rfmcdonald | [META] Blogroll Expansion (Reply)

It's time for another big bang expansion!

First, two housekeeping notes: Paul Gilster is the author of Centauri Dreams' posts, while Edward Lucas has moved to the Economist-hosted blog Eastern approaches.

Burgh Diaspora, maintained by geographer Jim Russell, is a blog that started--as the name suggests--by taking a look at the diaspora from the Rust Belt city of Pittsburgh, and provides interesting examinations of how such afflicted areas can recover. This post exploring Minnesota's desire to keep its high-school graduates from leaving by sending them to local colleges is nice reading.

Nissology PEI is the blog of Prince Edward Islander Hans Connor; "nissology" is the study of islands. With Japan's defeat by Paraguay, it turns out that there are no more island nation participants at the World Cup.

The Central Asia group blog Registan is the first place I go for Central Asia news. While the recent coverage of Kyrgyzystan has been great, the scathing criticism of cartoonist and commentator Ted Rall deserves reading.

Michael Steeleworthy, library student and mapper extraordinary, can be found at his blog The Zeds, where he explores "information and its spaces." His meditations on the differences between helping people with their research and being a research assistant are thoughtful.

Go, read.