Nr. 9 - September 15, 2003 - posted by Andis Kaulins Copyright © 2003 by Andis Kaulins

MORE BEST BLOGS BLOGGED

The Blogging Network WEBLOG


The Blogging Network is trying the concept of "blogs for bucks". Will it work? I doubt it. Even the well-known and quite successful writer Stephen King tried to serialize a book (The Plant) online and was unsuccessful.

INSTAPUNDIT
On the other hand, let us say that a top-ranked, prolific and near-to-immediate blog such as InstaPundit went the way of "Pundit for Pay" - how many readers would stay?

NAPSTER and KAZAA
We might look to the "remains" of Napster (although iShareIt claims that "Napster lives on") and observe what happened when Napster tried to collect for file-sharing from its otherwise non-paying million membership. They were KaZaA'd by a program that has been downloaded over 200 million times worldwide and has pased ICQ as the world's number one download. Who is going to pay for something they can get just as easily elsewhere for free?

SARAH LANE'S Blog Report
Sarah's weekly series at Tech TV on "news and views from the world of bloggers" covers a broad spectrum of blogs, such as Sarah's July 2003 blog report on MoBlogs - Mobile Blogs, or her short blurb on Alternative blog-entry programs.

ROOT BLOG
Root Blog is a blog aggregator which they themselves define as
"aggregating the PoweR of Blogs! - Web Blog Directory"

BLOGCRITICS
Blogcritics describes itself as a "sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, and technology - updated continuously."

AKABLOG
Akablog is a blog by a technical writer at AOL who has a broad range of postings, many worthwhile.

CRESCAT SENTENTIA
Crescat Sententia by Will Baude has the answers to the recent 20 Questions for Tyler Cowen, which are a superb commentary on blogs in general.

DANIEL W. DREZNER
Daniel W. Drezner has a recent very useful posting on "Advice to new bloggers".

EURO PUNDITS
Euro Pundits gives a view of what the people on this side of the Atlantic are thinking.

BALTIC BLOG
The Baltic Blog focuses on a region of the World set to enter the European Union.

ALL ABOUT LATVIA
All About Latvia currently has good information on the European Union expansion.

LAUREL McMECHAN
Laurel McMechan's Physics Web Log "for 21st century physics and astronomy" cites to some of my best stuff on Stonehenge and the megaliths. Thank you, Laurel.

IAIN MURRAY
The Edge of England's Sword, "Voices from the Anglosphere", quotes the Queen of England. The Royals still are symbols for many - representing the historical vestiges of leadership of the modern civilized world.

ANTHONY WELLS
Anthony Wells' Journal is a solid bulwark in the British blogosphere.

OLIVER KAMM
Oliver Kamm defines his sphere as "politics, economics and culture" and definitely leans to the right of The Guardian, to which his latest posting gives a sound thrashing.

GROKLAW
Groklaw is an excellent legal blog by a paralegal par excellence.

VODKAPUNDIT
VodkaPundit touts itself as "Stirred, Not Shaken".

THE AGONIST
The Agonist sees itself as "thoughtful, global, timely".

TOM PAINE
Is intelligence AND passion the political answer? Tom Paine discusses punditocracy and liberal pundits while cogently faulting neo-liberalism for falsely intellectualizing passion out of the political equation - this is a great read regardless of your political persuasion.

CHRIS LAWRENCE
Chris Lawrence "Signifying Nothing - Infinite Diversity in Two Combinatons"
has some very good stuff posted on political science.

STRATEGY PAGE
The Man with the Golden Truck has to be a classic.

CROOKED TIMBER
This blog's motto is that "Out of the Crooked Timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made". Seems to be anti-Volokhite, but erudite. "Chris" posts the important truth that people tend to believe information which is congenial to their interests and disbelieve information which is not.
Hear, hear.

JACK BALKIN
Jack Balkin's Balkanization blog states punnily that "Balkanization is an unanticipated consequence of Jack M. Balkin". Balkin is Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School and his legal analysis of legal issues shows deep insight (see particularly his posting on Thursday, August 21, 2003 on Chief Justice Moore As Administrator, Not Judge), even if one does not share his political leanings.

COLLEGE / UNIVERSITY APPLICATIONS
Not a blog but great reading for all parents with college-going kids, one should read
How to get your child into the right university - you may not like it, but it apparently works.

STRATFOR
STRATFOR (Strategic Forecasting, Inc.) uses the motto "Predictive, Insightful Global Intelligence" and we agree. Compare what the "war blogs" write with what you read here.

TAILORED BLOG
The Tailored Blog by Brendon Sinclair (also SitePoint Tribune author)
has a simple, basic, sometimes innovative and thus excellent blog on marketing.

THE BLOGGS
Along the same lines, Sinclair also a different kind of "blogg" (not "blog") for client hunters, employers looking for new staff, prospective employees, resume writers, college applicants, job seekers and just plain marketing folks,
at Joe/Julia "Bloggs".

LYING IN PONDS
Lying in Ponds tries to show the "absurdity of partisanship" by drawing a line between party preference and excessive partisanship.

PunditMania ® Mentions

ONE FATHER FOR DEAN
One Father for Dean describes itself as "A father and his politics" and as "A minor political odyssey for all the right reasons...and Howard Dean in 2004".
One Father for Dean picked PunditMania ® as a "Blog to Watch" - thank you - so I thought I better look at this blog and this man Howard Dean a bit closer. Dean is not only the first Presidential candidate to recognize and use the power of blogs effectively, but he has also profited from so-called "Meetups", so look for the internet concept found at Meetup.com ("Meetup is a free service that organizes local gatherings about anything, anywhere") to become a solid part of the social fabric in coming years.

THE TRUTH LAID BEAR
The Truth Laid Bear has the motto "A bear, the world, and the strong urge to hibernate". The Truth Laid Bear pointed its bear claw at PunditMania ® when we started the blog up. Thank you.