[whataretheysaying] Mary Madigan: Thinking Blogger Award

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Posted by Mary Madigan:
Thinking Blogger Award
http://whataretheysaying.powerblogs.com/posts/1180620833.shtml


   Many thanks to [1]Infidel753 for choosing to give this site one of
   five [2]Thinking Blogger awards!

   The Thinking Blogger award is meme-based, created by [3]Ilker Yoldas.
   It's a great idea. Memes were (or should have been) the original
   driving force behind the blogosphere.

   The rules are:
    1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5
       blogs that make you think,
    2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin
       of the meme,
    3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link
       to the post that you wrote

   Here's my top 5 mostly unaffiliated, fairly undiscovered blogs:

   [4]Good Neighbors

   Good Neighbors is a communal blog created to "increase dialogue and
   understanding between all of the neighboring countries in the Middle
   East including Jordanians, Lebanese, Israelis, Palestinians,
   Egyptians, Saudis, Iranians, and Syrians."

   Imagine - people in the Middle East working together, expressing their
   opinions in an open forum, bypassing their loony leaders - that's an
   idea that needs to catch on.

   [5]Fresh Bilge

   Author Alan Sullivan shares his dream of living on a boat in Florida
   and his brave fight against leukemia. His descriptions of the hard
   work involved in keeping the boat afloat, plus his cool appraisal of
   the news and his own life events provide an outlook that shouldn't be
   missed.

   [6]Jeha's Nail

   Lebanese blogger and skilled [7]characaturist Jeha provides original
   political analysis, sophisticated social commetary and irreverently
   relevant pop culture clips.

   [8]Chiasm

   Chaism's John Atkinson comments on alternative energy at [9]Winds of
   Change. On his own blog he comments on music, science, the blogworld,
   baseball and everything else that mostly passes under the somewhat
   fusty political blogworld's radar.

   [10]Jane's Armies of Liberation

   Jane Novak provides expert commentary on a severely underreported
   place, Yemen. She's been investigating the right peopIe, and has
   gotten results. She says "in Yemeni newspapers I have been called a
   Mason, a Yemeni man in disguise, a Hashimite, working for the CIA,
   working for the Socialists, residing in al-Arabait, and a Docile
   Student of a Monkey Monk." Her Masonic Monkey Monk meme needs to be
   spread around.

   Now it's time for these bloggers to spread the linky love. And thanks
   again to Infidel753 for tagging Exit Zero.

References

   1. http://infidel753.blogspot.com/2007/05/sites-for-thinking.html
   2. http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/02/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html
   3. http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/02/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html
   4. http://gnblog.com/
   5. http://seablogger.com/
   6. http://jehasnail.blogspot.com/
   7. http://bp1.blogger.com/_dcdi--LdAeQ/RkcKbMBMvjI/AAAAAAAAA9I/cJGfcDs0iEM/s1600-h/Jeha+-+Hassan+Nasrallah.JPG
   8. http://chiasm.blog-city.com//
   9. http://www.windsofchange.net/
  10. http://www.armiesofliberation.com/