Monday, August 06, 2007

Essential blogs

About 10 days ago, while we guest edited LAist for the day, we made a list of the 10 essential City Nerd blogs we read to get the information we need to stay current on issues of the City that people are talking about. There are over 100 we read, but if we had to read ten, these would be them.

Well, then, this weekend, the LA Daily News published Joseph Mailander's list of a dozen political blogs one should read. Half of them were on my list the week before. Mailander was trying to talk about those blogs that reveal the inside of politics, whereas we're looking at them to show the pulse of civic affairs.

Here's Mailander's list:
Blogdowntown.com*
Blogging.la*
Boifromtroy.com
Centralcitye.blogspot.com
Insidesocal.com/friendlyfire
LA.curbed.com*
LAist.com*
LAObserved.com*
Loteriachicana.net
Lukeford.net
Mayorsam.blogspot.com*
WitnessLA.com

Aside from those marked with an asterisk above, the LA City Nerd list included the following four:
Franklin Avenue
View from a Loft
CD13 Blog
Losanjealous

We're not a political blog here, so we wouldn't expect to be listed in Mailander's list. But hopefully, if someone has a question about politics (and the patience to wait sometimes a week or more for an answer), they'll ask us. More than likely we know the process behind it or what's really going on.

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