Discussion at Dinner

[davidschroth]

I had dinner tonight at Broder's with my former volleyball teammates Dick Nelson, Mabel Nelson, Paul Zbaracki, and Lucinda Zbaracki. At some point the conversation drifted onto the current and future state of newspapers. Dick opined that the Times had five years left before it folded, an opinion I was surprised to hear coming from him. Paul was still firmly committed to newsprint. And I had given up on newspapers altogether.

So Dick and Paul wanted to know where I got my news. Blogs, I replied. They were very skeptical, but their view of blogs didn't really seem to encompass the blogs I use. I told them I'd send along the list of blogs I read for news, so I decided to post it here first.

1) The Sideshow (http://sideshow.me.uk/) - I've found more good blogs through Avedon than I can count.

2) Eschaton (http://www.eschatonblog.com/) - I still find Atrios a must-read.

3) Talking Points Memo (http://talkingpointsmemo.com/)

4) Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (http://econ161.berkeley.edu/movable_type/) - For a little while after I read this one, I feel like I understand economics. The feeling soon passes.

5) The Washington Monthly (http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/) Kevin is probably more centrist than I'd like, but what can I say - Friday Cat Blogging!

6) Making Light (http://www.nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/)

7) Orcinus (http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/) I really wish David and Sara would post more in Orcinus, rather than in all the other places they post at in the blogosphere.

8) Schneier on Security (http://www.schneier.com/blog/) Good security info, and even better - Friday Squid Blogging!

9) Firedoglake (http://firedoglake.com/) - A very good collection of Progressive bloggers.

10) Hullabaloo (http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/) - The phrase "What Digby said" is ubiquitous for a reason.

11) Lance Mannion (http://lancemannion.typepad.com/) - usually interesting.

12) Pharyngula (http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/) - Minnesota biology professor takes on Intelligent Design as well as organized religion.

13) Econbrowser (http://www.econbrowser.com/) - Serious economists usually leave me boggled.

14) EconoSpeak (http://econospeak.blogspot.com/) - A different economics blog

15) Boing Boing (http://www.boingboing.net/) Fun for nerds and geeks.

So, what blogs do you read regularly?

Comments

[don-fitch.livejournal.com]

Avedon's is the only blog I check every day. Hullabaloo, usually every two or three days. Making Light, at least twice per week, more often when an especially interesting topic is getting a lot of Comments. But it's rare that I don't follow at least one or two links from Avedon's site -- and generally read the whole blog, not just the entry linked. Not actually blogs, but for News I check Google News daily, and BBC almost as often. And on LJ, Supergee (?) -- Arthur Hlavaty -- is on my Friends List (checked daily) and averages at least one outrageous-news link per week.

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

I wasn't actually counting people on my Friends List (which includes supergee as blogs. I read my FL even more religiously than I read the blogs I listed (even the people who don't post nearly often enough).

[barondave.livejournal.com]

For all that I'm a news junkie, I'm not that into blogs... except when I am. I read salon.com, and Glenn Greenwald is in desperate need of an editor but is essential reading. DailyKos used to be good, now it's merely important. I write for Bartcop Entertainment, mostly music reviews but I wander into politics, and haven't bothered with Bartcop for a while. Beyond that, I read mostly The New Yorker and The Economist and British sites, if them. Only a couple of your list is in my bookmarks, though that's ever changing.

I read the STrib for the comics and Cryptoquip, and usually do the Sudoku. The Bridge column is okay, and I like the two crosswords.

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

Dick opined that the Times had five years left before it folded…
But … but … it's always been folded. Those big sheets of newsprint would get really awkward to handle if they were distributed flat …

I sometimes/sorta intend to read various and sundry blogs but I read so slowly and it takes me so long to get through even one post and I get so frustrated because I frequently want to add something to the discussion but I write even more slowly than I read….

Here on LJ I do subscribe to bruce_schneier, makinglight, officialgaiman, pearls_b4swine, sciam, skzb, welfyphoto, and wikipedia_potd and I occasionally flip over to Bruce or Making if I think I want to read more and comments (and, btw, I strongly recommend the scientificamerican and wikipedia_pictureoftheday feeds), and, yes, I will sometimes follow the interesting links posted by LJFs (supergee and lsanderson in particular come immediately to mind) but … um …

What I don't do is view any of the vids people post here. Although I admit that's partly because the processer in my 9-year-old B&W G3 is a wee bit too slow to play most vids without getting a bit choppy. [Heyyyyyy, don't laugh. How many 9-year-old Wdz boxes have only lately run into an os version/release they can't run, and are still useful for pretty much everything except vids? Nine years are a long time in computer years (which, of course, are like dog years only more so).] But that's only part of the reason—I apparently do have my Luddite aspects.

Funny

[fredcritter.livejournal.com]

And speaking of blogs, check out today's Pearls Before Swine. Heh.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Think Progress is my favorite progressive blog.

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