Actually, I’m not entirely sure there is a European blogosphere yet, as most blogospheres seem to develop in their respective linguistic markets, complemented by a couple of English language (non UK) blogs operating in the same markets. Thus, the European blogosphere, narrowly defined, is still a rather tiny community.
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Irritation.
Over on Crooked Timber, Maria Farrell is being haunted by the sheer gaul of them, and consequently expressing her irritation with France and the French, not just
[f]or falling asleep at the wheel in 2002 and letting back in to the Elysee a fraud who has no vision for France, no values apart from expediency, and whose number one professional objective was using the office to stay out of jail.”
But also for pretty much everything else imaginable – so go read her post.
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The Blog Next Door
If a fistful of euros aren’t quite enough for your daily needs, hop over to A Few Euros More.
A Few Euros More is having a trial run because the authors here wanted more, too. On the one hand, discussion about our posts is one of the best parts of the blog. Talking with our excellent readership, having people react to what we write is one of the most gratifying parts of writing here. On the other, discussion tends to taper off rapidly as a post slides down the page. So sometimes we are reluctant to post a short thought on a news item, or ineed short thoughts on almost anything, because we don’t want to push a good discussion further down the page. Which means we’ve been missing the chance to blog on different things.
Hence, A Few Euros More. It’s in the experimental stage, though it probably won’t stay in beta quite as long as Google products seem to. We’ll find out what we like, what our readers like, and adjust accordingly. Right now, it’s full of quick newsy thoughts just waiting for comments. Thoughts on the experiment itself can come here.
Update: One way reader/bloggers could help is by adding a link to A Few Euros More in your sidebar, and of course, if you like the idea, mentioning it on your blog.
Department of Wow: I
Rumaging around the OECD website this morning looking for the original documentation on the spate of comparative pensions articles which have been hitting the press in the last couple of days I came across something which I consider truly, truly interesting.
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Bloggeurs In The News
On Thursday it was John Thornhill in the FT, then yesterday Stephen Castle of the Independent joined in. Topic du jour: the battle in cyberspace for the hearts and minds of the French voters.
Conspiracy Theory One: the US administration wants Europe to adopt the constitutional treaty because it would kill off nation states and allow Washington to deal with a more pliable Brussels.Conspiracy Theory Two: the Bush administration is secretly financing the No campaign in France because it wants to kill off Europe’s ambitions to forge a common foreign policy and rival the US on the world stage.
Financial Times Thursday 28 AprilOne says that a vote for the EU constitution would please George Bush; another uses a computer game format with arrows from a “yes” vote to a “game over” box. Not only are French opponents of the EU constitution ahead in the opinion polls they are also winning the battle of the blogs.
Independent Saturday 30 April
Felix Salmon on Wolfowitz
The Bloggies
Well, I guess someone has to lose. But, as someone said when we saw we were up against BoingBoing and others for Best Group Weblog, it’s nice to be nominated. Congratulations also to Zoe for winning Best European Weblog.
….David weighs in:
Congrats also to my man Francis, one of my favorite bloggers, who finally won best GLBT blog this year, and to Tom Coates who won Best UK blog and the lifetime achievement award.
It is nice to be nominated.
Blogads survey
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Old questions reawakened
Europe’s history is littered with questions, some answered, some left unanswered for centuries. For those of you interested in the Schleswig-Holstein question, Randy McDonald has an interesting post on how the remaining Danish and Frisian minority in Schleswig-Holstein could hold the state’s balance of power after Sunday’s elections and how that could affect the politics of Germany as a whole.
British blogging round up
If you’re interested in finding out what British bloggers are talking about then you’ll probably find Tim Worstall’s first BritBlog Roundup rather useful. He’s hoping to make it a weekly event, similar to other blog roundups like the Carnival of the Vanities, and if you want to contribute or be featured then you can find details here.