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Although he confuses me with some obscure early 20th century poet, I shall nevertheless link Tiger’s review of the top blogs on the Ecosystem. My summary of his summary:

  • InstaPundit: A bunch of links by a lazy law prof with no content or comments section. He sucks but he’s been doing it a long time so everyone links him.
  • Daily Kos: Confusing, dry, and left-leaning. But has comments section.
  • Eshaton: Well written, left-leaning, has comments section. Doesn’t suck.
  • Volokh: Good but boring. No comments section. Kinda sucks.
  • Sullivan: No obvious ideology but very homosexual. No comments section. Doesn’t really suck.
  • Lileks: Not really a blog. No comments section. Good writing, though.
  • Joshua Marshall: Leftie, well written, no comments section.
  • LGF: Lots of stuff plus allows comments.
  • USS Clueless: Long, possibly Trekkie. Comments enabled. Doesn’t suck, except too long to actually read.
  • CalPundit: Well written, has cat pics, comments enabled.
    All sites authored by white males.

Following Tiger’s lead, Kevin Aylward rates the bottom five sites on the Ecosystem. My summary:

There’s a reason no one has linked to them! Lots of Aussies, too.

Go read the originals for an expanded analysis.

About the Author: James Joyner is the publisher of Outside the Beltway and the managing editor of the Atlantic Council. He's a former Army officer, Desert Storm vet, and college professor with a PhD in political science from The University of Alabama. He lives just outside the Beltway in Alexandria, Virginia.

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Obscure 20th century poet? You mean 'one of the most well-known and respected novelists of all time' surely? You shoudl be honoured. Not that I've read his stuff like.
Tiger failed to notice the utter, all-pervasive racist horribleness of LGF, which dissapointed me.

Posted by Ryan | June 24, 2003 | 03:44 pm | Permalink
 

:)

Posted by James Joyner | June 24, 2003 | 03:46 pm | Permalink
 

Tiger failed to notice the utter, all-pervasive racist horribleness of LGF, which dissapointed me.

It would be so easy to rip that comment to shreds but for the sake of civility on Mr. Joyce's board I shall pass.

I would simply as the poster to perhaps consider.... Naw- I'll even give that a pass.

Posted by Paul | June 24, 2003 | 04:30 pm | Permalink
 

Obscure?!? Really, James, you should know better than that... :)

Posted by April | June 24, 2003 | 04:34 pm | Permalink
 

Apparently my subtle, ironic wit is lost on some people. . .

Posted by James Joyner | June 24, 2003 | 04:36 pm | Permalink
 

I do all the writing and you get all the comments. See what happens when you are an obscure early 20th Centruy poet?

Posted by Tiger | June 24, 2003 | 05:45 pm | Permalink
 

I feel for ya, Tiger. Linkin' ya is all I can do.

Posted by James Joyner | June 24, 2003 | 06:14 pm | Permalink
 

I don't know why, but after I typed "James Joy" the "ce" just fell right into place. I have changed it to remove the stigma that you are the reincarnation of an obscure early 20th century poet.

Posted by Tiger | June 24, 2003 | 06:48 pm | Permalink
 

Although I did not go into that, the last statement made in your take of my review of Sullivan may not be literally true. I have no first, second, or other hand knowledge about such, just this sneaking intuition that such statement is likely incorrect.

Posted by Tiger | June 24, 2003 | 07:12 pm | Permalink
 

LGF has some good links, but the comments are troll city. Does anyone actually read through all of them?!

Instapundit is an unstoppable link-bot. His comments are usually rather banal however. Quantity over quality I guess.

Den Beste is often rather insightful, but you need to set aside a bit of time to get through them.

My current favorite blog is Reason's Hit and Run. I guess that's a blog of sorts.

Posted by dude | June 24, 2003 | 10:00 pm | Permalink
 

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