I've been browsing other people's blogs looking for people who have something interesting to say. Not that I'm claiming I actually have anything to say or anything. I just want to immerse myself with intellectuals and those who are interested in Politics or anything else random topic that I might find intriguing. I have been sorely disappointed with the results thus far.

First of all, as a matter of technicality, I am frustrated that Blogger does not have a searching or browsing function except for within individual blogs. Maybe I'm wrong and I just haven't looked hard enough, but the only way I've discovered for finding other people's bogs is by clicking on the "Next Blog" link in the right corner of the bar on the top of the page. This seems to link to a randomly chosen blog. This can be fun because you never know what you'll end up with, but it is also frustrating because some people have deactivated the bar for their journal so I have to go back to the last journal before I can continue browsing.

Other than that, there just seems to be an overabundance of crappy journals out there. Many are in another language, many are about a person's personal life, and many are companies advertising their car insurance or whatever. The few that interesting one's I've found are average at best. Here are the two that I want to return to to see if they might be anything worth keeping an eye on: Morielekafa - by a retired UCLA Professor of Anthropology and CrawfordsList - by the author of a book on the war between politicians and the media called "Attack the Messenger" (he seems to side with the media but I won't hold that against him because he's adding to the debate).

That's it for now; I just wanted to have a place where I could remember these two blogs. That's another thing about Blogger - I want a place in my profile or something where I can list recommended blogs. I suppose I could put them in the links section on the side ... but that takes a lot of work and I'm lazy.