Some new favorites

by alec on February 15, 2006 |   Trackback URI   |     Email This Post Email This Post   |   2 Views  

Some minor updates and goings on:

The company I was working for almost closed up shop. But as quickly as I was unemployed, I am once employed again (and it looks like I’ll be working in DC).

One of my new favorite sites is the Coming Anarchy, named after a Robert Kaplan book about democracy in the 21st century, spefically with the power vacuum created after the fall of communism (one of the essay’s, “Is Democracy Just a Moment”, is my favorite and also highly controversial). Anyway, they touch on NUMEROUS subjects, and give a lot of time to regions that you don’t hear a lot about (the Stans and Eastern Europe).

I think one of the problems with the “blog world” is that there are far too many. And at times, I have a really difficult time discerning whats worth exploring and what isn’t. And I only stumbled on ‘Coming Anarchy’ after doing a Google search for the term. Otherwise I’d still be ignorant. I guess a lot of the blog world is just cluttered, and I’m doing my part!


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Chirol February 15, 2006 at 4:40 PM

We appreciate your recommending us and are always glad to have new readers especially fellow Kaplan fans!

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alec February 16, 2006 at 3:19 PM

Thanks, I really enjoy your site. How did you see this link so quick however? technorati?

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Younghusband February 16, 2006 at 4:26 PM

Wordpress Dashboard my friend! Thanks for the plug.

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