Howard Kurtz Talks Blogging and Bloggers

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Friday April 28, 2006 · 7:48 AM PDT

2006/04/28 · 07:48

A portion of Howard Kurtz's column today is on blogging. Somehow he managed to write paragraph after paragraph on blogging and bloggers without ever mentioning the debacle that is the Post blog.

An excerpt is posted below. The comment about "well-crafted writing" is amusing given the caliber of Howie's prose. But to really see how disingenuous this piece is, read the whole thing at the link below.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100587.html Read More

Blogginess

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Saturday April 01, 2006 · 9:03 AM PST

2006/04/01 · 09:03

It's been over a week since a member of the Post editorial staff posted to the Domenech or Little threads at the post.blog. Apparently they have lost their taste for the kind of dialogue they said they wanted to have with their readers. As one recent poster commented, The Post seems to have believed that "If we just manage to look bloggy enough..."

I believe we can help them with that. I believe we have an opportunity to use their blog as a kind of Dadaist project to explore the concepts of blogging vs. blogginess. We can help them make it look as "bloggy" as possible without tipping over into actual blogness.

The Daily Shows has given us "newsiness" (if you will) and Colbert has introduced us to "truthiness". The Washington Post has now given us an unparalled opportunity to explore the idea of blogginess. Have some fun.

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The Right Wing Takes on Schumer's "Standard of Proof"

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Wednesday February 08, 2006 · 4:48 PM PST

2006/02/08 · 16:48

Be gentle -- first diary.

The Greg Lewis article below appears to signal the tactic that the right-wing echo chamber is going to pursue vis-a-vis Schumer's questioning on the NSA wiretaps.

Sorry -- I am not sure where it comes from -- a right-winger on another non-political website posted it and when I googled the title nothing came up. I suspect it comes from The Rant because Lewis is a regular contributor there.

I want to get back to my pet right-winger with the salient facts but when I google this, I get pretty much nothing. I don't need the arguments why this is a diversionary tactic, etc. (But I'll take 'em if you've got 'em). I

I want to look into the stats, etc. Anybody have any good recommended environmental sites where I can check this stuff out -- environmental stuff is not my long suit. TIA. Read More

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