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The best blog in the world won't be much use if people can't find it.
I've used search engines for years to promote websites, but it takes time for the organic approach to show progress: and I'm a bit more impatient now.
Just the same, I submit my blogs to DMOZ and a few other places.
Right now I'm learning how to use blogger communities and directories: both to get acquainted with others in the blogosphere; and to give my writing the chance to be read by as many people as possible.
I've had limited success so far, which isn't bad for someone who's less than a month into the blogging game. The only setback I've had is with Technorati, which seems to have had trouble 'seeing' updates to Another War-on-Terror Blog.
In the hopes that this is just a technical problem, I'm on the Technorati path again: and hence the rather odd phrase that leads this post.
Welcome to the 21st century. The Cold War, WWII, and WWI are over.
The 19th and 20th centuries' class conflicts and colonial issues are behind us.
"Oppressed proletariat" and "European expansionism" are no longer relevant.
Religious fanatics want their beliefs to rule the world.
Free people want to stay that way.
Here's my view of the 21st century's great conflict -
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Note! Although I believe that these websites and blogs are useful resources for understanding the War on Terror, I do not necessarily agree with their opinions. 1
Even resources which, in my opinion, are simply inaccurate are sometimes useful: these can give valuable insights into why some people or groups believe what they do.
In short, It is my opinion that some of the resources in this blogroll are neither accurate, nor unbiased. I do, however, believe that they are useful in understanding the War on Terror, the many versions of Islam, terrorism, and related topics.
- American Islamic Congress
- American-Islamic Forum for Democracy
- Americas Interests.blog an Australian's perspective (on January 29, 2009 the author announced the end of new posts, and explained his reasons for doing so. He is, however, keeping the 21 months of accumulated posts on line, because of "the role that it plays in a larger ecosystem of information" - I recommend AI as an archival resource. )
- Blog 4 Human Rights: Human Rights in Georgia (the nation) News, Opinions, Videos and Photos (Why blogroll this? Georgia is about 10% Muslim, very near the Middle East: and human rights is a critical part of the War on Terror.)
- CAIR Council on American-Islamic Relations
- The Capitol Tribune "A Journal by a Citizen and Servant of the Republic."
- The Conservative Hawk An articulate conservative blog: definitely political, opinionated, informed, and intelligent
- Defenders Council of Vermont "...our mission is to educate the citizens of Vermont about the nature, reality and threat of radical Islam, deepen Vermonters' understanding of America's heritage, honor the men and women of the armed services and their families, and support the efforts of others to help our armed forces work with local populations in foreign lands."
- DefenseLink Blogger's Roundtable provides source material for stories in the blogosphere concerning the Department of Defense (DoD) by bloggers and online journalists.
- FactCheck.org "aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics". It's "a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania". From what I've seen, this non-partisan website must be quite annoying to all sides
- Fiqh Council of North America "...a body of qualified Islamic scholars who live in the United States or Canada."
- Foreign Policy Watch "Diplomatic strategy, international news, and thoughtful political analysis"
- www.free-minds.org Another flavor of True Islam: one more articulate than many
- Free Muslims Coalition "American Muslims and Arabs of all backgrounds who feel that religious violence and terrorism have not been fully rejected by the Muslim community in the post 9-11 era."
- GlobalSecurity.org "Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. We try to bring you the facts, to help you form your opinion."
- Hudson Institute: Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
- IntelCenter "Our focus as a company is on studying terrorist groups and other threat actors and disseminating that information in a timely manner to those who can act on it."
- Iraq the Model "New points of view about the future of Iraq."
- Islam.com "...an information portal site on the internet that is pure, clean and 'worthy of its name', InshaAllah."
- islamispeace.org.uk "...invites you to challenge your ideas of Islam and Muslims."
- Islamic Circle of North America "... to seek the pleasure of Allah (SWT) through the struggle of Iqamat-ud-Deen (establishment of the Islamic system of life) as spelled out in the Qur'an and the Sunnah of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)"
- Islamic Republic News Agency Iran's official news agency
- Islamic Society of Central Florida (ISCF) "...an organization which strives to serve the greater Central Florida community by catering to the social, religious, and educational needs of its Muslim inhabitants."
- Islamic Society of North America "...playing a pivotal role in extending those bridges to include all people of faith within North America...."
(but note another view) ) - Islamic World News أخبار العالم الاسلا
- Michael J. Totten's Middle East Journal The War on Terror, as observed on the ground
- Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center A research resource for United States Air Force Air University students, "provided as a public service by Muir S. Fairchild Research Information Center and the Maxwell Support Division."
- Muslamics Affad Shaikh and "A Writing Collaborative" This American Muslim Affad Shaikh, a very west-coast Muslim Los Angelano
- Muslims Against Sharia An organization of Muslims, presumably dedicated "...to educate non-Muslims about the differences between moderate Muslims and Islamists..." - with a curious way of practicing Peace, Love Light, (words in their website's logo).
- National Interest, and as a corollary, Primacy "These are indeed my personal pontifications on the vicissitudes of International Affairs." (Be prepared for big words, long sentences: and unexpected insights.)
- PM’S World
- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty "disseminating factual information and ideas"
- The Straits Times (Singapore) "...strives to be an authoritative provider of news and views, with special focus on Singapore and the Asian region...."
- Urban Conservative "Conservative 2.0 - A New Breed of Conservative
- Why Islam? "... articles, books etc on Islam and comparative religion. ... initiated by volunteers from ICNA (Islamic Circle of North America). ..."
Even resources which, in my opinion, are simply inaccurate are sometimes useful: these can give valuable insights into why some people or groups believe what they do.
In short, It is my opinion that some of the resources in this blogroll are neither accurate, nor unbiased. I do, however, believe that they are useful in understanding the War on Terror, the many versions of Islam, terrorism, and related topics.
5 comments:
I found you from your comments on my blog (thanks!), which really is the best way to be noticed, IMHO. Also, send trackbacks when you link to others' posts--that'll definitely get eyes on your blog as well! Here are a couple of good posts about trackbacks. (link) and (link)
Another good thing - blog groups with blogrolls, like Blogs for Bush or Blogs for Fred or whatever (actually, smaller blog groups are better, and there are tons of them). It'll at least get your blog name seen more, even if they don't bring in a lot of traffic. Eventually it will make a difference, though--sooner with the smaller groups, of course.
Like you I am also somewhat impatient nowadays. I have submitted my blog to some big gun engines and various blog directories but this is no guarantee that others will not merely find, but engage in ones blog. I did not submit to DMOZ, well not yet anyway as I became concerned when I read one of their terms and conditions. It read “…I agree to be bound by the ODP's Terms of Use … To grant Netscape Communications Corporation a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, publish, copy, edit, modify, or create derivative works from my submission”… I wasn’t sure how to interpret this and stalled, who knows I may submit at a later date. What do you think?
It occurred to me recently that I was not commenting on other blogs and then I stumbled upon the following words on a “how to site”. “Give feedback and thoughts to other Bloggers. If you’re not leaving at least one comment per day, step it up a notch”…. It’s fair enough, after all, why should I expect others to read my blog if I am not reading any. These days I spend as much time reading and providing constructive comment on other blogs as a do creating content for my own, to date this is paying off.
Thanks for the commentary and link in your “Ten Really Good Questions About Iraq and the States” post. I have included your blog in my Blogroll; let me know if you have any reservations about this as normally I would ask first. Finally if its no bother can you recall how you stumbled upon my blog?
Thanks
ottavioatrealgriddotbiz
Beth: Thanks for the insights!
american interests: I can understand your concern over the "non-exclusive, royalty-free license to use, publish, copy, edit, modify, or create derivative works from my submission" phrase in the TOS.
I wish more people would read their contracts and forms - that's another topic.
I routinely submit new sites to DMOZ. The phrase you cite, to the best of my limited knowledge, gives the DMOZ outfit the right to make your blog's title, description, and excerpts available to their own directory, and to those search services which use DMOZ data.
The intellectual property rights are still yours: it just gives DMOZ and others the right to distribute parts of it.
I hope this helps.
ottavioatrealgriddotbiz:
I wish I could say how I found your blog. At the time, I was running around the Internet somewhat in the manner of a hyperactive puppy, and can't remember what led my to your contributions.
Reservations about being in your Blogroll? Certainly not!. I appreciate your custom of asking first, but I regard blogs as public forums.
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