Metafilter

Now that I've added a links list I feel obligated to search out some links. In reality I never read blogs, but since I'm now writing one and may have started another I've been looking about.

I'm always reluctant to post links to pages I've found on Google since I figure if anyone reading were really interested in the subject they would have found that site themselves. However if you're like me you end up doing the same search several times because you never bookmark anything because you so rarely use the hundreds of bookmarks you already have. To that end I will include a link to a site that list blog sites by rank. I'm so isolated that reading what other people are writing about the goings on of the world wouldn't hurt, and somehow the local and national media just doesn't seem to fill that need.

The first Blog that I've come across that I liked reading filled that need quite readily. In their own words

"Metafilter is a weblog (what's a weblog? | comprehensive history of weblogs) that anyone can contribute a link or a comment to. A typical weblog is one person posting their thoughts on the unique things they find on the web. This website exists to break down the barriers between people, to extend a weblog beyond just one person, and to foster discussion among its members."

On its face it seems a great place to start if you, like me, don't know anything about Blogging. It kind of reads like what the Yahoo Message Boards would read like if all the racist and whackos would drop dead tomorrow leaving us to mediate what little ignorance we have left.