Tikun Olam-תקון עולם: Make the World a Better Place

I always look over my blog site referrals as reported by Statcounter.com. You never know when you’re going to come across something really strange or really interesting. A few days ago I discovered that someone who runs a site which I’d call soft porn or just plain porn had linked to a very serious post I’d written about the 1949 Peekskill Riots against Paul Robeson’s concert appearance there. I was really scratching my head on that one. This is also how I discovered that my post about Madonna’s Kabbalistic Magical Mystical Tour to Israel had been republished throughout the Live Journal empire leading to numerous hits from that universe.

Just now, I saw a referral from Blogdigger.com. When I visited the site I was both amazed and pleased. Nearly a year ago, I wrote here that what the blog world needed was a Google-like blog directory which would allow you to sort through blogs based on whatever site criteria you chose (subject, keyword, etc.). Well, that’s precisely what Blogdigger has done.

But they’ve even gone one better. I’ve just created an mp3 blog devoted to world and folk music. In doing research before creating this project, I discovered mp3blogs.org, the mp3 blog aggregator. It’s a tremendously useful tool to generate blog visitors. I often write about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. There are a smattering of other bloggers out there who write from a similar viewpoint, though on the whole we’re a pretty lonely bunch (not too many bloggers writing on this subject have a passionate devotion to a two state solution which rejects current U.S., Israeli AND Palestinian policies regarding peace). I don’t know how much site traffic my fellow Mideast peace bloggers have, but I know I don’t have much.

My positive experience with mp3blogs.org led me to begin speculating about creating such an aggregator site for Mideast peace blogs. Now, after visiting Blogdigger Groups, it appears that it wouldn’t be hard at all to realize this dream. Now to persuade my fellow Mideast peace bloggers to join me!

I should make clear that I’m not a technical maven and don’t know enough about the technical aspects of Blogdigger to confirm that it’s an excellent product. But I sure hope it is because it promises to fulfill important needs in the blog world.