Endgame Viable

A couple of Virginia conservative aggregators popped up recently: Conservativa and the Old Dominion Blog Alliance (ODBA) Aggregator. These are now competing with the more non-partisan Waldo’s Virginia Political Blogroll and BlogNetNews.

As an evangelizing tool, I’m not quite sure what the point of a conservative-only or liberal-only aggregator is. People who subscribe to them are either going to be converted already or looking for a fight. If you want to reach a new audience and perhaps sway moderates to vote differently, which seems to be the entire purpose of politics, I would think you’d want to be involved in a more non-partisan aggregator.

In any case, on a technical note, I wish the new aggregators would put the name of the underlying blog in the post titles. A newcomer might not realize that the posts are all coming from disparate sources and authors. Maybe that’s by design.

Thomas Krehbiel writes The Krehbiel Strikes Back, a generally centrist commentary on news, media, politics, and culture.