Pre-Dominant Link Hierarchy Subversion (Good) Friday, Maundy Thursday edition. (I'll be out of range tomorrow, and probably all weekend, since I'm going home for Easter. I'll light up a fatty with Resurrected Jesus for y'all.) Just a couple, because I'm not yet being very diligent about searching out blogs that I don't know—and, in fact, one of these is a blog I know very well, but don't link to often enough. So, OK, not unclear on the concept, just lazy ...

I think of Fact-esque as kind of my sister blog, since eRobin started it just a day before I started mine, and with the same media-watching intent. Robin (I can't write the name for long with the "e" prefix) has been a lot more diligent and consistent than I've ever dreamed of being. More to the point, her post yesterday at American Street (which I'm not linking because it compliments a post of mine, honestly, though thanks, Robin!) reminded me of what's emerged as Robin's best and most characteristic quality as a blogger: her emphasis on going beyond analysis to action:

We [lefty bloggers] have no shortage of brilliant minds (A-List and otherwise) who rail eloquently and cogently against the dangerous machinations of the radical Republicans, but we are missing the will do take the step that would turn our "generally agreed upon" into political action.

Robin dreams of a March on Washington against the Bush agenda. That's the kind of dreaming we'd all be better off doing more of.

And via the completely indispensible Avedon Carol (who's been subverting more dominant link hierarchies longer than anybody else), I'm adding Bitch, Ph.D. and War on Error to my groaning Bloglines blogroll. (Which I should really use to replace the current static blogroll on the left, though I hate giving up my cute category headings, though I'm probably the only one amused by them.) Bitch, Ph.D. because—well, with a title like that, do you have to ask? Ex-academic that I am, I've spent surprisingly little time hooking up to academic bloggers, and Professor B.'s gonna help me with that. And War on Error's Emma Goldman is writing a series of posts (starting here), both personal and theoretical, on social class in America that are a model of this sort of engaged writing. Great stuff.

Oh, OK, one more. Jon Garfunkel has a funny and link-rich abecedarium of blogging ("From the A-list to the Z-list") over at Civilities. Warning, though: with all those links, reading it is a bit like getting into a fight with the Tar Baby ...

That's it for this installment. Now back to my (ir)regularly scheduled grindstone.

posted by michael  10:01:41 AM  
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