Charlie Sykes recently devoted some time on his radio show to Wisconsin-based weblogs. I just happened to check his blog that day, and saw some names I hadn't seen before.

Thus, I realized it was time to update my links next door.

Lots of new blogs added on - all but one on the conservative side. The one liberal blog is Brian's Study Breaks, By a PhD candidate at UW - studying medeival Middle Eastern history - Brian Ulrich (von Lichtenstein. No, not really, and I'm probably the only one who understands what I just wrote).

Looking through his blog, I don't really see anything that tags him as a liberal, but he was listed that way on somebody else's blogroll, so I'll leave it like that until further notice.

Another key addition: the Badger Blog Alliance, which is populated by several other Wisconsin bloggers: Jiblog, Brainpost, Darn Floor, Wild Wisconsin, and Scofflaw's Subsidy.

I'll point out Wild Wisconsin, in particular, written by some young guy named Lucas Pillman, because he's also reserved KohlvTommy.blogspot.com, just in case Tommy Thompson decides to run for the U.S. Senate in 2006. You have to like the pluck.

Another blog, Tom McMahon, has the best slogan this side of Mr. Pterodactyl: "The stategy of bingo, the excitement of chess." Humility, I think. I'm not too familiar with it.

I've also added links to CRG Network and Wisconsin Conservative Digest, which aren't exactly blogs, but close enough. I put those a little apart from the others, along with Bellings and Lasee's Notes, which aren't actually blogs, either.

I'm feeling a little guilty about not including more liberal sites, but I just don't have any. I think Dean once told me about some others, but I never put them up. Dean? Are you out there?

I'm not exactly clear on my criteria for including a site in my links: do they just have to be from Wisconsin, have ties to Wisconsin, or actually write about Wisconsin subjects? I guess I'll err toward the liberal, and have very low standards - as long as there's some tie, I'll include it. Maybe in the future I'll re-organize them all somehow.

Blogging in Wisconsin is pretty healthy right now - just over the last few days, there has been a great deal of blogging about alleged voter fraud in Milwaukee - seems several thousand same-day registration cards have been found to be illegible. Owen at Boots and Sabers (one day to be known as the granddaddy of Wisconsin blogging) has a three post round-up: one, two, three.