Many blogs have come and gone during those five years, but that is partly the nature of blogging. Many blogs are one-off issues, addressing a certain point in a person's life or a passing interest.
Few go the distance which is why it is great to see a blog like Harry's with its mix of politics and social comment endure and become a brand and something of note in the blogging landscape, which attracts hundreds and hundreds of comments each week.
This is what Wikipedia has to say:
Harry's Place is a British political weblog. It is a prominent voice of what it calls "the pro-liberation left" (a group more disparagingly referred to as "liberal hawks"). It was first set up in November 2002 and named for the Sham 69 song "Hurry up Harry" and the first name of the founder of the blog, Harry Hatchet. The logo on the front page of the blog is a quote from George Orwell: "Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear".It has been nominated for a number of awards, including a Guardian award for political blogs, the 2005 Weblog awards for UK blogs, as well as the UK section of the Islamic Human Rights Commission's Annual Islamophobia Awards 2006; posts on the site had ridiculed these awards and openly invited nomination.
What other blogs out there that people read have gone the distance and really lasted? Be good to hear.
Gordon Macmillan
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