Blogging the democratic revolution
That is the name of the new series of posts that David McDuff is doing. You may remember one of his other series entitled Going Back, where he discussed his impressions of the Soviet Union while living there in the sixties. This current series is his reflections on essays in the book The Dragons of Expectation – Reality and Delusion in the Course of History, which is about many things from the human mindset on ideas to history to democracy. The first post is located here and the next here.
A sly man by the name of Tony let me know about his blog today, called Across the Bay. This is not a paid advertisement — I could only be so lucky — but this blog is of special note because it is totally about Lebanon. Here is a little bit about the author: Ph.D. candidate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies with focus on Semitic Linguistics, Ancient Levantine history, religion, and ethnicity studies. I think we can take his word for it.
While the mainstream media sleeps, the blogosphere doesn’t, and Spain’s Barcepundit Franco Aleman is particularly swift. Franco reports a new video showing evidence that Spain’s great skyscraper fire last Sunday (which he did excellent blogging on this week) may have been deliberately set. If that’s the case, the mainstream media’s blithe dismissal of the fire as a result of a faulty electrical short falls short. Any number of things could now come into play, from terrorism to insurance fraud. Franco’s got a fascinating exclusive on the emerging new details still not seen in the mainstream press.
Zed from INBB is developing a new blog called World Democracy News that will feature a weekly column. Show some support!
The other week I posted my cumulation of search result queries that testified to the international infatuation with Yulia Tymoshenko. Well, she is still rather popular, but now there’s competition. That’s right, the Camp Bucca “Babes”: 13 Feb, Sun, 14:18:48 MSN Search: bucca mud wrestling 13 Feb, Sun, 16:03:07 Google: yulia tymoshenko pictures 13 Feb, Sun, 16:45:07 MSN Search: yellow rose crawford texas 13 Feb, Sun, 18:33:36 Yahoo: camp bucca party pictures 13 Feb, Sun, 19:18:13 Google: photo gallery Viktor and Katherine Yuschenko 13 Feb, Sun, 21:53:01 Google: abdymok 13 Feb, Sun, 22:15:10 Yahoo: camp bucca mud wrestling pictures 14…
Kirk H. Sowell posts five reasons why you should read his blog. I suggest you do that.
I’m off for the night, but I want to know what all of your favorite blogs are, American or otherwise. Leave you suggestions in the comments so that I can check them out!
Check this out! Not only is the redesign cool, but now there are many new features. You can create an account at Maidan which will allow you to post comments. But that’s not all… it also allows you to create a blog. While that may not be useful to those of us who already have our own, it will be indispensable to those in Ukraine and unfree countries who need a free and easy service to publish their thoughts. Very cool, Maidan!
Yulia is a very popular woman today. Look at the last 20 search results that referred people here: 03 Feb, Thu, 14:58:00 Google: Publius Pundit 03 Feb, Thu, 15:40:36 Google: gyanendra dictator 04 Feb, Fri, 00:45:27 Google: Yulia Tymoshenko nude 04 Feb, Fri, 07:15:43 Google: tymoshenko pictures 04 Feb, Fri, 09:13:26 Google: ali shukri 04 Feb, Fri, 09:32:44 Google: tymoshenko pictures 04 Feb, Fri, 09:36:18 Google: Yulia Tymoshenko 04 Feb, Fri, 10:51:01 Google: Yulia Tymoshenko pictures 04 Feb, Fri, 10:54:39 Google: skarshevsky 04 Feb, Fri, 11:38:23 Yahoo: yulia tymoshenko nude 04 Feb, Fri, 11:43:55 Yahoo: Yulia Tymoshenko – photos 04…
Here’s a big shoutout to Babalu Blog, who just got a big mention on the front page of the Miami Herald. Congratulations! The more people who knows about your cause, the better.
Usually John Hawkins does this sort of thing, and he probably will come Monday, but I figured I’d get a jump on it. Now, we all know about the Democratic Underground. It’s basically a breeding website for the far-left socialist type, where they can masturbate each others’ conspiracy theories and nonsensical elitist egos. On such an important day, what do you think their topic of discussion will be? That’s right, how we should never have been there in the first place. From the main post: 9. Again on the Iraqis aren’t stupid note: they KNOW this election is a sham.…
IEDs (full disclosure: I write for this site) has stories here, here and here.
Mark Glaser back in September did an online review of milibloggers and Iraqi bloggers, complete with history, background information, and interview questions for many of the big names out there. It’s pretty cool.
I just found this great blog called Stop Censoring Us, only to find out it is done by Hossein Derakhshan, creator of Editor: Myself and Blogs by Iranians. He definitely keep himself busy, so make sure to check out his blogs and support him.
I have recently been in discussion with a couple of fellow bloggers over an idea I had to make this site run both more efficiently and at a higher level of content. Since there are only twenty-four hours a day — most of which I cannot dedicate to the blog — there is no way that I can possibly read all the news, all the blogs, link to them, and comment on them. It’s impossible. So what I’m proposing is to make this blog a “moderated open-source,” so that instead of me having to search for what all of the…
I hope you like what you see. And in the meantime, I’ll be contacting my host for a bandwidth increase. But in all seriousness, thank you for the recognition Mr. Sullivan. It means that many more people will see what’s going on in the undemocratic world. Take a tour, read up, and make sure to visit those on my blogroll, since they make it happen.
Well, John Hawkins at Right Wing News is doing a list of his Top 40, so I thought I’d throw my hat in. Except I’ll do 20, because 40 is simply too much, and my favorites tend to already be on the blogroll. In any case though, I ranked these based on the fervor at which I read them, how often they are updated, and how relevant they are to what I’m interested in. Which is a variety of things, but you’ll notice a trend I think. 20. Belmont Club 19. Diplomad 18. Bloggledygook 17. INBB 16. Powerline 15. Daniel…