Arthur Chrenkoff finished second in the Weblogs Awards. It isn’t because he’s any less than Tim Blair–just newer to the blogosphere.
Something often lacking in the blogosphere is first-hand reporting. That isn’t the case today:
I was nine and a half. I remember it snowed when I woke up on Sunday morning. I got up and went to switch on TV to watch “Teleranek” (TV Morning), a weekly program for kids that always aired at 9am. But there was only snow on the screen, too. We didn’t know what has happened, but the phone lines were cut off as well, and that was a bad sign. The streets were eerily empty, as if every family in every apartment around, faced with the same snow on TV and the same dead signal on the phone, was also drawing into themselves and waiting for somebody else to make the first move.