Powerful blogs

Last Sunday The Guardian wrote about the 50 most powerful blogs in the world, and yesterday (only a week later) Swedish media picked up the story. Better late than never I guess...

Having played around with my own blog for almost two years now I'm very happy to see some of my favourite blogs on the list, including Samizdata at number 39. Two friends of mine are part of this blog that never leaves you untouched.

Samizdata is one of Britain's oldest blogs. Written by a bunch of anarcho-libertarians, tax rebels, Eurosceptics and Wildean individualists, it has a special niche in the political blogosphere: like a dive bar, on the rational side of the border between fringe opinion and foam-flecked paranoid ranting. Samizdata serves its opinions up strong and neat, but still recognisable as politics. On the other side of the border, in the wilderness, the real nutters start.

I tend to disagree with their views most of the time, but somehow I find the rather thought provoking posts interesting which keep me coming back for more.