*Blogging - What's the point?*

Richard Burton clattered into the left-leaning idealism of democratised media with the subtlety of a man launching a firework from his backside. No-one cares about your opinion, he revealed.

Richard was responding to the role of Blogging. He sees blogging as a way of offering an insight to a world removed from our own and not the opinion of some nobody - i.e. us.

Peter Foster's blog, he believes, does just this - and I would agree. Nick Robinson’s Blog is also effective in this sense. He gives the reader a peek into Westminster in a way the majority will never be able to. He doesn’t just regurgitate news content, he reveals things like what David Cameron and Tony Blair talked about at the state opening of parliament

The problem is that Foster and Robinson are in the minority. This blog from The Times, for instance, is a waste of webspace. The scope for witty and inisightful comment for a Brit in America is massive, yet Gerard Baker's posts are irregular and obvious.

A well argued, well researched, and well communicated opinion based blog is much more effective than Baker's attempt at insight. Daniel Finkelstein's blog is almost entirely opinion based so does not comply with Burton's remit, but it is an excellent read. Like the "insight" blogs, however, good examples are rare.

The blogosphere, then, seems to be just one big antiques fair. It's mostly tat, but there's some good stuff if you root around long enough.