Political Blogs More Credible than Newspapers, Say Those Who Read Both

According to research by a Brigham Young University political scientist, people who closely follow both political blogs and traditional news media tend to believe the content on blogs is more accurate. Professor Richard Davis reports this and other blog-related insights in Typing Politics, a new book published by Oxford University Press. Davis studied daily blog readers from a nationally representative sample and found that just 3 percent got most of their news from blogs. Most readers still got their information from traditional news organizations, despite some bloggers’ predictions that they would entirely replace traditional media. Instead blogs have become an echo chamber that extends the shelf life of news stories, Davis said. Full Story : Dagorret.com…

Discovering Interesting Blogs -1:

Blogosphere is a collective term encompassing all blogs and their interconnections. So how big is that?. As of this writing there are over 112 million blogs and still growing according to Technorati. But can we assume only the blogs which have great content are only popular. Of course not, there are truly hidden gems which are yet to be discovered. At Snugd we try to find one blog each week which has interesting content, a contribution for the community we all are part of. A word of caution - individual tastes may vary.Without further ado…we present…

Dismantle Civilisation -The only solution is a change of culture.

Bloggers at the endgames believes that the natural world is under attack. Our global economy & corporate capitalist system is destroying the planetary eco system at a pace that few of us can comprehend. Old growth forests are all but gone.
This blog hopes to pull together many diverging strands of information, to illustrate that the problem lies not with any one simple factor, but with the whole culture that we call civilization. The way we have been raised to view humans as superior and separate to nature, and hence how we behave in relation to our surroundings is ultimately the problem.

World’s Oldest blogger passed away

Olive Riley,world’s oldest blogger has passed away this Saturday in a nursing home in Woy Woy, Australia at the age of 108. Riley began blogging February last year. She had posted more than 70 entries on her blog. Her posts can be still read in her blog Life of Riley . She had a sizable international audience on her blog. She was born on October 20, 1899 and will be buried later this week on the NSW Central Coast.