The Times
printed (second to last) a better version of my letter than the one I sent them. Basically a few days ago they had someone from a local rightwing think tank write about how wonderful Seattle blogging was. He went to a convention put together by a conservative local blogger and was shocked to find only conservatives. Anyway, below the cut is the letter the Times ran and more words.
James J. Na claims that there aren't many liberal bloggers from this area. The basis for this assertion is that a get-together organized by a conservative blogger wasn't attended by liberals.
So for future reference, here are some of the more prominent lefty blogs, from Seattle or the Seattle area:
- www.horsesass.org: Originally a Web site set up for the initiative to call Tim Eyman a horse's ass, has become a prominent and popular blog in the area.
- www.upper-left.blogspot.com: Run by the former chair of the 32nd District Democrats. It deals with local and national issues.
- www.evergreenpolitics.com: Local politics from an activist perspective.
- www.progressivemajoritywashington.org: The local blog of the national organization, Progressive Majority.
- www.democracyforwashington.com/civicspace-0.5/: The statewide blog of the Howard Dean organization, Democracy for America.
- www.nwprogressive.org/weblog: Another Web log of a local activist group.
- www.washblog.typepad.com/: Good local info on a wide variety of topics.
- And my own Washington State Political Report, www.carl-ballard.blogspot.com, is another local blog.
There are plenty more to be found from the Seattle area as well as the rest of Washington, Oregon and Idaho, at the Pacific Northwest Portal, www.nwprogressive.org/portal/.
I didn't include some of the bigger blogs that deal with mostly national issues like Orcinus or are based out of other regions of the state like Columbian Watch. But I'm just thrilled that it got published at all.