When searching my name in google I often get really nice results. Yesterday I discovered that my blog has been recommended by “The Shield of Achilles”, a blog run by John Rohan, a United States Army officer born in Germany and currently stationed here. The context was rather sad because “Davids Medienkritik has closed!” , but the compliment quite huge:
The site will no longer be updated, but the archives will remain online. It was founded by David Kasper but has been written by Ray Drake for some time now. It will be missed, but Ray mentions that to continue would mean repeating himself, and that a fresh perspective is needed. He may be right.
In fact, there is one waiting in the wings already…
Karin Quade at Anti-anti-americanism is also a German who covers much of the same ground. She veers into other subjects a bit, but she updates her site more often than Medienkritik. I’m adding her to my blogroll. Highly recommended.
I can only return the compliment and add to my good intentions for 2008 to update my site more often.
John Rohan (pen name) explains why he called his blog “The Shield of Achilles” and why he started blogging here:
I finally created this weblog in the Spring of 2007 because frankly I was tired of so many professial pundits, with no real-life experience, pumping out misinformation from their ivory towers, writing about things that they had no knowledge or experience of. Not just in regard to the Iraq War, but many other subjects as well.
And:
Obviously, I cannot cover every major event in the world. That’s what the news outlets are for. Normally I update this weblog everyday, sometimes several times. Professional bloggers can crank out 20 postings a day (although most of them will simply be links to other sources - not anything new). But unlike most of them, I already hold a full time job in the real world, so my time is limited. I prefer to focus on stories that are either of monumental importance, or important stories that are largely ignored in the media elsewhere, or stories in which I have some personal expertise that can help it to be understood.
Highly recommended!