Replies to thoughts/comments from LNP, D^2, Max:
As I might have noted before, putting your thoughts in blogs often
helps simply because it is a newer and more integrated (and hence
indexed) into the Interwebs platform. My favourite example: Google for
Berube's smear of Chomsky, and the first links you often get, even
before the original post, are links one of either Lou's or Dennis' or
my response to Berube. Similarly for Siva Vaidyanathan's comment on
Chomsky, the first link Google returns is to his page but in fact to
that part of his page which is my response in the comments section. On
a larger front, I think blogs could be a significant way to introduce
leftist ideas to the general population, at a time when people are
getting their news less and less from the "MSM" and more from online
outlets. A blog collective on the left would be able to provide a
forum for the many real leftists who show up in the comments sections
of the liberal-centrist blogs like Kos.
I agree with D^2 that MaxSpeak was a turning point ;-)... in the left-
leaning political blogistan, he was the one of the few (along with the
dude who wrote Whiskey Bar, who also, interestingly quit the business)
serious ones -- serious in the sense of not ducking the implications
of the positions you hold and in finding some sort of justification
for them. However, there are still many, many interesting blogs to
read out there. There is of course MP's blog. Brian Leiter's
philosophy/politics blog. Some of the feminist blogs are quite
interesting. The somewhat recently launched OpenLeft blog collective
is notable in that (at times) it stretches the limits of left views
that are permitted in polite company.
--ravi
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