Now This

This blog is now read by more machines than humans: RSS robots, spam-laying insectopoids, echoes of blog-gathering .edu projects. This essentially is the state of affairs that all human activities w

Cleaning Up the Nation

Austin Bay:

If Air America were a conservative radio network its corrupt funding trail and cynical abuse of a poverty program would be front page news at the NY Times and full-time mega-scandal at

Rank Materialism

Freedom. I am now the proud new owner of a Gateway 6020GZ laptop, perfect for students and others with limited means. I can now go into a Starbucks or a Barnes & Noble and look like I'm doing some

Fallujah Fonda

Uh-oh. From the Telegraph comes this exciting news:

Jane Fonda is returning to anti-war activism and embarking on a cross-country tour to call for an end to US military operations in Iraq.

Acros

John Pilger: Partner in Terrorism

In an outrageous piece of terrorist propaganda appearing on the cover of today's New Statesman, John Pilger puts the blame for the 7/7 London attacks not on the terrorists, but rather on Tony Blair:

Expanded Universe

The small side-bar feature I added to this blog a month ago and introduced with this post is now new and improved with its own section and multiple dynamically-generated pages. It's called

hotlist

and will be available at that link forever- which of course is meaningless on the net. What I mean is that it's there for as long as I keep it up, independently of this blog. It's a continuously updated list of the top 20 hottest links in the political blogosphere, just as the tagline states. (I know, it's a bit much with the marketing lingo.)

Unlike similar resources, this one concentrates on that relatively small portion of the blogosphere which focuses on politics. So there probably won't be links to techy stories or saccharine human interest stories- unless the political 'sphere is also linking to them in significant numbers. It's kind of a boutique top 20 list.

Right now it searches around 500 sites, but I hope to get that up to around 1000. Any more than that and I think the political focus will begin to waver. But I'll be playing it by ear.

One of the goals here is a balance between the left and right sides of the blogosphere and I think I've mostly acheived that. I state on the 'about' page that I think it skews a little to the right, but it's hard to know if it really does or if the right side merely tends to link to more articles and blog posts in common, thus resulting in higher rankings for 'right' links.

Clicking on each entry's site count or on 'more' will bring you to a page listing all the blogs that have linked to it. It's a pretty simple interface and does not really need this explanation.

Some ideas I have for future updates include an archive- the background tech is already laid down for this- and perhaps some kind of left-right ranking for individual sites. This latter thing is somewhat controversial, even in my own mind, because I'm not so sure that every blog can so easily be classified, or should be. On the other hand, there definitely are left and right sides. Also I'll be adding some sort of rss feature once all the bugs have been worked out. And there are a few, but none so big as to ruin the experience.

So anyway, that's the new and expanded thingamajig. The link again is here. I hope you find it useful, and if you do, I hope you consider linking to it if you have a blog of your own.

Auf wiedersehen, baby.

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