Samizdata

Samizdata[1] is a British group weblog. Founded on 2 November 2001 by Perry de Havilland and originally named ‘Libertarian Samizdata’, it dropped the label due to the unhappiness of editors to subscribe to a particular label.[2]

Edited by 'anarcho-libertarians, tax rebels, Eurosceptics, and Wildean individualists', Samizdata is one of the UK's oldest blogs.[3] The editors describe Samizdata.net as a blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous...[4]

In 2005, the Guardian claimed that it was 'by some measures the nation's most successful independent blog', with over 15,000 unique visitors a day, and 'arguably the grandfather of British political blogs'.[2] In 2008, The Observer labelled it as one of the fifty most powerful blogs in the world.[3]

References

  1. ↑ derived from Samizdat, a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Burkeman, Oliver (17 November 2005). "The New Commentariat". The Guardian. p. G2:8.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "The World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs". The Observer. 9 March 2008.
  4. ↑ Samizdata.net - main blog