Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
A bit about it:
Two Ways to Geocode Your Blog
“Geocoding” is adding latitude/longitude data to something to indicate its physical location — for example, geocoding a digital photograph so you can pinpoint where it was taken, or geocoding your blog so that people can know where you’re blogging from. Now, as far as blogs are concerned, the most frequent use of geocoding is to be able to show which other bloggers are located nearby. … more
http://abutamam.blogspot.com/ This is aljazerra international, and this site has comment sections below each story which attract world wide visitors. It is hard to post comments on this site as the entries must go through a translation I assume to arabic and then back to English, so statements will come out different than written many times. I am hoping that people on this site will post comments there as the American representation is generally far, far right, “don’t care about anyone but ourselves,” type. This type of commenting just enrages the middle easterners on the site as well as europeans and Australians, etc.
From a search, and a little filtering: http://fistfulofeuros.net/
Worth a look in your spare time. [I know, I know, what spare time].
I did a little searching and came across these links:
This one seems to be a directory:
http://www.blogscanada.ca/politics/default.aspx
This one is a site that awarded blogs (similar to Koufax). It lists best liberal blog and best conservative blog.
http://www3.sympatico.ca/robert.mcclelland/blogawards.html
http://geourl.org/
The GeoURL ICBM Address Server
A bit about it:
Two Ways to Geocode Your Blog
“Geocoding” is adding latitude/longitude data to something to indicate its physical location — for example, geocoding a digital photograph so you can pinpoint where it was taken, or geocoding your blog so that people can know where you’re blogging from. Now, as far as blogs are concerned, the most frequent use of geocoding is to be able to show which other bloggers are located nearby. …
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http://bellaciao.org/en/ French or Italian site, international
http://abutamam.blogspot.com/ Free Iraq site
http://abutamam.blogspot.com/ This is aljazerra international, and this site has comment sections below each story which attract world wide visitors. It is hard to post comments on this site as the entries must go through a translation I assume to arabic and then back to English, so statements will come out different than written many times. I am hoping that people on this site will post comments there as the American representation is generally far, far right, “don’t care about anyone but ourselves,” type. This type of commenting just enrages the middle easterners on the site as well as europeans and Australians, etc.
I suppose you’ve e-mailed soj. She might know. Or one of her simians might.
please keep going with this!
Here’s another one I found randomly. Liberal atheist Canadian — what’s not to love?
http://impenitentatheist.blogspot.com/
Woah I just found this Diary… hope you’re still watching it Booman..
I fully concur with the Fistful of Euros recommend.
I’d also like to add the peerless Yorkshire Ranter (UK) as well as Neeka’s Backlog (Ukraine) and of course The Religious Policeman (Saudi Arabia).
Top notch!!
Pax