Gizmodo

Check out this blog dedicated to all things electronic. It reviews all the latest gadgets and gizmos and provides some great insights into the high-tech world.

http://uk.gizmodo.com/

Gawker

Daily Manhattan gossip and news blog, very funny and very widely read. It was even featured in this week's Economist!

http://gawker.com/

CyberMusic

Cool blog reviewing music albums...

http://www.cybersmusic.com/

WikiDumper

Very funny blog displaying a collection of "inappropriate" entries that are rejected from Wikipedia...one mans treasure is another man's dross (I think I may have got that phrase wrong but you know what I mean!)...

http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/

Holiday

I am going on holiday for a week so won't unfortunately be able to update the blog until I return. Please feel free to share any great blogs with me that you know of and I will upload them when I am back.

Thanks

EPL Talk

Influential football blog with a good selection of articles and a great links section...





http://eplleague.blogspot.com/

The Belgravia Dispatch

Fascinating political blog....






http://www.belgraviadispatch.com/

Nuff said

In case you didn't see this cartoon on The Hedgehog Blog (see below), I wanted to bring it to your attention...this pretty much sums it all up for me.

Daily Kos - the state of the nation

I have included this blog mainly due to the fact that it is one of America's most influential and well known political blogs. It averages over 700,000 visits a day and has between 20-25m visits per month! It is very left wing and liberal and is a major critic of the current Bush Administration (who isn't nowadays!). It is an example of how blogging has revolutionised political discourse, strategy and debate in the 21st century.

http://www.dailykos.com/

Barack Obama

I know that this blog is primarily an anthology of the greatest blogs on the web (I wondered how long it would take me to write a full post!) , however, I thought it was worth drawing your attention to this speech given by Barack Obama (Senator, Illinois) at the Democratic National Convention in 2004 - see link on right.

Much has been made recently about Barack Obama's potential as the Democratic presidential candidate for 2008, and he has been widely tipped at Hillary Clinton's most dangerous challenger for the nomination. For Obama's supporters, exhibit A has been the speech that he gave at the DNC back in 2004. I have read it and I was struck by its power and humanity. Speech can change the world and Obama seems to have all the qualities to one day be regarded along with the greats.

Reading this speech gave me the idea of including on this blog a list of the world's greatest speeches, those that have brought down barriers, inspired nations and shaped the attitudes of generations. They will not feature regularly as posts on the blog but I will build up a list of them on the links section.

The Hedgehog Blog

"The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing." - Archilochus

Very interesting political and social blog...

http://hedgehogcentral.blogspot.com/

PC David Copperfield

"This blog will do more to put people off calling the police than anything, other than actually calling the police." Hilarious blog by bitter policeman that exposes unbelievable police incompetence. Was also featured in this weeks Sunday Times. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2092-2426344.html

Check it out...

http://coppersblog.blogspot.com/

Media Backspin

This is a weblog from Honest Reporting, an organisation that exposes inaccuracies in the reporting of Israel-focussed coverage in the global media. HP is fantastic at showing that things are not always what they seem...

http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/

Guido Fawkes

An award winning British political blog...

http://5thnovember.blogspot.com/

Comment Central - Daniel Finkelstein

Daniel Finkelstein is Comment Editor of The Times and writes a weekly column. Comment Central is his rolling guide to the best opinion on the web...

http://www.timesonline.typepad.com/comment/

The Daily Dish - Andrew Sullivan

Andrew Sullivan has weekly column in The Sunday Times and is a British-American living in the US commentating on American politics. His political views perfectly sum up the ethos of this blog, namely that labels are too simplistic- check it out...

http://time.blogs.com/daily_dish/

Conservative Home

If you are a proud Tory like me then this is a great blog to visit. It contains all the inside news on the party, a good selection of commentary plus a forum for activists to debate ideas...

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/

101 Great Goals

Check out this blog for all the key football goals from around the world in one place...

www.101greatgoals.blogspot.com