Some thought-provoking blogs
I recently “won” a Thinking Blogger award — not exactly the Nobel Prize but you take what you can get in the blogosphere.
Even my modest amount of modesty forbids me from repeating what Michael Connelly at Corrections Sentencing blog had to say about ClimateProgress. All I’ll say about Michael Connelly is that I don’t even know him, and this was the first I even heard of his blog, a “place for corrections/sentencing policy readers seeking latest information and research” — not really my forte.
But someone gave him a Thinking Blogger award and this award is sort of a virtual chain letter. So here are the five blogs I would give the thinking blogger award to:
- RealClimate.org: I am picking only one blog from The Top Ten Climate Blogs. RealClimate features the most thought-provoking climate scientists blogging today, and its long, long comment streams are equally thought-provoking.
- The Intersection: One of my favorite blogs — probably the one that inspired me to become a blogger. This is the blog of Chris Mooney, he of The Republican War on Science and Storm World.
- ThinkProgress: The best political blog — okay, maybe I’m biased, but it is the one I turn to the most.
- Science Progress: Okay, definitely I’m biased, but this is a terrific new blog for those interested in the progressive perspective on science.
- Problogger: The first blog to turn to if you want to start your own blog — which I think these days is just about everyone.
October 27th, 2007 at 12:26 pm
I’m a sometimes reader of ‘the oil drum.’ It does go to the pessimist side, but it has lively message discussions.
http://www.theoildrum.com/
The whole peak oil group is interesting to read.
October 27th, 2007 at 4:20 pm
I hope everyone does *not* start a blog - it just makes things harder to find.
I suggest it is much better if many thoughtful people find quality blogs and contribute, thus keeping some critical mass.
October 27th, 2007 at 7:58 pm
I recommended you to my readers not just because you have the info they need but also because you have the approach that’s needed as well. One of the big problems facing us is that those of us in social policy areas haven’t really glommed on yet that, if we have issues and problems in relatively good fiscal and social times (emphasis on the “relatively”), those issues and problems will be magnified enormously by global warming and its related energy and water problems. We’re all so silo-ed in our individual concerns right now that we haven’t started seeing the interconnections. I’m hoping that my readers, concerned with how we’re going to continue to pay for prison beds while maintaining public safety, will see how the resources and energies diverted by warming will affect what we do. They need to start taking it all very seriously and to be informed by someone who cuts through the bushwah effectively so they don’t get diverted or confused. Your blog is a great site for that, and I appreciate the effort you make to keep it daily and entertaining at the same time. Corrections and sentencing policies aren’t renowned for their attention to the future and costs, but the more of our people we get reading what you post, the less we can claim ignorance. Well, at least get away with it. Thanks for the good work.