Wednesday, February 04, 2004

So You Want to know About Blogs, Then? II

Part the second of my handy guide to the morass of wordage that is the political bloggieverse.

Tom Watson
The first blogging MP is the Labour member for West Bromwich East. Famous the world over for his biting wit and trenchant comments sailing so close to the wind he risks expulsion from New Labour every time he posts. His razor sharp mind has served him well in blogging jousts with such alumni as Richard Dawkins and... Cut the crap, he will never blogroll you. (ed). All right, then, I lie.
Likely to say: The teens! page is satire, 'kay?
Unlikely to say: I think Tony may be mistaken on this.
Visit: Occasionally.

Oliver Kamm
Unaccountably revered blog of the weighty kind. Rarely posts less than a thousand words and it can seem much, much more. Obsessed with the minutiae of Lib Dem economic and other policies, rivetting is not the word. Really, it's not the word, soporific is. Makes the guys over at Samizdata seem positively jaunty. His one saving grace is that he is very easy to provoke into blog wars. Deletes comments with abandon and is in turn deleted by others.
Likely to say: That was, in the technical sense (hence my reference to the petitio principii fallacy) question-begging.
Unlikely to say: One word when four will do.
Visit: At 3 am when the brandy won't lay you out.