Good blogs

There’s so much good blogging going on out there.

Despite Clive Davis’ assertion that the French riots have not been “the blogosphere’s finest hour,” he is doing a great job of pulling together mainstream media and blog reports while sounding a cautious note to the hysterical voices in the blogosphere (especially on this side of the Atlantic) who are putting too much emphasis on Islam and having far too good a time laughing at France’s misery.

Meanwhile, Opinionistas, who I wrote about in the New York Times at the weekend, has published one of her best posts in a long time, a remarkable achievement considering the quality of her blog. I see also that she has had quite a response to the piece.

And Scott Burgess, at the Daily Ablution, invigorated after raising almost £3,000 in his first fund-raising drive, lays into the Indy for its reporting of claims that US forces ‘used chemical weapons’ during assault on city of Fallujah with a post highlighting the unacknowledged biases of the story’s sources yesterday and a second post throwing further doubt on the story’s vailidity today. (PS I notice the Indy put the phrase ‘used chemical weapons’ in quote marks. A bit of a giveaway?)