blogging on blogging: Round 1

The contestants for tonight's round up are:
1.http://www.dailykos.com/
2. Reuters' Front Row Washington
3. Donklephant!

I'm sure many people saved their favorite blogs for last but I will start of with the best blog in my opinion, Daily Kos. Of course, there is a lot of Obama blogging, but they're a lot of other topics to choose from, like climate change, global warming and other topics that can tend to get burried. But what I loved about this blog is that it cut straight to the point. Instead of writing mile long opinion that's part info, part, "let me show you how witty I am" the blogger's style tends to briefly state his problem, show an exert of what he's referring to and then he wraps it up in a paragraph or two. Visually, dailykos.com is clean and attractive. The blog is highly organized and user friendly, all while managing not to come off as an overly polished and pristine. There is a great simple graph at the top keeping visitor's up to date of the nation's approval of Obama's performance so far and imbedded videos to supplement the blog conversation. As far as I can tell, there are an unusual amount of poster's commenting on the topics, well into hundreds of comments are being made.
Reuters is more of a more newsy structured blog. Though some of these professional news blogs tend to miss the point of the more relaxed stylistic freedom that the genre offers, I can also appreciate that blogs are more in depth and well reported. The posts have lots of personality, humor and sarcasm at times that keeps them exciting to read.
I must admit, donklephant caught my attention because of the cute attempt to meld the Democrat and Republican "mascots" for lack of a better word. This blogger tries to keep objectivity no matter which topic or what side is being blogged about. The style is very matter of fact and seems rather careful not to demonize or praise, omitting any type of language that would imply a position.
All three are interesting in their own right and will give deeper perspective into the news and policies of the moment.