Category Archives: Blog stuff

Meet Tobias Schafer, who is a firefighter from Germany here visiting Houston as an intern with HFD and blogging about his experiences. It’s pretty interesting reading, both in terms of seeing what firefighters do and seeing our city through a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Even though it’s Labor Day, we’ve still got a Texas Progressive Alliance Blog Round-Up for the week. This Labor Day edition was compiled by Vince from Capitol Annex. Take it away, Vince! Continue reading →

Time again for the weekly texas blog roundup, as conducted once again by Vince. Click on for this week’s highlights. Continue reading →

Round we go again. Matt did the compiling, and I’ve got a copy beneath the fold. Click on to see what’s been going on. Continue reading →

And on we go with another Texas blog roundup, as once again conducted by Vince. Click on for the good stuff. Continue reading →

You know the drill. As with the last time, Vince is the roundup master. Click on for the highlights. Continue reading →

Time for another Teaxs progressive blog roundup. Vince did the honors this week, and he’s got quite a collection of good reading for you. Click the More link to see the selections, and check them out. Continue reading →

The Texas Blue asked me a few questions about life, the universe, and blogging. I think I managed to give some halfway coherent answers, but I’ll let you be the judge of that. Continue reading →

Burnt Orange Report started doing a weekly Texas progressive blog roundup last week, and they’re back this week with another edition. This is going to be a regular feature on BOR, and I’ll join in with my colleagues in crossposting … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s a course being taught this summer on Texas State and Local Government at Austin Community College that requires students to set up and write a blog as part of their grade. Establishing a Texas-oriented political blog counts for 16.6% … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My friend Stephanie forwarded me this AOL Fanhouse blog post about the relationship between sports bloggers and the media. I think the main thing I got out of it is that those of us in the political ‘sphere appear to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Press’ Rich Connelly follows up this slightly over-the-top blog screed (call me a humorless liberal if you will, but I’ve lost my taste for “torture” jokes) against Kristin Finan’s video blog with another potshot (PDF) in this week’s print … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s here, though I’ll also point you to Kos since his archives will be freely available for a lot longer than the Times’ will be. Other than a minor subtraction error (2007 – 1966 = 41, not 42), it’s well … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sad news. Steve Gilliard, 1966-2007 It is with tremendous sadness that we must convey the news that Steve Gilliard, editor and publisher of The News Blog (www.thenewsblog.net), passed away early this morning. He was 41. To those who have come … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The True Courage Action Network wants to know who you think should receive their first True Courage Awards: We are honoring the best efforts of legislators and advocates who have shown courage relating to TCAN’s mission to restore strong ethical … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After 5.5 years of blogging, mostly on political stuff, I’m on every mailing list known to humankind, and I get more press releases than you can shake a keyboard at. In all that time, I don’t believe I’ve ever gotten … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I just have one question: Have I been banned in Dallas, too? I figure if John Wiley “I Heart Carole Keeton Strayhorn!” Price is doing this on a domain-by-domain basis to filter out us dirty bloggers, I might be safe. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

PSoTD says: Just an experiment. Using an edited version of Avedon Carol‘s blogroll, below are a list of blogs that I would appreciate being blogrolled from, and that I think the content here is appropriate to be blogrolled from on … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Houston Bloggers Pub is an aggregator of Houston blogs that in its words “becomes a virtual pub to listen in on the social, political, recreational, and spiritual views of the area.” They’ve just started up here (they already exist in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Galveston County Judge Susan Criss and her blog get a nice shoutout in the Chron today. When Criss started the blog “As The Island Floats” in January she began it with warnings that she would not discuss cases before her. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Chron fanblogger Stephanie Stradley returns from attending the Super Bowl in Miami with a report of the festivities and, sadly, an announcement that she’s retiring from the blog. I’m not much of a Texans fan, but I enjoyed her blog … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rep. Garnet Coleman has joined the ever-expanding list of House Democrats who are blogging/vlogging/podcasting. You can see his current video on that page, and videos plus podcasts here. More from the Rep himself is on BOR. And yes, he has … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Galveston County Judge Susan Criss has entered the blogosphere with one of the better-titled efforts I’ve heard of lately, As The Island Floats. Judge Criss has done some guestblogging before, and she’s already shown a flair for storytelling in her … Continue reading → Continue reading →

State Rep. Richard Raymond has joined the ranks of blogging legislator, and he’s upped the ante by doing a video blog. From the press release: “Technology has given us an opportunity to keep our constituents more fully informed on the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I already know some bloggers who are or have been teachers, so this is no surprise to me. After long days of grading papers and disciplining rowdy children, a growing number of tech-savvy teachers are creating online journals to vent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chron’s RG Ratcliffe explores the “are bloggers journalists?” question in the context of some recent actions by the Lege: possibly credentialling bloggers for the Lege floor, the blogger libel bill, and the proposed journalist shield law, among other things. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The initial round of nominations for the 2006 Koufax Awards has begun. If you need a review of what the Koufax Awards are all about, go here. And as always, if you want to help the fine folks at Wampum … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Capitol Annex Readers’ Choice Awards for 2006 are up. Thank you very much to everyone who voted for me as Best Blog. It’s an honor and a pleasure to win in that category – there’s quite a bit of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Miya (it sounds funny to say that, but there you go), I see that U of Saint Thomas poli sci profs Jon Taylor and Michelle Carnahan have a blog. There’s certainly room in the ecosystem for more Texas-focused blogging … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s December, and that means the annual Koufax Awards are not far behind. The fine folks at Wampum, who do a ton of work to present the awards each year, could use a little help with their server hardware in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Juanita, a/k/a Susan DuQuesnay Bankston, the proprietor of the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty Salon, has herself a spiffy new home. She still refuses to call it a “blog”, but we’re working on her about that. Update your bookmarks accordingly. Continue reading →

I received the following email from Rad Sallee, which was copied to James Campbell, regarding my question about the Richmond Rail Effect story: FYI, I sent this to reader rep James Campbell to post online at his discretion: Although I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I meant to do this last week but didn’t manage it. It’s been a year and a month since Debutant was diagnosed with cancer. She’s free of it now, but there are still plenty of ups and downs. She could … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Rep. Aaron Pena’s blog is suffering from a comment spam attack, so it has moved temporarily to a new home at http://www.aaronpena.com/acapitolblog/. Please update your bookmarks until further notice. Continue reading →