So, as you may or may not know I’m signed up to do a book about British blogs. I would be slightly more cheerful about this if I wasn’t right in the middle of the boring part of the research. Yup, a straight brute force approach here, reading just about every Brit and Irish blog I can find. And I’m sorry to have to say that as with everything in this life, quite a lot of them are not very good (for a given value of good that is. Assume that this one is "good" means you would want to refer a stranger to it).
That’s OK, because there are thousands and thousands of them and the real problem will be which good bits to leave out, not why aren’t there enough good bits.
So, I know the UK blogs aggregator. I know Britblog. I’ve obviously got the Britblog Roundup archives, other people’s blogrolls and so on. But any more lists/collections of B and I blogs? I’m particularly concerned that I’m missing two major groups. Lefties and the personal blogs (I know of a few, My Boyfriend is a Twat, Petite Anglaise, The Chaffinches etc, (and no, the fact that I know of them doesn’t mean they’ll be included, just that they’re on the list to think about doing so)) but anyone able to point me to a decent source of links to those two groups?
I’ve already decided to leave most of the business and tecchie blogs out….but any ideas, from anyone, on places I should be looking ?
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