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Best blog posts '06 : Comments

By Ken Parish and Nicholas Gruen, published 2/1/2007

How do you select the best blog posts of 2006?

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Good to see this underway at last... and that I've finally made my way through the registration thingy :)

As far as bloggy goodies are concerned, I'm still a big fan of Jason Soon's piece on DC v Marvel comics:

http://catallaxyfiles.com/?p=859
Posted by skepticlawyer, Tuesday, 2 January 2007 11:51:24 AM
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Congratulations for this initiative from Club Troppo.

The online world of publishing is going through some fascinating changes, as itself it changes the wider worlds of publishing.

In that context, and in reference to what above are described as 'blogs', this acknowledgement is worth including in the mix at this point:

It's a cheers to Troppo from a thankful reader. Gets my best blog vote by a long way: terrific posts, which are placed there not by a hurried need to get something on site, or to serve the writer's need to simply be published, but because there was genuine merit in the post. It’s that different focus of need which comes across clearly, and is appreciated there, whereas at other popular sites an urgency can be quite offputting. And there doesn’t appear that need to post with intent to outsmart. Beaut also to see Troppo’s attempts at promoting are made through creative efforts - efforts of excellence; rather than false crappy comments attempting to justify a link to “here’s my take”. Can’t say how wonderful it is also to see proper spellings of the word “the” - heartening, in the proper use of that word, too. All very simple stuff, but very welcome from a reader’s point of view. Comments arrive there not as chatroom, and not as though listening through headphones to commenters gathering on a runway before take off to some hoped-for predetermined destination. It’s not a sickly colour, and there’s not a totally useless annoying mouse pointer curler thing continually distracting from what is there. Basically, from a reader's point of view, Club Troppo is less manic; it properly understands the value of “serving the reader”, doesn’t try to outdo, is mature and good fun.

Given blogging is a diverse animal, nevertheless, I think Club Troppo sets the standard.
Posted by Forum Identity - Robert, Tuesday, 2 January 2007 1:10:04 PM
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"The committee was Ken Parish, Nicholas Gruen, Helen Dale and Meika Loofs Samorzewski. Having co-operated in producing a shortlist, Ken then chose the best blogs with Nicholas acting as a sounding board."

So where is the list of 40 best blog pieces?

And which blog sites were considered and by what process?

I wonder if it was more rigorous than Nicholas Gruen's approach to the science of global warming? :-)

And I'm surprised National Forum/the Domain didn't advertise the event/process early December
Posted by Jennifer, Tuesday, 2 January 2007 2:07:30 PM
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PS I've just been over to the Club Troppo site were I see Ken Parish is promising to email the entire list of 40 best blog pieces to his mates privately
Posted by Jennifer, Tuesday, 2 January 2007 2:26:16 PM
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There is something funny going on with this article. It's no longer showing on the front page, and - according to the date stamp - was uploaded in 1999. What's going on?
Posted by skepticlawyer, Tuesday, 2 January 2007 3:47:16 PM
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My apologies - we have had a glitch with the turnover of the new year for articles published in 2007. It should now be all sorted out.
Regards
Susan Prior - editor
Posted by SusanP, Tuesday, 2 January 2007 3:57:44 PM
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The answers to Jennifer's queries are that it was a spur of the moment decision to do this feature. The iniative came from Nicholas Gruen, who is the chair of The National Forum, and is a joint undertaking with Nicholas and Ken and the others from Club Troppo. My understanding was that Troppo was just going to publish a list, but that they then came up with the idea of publishing the whole of the original post on OLO so as to expose the pieces to a wider audience. I didn't know we were doing it until a few days before Christmas, and I'm grateful to Ken and Nicholas for the idea and doing the work of pulling it together in the first place.

In discussions with Nicholas I understood that the list would be left open during January with the possibility of adding blog posts to it, so that it would be to some extent a work in progress. OLO was inviting submissions over the Christmas/New Year break.

It's been billed as an annual event, so hopefully next year we'll be geared-up much earlier. We might even be able to find a sponsor to provide prizes.
Posted by GrahamY, Tuesday, 2 January 2007 5:17:45 PM
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From an oldie with a post-grad in the general social sciences, including Honours in Third World Problems, as well as praised for insight from American tutors, do feel the use of blogs has become a codism by-passing precious historical insight and commonsense and leaving the running of our Western world in the hands and minds of not the real thinkers but more the manipulators of modern techno' methodology, meaning that though memory is retained, depth of memory is not, thus neither is deep reasoning and insight.

Certainly our present unipolar leaders seem to be severely suffering from it.
Posted by bushbred, Thursday, 4 January 2007 11:06:53 AM
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If there's any spaces left for best blog posts of 2006, I'd like to suggest a post by Tim Sterne:

http://sternezine.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-im-not-reading.html

Being a selfish egomaniacal glory hog, I'd also like to propose a post of my own:

http://willtypeforfood.blogspot.com/2006/02/writing-book-review-for-age.html

Thank you.
Posted by TimT, Saturday, 13 January 2007 11:18:26 AM
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I've come a bit late to this discussion, but if I can still add a suggestion ...

Rodney Croome's piece about the passing of Richard Carleton was one of my best blog reads last year:

http://www.rodneycroome.id.au/weblog?id=P2112
Posted by w, Wednesday, 24 January 2007 9:34:32 PM
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