The Minnesota Organization of Blogs

Hugh Hewitt gave the name “Northern Alliance of Blogs” to a small group of excellent Minnesota blogs (Powerline, Fraters Libertas, etc.) in 2002. But there were many other like-minded Minnesota blogs that needed a tribe to which to belong. The Minnesota Organization of Blogs (MOB) is that tribe.

One could think of the MOB as the bench of the Northern Alliance. One could think of the MOB as Minnesota’s conservative media federation. Crossword Bebop is a proud member in good standing of the MOB.

The MOB isn’t merely a Twin Cities organization, as there are a number of members in the St. Cloud area (SCSU Scholars, Psycmeistr’s Ice Palace, and View From The Cloud). There are also some expats such as Bear Creek Ledger (Tennessee) and Ladies Logic (Utah) who moved from Minnesota after joining the MOB.

The MOB has made Keegan’s Irish Pub in Minneapolis its hangout of preference, having once biannual (twice a year), but now only occasional parties there. The last one was in March 2009, chronicled here.

If you look at the top, there is now a page called “MOB.” That page contains the roster of the MOB, and a search engine for searching the blogs of the MOB.

If you want to find out more about the MOB, I suggest you visit Mitch Berg’s excellent blog Shot In The Dark. Mitch is writing a series of blog profiles of the members of the MOB. He will always have a happy place in my heart for his kind words about the Cypriot Syllabary Sudoku:

Eclectic? Heck yeah; you think posts about Sodoku written with archaic Cypriot syllabic alphabets grow on trees?

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