Sites are blogged down in controversy

""These organizations are just risk averse," says Joshua Micah Marshall, whose 2-year-old blog TalkingPointsMemo.com is a daily stop for more than 20,000 political junkies. "What good does it do them to have someone they are identified with saying things that they can't control, that by the nature of the medium are going to be provocative?""

I'd have thought that they would have started to understand it by now. The journo refs and praises the BBC Iraqi blog, which is dull as dishwater, I also skip the Guardian's weblog, which is also sterile. The Kevin Sites blog showed promise before it was shut down, but I wouldn't say it was a compelling site, just that there wasn't much out there.

The best Iraqi war blog? It would have to be Where's Rael? still I visit hoping that he's OK. Of course the Agonist was useful though very US biased, and the hiccup over pointing to stratfor was a storm in a tea cup, blogs or war showed promise too but became limited and mechanical with not much in the way of commentary, or thought.

Yahoo's directory lists loads of 'war web logs' as they call warblogs.

I've always liked DEBKAfile, though not a blog, more a news site, but I hang on their every word (with my pinch of salt ";->").

Anyway I digress, why haven't media companies got the handle on blogs? Because they aren't real people! They're androids, scared of their lawyers, and shareholders.

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