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| 2002-02-28 |
Rantburg is a warblog. It started out the evening of 9-11 as I obsessively started collecting things to try and make some sense of what had happened. I put it on Blogger at the beginning of November because it had some neato features that I didn't have the time to write into my own software, only to end up taking it off because of its reliability problems. I occasionally veer off-topic, usually because something is so laughably stoopid it deserves to be noted, but my primary focus is and will remain terror networks and their mechanics. It's a big enough subject to take too many hours out of my day that should be devoted to work, talking to the Little Woman or doing whatever else people do when not sitting in front of a computer - I'm not sure what that is, it having been so long. Little Greenfeetsballs, who finds all sorts of stuff before I do, and Bjoern Staerk's always excellent site are also hard-core warblogs. Sgt Stryker is kind of a milblog, rather than exclusively a warblog, a difference that's probably too subtle to matter. (I wouldn't kick him out of the warblog category for it and he's one of my essential reads.) I don't denigrate the GP blogs. I wish I could write as well as most of them, I read a large number of 'em every day, and they're a helluva lot more interesting and content-rich than the "My name is Tiffany, this is a picture of my cat, Muffin. When I turn 16 I'm going to have my belly button pierced" variety. But Rantburg will remain a warblog. GP blogs? Like a general practitioner? |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |