Blog subversion. Speaking of subverting the dominant link hierarchy, I notice that these days—for a while now, really, but it's only just kind of swum into the foreground of my attention—Eschaton is no longer the top aggregator-blog I look at. In fact, it's not even close. For me the most valuable work of this sort is being done by Susan at Suburban Guerilla, and by the team at First Draft. Those are the folks I check pretty much first thing, and often, for my basic Left-Wing Orientation, with Atrios now a distant third, and really no longer part of my complete breakfast. Just sayin'.

On a fundamentally unrelated note, I'm thinking of rechristening this blog—I'm fond of "Reading A1," partly because I kind of fell into a halfway-decent title and I suck at making up titles for anything, but it doesn't really fit anymore, my having largely grown weary of the Times-critique beat. (How much good does it do, after all, and why am I wasting my time on the mediocrities that populate the Times' political corps?) I probably won't make the change unless/until I'm inspired enough to do some redesign work—but I have an alternative title I like (it came to me the other day in meditation, oddly enough), one that speaks to my own literary orientation and also suggests some of the personal ambivalence I have toward the blogging enterprise. And I'm not going to say what it is till I decide to use it, even though part of me wants to know how it sounds outside my own head.

posted by michael  1:46:31 PM  
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