Occassionaly, I get visitors here from the Swedish EU Blog of Mats Engström, who has been kind enough to blogroll me after I criticised an article he wrote. See here for his reply, which I can't make head or tails of as I don't speak Swedish. Anyway, he seems to be saying that I have many other Europabloggers on my blogroll, or something like that.
True enough. Unfortunately the fact that there are several bloggers talking about Europe doesn't mean that there is something like a European Blogosphere, as in a group of blogs that interact, mutually reinforce traffic and create a dialogue. The closest thing to this is in fact contained within the single participatory European Tribune blog. Except that the political diversity element is a bit lacking, or basically it runs from center-left to far-left.
It seems to me that in the run-up to the French and Dutch referendums on the European Constitution, there was something like an emerging European Blogosphere. But that faded away not long after the French and Dutch voted against it. So did this blog, eventually. But as it's restarted, perhaps we can also revive some of the connections.
So, with that in mind I set out to compile a somewhat authorative list of English language Euroblogs. The Eurotrib had a link to a wiki on the European blogosphere, where I continued to edit the page "Pan/European Blogosphere", which I took to be blogs that talk mainly about Europe (rather than personal blogs, blogs that only talk about local, national, international politics, or anything else).
So that is one afternoon spent perusing blogrolls, message boards, magazines (yes!) and technorati. But in the end I found a couple of quite exciting new blogs, most notably the nicely designed Shortcut, that I didn't know before or had forgotten.
You can see the results here.
As it is a wiki anyone can add or delete. Basic criteria that I used: Technorati rank under 15,000 for A-List, under 115,000 for B-list. Blog updated at least once since July, mainly European content for all.
More to come...
Update. I'm trying to get the people at European Tribune and at AFOE to collaborate. Further suggestions here are also welcome.
Update #2. I updated the blogroll to include the new blogs I found, and to make it a bit clearer.
Posts
Worth a read: Soros on the euro and EU
19 hours ago
3 comments:
I think Eurotrib's focus is a feature, not a bug .. if you try to be all things to all people you tend not to get anywhere.
That's a good point. What I was trying to say is that, although there is a real conversation on Eurotrib, it's no replacement for a sphere of blogs running across the spectrum like you have in the US. Not that it should try to be such a thing...
Ahhh the Brussels Journal ... extremely conservative, so close to extreme right ... ew.
The wife of the editor is in parliament for the extreme right party here and last I heard the police were looking for the editor for comparing muslims to animals of prey on his blog.
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