Global fame narrowly averted

I see that 12 people voted for this site in the Satin Pyjamas awards for best European weblog — not that I was nominated for that eminence, but as one of the blogs people should read more. Well, that was fun. I thank you all individually. It’s surprising, though, how many really interesting ones are out there. The overall winner was an English-language blog based in Slovenia; but there were two French ones that are really attractive, as well as petite anglaise, who is English in Paris. (I voted for Scandiwegian polymathy)

Im this context, the quotidian blogs are those which are most impressive. We all know the pleasure of expert blogs, like Juan Cole’s. But one of the distinctive pleaures of the net is coming across people living ordinary lives in cultures set at an angle to our own so that the light of reason shows them up in their true extraordinariness, like a ploughed field photographed when the sun is low.

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One Response to Global fame narrowly averted

  1. We are certainly very flattered, thanks!

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