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UNIT VI
Blog Reviews
InstaPundit.Com
www.instapundit.blogspot.com
Pundit Glenn Reynolds is a law professor from the University of Tennessee. In his blog, he disseminates information about legal and civil liberty issues. The topics he mostly writes about are: American's right to privacy, religious and race relations, cloning, the National Rifle Association, freedom of the press, etc. The blog has links to other popular blogs.
The Corner
The Corner is affiliated with the National Review. The blog mostly consists of news of the day, linked from sources ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Wired magazine to other people's blogs etc. Topics most likely to be found on the blog cannot be firmly categorized; it can be a commentary on politics and current events, patriotic implications of the steel tariff, the final episode of the X-Files etc. Discussions about race and religion get heated up.
Slashdot
www.slashdot.org
Slashdot showcases the latest developments in technology. Topics of discussions can be the latest hardware and software and conferences, books, sci-fi movie effects and other similar topics. Interactivity is high: readers discuss everything from how to build a computer from scratch to online film piracy. Journals section lets readers create their own blog-within-a-blog.
Obscure Store and Reading Room
www.obscurestore.com
This site dishes strangest realities. The blog contains the most unthinkable news - about finding a fried chicken head in the McNuggets or about the one about the man who beat up his son for making out with the dog. The blog also links to straight news, gossip and an interesting collection of other blogs.
Eatonweb Portal
www.portal.eatonweb.com
A site is linked to more than 4,700 international blogs that are searchable by 52 categories. The vast search field includes searching by country of origin, language, keyword etc. It can get you to an authors' critique of a naive Business Week article on VC funding. It's all there: the good, the bad and the just plain weird.
Baseball News Blog
www.baseballnews.blogspot.com
This blog features a daily dose of baseball-related news from Web sites, newspapers and industry journals summarized and linked from the main page. It also has plenty of outside links to analyses, columnists and some of the blogger's favorite team sites. The blog is linked to more than 100 baseball-related sites, including other blogs like Futility Infielder and Transaction Oracle.
Nuzee.com
www.nuzee.com
This blog is linked to news sources from all around the world. The site is organized into top stories, business and sports, investment news, science and health news and entertainment news etc. The blog allows reader to search the headlines by keyword.
Sullywatch
http://sullywatch.blogspot.com/
Sullywatch is full of argument and ideas. The blog has posts are long and involved and are well argued and intelligent.
Tokyo Tidbits
http://www.tokyotidbits.com/
‘Tokyo Tidbits’ is a mobile picture blog. A girl called Mie takes picture from her phone and maintains the blog. She then types the entries before e-mailing them to the Movabletype based blog. The blog has lots of nice pictures from around Tokyo.
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