Weblogs

Just a marker that the preceding post was the 500th post to this weblog, under its various names. I leave it to you to judge whether that’s something to be proud of or not.

A slightly random link to a poignant tale of a stolen iPod and non-missing croissants. (If the anchor on the page doesn’t work, it’s the December 2nd story right at the bottom of the page)

I’m enjoying The Religious Policeman, a blog by a cricket-loving Saudi living in the UK, which casts the eye of a cynical moderate Muslim over Saudi Arabia and the wilder shores of fanaticism.

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I’m thoroughly enjoying the new blog I find your lack of faith disturbing. It’s comforting, or perhaps worrying, that even at the upper echelons of the film industry (my wife is in the lower echelons) it’s a grim, sordid business.

At last, a place for Gwyneth Paltrow and Arianna Huffington to tell us what they think. Link: Uber-blog raises a celebrity voice.

So, that Terri Schiavo memo that was obviously a fake, er, wasn’t a fake. But it was, umm, not completely accurately presented, or something. Is there a moral equivalence between bloggers who get it wrong, and ‘big media’ who get it wrong? Metafilter discusses.

All Bran is very good for you, but sometimes – just sometimes – you want Frosties. This advert (!) from openDemocracy today: openDemocracy writers bring life to philosophy: * “Iraq, philosophy in war” – articles on Immanuel Kant, Dostoevsky, and Leo Strauss * “Robert Nozick, anarcho-capitalist” (May 2002) * Ramin Jahanbegloo & Richard Rorty, “America’s dreaming”

So, here I am, blogging about Christian Crumlish, who’s blogging about mitten, who’s blogging about Cathy Siepp, who’s (allegedly) blogged (apparently) attacking mitten. Clear?