Blogroll FAQ

That's a hella long blogroll you've got there, isn't it? Actually, no. Oh wait, you probably mean the old one to the right. Yeah, it's long, what of it? This way anyone disappointed with the local content has a diverse selection of other places to go. Or they would have been able to before I changed it because it was, as you say, too freakin' long. I notice it's only in alphabetical order. Why's that? This way I avoid the pitfalls of egregious taxonomy. Right. So it's not just because you're a lazy bastard? Not just that. This way I also get to use the phrase "egregious taxonomy". Oh, wait a second. It isn't in alphabetical order after all. Hah ha! I foiled you again. That's what you get for being an imaginary conversant. Yes, I made an attempt to divide the list up into sensible and useful categories - an attempt which failed, you'll notice. The original alphabetical list is here. Do these divisions make any kind of sense? Not really - I'm damned if I know what really distinguishes a snarky commentator from a non-snarky one other than certain nebulous differences of style, nor why it's of any use to the casual browser to split off those people with a mediated persona separate to the one they have on their weblog - those sort of paying gigs will mean nothing in a few years when the blogosphere CONQUERS ALL THOUGHT. Unless you were referring to the cutesy subheadings, in which case I can't help you. Or myself, it seems. So anyway: a number of the weblogs listed aren't really weblogs at all. I Love Everything and the WilliamGibsonBoard are discussion boards, as is Air America Place while also where you can find archived sound files of the Air America broadcasts. The Alien Online, The Black Commentator, The Black Table, Counterpunch, Cursor, Global Alternative, In These Times, The New Standard, NY Press, The Progressive and Rabble.ca are all magazine style sites; all but The Alien Online, NY Press and The Black Table are political, and NY Press is really only there for Matt Taibbi. (In fact, now that neither Taibbi nor Mark Ames, his former colleague from the Exile, write for the Press, there's nothing to recommend the rag, unless you think you might be a fan of tedious right-wing drivel. You'd be better off trying the Buffalo Beast.) At Global Alternative, you can find reprints of the columns of Boris Kagarlitsky, a contributor to the Moscow Times and one of my favourite columnists. Viridian Design is the futurist project championed by SF writer Bruce Sterling, whose essays appear on the site. No Logo hosts the essays of Naomi Klein among other things. Some are weblogs belonging to professional writers, academics and so on. John Shirley, William Gibson and Neil Gaiman are SF writers. Other SF writers represented in the roll are Bruce Sterling (Beyond the Beyond), Ken MacLeod (The Early Days of a Better Nation), Charlie Stross (Charlie's Diary) and Gwyneth Jones (Bold as Love). Bob Harris and Richard Herring are comedians. Cartoonists Ted Rall and Tom Tomorrow write on Search And Destroy and This Modern World respectively. The Morning Improv is the site of comix artist Scott McCloud; Die Puny Humans! that of graphic novelist Warren Ellis. John L. Hess, George Monbiot and James Wolcott are journalists, although, sadly, Mr Hess passed away in January 2005. MaxSpeak, You Listen! is the blog of economist Max Sawicky. Brad DeLong and John Quiggin are also economists; so is the guy who writes Angry Bear. Deltoid belongs to computer scientist Tim Lambert. Informed Comment belongs to Middle East expert Juan Cole; Rahul Mahajan writes Empire Notes. Michael Bérubé is a cultural studies theorist, as is Amardeep Singh. Noam Chomsky is Noam Chomsky. Al Qaebong, BAGnewsnotes, The Blog Dish, Fafblog!, John Howard PM, Not Nick Nolte's Diary, Opinions You Should Have and Haypenny are all humorous, as is Obey Big Brother in its way. Matt Tobey (The City of Floating Blogs) was a Haypenny editor; Chris Monks (Utter Wonder) contributed, just like a bunch of other hardworking and talented folk I can't be bothered adding to the blogroll. The Maelstrom is Neal Pollack's blog. You should read it. Go on - guess what A Family in Baghdad, Back to Iraq 3.0, Baghdad Burning, Healing Iraq, The Iraqi Agora, Raed in the Middle and Shlonkom Bakazay are all about. Weblog digests and weblogs compiling news and interesting links are All Night Surfing, Arts & Letters Daily, Aussie Blogs, Blog Bites, Boing Boing, BuzzFlash, The Domain (Aussie Politics), Eatonweb Portal, Fimoculous, Futurismic, GromBlog, Kikuchiyo News, Kuro5hin, Link Machine Go, London Bloggers, Metafilter, Mindjack, Monoki and We Make Money Not Art. Under "Other" we place various blogs including Call Centre Confidential (a blogger who works in - ahem - a call centre), Giornale Nuovo (an absolutely super art-related weblog), Malevole (for the bizarre design alone), Mind Hacks (a psycho-neurology weblog), Nature is Profligate (biology), The Panda's Thumb (evolution), Preposterous Universe (physics) and Random Acts Of Reality (a great weblog by an emergency services officer in the UK). Other specialities (e.g. Prairie Sociology) will hopefully be obvious from the titles. Included in the blogroll are the sites of some mates from the WilliamGibsonBoard: Aisha's Pattern Recognition, Bravus, Digitalprimate, EditEngine, Koriburoggu, Reverend Tim McIntyre, Remote Voices, Reptile Rants, The Reality Studio, Scorpion's Nest, Shockingly Provincial and Terminates Here. Check 'em out. The rest are pretty much political or current affairs blogs: serious, snarky or both; except for the ones which aren't and I failed to mention in another group. It doesn't matter - they're all worth a read, even the ones that are defunct. I won't pick favourites. So you read all these blogs regularly? Good God, no. Have you seen how many of them there are? You seem to be amending this FAQ post as you go along. Doesn't this break the First Law of the Blog? Yes. Yes, it does. 100 Monkeys Typing A Family in Baghdad A Fistful of Euros A Perfectly Cromulent Blog A Tiny Revolution A Yank in Oz Abu Aardvark Abused by the News The Agonist Roger Ailes Air America Place Air America Radio Aisha's Pattern Recognition Al Qaebong Alas, a Blog Alicublog The Alien Online All Night Surfing Alternate Brain Alternative Hippopotamus Amblongus American Leftist The American Street Angry Bear Antipixel Antiwar Apostropher Are You Effin' Kidding Me Arran's Alley Arts & Letters Daily Aussie Blogs Back Pages Back to Iraq 3.0 Baghdad Burning BAGnewsNotes BeatBushBlog Beautiful Horizons Belly of the Beast Michael Bérubé Beyond the Beyond Big, Left, Outside Biroco Detective Agency The Bitter Shack of Resentment The Black Commentator The Black Table BlogBites The Blog Dish Bloggerheads The Blogging of the President Blogjam Boing Boing Bold As Love BradBlog 3000 Bravus Bull Moose Bunsen BuzzFlash By the Bayou Call Centre Confidential Charlie's Diary Chase Me Ladies, I'm In The Cavalry Noam Chomsky The City of Floating Blogs Cleek Counterpunch Crooked Timber Cursor Daily Beast Daily Howler Daily Kos The Dark Window Brad DeLong Deltoid Democratic Veteran Detroitblog Die Puny Humans Digital Primate Dispatches from the Culture Wars The Domain Don't Ask Me! The Early Days of a Better Nation Eatonweb Portal Edit Engine Elementropy Empire Notes Encyclopaedia Erratica Eschaton The Expat Eyeteeth Fafblog! Fimoculous Foreign Dispatches Al Franken Futurismic Neil Gaiman William Gibson Gilded Age Notes Steve Gilliard Giornale Nuovo Global Alternative Grammar.police GromBlog Bob Harris Hairy Fish Nuts Haypenny Healing Iraq Here's What's Left Richard Herring John L. Hess Hoffmania! Hullabaloo I Love Everything Informed Comment Interconnected In These Times The Iraqi Agora Jesus' General John Howard P.M. Just World News Kikuchiyo News Koriburoggu Kuro5hin Lawyers, Guns and Money Ken Layne The Left Coaster Legal Fiction Left Pedal Leiter Reports Lawrence Lessig LiberalOasis William S. Lind LinkMachineGo The Liquid List London Bloggers Londonist The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Low Culture Lying Media Bastards The Maelstrom Majority Report Radio Malevole MaxSpeak, You Listen! Metafilter Mind Hacks Mind Jack - Daily Relay Mixing Memory George Monbiot Monoki The Morning Improv Mouse Words Moviegeek Memo MyDD Nature is Profligate Nathan Newman The New Standard News Hounds News Dissector The "Next Blog" Blog No Logo No More Mister Nice Blog Norbizness Not Nick Nolte's Diary Nothing New Under The Sun NY Press Obey Big Brother Opinions You Should Have Orcinus Outside the Tent Greg Palast The Panda's Thumb Pandagon Quin Parker Pepys' Diary Pharyngula August J. Pollak The Poor Man Positive Liberty Pound The Pragmatic Progressive Prairie Sociology Preposterous Universe The Progressive Public Opinion John Quiggin Quotidian Hell Rabble.ca Raed in the Middle Random Acts Of Reality The Reality Studio Red Pepper Red State Son Remote Voices Reptile Rants Respectful of Otters Reverend Tim McIntire Rising Hegemon Road To Surfdom Robust McManlyPants Rox Populi Rude Pundit Sadly, No! Scorpion's Nest Screenhead Search and Destroy Seeing The Forest Sensory Overload John Shirley Shlonkom Bakazay The Shrill Blog Shockingly Provincial Amardeep Singh Sirotablog Sisyphus Shrugged Slacktivist The Smirking Chimp South Knox Bubba Southern Cross Words Spinsanity Steam-Operated World of Yesteryear Suburban Guerrilla Super Happy Fun Blog The Talent Show Talking Points Memo TalkLeft TAPPED TBogg Terminates Here That Colored Fella Things Fall Apart This Modern World Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Tiddly-Pom TomDispatch TOMPAINE Total Information Awareness Troppo Armadillo Trout Fishing in South-Central Wisconsin Tug Boat Potemkin Uggabugga Uncle Horn Head UnFairWitness Utter Wonder Jeff Vail Vegas Blog Viridian Design War and Piece WarForever The Weblog We Make Money Not Art What is the War? Whiskey Bar WilliamGibsonBoard James Wolcott Wonkette World O'Crap WorldChanging Yankee Fog Yo, Ivanhoe! Mickey Z. Zellar Open All Night ZNet Blogs

ELSEWHERE The Happening Thang A Fistful of Euros Abu Aardvark The Agonist Beautiful Horizons Crooked Timber Daily Howler Daily Kos The Domain Eschaton Foreign Dispatches Leiter Reports LiberalOasis The Liquid List NewsDissector Positive Liberty Respectful of Otters Spinsanity TalkLeft TomDispatch Total Information Awareness Troppo Armadillo Tug Boat Potemkin Whiskey Bar WorldChanging ZNet Blogs The Hunting of the Snark 100 Monkeys Typing A Perfectly Cromulent Blog A Tiny Revolution Abused by the News Roger Ailes Alas, a Blog Alicublog Alternate Brain Alternative Hippopotamus Amblongus American Leftist The American Street Apostropher Are You Effin' Kidding Me? Arran's Alley Back Pages BAGnewsNotes BeatBushBlog Belly of the Beast Big, Left, Outside The Bitter Shack of Resentment The Blogging of the President Bull Moose Chase Me Ladies, I'm in the Cavalry Daily Beast The Dark Window Democratic Veteran Dispatches from the Culture Wars Don't Ask Me! Elementropy Gilded Age Notes Steve Gilliard Hairy Fish Nuts Here's What's Left Hoffmania! Hullabaloo Lawyers, Guns and Money The Left Coaster Left Pedal The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Lying Media Bastards Mouse Words MyDD News Hounds No More Mister Nice Blog Nothing New Under The Sun Obey Big Brother Orcinus Outside the Tent Pandagon Pharyngula August J. Pollak The Poor Man Red State Son Rising Hegemon Robust McManlyPants Rox Populi Rude Pundit Sadly, No! Seeing The Forest The Shrill Blog Sisyphus Shrugged Slacktivist The Smirking Chimp Suburban Guerrilla Super Happy Fun Blog The Talent Show TBogg That Colored Fella's Weblog Things Fall Apart Uggabugga UnFairWitness The Weblog What is the War? Wonkette World O'Crap Mickey Z. Dead Tree / Ivory Tower Air America Place Air America Radio Angry Bear Michael Bérubé The Black Commentator Noam Chomsky Counterpunch Cursor Brad DeLong Empire Notes Al Franken Global Alternative Bob Harris John L. Hess Dissents In These Times Informed Comment Lawrence Lessig William S. Lind Majority Report Radio MaxSpeak, You Listen! George Monbiot The New Standard Nathan Newman No Logo NY Press Greg Palast The Progressive Public Opinion John Quiggin Rabble.ca Red Pepper Road To Surfdom Search and Destroy Amardeep Singh Sirotablog Talking Points Memo TAPPED This Modern World TOMPAINE Jeff Vail War and Piece James Wolcott The Pottery Barn A Family in Baghdad Antiwar Back to Iraq 3.0 Baghdad Burning Healing Iraq The Iraqi Agora Just World News Raed in the Middle Shlonkom Bakazay Very Like A Whale The Alien Online Arts & Letters Daily Beyond the Beyond The Black Table Bold As Love Charlie's Diary Deltoid Die Puny Humans The Early Days of a Better Nation Neil Gaiman William Gibson Richard Herring Ken Layne The Maelstrom Mind Hacks Mixing Memory The Morning Improv Nature is Profligate The Panda's Thumb Pepys' Diary Prairie Sociology Preposterous Universe John Shirley Viridian Design None of the Above A Yank in Oz Aisha's Pattern Recognition Antipixel Biroco Detective Agency Blogjam Bravus By the Bayou Call Centre Confidential Cleek Codpiece Hagiography Detroitblog DigitalPrimate Edit Engine The Expat Giornale Nuovo Grammar.police I Love Everything Interconnected Koriburoggu Legal Fiction Malevole Moviegeek Memo Quotidian Hell Quin Parker Random Acts Of Reality The Reality Studio Remote Voices Reptile Rants Screenhead Scorpion's Nest Sensory Overload Shockingly Provincial South Knox Bubba Southern Cross Words Steam-Operated World of Yesteryear Terminates Here Thrilling Days of Yesteryear Tiddly-Pom Trout Fishing in South-Central Wisconsin Uncle Horn Head Vegas Blog WarForever WilliamGibsonBoard Yankee Fog Yo, Ivanhoe! Zellar Open All Night Laugh While You Can, Monkeyboy Al Qaebong The Blog Dish Bob the Angry Flower The Brains Trust The Brunching Shuttlecocks Bunsen The Chaser The City of Floating Blogs CNNNN Chaser Non-Stop News Network Dear Aunt Nettie... Doh! Canada Encyclopaedia Erratica The Establishment Fafblog! The Framley Examiner Get Your War On Haypenny Bill Hicks Jesus' General John Howard P.M. Low Culture Reverend Tim McIntire Norbizness Not Nick Nolte's Diary Objective: Christian Ministries The Onion Opinions You Should Have Parenthetical Note Bill Plympton Pound Professional Cartoonists Index Red Meat RinkWorks Rocket Ruthless Reviews Too Stupid To Be President Utter Wonder What People Were Saying On the London Underground Whitehouse.org Yankee Pot Roast If You Know A Better Hole, Go To It All Night Surfing Aussie Blogs BlogBites Bloggerheads Boing Boing BuzzFlash Eatonweb Portal Eyeteeth Fimoculous Futurismic GromBlog Kikuchiyo News Kuro5hin Londonist LinkMachineGo London Bloggers Metafilter Mind Jack - Daily Relay Monoki The "Next Blog" Blog We Make Money Not Art