Comments on: Corresponding with PEEK

By: Ilyka Damen

Ilyka Damen — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 01:48:55 +0000

Estrogen Week: Oh Where, Oh Where Have the Fee-males Gone?
Yes: Again that question is asked– . . . if you take a look at the Blogosphere Ecosystem, which for all its faults is probably the closest thing we have to a consensus measure of popularity for political blogs, you…

By: norbizness

norbizness — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:22:06 +0000

Apparently the Norbizinist movement hasn’t flexed its considerably made-up muscle over at Alternet yet.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:13:38 +0000

Check this out:

http://www.alternet.org/peek/2005/02/002976.html

By: Blue

Blue — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:43:55 +0000

I think that the problem is that places like peek want to get established quickly so they differ to the most popular blogs for instant gratification. Hopefully they will inlcude, not only apolitical blogs, but blogs with alternative views that do not follow the left or right political spectrum, into their sphere.

By: PZ Myers

PZ Myers — Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:14:07 +0000

I’ll believe he’s one of us when we see him cast a wider net.

Apolitical is good (says someone who plunges far to the left with regularity), and diversity is also good, but every time one of these sources sets up to compile the blogosphere, they go to the same old instapundit/atrios axis. The Daou Report on Salon is doing the very same thing, highlighting the same ol’ sources.