MainStream Blogs

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NOT MUCH COMMON SENSE HERE, BUT USUALLY INTERESTING EVEN IF OUT OF PHASE WITH REALITY BY ABOUT 90 DEGREES
Elephant Rants and Raves by Justin Bollinger is usually interesting even if sometimes truly unintentionally funny enough to be satire in the Onion. Take a look anyway. Justin seems to have a good enough sense of humor about comments even if he rants and raves. I suspect his site is a bit like a canary in a coal mine. It gives an indication of the latest humbug from the right. ---Doug Wiken (The Devil made me post it).
LAT=http://elephantrants.blogspot.com/

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YOUR HUMANITARIAN DAILY RATION...GOSH I THOUGHT WE WERE ALL HUMANITARIANS...WELL NOT REALLY

Blowback Blowback
Your Humanitarian Daily Ration of bad vibes... Oh yeah, he does find
the stuff that is strange but reported as if it happened every day...oh,
it was just a big forest fire or reliable sources have determined the
nuclear fallout was not from a dirty bomb..stay tuned. Well, that is
probably unfair. Much more substance here. Take a good look at this
blog site.
LAT=http://blowback.blogspot.com/

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THE VIRTUAL ACQUISITION SHELF & NEWS DESK BY GARY PRICE
The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk Resources and News for Information Professionals --Compiled & Edited By Gary Price, MLIS --Gary Price Library & Internet Research Consulting -- gary@freepint.com --URL: http://resourceshelf. freepint.com (((Previous info from site. The blog posts look very interesting
to me and would probably be even more interesting to anybody who considers himself an "information professional". My guess is you could spend a day here if you followed every link. -------- Doug Wiken
LAT="http://resourceshelf.freepint.com"

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CAN'T RESIST 'COMMON SENSE' HERE. GOTTA POST, GOTTA POST
Common Sense and Wonder A blog dedicated to common sense in practical and political matters combined with a sense of wonder of the world around us and the amazing rate of technological change. Skeptics and cynics especially welcome. That's what he says. Not sure however. But the background color of his page does not appear to reflect common sense. [the new colors are a bit strange, but mostly readable--------- Doug Wiken

LAT= [new Moveable Type site] http://www.commonsensewonder.com/
LAT= [old blogspot site] http://common-sense.blogspot.com/

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ERNIE THE ATTORNEY; BUT DON'T EXPECT LEGAL ADVICE HERE
Ernie the Attorney is Ernest Svenson.. Looks conservtive, but might be interesting anyway.------- Doug Wiken
LAT=http://radio.weblogs.com/0104634/2002/04/07.html

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WEBSENSE--BLOGS and MARKETING, ADVERTISING, MEDIA, AND BUSINESS--RESHAPED
WebSense - Marketing, Advertising, Media and Business -- Reshaped. Probably a good place to check for ideas and new concepts for Blogs. Weblogs are becoming more numerous everyday. Thousands of new blogs in just a short periiod of time.
If you read blogs or write a blog, this may be worth checking.
LAT=http://websense.blogspot.com/

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THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY IS HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR BY A LAW PROFESSOR
VOLOKH CONSPIRACY Its a law professor writing about the law
and a lot of other things and probably from a relatively conservative perspective since he views TAP as "on the
other side" or overthere or something similar. Anyway looks interesting.
LAT=http://volokh.blogspot.com/

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INSTAPUNDIT...WELL AT LEAST PRACTICALLY UP TO THE MINUTE
InstaPundit.Com On the page the professor has comments from Pravda "The New York Times of the bloggers" and American Journalism Review "The Grand Central Station of Bloggerville".

Good Reputation. Lots of news and views of all kinds. Take a look------ Doug Wiken
LAT=http://www.instapundit.com/

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-----------COMMENT/NOTICE by Doug Wiken--- NOT A BLOG------

I have added the YACCS comment system to this Blog. (Although at this time, I do not see that the
comment system is working ...stay tuned) If you have a comment or problem with any
blog linked here, use the comment system. If you wish to have a blogsite added to this list, comment
on this notice or a more current blog that I will be likely to see ----------- Doug Wiken
LAT=http://rateyourmusic.com/yaccs/

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EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY BLOG EDITED BY Ray Schroeder
Educational TechnologyNews, Techniques and Theories of Effective Use of Technology in Education...several links to articles on using Blogs in education.. "School Blogs". Other links here as well.
LAT=http://people.uis.edu/rschr1/et/blogger.html

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GOT NAMES? THE ICANN BLOG
icann.Blog by Bret Fausett. Includes links to ICANN Announcements.
LAT=http://icann.blog.us/2002/06/12.html

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THE BIGBLOG BY Jonathan Hedley
Breaking News @ Big Blog a blog site with about 25 sections including science, biology, web developer, top stories, Linux, etc. Take a look. Might be worth bookmarking to.
LAT=http://bigblog.com/

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THE CURSOR--BLOG DOWN CENTER EVERYTHING ELSE AT SIDES
Cursor.org - Table of Contents page "bloghetto." Right down the middle of the page is one long blog under heading "Media Patrol". It might be in the center of the page, but it is loaded with politics and the media and mostly from a liberal perspective. But, a lot of good information can be found all over the political map here.
LAT=http://www.cursor.org/

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A BRITISH JOURNALIST WITH LOTS OF OPINIONS ON LOTS OF THINGS..INCLUDING US POLITICS.
Brendan O'Neills a London-based journalist and assistant editor of spiked. He founded and teaches the online journalism course at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design. There are many links on this page was well as someting like a blog. The daily comments are relatively long compared to most blogs you will read. Conservatives might find graphics here or in linked
articles inappropriate.
LAT=http://www.boneill.blogspot.com/2002_06_01_boneill_archive.html#77329118

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ELEGANT HACKS GLEANINGS BLOG...?
Gleanings Archive: Gleanings is a sporatic newsletter on Information Architecture, Usability, WebDesign and geeneral industry news. --- Looks like some links to interesting stories if you are interested in programming tor the internet and whatever...or are just interested in designs that work and don't-. No much of clue here as to how regularly this is updated however and I have not looked
at the part of the site not in a blog form.
LAT=http://www.eleganthack.com/gleanings/blog.html

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GOOGLE IS PRETTY MAINSTREAM, BUT NOT SURE ABOUT A BLOG THAT IS OBSESSED WITH NEWS ABOUT GOOGLE
Google Weblog If you are like most web users these days..well maybe even if you have a computer or your business does, you probably make use of the Google Search Engine. Well,
here you can get something like daily news about Google; but not directly from Google itself
LAT=http://google.blogspace.com/

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A VEGETARIAN BLOG. MAY NOT BE "MAINSTREAM" IN CATTLE COUNTRY, BUT MIGHT NOT BE COMPLETELY BLAND
The Veg Blog: A weblog about vegetarianism I must confess a blog about vegetables was not quite what I had in mind when I started this, but this might be interesting to more than a few people. Heck, we try to eat some vegetables with our ground cow.
LAT=http://www.vegblog.org/

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WATERBORO MAINE LIBRARY BOOK NEWS, VIEWS BLOG
WPL: waterboro lib blog This is the first blog like this that I have seen, but then I have not been paying much attention to blogs for more than a few months. Looks like Jessamyn West puts in the news on books authors, Pub TV, publishing houses, etc. nearly daily.
LAT=http://www.waterboro.lib.me.us/blog.htm

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ETHEL THE BLOG appears to be run by a research scientist.
Ethel the Blog clamis to be "servations (and occasional brash opining) on science, computers, books, music and other shiny things that catch my mind's eye". It also appears to have ads. From a link to home site looks like a guy nameed Steve Baum churns it out. Readable anyway.... --- Doug Wiken
LAT=http://stommel.tamu.edu/~baum/ethel/blogger.html