It may sometimes be bad tempered and aggressive, but blogging is clearly shaping our political conversation and if you do not like what you read on them it is easy to start your own.

BBC: NEWS | UK | England | West Midlands | Do political blogs have any sway?

As you read it, keep in mind what we like to say at Forbes: Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

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You might also like to read this brief account of what radical adjacency means.

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Instead of picking a book from your sister's Amazon wish list, or giving her what you think she should read, go to a bookstore and try to think like her.

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His resume makes him sound like an earnest Beltway liberal all too eager to lecture you on what to read.

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