But Blogs Sucked in 2002-2003!

24Nov08

I had been meaning to discuss this blog post by Matthew Yglesias where he points out that one apparently required feature to being a successful blogger is having started blogging in 2002-2003.
It’s one of the more somber facts about blogging, the most popular sites this year are almost exclusively explained by which sites were most [...]

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Tags: 2003, Atrios, Blogs

Blogging Philosophy

17Jul08

Another thing the morning sessions a Netroots Nation made me think about what people think blogs should be. Pretty clearly the philosophy of the state level bloggers I was talking to this morning view blogs as:
1) A place to do some heavy political lifting, such funneling money to progressive candidates.
2) A mixed medium media outlet, [...]

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Tags: Blogs, NN08

Verbal Land Mines

14Jul08

Back in grad school I developed the idea that certain things were wrong in complicated ways, such that even explaining how they were was something that would likely lead further incorrect conclusions. My primary example of this was traditional gender relations, which I think most everyone could agree were wrong, but it would also be [...]

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Tags: Blogs, Lawyers Guns Money

WordPress’s #1 Post

21Oct07

So I often wonder what other people are reading outside the blogs I frequent. I clicked the number post feature for wordpress and got this post
Perhaps not up the vigorous intellectual standards I aspire to reach in each and every post, but I’ll admit I didn’t regret my decision to click on the link. [...]

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Tags: Blogs, Tennis outfits

I’m Hot

12Oct07

So the blog stat feature tells me yesterday was the second most viewed day in this blog’s short history. The blog is also enjoying a nice string of days with greater then zero readership. So I decided to put up a link to MIMS “This is Why I’m Hot” video.
Asute readers may question the [...]

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Tags: Blogs, Hip Hop, MIMS

Say it ain’t so Gilbert

11Oct07

So I see this item like 2 hours ago (an hour after the Steinberg post) and plan to write a post on it and bam by the time I get home it’s already on one of the famous blogs. Don’t know why I get out of bed sometimes.
Well here it is anyway, [...]

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Tags: Barry Bonds, Blogs, Gilbert Arenas, Halo 3, Redskins, Washington D.C.

Props to the First Ever Commenters

04Oct07

Much thanks commenter RLT for your comment. In response to your comment I have a partial answer to question about the U.S. and corruption, which I will try to post soon
BT3 is also thanked despite losing the race to comment first with a 48 hour head start and cursing on his second comment. Which makes [...]

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Tags: Blogs, Corruption, United States