posted on March 20, 2004 10:34:48 PM new
Bloggies are publicly-chosen awards for weblog writers and those related to weblogs.
If Helen is reading this "Where is Raed" won a bloggie for Best African or Middle Eastern Weblog.
If anyone wants some interesting reading on many topics from all over the world, this page has the awards for all the blog winners and nominees in all categories with links to each blog.
posted on March 21, 2004 11:52:53 AM new
They're for whatever you want. Some people use them as diaries, noting down what haas happened in their life each day (or however often they post). Others use their blogs as political forums to air their views (& these are turning up in google searches, too). Other show their art in their blogs. etc. etc. etc.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on March 21, 2004 12:09:40 PM new
blog websites are also one of the best informed websites, a lot of journilists go to blog sites to find the latest news, which venture into subjects from A to Z
this present US administration is really worried about blogs because there is info coming out that this present administration wants no one to see, and have had many taken off, by using the patriot act to censor them...
blogs are fantastic research tools to find all kinds of info...blog blog blog....
[ edited by skylite on Mar 21, 2004 12:11 PM ]
posted on March 21, 2004 12:54:39 PM new
Kraft, all you have to do is click on the link and the reading is free. Skylite is right, recently on the news they mentioned how blogging among young people may affect the vote because more and more of them are becoming interested in politics and are aware of the issues and want to vote.
On TV they also profiled a young American from Minnesota who moved to Canada to go to school and he keeps an amusing weblog called "Going Canuck" which was one of the nominees. Some of the comments are very funny.
"I'm a graphic designer who gave away just about everything, packed what was left into a car, and drove to Vancouver. I'm back in school to learn visual effects and digital animation.
Here is the plan I just carried out."
Thanks for that info, Kiara!!! I love to read blogs. Some are written by journalists, college professors, philosophers...all kinds of people. I have to go to a birthday party right now but later I'll have time to list a few that I've found interesting....mostly political ones.
The winner, author of "Where is Raed" has a friend in Baghdad who writes a good one too. She was educated in the U.S. and calls herself Riverbend.
Her writing is not updated every day but offers some good insight into what is happening in the Baghdad neighborhood.
posted on March 21, 2004 01:23:30 PM new
Baghdad Burning by Riverbend is one of my favorite blogs and she was also a nominee.
She recently talked about the mysterious assassinations of many scientists, professors and doctors in Iraq and how all the brain power is going out of there. I recommend her blog as some of the best reading if you want to know "inside Iraq".
posted on March 21, 2004 06:05:02 PM new
Oh yes, blogger write on all sorts of subjects. Each blog site has its own directory for subject matter.
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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
Joshua Micah Marshall is a writer living in Washington, DC. He is a Contributing Writer for the Washington Monthly and a columnist for The Hill. His articles on politics, culture and foreign affairs have appeared in The American Prospect, The Boston Globe, The Financial Times, The Los Angeles Times, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The New York Post, The New York Times, Salon, Slate, The Washington Monthly and other publications. He has appeared on Crossfire (CNN), Hannity and Colmes (FOX), Hardball (MSNBC), Late Edition (CNN), NewsNight with Aaron Brown (CNN), O'Reilly Factor (FOX), Reliable Sources (CNN), Rivera Live (CNBC), Washington Journal (C-SPAN) and talk radio shows across the United States. He has a bachelors degree from Princeton University and a doctorate in American history from Brown University.
posted on March 27, 2004 12:04:52 AM new
Thanks for all the links, Helen. There is interesting reading and opinions for everyone, left and right. Now I'll stay up all night reading.
NearTheSea, sometimes I find blogs by just entering my subject matter into a search such as Google and then adding "blog". I read snippets of some and others I enjoy enough to bookmark.
