I think I also do fairly serious blogging, as part of group blog rather than independently. http://gristmill.grist.org/user/Gar%20Lipow
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 8:42 AM, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
