How obsessive am I now becoming? Reading Rebecca Blood's (two) books on how and why to blog, checking out the suggested links and - as of today - sorting out flights, hotels etc to head from cold, rainy Glasgow to sunny Palo Alto, CA for BloggerCon in early November.
I'm fascinated by the political dimension which Dave Winer mentions in his intro to the conference and the timing of the event - just after the US Presidential Election - will make it all the more interesting. Which means, though, that I need to do a bit of background research on the kind of political blogs which are out there. All suggestions gratefully received...
That's one area of interest. The other is my team's experiment with user-generated blogging via Island Blogging. This came about when the islands of North Argyll in Scotland were all given a pc and internet connection by local government. Once they'd worked out how to use the kit, we moved in and suggested they create blogs of their daily lives. While the interface is a bit quick and dirty, the community element of linking island to island, island to mainland Scotland and island to the World has been amazing to watch. It's not until you read comments about wind farms, beached whales or meteor showers from Florida or Australia that you realise how compelling the minutiae of folks' daily lives can be when written down.
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Wonkette is the big political blog in the USA.
Andrew Sullivan is also big.
Instapundit is another good place to start.
Don't forget Mr Moore....
...and all the latest updated political blogs will be listed at Technorati.comTom Watson was one of the first UK MPs to start blogging.
Bloggerheads has a list of UK MPs with weblogs.
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