The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

Link: The Tin Drummer. Last July, a new blog began with these words. The start of a new era; like everyone else in the world I have a blog.  Excellent.  I can satisfy my narcisstic longings, imagining that people are hanging on my every word when in fact no-one is…

Link: Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe. Of all the Blogpowerers, Adelaide Green Porridge Cafe is perhaps the closest to what most people imagine a blog to be. Well perhaps that’s a bit unfair. The author Colin Campbell, a "transplanted Scot" in Australia, is not a teenager posting chattily and ungrammatically about…

Link: nourishing obscurity. The Blogpower bloggers have nothing in common but difference. Their distinct personalities come through both in their writing and the visual style of their blogs. Of no-one is this more true than of our founding father, James Higham. His blog, nourishing obscurity, attempts something to which I…

Link: Pub Philosopher. The title of the blog almost says it all. Isn’t "right wing" (how I hate that meaningless term) blogging the equivalent of the saloon bar philosophising of old? That’s what the snooty Guardianistas would have you believe, in between their bouts of haughtily running the lives of…

Link: The Cityunslicker – Business and Politics. The Cityunslicker, as a well-written blog of sympathetic views, was a daily read for me even before Blogpower came along. I enjoy reading the ‘Slicker’s posts and appreciate the uncluttered layout of his site. Why, by the way, do so many bloggers go…