BTW if you read this Colin, is it OK if I occasionally steal one of your cartoons from your blog for cross-posting here at Troppo? I saw your recent note that you wouldn’t have much time for blogging for a while because you’re doing a new book. I’d be happy to save you some time by engaging in blatant appropriation of your excellent cartooning intellectual property, to save you from having to remember to cross-post!

Tony, I was thinking of Mark T. Tim T. is, as you mentioned, an actual blogger: I see now he’s on Ken’s blog roll. Sorry about that.

I’ve moved to wickingcartoons.blogspot.com

I think I’m funny. Others may not.

(Nabakov’s real name is Demidenko.)

But if you mean me, the answer is no, and I don’t know what you’re getting at. The Shane Watson thing was ironic, since all the commenters on your thread were putting the boot into the poor bugger.

I’m wondering if I should feel insulted, John.

(I’m just warming up for the Military History Carnival here. Should be a few good local blogger posts to come out of that one.)

Any other bloggers who haven’t receive d amention recently and reckon the quality of their output suggests they should have been can feel free to put a gentle prompt here in the comment box. Converting to Google Reader was such a mammoth task that it’s quite possible I missed others out as well.

I tend to concentrate on te independent blogosphere and ignore the MSM “blogs” for the sorts of reasons Mark mentions. Most of them are not really blogs anyway, and they don’t need promotion. However I’ve never been doctrinaire about it. First, I freely link to Tim Dunlop, because he’s an independent blogger now working for Murdoch and because he continues to function as a blogger properly so called (i.e. interacting with the rest of the blogging community). I have also linked to Andrew Bolt a couple of times, when his posts have been integral to broader discussions taking place in the blogosphere. As far as I’m concerned there’s no prohibition on linking to newspaper “blogs”, but it should be done sparingly (not least because most of them are crap anyway).

I only linked to Bolt to provide context (and of course because he’s obviously my kind of guy). Do you mean I should refrain from mentioning MSM blogs at all, or just from actually linking to them? I guess you can’t mean the latter, since there are other references to MSM media in the post. As it happens, I didn’t link to The Economist, The Guardian (or Crikey! for that matter) but more from laziness than any conscious policy.

In the meantime, and until Parish CJ clarifies things, I’ll remove the link.

Just suggestin..