Microbe MiningLast year at Kerry Haters, I did a little feature called Microbe of the Day, where I tried to find a deserving small blog that had not yet found its audience. Several of those blogs blossomed nicely. So I thought I might take a look the small blogs again.
First observation: Good Lord, there are a lot more of them than there were last summer! The TTLB ecosystem now goes
to over 22,500 blogs! And we all know that's just the tip of the iceberg; Blogger reports over 10 million on its site alone. Of course, eight million of those are run by teenage girls angry at their boyfriends, but still!
I came across
Grendel's Dragon originally through a Technorati search to see who else had covered John Tierney's latest column (as I did over at
Lifelike). Looks like Mike got his start after reading the
Mudville Gazette primer on blogging that attracted some attention a couple days ago. Only four posts so far, but two of them are on topics I've blogged as well.
Homo Insapiens is
a very funny blog. Faced with the outbreak of democracy around the world, HI notes:
Tyranny might not have been fun but at least the false promises were consistent and the neighbourhood wasn’t littered with posters. But for some reason, democracy keeps coming back like a nasty rash. The US is, of course, partly to blame. Holding elections is about the only American export product that the Chinese have not copied and under priced.And check out his comments on the EU Constitution:
The French appear to be favouring a no vote on the basis that the constitution does not reduce the working week to 20 minutes. The Irish are favouring a yes vote, hoping for European funding to build a new 18 lane motorway from Dublin airport to Cafferty’s saloon in Malahide. But even if the yeas carry the day in every referendum in 2005, there remains that troublesome island directly to the west of Europe; and a no vote in any one country will scupper the whole idea.I'll try to do some more Microbe Mining in the next couple of days.
