A promising looking blog has appeared, describing itself as a kind of Autodidact Project (see here under 'Autodidacts'). Its declaration of intent includes references to Debord, Brecht and other things meriting approving red ticks. So many fledgling blogs seem, like Onan, to eject their intellectual seed only to keel over and die, but I suspect this one will be more durable, sprung as it is from the fertile heterogeneity of the autodidactic imagination.
Over at Lenin's Tomb, attention has been drawn to a paranoid - in a genuinely clinical sense - left-watch blog, with entries on Chomsky et al (except that the 'et al' is no 'al' at all). As one of Lenin's commenters points out, the structure of thinking here is pretty much identical to that of anti-semitism, for example the assumption that a collection of individuals automatically constitutes a 'network', because forming networks is the kind of things these people do. And these people are first and foremost lefties, so that the 'accident' of their actual personality can then only be construed as a sinister disguise. Their very individuality is citable as evidence for the prosecution. Needless to say, no one with any intellectual integrity could lend their name or their work to such a site.
Curiously, the section entitled 'Campus Support for Terrorism' begins by referring to card-carrying National Socialist Martin Heidegger, who - as a typical academic it is implied - capitulated to fascism. Heidegger, apparently, was also 'the intellectual idol of American academics.' Whether true or false, Heidegger does seem to have been 'idolised' by one Leo Strauss, who, George Steiner reports, held Heidegger to be 'incomparable'.
So, one could easily imagine an entry for strauss on a hypothetical 'Right-watch' site:
Official ideologue of the neo-con. movement. Fell under the spell of the Nazi Martin Heidegger, whom, he told students at Chicago was 'incomparable'. Propounded the sinister and anti-democratic doctrine that citizens should be sold lies (he thought them 'noble') to keep them in check. Believed also in esoteric meanings accesible only to the powerful elite, as opposed to exoteric doctrine suitable for the masses. This thinking is behind much curent US policy.
Of course, I present the above portrait not to discredit Strauss (his identification with the neo-cons contains many ironies), but to suggest how easily the truth can be so distorted and selectively presented that it becomes, in effect, a lie.
[re the 'Discover the Network' site, Jodi Dean makes the nicely dialectical point:"this site could be helpful in actually producing the network it claims to describe."