Well, clearly you can't have a self-respecting revolution these days without blogs, and down in the Ukraine there's been some excellent bloggery. Several blogs have been operating in and around the demonstrators' tent city, offering reports and also pictures. For a good solid newsdump, though, AFOE has pretty much given over the whole blog to covering the situation. Neeka's Backlog is reporting on the spot, Blog de Connard has provided interesting photos from Kiev but has now Left the Building.
As the situation developed, Blogistan rapidly boosted its target-coverage. As far as general purpose blogs go, as well as AFOE, Victor the Ukrainian commenter at The Periscope has gone full bore on the story, monitoring Ukrainian language news and contacts on the scene.
Europhobia is another high value blog now running nothing but Ukrainian news. Instapundit picked up the story, and - you've guessed it - someone's built a brand new blog, here. This, of course, is a key feature of blogs - like the Kiev tent city, you can rapidly throw up a special purpose blog village at any time. Mind you, some of the blogosphere's typical failings are also in evidence. There is a lot of echo-chambering going on, what with multiple blogs reposting from those mentioned above.
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