europaeum

There has been quite the jumble after the presentation of the Brussels Blogger Study 2010 with which public affairs firm Waggener Edstrom wanted to show the most influential euroblogs. I don’t wish to comment on the poor methodology and research of the study here. Jon, Eurogoblin, Mathew and others already have in detail. One thing the company achieved though is to wake some blogs and stimulate a debate. It’s yet again a self-referential one. But after the death of Charlemagne’s Notebook and Julien Frisch it’s a discussion again that triggers bloggers to show that there’s more than the selected blogs and others that might drive a pan-European debate even further in their blogs.

People blog for a variety of reasons and they use different approaches. But how good is a blog if only few know about it?  The best address to obtain new comments about European affairs is still bloggingportal.eu and their (must say our) weekly round-up. That’s the place to go for the real deal, the debate and what’s really going on in the euroblogosphere. The portal aggregates over 600 blogs, yet you don’t learn about who’s behind that blog. I find it very difficult to learn new blogs and often I only stumble upon a new one.

That’s why I’m now finally introducing what I wanted to do for some time, have a #followfriday for euroblogs. I’m calling it “better know a euroblog” and you will be able to follow my personal recommendations here.

Of course you’re more than welcome to tell me about other blogs that I might be missing and be sure to also submit them to bloggingportal. ;)

Update (19 July 2010): To avoid any further confusion, I didn’t mean to invent a new twitter hashtag. I wanted to promote the idea behind it. Taking the time to blog on why you read a specific euroblog. In a real blog post, not only on twitter. Something I’ve done before and would simply love to see elsewhere. Grahnlaw gave an example today and published a #bkaeb, too.