Other People's Blogs

There are an awful lot of blogs out there. Sturgeon's law seems to apply with a vengeance here; more that 90% of the blogs I've looked at at random are completely vapid nonsense, typically the product of a self-obsessed and semi-literate teenager. Look at the "recently published blogs" on the front page of www.blogger.com and click on a few to see what I mean.

There are some more worthwhile ones, of course. I've been reading a few. One is Bruce Baugh's Writer of Fortune II (Electric Weblogaloo). Bruce is a professional writer of role-playing games, and his blog has recently covered topic including cryonics, internet file-sharing, and Hungarian prog-rock. Yes, Bruce, "De Produndis" by After Crying is a superb album, I'm listening to it now. Shows how unimaginitive and derivative most western European and American neo-prog bands are.

Another is Patrick Crozier's UK Transport blog. I don't share his Libertarian philosophy (do you believe in the total privatisation of the road network?), but his blog is well-written and thought provoking.

Then there's Tim Deagan's account of his experiences restoring a vintage Amercan fire engine.