There area couple of new blog/news aggregators that I'd like to point out tonight and to offer quick reviews on.
The first is Conservative Grapevine, which is run by Right Wing News blogger John Hawkins. Conservative Grapevine is very easy to use. Hawkins reads 90 plus blogs a day, and in a very easy to use format, he lists some of the most interesting posts he finds. Simplicity of use is the upside for Conservative Grapevine. The one concern that I have is whether or not we will end up just seeing posts from the same 90 blogs over and over. Even if we do, it is a good service that Hawkins has set up, but it will lack a little when it comes to variety in the political blogosphere.
The second is Patrick Ruffini's 2008 Presidential Wire. Ruffini's aggregator lists stories about the 22 most likely Democratic and Republican Presidential candidates from both the MSM and blogs. The interesting thing about Rufini's Wire is that it allows readers to not only find the daily stories on these 22, it also keeps track of who's being written about, and how much, as well as who it is we are reading about. The downside is that his stats will not necessarily predict which candidates readers are leaning towards, but rather who has the most buzz.
Both are interesting aggregators, and I recommend that everyone at least check out both.
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