Tag: politics

  • Al Franken kinda blogs

    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.

  • Tuesday is 'Luskin is a stalker' day

    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.

  • Blogger threatened by lawyer

    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…

  • Documenting DeanSpace

    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,…

  • Hosting does matter

    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…

  • Weblog strategies for nonprofits

    One of the students in my weblogs class at Seybold last month was the web administrator of the Community Technology Foundation of California (zerodivide.org). They use a sophisticated CMS to maintain the site but are experimenting with weblogs and wanted to see whether they might be more easily customizable, because – we agreed – different…