While other columns are writing end of the year reviews, we’re devoting this week’s Surfin’ Safari to the best blogs of the Internet’s conservative blogosphere. Why? Because the smart people, when they’re not getting their news from WND, they are reading some, if not all of these 50-plus highly regarded websites.
This assemblage of New Media is where you’ll get the truth – honestly, quickly, accurately, sometimes with a sharp bite, side-splitting humor or edgy irony.
According to Doug Ross, founder of Director Blue blogsite and Fab 50′s self-appointed judge and jury, these awards “recognize a variety of blogs and websites operating in the conservative hemisphere of the Internet, all of which have worked tirelessly to promote conservatism, free market capitalism, fiscal sanity, the sovereignty of the individual, and otherwise protect America from the cockroach-like Statists – some in very unique ways.”
Ross says the purpose of the annual Fab 50 contest is to recognize bloggers who do an unpaid thankless job. In speaking to Surfin’ Safari, Ross, who has been blogging since 2003, said the award winners actually number more than 50 and are quality blogs with original content or an original approach to aggregating content