Over on the exquisitely named Insolvent Republic of Blogistan, there is a brief round up of who participated in the dog pile on Mr. Raimondo following his much responded to sortie into hostile territory.
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It seems our new ‘Havens of fluorescent idiocy’ links section is proving very popular! If we do not include all the suggested links readers have been sending in, that does not necessarily mean we do not agree that the site suggested is a pile of steaming idiocy, just that it is not quite ‘fluorescent’ enough to qualify. There are several newspapers in our ‘Dead tree compost’ links section that are extravagant producers of said ‘steaming piles’ but occasionally redeem themselves… sometimes only very occasionally. There is indeed a good reason we call that section of our links ‘compost’. January 13th, 2002 | Comments are closed
 Recently razor sharp bloggista, Will Quick of DailyPundit coined the term ‘haven of fluorescent idiocy’ to perfectly describe statist/collectivist magazine New Statesman. We at Samizdata are so impressed by this term that we, in what is of course an unprovoked act of aggression, have decided to annex the term for our own use. At the very end of the ever lengthening stalactite of links in our side bar, we have a new section called Havens of fluorescent idiocy for links to places untroubled by the light of liberty, reason and rationality. In short, we are going to build up a list of sources for the many anti-idiotarian blog sites of all hues to use as a hunting ground. Our first three lucky winners are New Statesman (of course), Blowback and The Chomsky Archive… with more to come! January 13th, 2002 | Comments are closed
When I am so wound up after a party or a night on the town that I cannot sleep even when I am tired, sometimes I get on the Internet and see what is new. Now that I have discovered blogging, I have another cure for insomnia… but the trick is to make sure that what I write is not a cure for other people’s insomnia. I would rather my writing gives people sleepless nights that sends them to sleep. January 12th, 2002 | Comments are closed
As the focus of events is less and less on Afghanistan, the focus of the blogger punditerati is likewise fragmenting in many directions… one of the interesting things about the many blogs over the last few months has been that many bloggers have been picking up the same news stories and it has been fascinating to see differing interpretations. With the advantage of many probing eyes, obscure on-line reports get picked up from more unusual regional newspapers or some out-of-the-way repository of cypherpunk web documents, and suddenly a new surge of interacting interpretations hits the blogs. I suspect this is what Glenn Reynolds meant when he once described himself as being part of a ‘hive mind’. However as the focus of events becomes more fragmented and regionalized post-Taliban, the stories that get picked up and blogged becomes more regionalized as well. I am fascinated by Glenn Reynolds’ often innovative takes on geopolitics and other issues on Instapundit but when I get to his views on a US plagiarism scandal involving folks I have never heard of, I tend to wander off elsewhere after the third article on the subject, checking other blogs for war news or perhaps something more generally pan-Anglospherical in appeal. Yet I suspect this is a natural process, a cycle rather than movement towards some less interacting endpoint… the ‘hive mind’ will fragment into locally focused clusters only to surge back together periodically as a global story catches the imagination. At the moment the Canadian bloggers are all bouncing off each other in a quite interesting manner over largely Canadian issues. In a similar way, certain blogs seem to hit ‘hot streaks’ and the rest start reacting to that blog’s interesting views rather than just what the established media is reporting, setting up an interesting interblog harmonic for a while. It will be intriguing to see what dynamics take hold in the longer term when the majority of blogs stop thinking of themselves as ‘warblogs’. I suspect blogs, or something like them, are here to stay but they are sure to start mutating over time into… well, good question… into whatever comes next. We will just have to wait and see what that is. January 11th, 2002 | Comments are closed
James Lileks goes some creditable way to restoring my faith in journalism with this cracking piece January 6th, 2002 | Comments are closed
I came across a few articles on Newsbytes that you, dear bloggers, may find interesting. The first deals with attempts to define and refine the Net in terms of national borders. The next two concern privacy on the net and are worth the read. In this article, a killer found his victim thru the net while this older piece deals with your right to anonymity. Thought provoking stuff. Enjoy. January 4th, 2002 | Comments are closed
Over on the The Catallaxy Files, top notch bloggah from down undah Jason Soon has an outstanding post about immigration. However on the Blogical Suspects, that doctor of intestinal blogages, Will Quick suspects we Samizdatistas may have over indulged during the New Year’s festivities and developed blogorrhea due to our high volume of postings. I guess we need to cut back on the philosophical roughage, but at least we are letting it out unlike a certain un-named blog, which is clearly very full of it. Just joking Charles, and hey Brian, we think you are rather nice really (“some of my best friends are liberals, honest”) and feel free to send us more of those pictures. hehehehe. Rand Simberg is in lethal form reporting the death of Buddy, the Clinton’s dog, over on Transterrestrial
Nasty! January 3rd, 2002 | Comments are closed
Hear the joyous cry from the minarets as they announce that the Fastest Burqa in Blogistan is back in business… spread the word around, guess who’s back in town? Yes indeed, Natalie Solent had returned! January 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
Streuth! Take your eyes off Adil Farooq over at muslimpundit for a few days and he goes bananas! There is been a big update of all sorts of good stuff and in particular a lengthy piece regarding ‘Our friends, The Saudis’. Adil administers them a severe public blogging with a cat-o-nine-tails! Check it out. January 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
The latest blog added to our sidebar listing is Emmanual Goldstein‘s Airstrip One. Whilst an impeccably libertarian blog, it would be fair to say Emmanual and us Samizdata folks tend to take some diametrically opposed positions on many issues. We found it rather touching when Emmanuel described us here as ‘anarcho-militarists’ due to our loud cheering every time a B-52 flew over Afghanistan. However it has never been our policy to only link to libertarian (or other) sites that sing in perfect harmony with us… hell, we don’t sing in perfect harmony with us. Also please note that we have a new contact e-mail address, reply@libertarian-samizdata.net. Yup, our plutocratic capitalist benefactors have finally diverted some of those sinister and shadowy illuminati funds our way and bought us a domain. Having got the sniff of money, we are now lobbying hard for a Libertarian Samizdata Jacuzzi large enough for the entire Samizdata Team to fit into (and special guests of course). January 2nd, 2002 | Comments are closed
The debate with Brian Linse at Ain’tNoBadDude could no doubt go on forever. Both sides are obviously “well-armed”, resolute and entrenched. In Brian’s 29 Dec post on the subject, however, I find something we could probably both live with. He states:
Before I throw in with you on that one, could you define “effective”? From my perspective, nobody wants the bad guys to be armed while most don’t object to the good guys owning a bangstick or two. Unfortunately, for everything from prostitution to narcotics, underage drinking to drunk-driving, tax-evasion to weapon possession, the law only works when you choose to obey it. In a free society, how do you force compliance? December 31st, 2001 | Comments are closed
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