Some slightly related from Technorati and Google.

[The Fargus Report] Best of the Fargus Report!: This is a cheap post, but I don't really care. Before my readership had catapulted up all the way to 40 people a day, 35 of which came here by accident while looking for porn, I had some pretty good posts. I'm going to put up links to what I felt were my best, both in this post and on the sidebar, so that you'll always have access to them.

[By Dawn's Early Light] Interesting Perspectives on the Newsweek Tragedy: Nevertheless, one will have to search extensively for any editorials condemning these primitives in the Western press, let alone in the Muslim press. This is because moral expectations of Muslims are lower than those of other religious groups. Behavior that would be held in contempt if engaged in by Christians or Jews is not only not condemned, it is frequently "understood"

[Eightdiagrams.typepad.com] Eight Diagrams: The Insularity of American Bloggers: Why don’t American bloggers link very much to bloggers around the world? People in the room suggested there are 2 main reasons: One reason is that they don’t know where to find the good blogs from other countries - unless Instapundit or somebody has linked to them. Another reason is that people don’t have enough context or knowledge about events going on in foreign countries to blog about them.

[Villainous Company] Worst Columnists of 2004-2005: But here's the truly sad part, the hideous and depressing and soul-shredding part about all those young kids in the U.S. military right now, all those mostly undereducated, lower-middle-class kids, most of whom aren't even old enough to buy beer and many of whom have barely had sex and many who got sucked into the military vortex in an honest attempt to help pay for a college education so they could go out and not find a decent job in this miserable economy. The sad part is all those kids in the military who've been trained/brainwashed to believe they are serving in Iraq to protect America's freedom, to protect us from, well, something dark, and sinister, and deadly.

[Is it wrong to wish on space hardware?] UPDATE 2: Never really pictured myself as the "me...: Meh - I'm inclusive by nature. I remember having a conversation/argument on MSN with Dreadnought about why conservative bloggers like to hold private little shindigs on a regular basis but shy away from bigger gatherings where they may get drawn into situations where they actually get their viewpoints challenged. That was ONE of my opinions on the matter.

[What You Can Get Away With - Nick Barlow's weblog] The silence is deafening: First, there’s insularity - the American left just likes to talk to itself and doesn’t feel the need to see what’s going on over the shining seas. This could be because of a genuine lack of interest in what the rest of the world has to say, a lack of knowledge that there’s anyone out there with anything to say (perhaps earlier attempts to find liberal/left blogs outside the US have failed and they’ve erroneously decided there aren’t any to be found) or just because there’s not the time to keep up with all the arguments within the US blogs, let alone find new ones.

[WhoisIreland Review] Irish Times Blogging Piece Stirs Up A Storm: That was the old model - the highly competitive market means that a newspaper has to try and cover the analysis market, the opinion market, the news side of the market and product placement/review. The Irish Times technology section does not really cover the news side of things - that is more of a daily issue and technology news has to fight for space with other, more important news. It has bought in news items from Reuters.

[Technology.timesonline.co.uk] Bring on the celebrity bloggers - Doors - Times Online: This is why, in an initially perverse manner, the idea of a mass celebrity blog tips the scales back in favour of hard news. The only way that most people, myself included, will ever start a discussion about the realities of the Chinese economy is if the woman who played Elaine in Seinfeld has written something sappy about it, which I can then sneer at.

[Crookedtimber.org] Crooked Timber » » Cross-ideological conversations among bloggers: I certainly understand the need to limit one’s sample, and I think the initial group of blogs chosen is a fine sample. But is the intent to determine the effect of linking on the political thought of people who blog only about politics? Or are you interested in us folks who may have very strong political beliefs indeed, but who also have lives write about other subjects as well?

[Worldmag.com] World Magazine - Weekly News | Christian Views: Roberts attended an advance screening of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ and posted a review on his blog, he entered into a correspondence with some Jewish readers””something that probably would not have happened had his review appeared only in Christian periodicals. Blogging, Mr. Roberts said, helps him avoid insularity, which he sees as an occupational hazard for pastors: "It enables me to interact with a much broader cross-section of people in the world, for me as a pastor to have conversations with people about serious topics, people who are not folk in my own church."

[Acsblog.org] ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society: Alabama ...: Even if you give the Confederate movement the most charitable reading, the "state's rights" reading so often alluded to, the Confederacy is, at best, a movement of insularity. A desire by some Americans to be cut off from the rest of the nation, to weaken the ties between themselves and other human beings, and to deny their role in a greater American story.

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