UPDATE: Prof. Cole's blog is called "Informed Comment", you need to know that. :-)
Juan Cole is being beaten for Best Middle East or Africa blog (in the 2008 Weblog Awards) by a neocon by the name of Michael J. Totten (the kind of guy the Wall Street Journal happily publishes on its op-ed page).
We need to turn this around, and it would also benefit the public greatly if a Weblog Award got more people to read Prof. Cole and actually learn a thing or two about the Muslim world.
Please vote now for Informed Comment. Thanks.
Some will complain that this isn't what diaries are for. But if we can't use diaries to help shape the debate in an informed, progressive direction, then it seems to me that something's broken.
I'm not going for karma, so no tip jar.