Nominate your favorite UK blog(s) here.
Continue reading
Author Archives: Root
Forums
WaPo blog awards
Wow, the categories for this Washington Post readers choice blog contest are really odd. Anyway, if you think we deserve it, you can go over there and nominate us in the ‘international’ category. (You have to be registered.)
Safari
Yes, we’re aware of the Safari problem and looking into it. Any advice would be appreciated.
Update: Could Safari users please indicate if the problem has been fixed on their systems? Thank you!
We’re up for an award again
Namely Wampum: 2003 Koufax Awards nominations: Best Group Blog. Vote for us if you like.
Thankfully, this time we’ll lose to some very deserving blog, rather than some hateful idiot.
The Koufax awards are great, actually. They make you discover a bunch of excellent blogs. Especially great is the “best series” category.
Incidentally, Scott is nominated in that category, as well as the best writing category, and I think he deserves to win. If you haven’t read his series of posts on Language Rights and Political Theory, you’ve missed out. (That reminds me, I still haven’t written that reply I promised)
Vote AFOE
Wizbang is having a Blog Awards competition. We’re one of twenty nominees for Best Foreign blog (What an odd sort of category on the Internet one would think, but I’m not complaining.) Please, please, please go there and vote for us if you think we’re any good, because I really want to win this thing. I’ve never won anything in my life.
Update: Now here’s a good reason to vote for us, tell all your friends, family, and random strangers to do the same, pimp us on your blogs…
The frontrunner is currently Merde in France, the France-hating wingnut. (#2 is Tim Blair, the Australian one-man Sasmizdata.net) We’re third and are well positioned to stop him from winning. I daresay we’re easily the best of the ones with a chance to win. Keep the eurohaters from winning. Vote AFOE!
The poll is open until dec 14. I will occasionally bump this post till then.
Speaking of Spam…
Speaking of Spam, it’s remarkable how much regular spam we get, even though it says “at” rather than @. Presumably, it’s not actual humans who read that adress, so people need to refine their anti-spam techniques. Bother.
You can help
Does anyone have suggestions for good blogs? I’m especially interested in blogs with an European perspective and ones covering the politics of a European country or region, but any good blogs are of interest of course.
One of my megalomanical hopes for AFOE was that we could use it to create a European corner of the blogosphere. Just as there is a comics blogosphere, a linguablogger blogosphere, a German blogosphere, and on a larger scale a techie blogosphere and a US politics blogosphere, there should be a pan-European politics blogosphere.
Basically I want every worthwhile English language blog about european politics to be on our blogroll. And I want as many as possible of them to become aware of each other and start talking to each other.
I think we have enough traffic for it to be actually achievable.
1 September 2003 – A day that will live in infamy
Welcome to A Fistful of Euros. In celebration of Labour Day – the bank holiday that Americans and Canadians get in lieu of that subversive communist holiday May Day – we are finally on line. This is the blog you want for creative, English-language coverage of European affairs.
Add it to your bookmarks and stay tuned.