One of the problems of being pretty much monolingual is that it’s hard to find out what is happening in a lot of interesting parts of the world. I have enough French to struggle through Le Monde (the more popular French papers are too idiomatic for me) but that’s about it. It was great to come across bertramonline, an English language blog with from Denmark. It’s great to have a Scandinavian, broadly social-democratic perspective on world events, but what I value even more is commentary on what’s happening in Denmark, including translations of Danish sources I would never even find. Here, for example, is a piece from a Danish newspaper on the sinecured travels of our old friend, Bjorn Lomborg.

Rippy the Aggregator is not a blog, but a summary of recent updates to Australian plogs, using the magic of RSS (it’s all explained there). This service is being setup by Tom Vogelgesang and currently covers me, Tim Dunlop, Scott Wickstein and (I think) Rob Corr. A bit of a left bias, so all you right-wing technophobes should get in and set up your feeds. It’s easy in Blogger Pro and I think also in Movable Type.

I’ll add these to the blogroll when I get time and energy.