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Hello there.

Blogging seems to be all the rage nowadays.

Well, actually blogging was 'all the rage' around 3 years ago and is now just another part of everyday life on the internet. The trouble is, most blogs are really quite boring. Other blogs are deliberately (and overly) provocative and thus equally tedious reading.

I write from the position of someone who works on the internet and spends and ungodly amount of time sifting through blogs and, yes, adding to the steaming piles of cyber-excrement that characterise the blogging community in 2007. Hey... everyone's got to make a living.

I'll give you some examples of what I consider to be good, bad and just plain ugly blogs.

A good blog can be something interesting and useful, such as Matt Cutts' Google related blog. While most people may not be into what Matt is blogging about, anyone working in or around search will be well aware of this well-written and informative blog.

Another great blog, to my mind, is Diary of a London Cokehead. This is a guy working in London's music industry venting his spleen and generally letting the world know what's going on in his life. When I'm in the UK, I spend many weekends standing behind the turntables in various bars and clubs... the London cokehead says many things which ring true.

Finally, on the topic of good blogs, The Guardian and BBC have a tremendous selection of high quality content going up every day. On top of their usual output, the blogs make these two fantastic British sites even better.

The most offensive blog I've stumbled upon recently is that of Peter Hitchens - an outspoken British rightwinger who is opposed to gays, peace, vegetarians and the like. Check out the voice of middle England here.

Alright. Until next time.