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Spring must be the season when people turn their minds to starting blogs, or at least spring 2005 was when some excellent people did. It’s the three year blogiversary for both Pavlov’s Cat and Hoyden About Town. Warm salutations and felicitations to both! Pavlov’s Cat also has some interesting reflections on being a sociable blogger, and how addictive it can be.

Obama inching ahead in tight US prez race September 29th, 2008 - 4:16 pm ICT by ANI - New York, Sept.29 (ANI): Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obamas campaign to wrest the White House from Republican rival John McCain has gathered steam.

[Guardian Unlimited, U.K.] So what is that very special something that makes Republicans near Sarah Palin behave as though they’ve eaten catnip? Patrik Etschmayer of Switzerland’s Nachrichten newspaper thinks he has the answer - an answer that will no doubt create some controversy.

In The Blogging Revolution Antony Loewenstein takes us on a personal journey through some of the more difficult places in the world to blog. Iran, Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Cuba and China. It’s a timely book on the importance and necessity of blogging and the open web given recent un-informed opinions by writers like Christian Kerr.

Continuing with our effort to present how the rest of the world is sizing up John McCain’s vice presidential pick, Sarah Palin, this is the latest prognostication by one of Germany’s leading columnists, Thomas Klau.

Views of Sarah Palin from the British, Australians and New Zealand press have been generally, but not universally, skeptical. Here we have the views of O Globo of Brazil’s chief international columnist William Waack - which is far less skeptical and far more impressed by McCain’s role of the dice.

In the wake of the punditariat’s latest game of deconstructing each parliamentary interjection by The Great Pretender and wistfully wishing his incoherent comedy lines on the public, it’s worth taking a step back and asking whether - even if you think Peter Costello’s schtick is remotely worthwhile - it matters.

As Dennis Atkins observes, Brendan Nelson yesterday took what appeared to be a calculated gamble in breaking the convention that senior pollies don’t comment on the Reserve Bank’s interest rate decisions. Nelson called for a cut of 50 points in the cash rate.

Possum isn’t going to take being dissed by Christian Kerr and the “balance and fact” crew at The Australian lying down: Update [by Mark]: Jason Wilson at Gatewatching espies a tipping point in the Australian political blogosphere.

A Difficult Voting Decision for Evangelical Christians August 22nd, 2008 by TONY CAMPBELL Are these two men the best we can come up with for the highest office in the land? The more I find out about Barack Obama and John McCain; the more I want to abolish the two-party system that leaves us with the (lack of) choice we are left with in this presidential election.