Best Blogs of 2006

Online Opinion's January feature on the best blog posts of 2006 has made for a month of great reading. It reflects well on the Australian blog community, especially in light of a mainstream media that seems ever more timid to delve beyond the cosmetic and into Australia's deeper darknesses, that it consistently produces material that is challenging, wonderfully written, and covers such a diversity of issues. There is a certain sort of economic rationalism applied to the media nowadays - don't report a dull, complex issue of great national importance where you could win better ratings reporting some sensationalised storm in a teacup - that doesn't apply in the blogging world, and journalism in the main is all the better for it.

And I'm not just saying this because I was included. :)