Samizdata Explained

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 reluctance 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 wrote 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." In 2008, The Observer labeled it as one of the fifty most powerful blogs in the world.[5]

Notes and References

  1. derived from Samizdat, a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
  2. News: The New Commentariat . Oliver . Burkeman . . 17 November 2005 . G2:8 .
  3. News: The World's 50 Most Powerful Blogs . . 9 March 2008 .
  4. http://www.samizdata.net/blog/ Samizdata.net - main blog
  5. News: Brad. Powell update on blogging. 19 September 2015. 17 June 2015.