photo by MNicoleM

I remember sitting in the media room at the Libby trial with a pretty well known journalist who was trying to wrap his head around the whole "blog" thing. There were too many, he didn't understand what was going on, all the codes and relationships and back-and-forths and how things worked their way through the blogospheric system.

"Just check Atrios every morning," I told him. "He tells us all what we're going to talk about that day, and then we do it." A short while later, I ran into him again. "Now I understand," he said.

Eschaton is the hub, the place where everyone goes to quickly check in and see if they've missed anything. He reads prodigiously, seems to know what's going on in the most remote corners of the blogosphere and has both an eye for a story and the ability to boil it down with a pithy minimalism that gets straight to the heart. The low-fi, spartan graphics often throw people who think, with its blogspot 1.0 atavism, that the site simply hasn't been updated in a couple of years. But Duncan makes it work for him. After a while it's kinda zen.

Anyway, Atrios is having a fundraiser today, so if you've got some spare change jingling around in your pocket, it's a good place to think about depositing it.

(And while you're at it, you can also sign up for EschaCon, which will be from March 28-30 in Philadelphia. I'm definitely going to be there.)