Blogs
Battle Of The Blogs
Tuesday, December 7th, 2004The success of Blogs For Bush has spawned to sites which hope to have similar success as Blogs For Bush did… but these sites are focused on Hillary.
There’s Blogs Against Hillary and Blogs For Hillary.
Both mimic a variety of features used by Blogs For Bush. Each clearly notes the importance of building a blogroll, and adopts similar procedures Blogs For Bush used in order to build it. Blog Against Hillary even “borrowed” the stylesheet of Blogs For Bush…
I don’t know who started either site, but both need a lot of work.
Thanks, Hugh
Monday, December 6th, 2004I guess you can say as a blogger I’ve received a very good recommendation from Hugh Hewitt:
The Democratic primaries of ‘04 were almost indifferent to new media because new media doesn’t connect with those voters on anywhere near the same scale as it does with center-right electorate. The would-be presidents ought to be quizzing the newly elected senators about new media, as well as everyone who managed the process at Bush-Cheney ‘04. The serious ‘08 players, for example, should be courting Patrick Ruffini the way Notre Dame is hunting for a head coach. [Aside: Other candidates/consultants and news organizations ought to be trying to tie up the blogging talent of Ed Morrisey, Matt Margolis, any of the RedState gents, Wizbang boys, Polipundit people or Slantpoint. Some bloggers are clearly not for hire, but others might be, and it is a skills set crucial for politics on a going forward basis.]
I wouldn’t mind working for a Republican nominee for president as a blogger… Sign me up!
Shalom, Scott
Saturday, December 4th, 2004Scott from Slant Point has arrived in Israel, and for a mere $10 a day will have Internet access. Should make for some interesting blogging.
Have fun, Scott.
Looks Like We Touched A Nerve
Friday, November 26th, 2004Powerline directs us to an interesting article in the Toronto Star.
Kos, Blogging, and the Election
Thursday, November 25th, 2004Brian Reich examines The Daily Kos’s role in the election, and Radio Free Blogistan says he “is completely off” on one particular point…
Also via Radio Free Blogistan, I found this CBS article which looks down upon bloggers…
Big plans and big claims are to be expected from folks – pajama-clad or not – who are dabbling with new technology and new modalities of public expression. As a retired mainstream media (”MSM”) journalist – and thus a double-dinosaur — I don’t begrudge these knights of the blog-table their grandiose dreams. But I worked on a school paper when I was a kid and I owned a CB radio when I lived in Texas. And what I saw in the blogosphere on Nov. 2 was more reminiscent of that school paper or a “Breaker, breaker 19″ gabfest on CB than anything approaching journalism.
The article then mentions a few “blogs” - which for some reason he included Drudge, which is hardly a blog in my opinion, as well as a short but telling list of virtually all liberal blogs. No mention of Powerline, Little Green Footballs, or even Blogs For Bush…