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To: sciencediet; spycatcher
The best bloggers weigh in on social and political issues, report nuggets of information that the national media miss or suppress, and provide links to other bloggers with something sharp to say. Subjects that the mainstream press is skittish about...

The best example, and one of the most politically congenial from a FReeper's point of view, is Instapundit.

-ccm

150 posted on 06/16/2002 3:13:30 AM PDT by ccmay
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To: ccmay
The best example, and one of the most politically congenial from a FReeper's point of view, is Instapundit.

That's a FReeper, huh? I truly appreciate the info and am surprised that I hadn't caught on to blogging before. I've probably run into it and just didn't know what it was or that there was a term for it. So would that make Free Republic interbloggatory blogging?

153 posted on 06/16/2002 8:10:34 AM PDT by Lady Jag
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To: ccmay; sciencediet
Maybe we should have some permanent links on the front page to the best blogs for FReepers to check out. We need to roll with the times and not just change the graphics. It would lead to many more interesting articles to post.

A few more good blogs here...

The Corner on NRO

Right Wing News

Global News Watch

Little Green Footballs

You never know what nuggets you'll find. Like I just found Justin Raimondo reviewing his news sites: Take his ratings with a large grain of salt, but he sort of praises Free Republic...

"FreeRepublic.com is the original conservative news and discussion site, and it is still the biggest. But much of the elan is gone, and I fear that dear old FR shows definite signs of senility. Gone are the free-wheeling ways of the 90s, when Jim Robinson's virtual community of conservatives was, paradoxically, an oasis of freethinking revolutionary thought on the internet – and downright fun. Also addictive. But the post-9/11 FR is quite a different place. The free discussion of ideas that operated as a general rule – the exception being personal attacks leveled at founder, usually posted by a group of nutballs whose goal in life seemed to be harassing Robinson – has been replaced by a regime of "administrative monitors" who censor individual comments and often pull entire threads.

"However, the endearing chaos of the place is intact: FR is still very freewheeling within certain parameters (the new rules are enforced unevenly, if at all). A lot of the more independent souls among the longtime Freepers (as they call themselves) refuse to be driven away by an influx of nutballs and an awful lot of PWAs – posters with an agenda, usually involving a foreign country. We aren't just talking about Israel here, whose partisans actively campaign to ban anyone and anything deemed "anti-Semitic" (i.e. anti-Ariel Sharon) – India, believe it or not, also has its little amen corner on FR, which actively campaigns to push the line put out by New Delhi: Pakistan is supporting terrorism, all Ay-rabs are evil, and what is needed is an Indo-American alliance against the whole of Islam.

"The site has also undergone a redesign, one which I'm not sure I understand, but which somehow seems like a watered-down, albeit zooped-up, version of Classic FR. I may be an old traditionalist stick-in-the-mud, but, then again, I've never denied being a reactionary of the blackest sort: in any case, I usually hate redesigns, and so, I suspect, does everybody else but the designers themselves: that's one reason for Drudge's enduring success. He's never changed the stark Courier typeface that looks pecked out on an old Royal. It goes with the hat."

154 posted on 06/16/2002 8:47:19 AM PDT by spycatcher
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