10:49 am
Great Stuff From The Ether
With Charlie gone, I will take this opportunity to promote some of my own favorite places on the web (besides Undiplomatic).
The McClatchy Blogs
The McClatchy chain of newspapers is unusual in 2008 first because they still bravely maintain a small group of international correspondents. And second because they ask those reporters to blog. The result is often very real, behind-the-headlines insight. The blogs are:
- China Rises, written by Beijing Bureau Chief Tim Johnson.
- Checkpoint Jerusalem, written by Jerusalem Bureau Chief Dion Nissenbaum.
- Inside South America, written by South America Correspondent Tyler Bridges.
- Inside Iraq, written by Iraqi journalists working for McClatchy.
- Baghdad Observer, written by Baghdad Bureau Chief Leila Fadel.
- Somewhere in Africa, written by Nairobi Correspondent Shashank Bengali.
Other McClathy blogs cover the defense, diplomacy, and intelligence community in Washington, DC and veterans’ affairs.
Strange Maps
The name says it all… all they post and discuss are strange maps. These recently include forgotten kingdoms in South America, the fictional island of San Serriffe, and the availability of sweet tea in relation to southern culture.
Arts And Letters Daily
OK, I know everyone already knows about this site run by the Chronicle of Higher Education. But they still compile the best written, quirkiest, most erudite writing on the web. Without Arts And Letters Daily, I never would have found From Silver Lake to Suicide: One Family’s Secret History of the Jonestown Massacre; Place Settings: Emily Post, At Home; or False Apology Syndrome – I’m Sorry For Your Sins.