While I managed to read most of the weekend papers, I even read the Daily Terror on Saturday from cover to cover at the Grind on Cronulla Beach and between my barbecue duties during the weekend two-day Athletics competition - 8 am to 6 pm. After the daylight of swimming and althletics in the most humid weekends of all, we also coped with the night invasion from Gabriella's Godfather and co. Steve tends to boast several world trips in a year and each takes less than 80 days. Steve is like me he loves reading and he seems to also spend more time reading blogs than the actual newspapers or magazines. I just spent several hours walking through my favourite blogs all classified in my odd way on the left side. I start at the Nota Nota Bene and move down gradually till I read the very last links. Some blog entries, I just scan, others I re-read several times and occasionally if the spirit moves me I go through the commentariat baptism of left v right wing fire. Like most bloggers, I dream of being on my death bed with a blog in my hand (smile). Without any doubt, the coverage of election in Iraq on a number of blogs is just unbelievable. Touching. Inclusive. Like a conversation over an espresso. Some write with such passion that one feels transported to the trouble spots of Iraq. The words and the images are rather moving. Let us hope that the people of Iraq move in the right direction in 2005. A direction of freedom and forgiveness ...
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The Blog, The Press, The Media: Iraqi Election Bloggrage
Buzzmachine compiles a roundup of blogs covering the Iraq election.
Friends of Democracy has citizen correspondents in each province filing reports, mostly in Arabic, which are translated and posted here. Michael J. Totten is acting as anchor-blogger through the election. Note that they will have a webcast show about this starting at 2p ET Sunday and it will also be aired on C-SPAN.
The election in Iraq this coming Monday is easily the biggest story of the year thus far and could arguably be one of the most consequential events since the attacks of September 11 or the fall of the Berlin Wall. Given its importance, you would expect the mainstream media to devote a significant amount of resources to covering and analyzing the run up to the election. But aside from a few notable exceptions, that just isn't happening - especially in the major daily newspapers across the country.
• Unbelievable Coverage from the Ground [Mainstream Coverage: What little coverage we get of the Iraqi election is either bundled into or completely overshadowed by astonishingly negative stories that get front page treatment with blaring headlines. ; The Blog Search Engine]
• · John Cameron MeMo The verdict on the ABC News revamp ; [At the end of this column each week I ask you blogfans to let me know what bloggers are most in need of mention in this space.]
• · · Bill Haas says he may kill himself; [Norwegians might want to use a reality check before trusting directions from Microsoft's online MapPoint service. Ultimately, Microsoft evangelist Robert Scoble posted a blog item of his own, apologizing for the error ]
• · · · The Blog's New Role in Crisis Communications So, why a blog in a crisis? ; [Extreme bloggers are so hip and cool they can make fun of the poor and disadvantaged while working out of paneled bank offices Beware of the Blog ; Tim Blair ; Jolly Jelly Fish on Australia Day ]
• · · · · Tekrati Debuts Directory of Industry Analyst Weblogs Analyst blog directory and special report debut in conjunction with New Communications Forum 2005 ; [Tekrati ;]
• · · · · · If you've been wondering who was behind The GM Fastlane Blog, General Motors' step into the public blogosphere by executive blogger Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. Insights On GM Executive Blog ; [Don't call Jossip a blog, even though, well, it is. Hauslaib prefers "online magazine." B**g as a dirty word]