The blogosphere is flat

I don’t know whether it’s a slow news day, people are still on vacation or hung over from the weekend, or whether it’s just me but there’s very little interesting in the blogosphere today.  I thought that poor Steve Irwin’s death got a lot more coverage yesterday than it really deserved (another symptom of a slow news day).

There’s plenty of political posturing, bogus polls, bemoaning the state of the Left (or the Right, depending on which team you root for), and generally unhelpful proposals for Iran and Iraq.  The latest al-Qaeda video is proof positive of the danger and determination of the Islamist enemy.  The latest al-Qaeda video is proof positive that there is no Islamist enemy.

Dean is still posting YouTube videos.  Joe Gandelman is lost somewhere in the wilds of California.

Maybe it’s just me.

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  • some history Link

    A few big mouthed political blogs are not the “blogopshere.” Bloga are in fact central distribitors of information in finance, economics, venture capital, a large set of technologies and sciencel; places were they really effective. Your confusion of an entertainment component with the serious blogs is silly, they provide a secondary political media and informal polling. But serious organizing and idea formulation goes on elsewhere. Of course much is political, something like arms control wonk provides real information to analyze real situations, it has influence.

    The problem with those who thik they are the center of the universe and try to imitate the MSM and opularity contests is that something is going on and they don’t have the slightest idea of what is do you Mr. Jones?

  • Try here.

  • Thanks, Jeff. It’s a good essay.

  • Picasso Link

    Is it just me or nobody cares?..

  • Dave:

    Have you seen this?

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/09/bin_laden_gets_.html

    I’d be very interested in your take. I’ve fulminated on it, but I’d like your more sober perspective.

  • Well, disturbing if true. My view has long been that we should reward good behavior and punish bad behavior and this certainly looks to me like bad behavior.

    I’m going to have to reflect on this.

    One notion I’ve been toying with is whether, for countries unwilling to abide by Westphalian restrictions, we shouldn’t accede to their wishes and stop treating them as nation-states. In the case of Pakistan and Iran that would mean special forces crossing their borders covertly, assassinating officials in the problem areas (like Waziristan) and disrupting vital assets (like oil pipelines).

    As I said, I have to reflect on this.

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