Bloglutinization watch: Paul Musgrave, Joshua Claybourn, and others have created a promising new group blog called In the Agora about "politics, business, current events, or the nature of the universe and the divine." The politics is conservative, but these guys are thoughtful and wicked smart, so you'd be wise to read them.
By the way, as much as I like the single author blog format, it's pretty clear that group blogs hold an advantage when it comes to political content. Politics has both an intense audience and a steady stream of news to discuss; it's no accident that strong political group blogs and political magazines are approximating each other so closely nowadays. Then again, maybe we're actually seeing a more subtle phenomenon -- that optimistic title, In the Agora, reminds me a lot of this.
MORE (only marginally related): It's amazing -- you've surely found this too -- how many blogs go with Greek or even more frequently Latinate titles. Often (as with the case above) it seems to be about reconstituting some classical ideal, always political, usually democratic; it's also frequently the result of too much legal education, or simply too much education, period (vita escolatur). And then there's the similarly alien title of this blog, which might well have the same feel as some of these, even though it's taken from an obscure French novel that was the delight of the surrealists. Just how does the name locussolus affect your perceptions and expectations here? I wonder.
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