Mazel tov to Juan Cole whose Informed Comment won the Brass Crescent Award for Best Non-Muslim Blog. The Brass Crescent competition acknowledges Muslim blogs. Juan has certainly done a great deal to improve the understanding of Islam and and the Muslim world in the blogosphere and beyond, especially through his dogged coverage of [...]
Read full post...Yesterday, I wrote a somewhat uncharitable post asking people to vote in the Brass Crescent competition for Best Non-Muslim blog. I recommended voting for several blogs and not voting for one in particular. While I don’t take back what I wrote about Lisa Goldman or her blog, I feel chastened by the fact [...]
Read full post...Voting for this year’s Brass Crescent Awards ends on December 14th. These are awards bestowed by the Arab-Muslim blogsphere on the best of their own (though voting is open to all regardless of religion). There are some fine blogs nominated with whose authors I have communicated over the years including Akram’s Razor, Raising [...]
Read full post...Over the past few days, I’ve had a dialogue of the deaf with Lisa Goldman, a Canadian-Israeli journalist who edits the Israel section of the Global Voices website. I’ve criticized the lack of diversity in Goldman’s choices of blogs she covers in her regular roundups of Israeli blogs. I’ve also criticized her narrow [...]
Read full post...Some of you may know of a very interesting blog aggregator called Global Voices Online. It divides up the blogosphere by country and aggregates some of the best national blogs. Each day, a country editor does a roundup which summarizes particular blog posts. Here’s how the website describes its mission:
Global Voices Online [...]
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