In the wake of the London blognic, when one of the participants Damian Thompson invoked the image of the samizdat days, I have been reflecting.
I found a good quote about samizdat which was the underground movement of writing and self-publishing at a grassroots level, people circulating each others work and spreading it.
Vladimir Bukovsky defined samizdat: "I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and [may] get imprisoned for it."
Off topic but – I like your new format Father!