Tag: politics

At Watermark, Sharon Brogan notices that some bloggers are pointedly eschewing politics i nthe runup to the election, and she asks her readers for guidance on whether they prefer a blog that focuses on some core areas of knowledge or one that ranges over a wide variety of topics, including political punditry. It’s a great…

At meta-roj blog, roj has done a good job of tracking down the Swift Vet’s blog-spam tactics: meta-roj blog: BLOGSPAMMER ID: Swift Boat Veterans For Truth In other news, been kind of quiet around here lately…. My energy has been going into The Power of Many and most of my other contributors (besides the indefatigable…

Interesting comparison of the “less-sticky” right wing of the political blogosphere: MyDD :: Top-Down Right-Wing Blogosphere Growing Powerful

One thing I heard a lot in Boston during the DNC was people telling me sotto voce that they or their staff or someone on their team or “everyone here” reads blogs. I was told by one Senate committee staffer that they have a person in their office monitoring relevant blogs at all times, and…

Daily Kos || Blogger mania: One reporter asked Jerome of MyDD what he would be covering at the convention. Jerome replied, “I’ll be writing about you writing about me.” It’s getting to be that absurd. (Posted from BlogOn, day 2)

Atrios says he’ll be there too. Maybe I’ll learn his secret identity Posted while at BlogON…

The Columbia Journalism Review’s Campaign Desk blog recently ran an interesting article treading that familiar territory of comparing the abundance of public-minded outspoken masculine weblogs with the paucity of famous political blogs by women. The author of The Blogosphere: Boys ‘n’ Their Toys (even the title is reminiscent of the title of a Shelley Powers…

The John Kerry for President Blog now features an aggregrator page listing recent blog and news items that mention Kerry. [via Scripting News]

At his new Change for America website, Joe Trippi has started a blog. Just one post so far (“Still in the fight”) with 127 comments last time I checked.

The Rude Pundit is shockingly right about everything! (via The Little Teapot).

Scott Rosenberg announced the new War Room ’04 section of Salon, using a weblog format and incorporating contributions from across Salon’s staff. It’s not part of the Salon blog community in terms of rankings or updates, and it doesn’t (yet) appear to have an RSS feed, but it’s still a fairly kewl idea. Also, I…

Leading left blogger Kos says, in Bloggers at DNC convention: There is interest amongst individuals inside Democratic Party circles to do something special for bloggers at the Democratic Party convention. He invites suggestions about how bloggers can participate in the convention, beyond simply getting press passes. One suggestion from the comment thread attached to the…

In order to help the DeanSpace people document their software package for would-be site developers, I figured it was necessary to, like, actually use the software myself. I got a domain name from sites.fordean.net and free hosting from Bruce Forkush, logged in as admin, and started flipping some switches and voila! Oakland for Dean lives.…

Tom Coates writes about the political compass postings that have been meme-ing their way through the blogosphere lately. I know I took the test and posted my results here sometime, but I’d have to use my search feature to find it, or take the test again to see if I’ve drifted or if the questions…

This sounds like a job for feedster: Chris Lydon wants us all to write The Blogging of the President. [Joho the Blog]

Visiting the DNC, Franken apparently dictated an entry for the Kicking Ass weblog. I’d read a real Al Franken weblog, if he had the time to write it. Hell, Bill Maher and Margaret Cho do.

According to Tom Tomorrow, Neal Pollack is declaring this coming Tuesday (November 4, I believe, “Luskin is a stalker” day. Oh, and Tom (or whomever maintains your blog for you), your RSS feed stalled out some time in September.

I’m too busy this week to keep up with all the juicy weblog gossip and topics du jour, so I’ll just point you to Rogers Cadenhead’s coverage at his Workbench blog of this emerging story: Atrios, the pseudonymous publisher of the liberal political weblog Eschaton, has been contacted by the attorney of National Review contributor…

So much for downtime. My FrontPage book is in the can (but still needs a website), and the revision of my Dreamweaver book proceeds a pace, ably handled for the most part by my new coauthor, Lucinda Dykes. My next major project is more than a month a away. Mostly I’ve been writing fiction lately,…

My aggregrator was filled this morning with discussions of blogging outages across the political spectrum (from right-wing to far-right-wing… just kidding), starting with CalPundit and on down. Dean Esmay had the scoop as far as I could tell. Metafilter now has this summary: Last night Hosting Matters (and their related resellers) was taken down by…