I have some ideas for changing it. We have managed…

Blogosphere News seems to be doing a good job of covering the weblog beat (you know, the way we used to do here?).

OK, I took a crack at my current subscription list and started off by narrowing it down to 30 or so favorites split among several (sometimes semi-arbitrary) categories: Politics and Media: The Poor Man (feed) James Wolcott (feed) PressThink: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine, by Jay Rosen (feed) Fanatical Apathy (feed) Daily Kos:…

Fimoculous.com: Feeding On Itself lists the 26 (or 7) best blogs of the year. What are your picks? I’d start with my current OPML reading list and have to whittle it down somehow. Update: Here are Kottke’s favorites.

Prove Steve Rubel right: (Forbes.com Blog Poll): Forbes.com is running a poll: What’s Your Involvement With Blogs? Have my own and update it dailyCheck somebody else’s every dayHave seen one, but don’t read regularlyHave never seen one, but have heard of themWhat’s a blog? Who wants to bet me that the first option will win…

Over on her own blog, mitten defends MR against an apparent attack by alleged right-wing blogger Cathy Siepp (a later date: ms. siepp). In so doing, she brings up an interesting matter that relates to the evergreen metablogging question “Why do we blog?“: Cathy apparently cares most about the links and comments she gets on…