Category Archives: Blog stuff

It’s December, and that means it’s time to make your nominations for the annual Koufax Awards, which the fine folks at Wampum do every year to recognize the best and the brightest in the progressive blogging community. They’ve expanded the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kriston Capps announces a cool thing: Eye Level, a blog about the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Capps, who does a lot of artblogging over at his Grammar Police site, is the main blogger at Eye Level as well. Don’t know … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Eye on Williamson, there’s a new progressive blog in Central Texas called Bell County Watch. I hope she can help keep us all up on what’s happening in her county as EoW has done in his. Welcome aboard! Continue reading →

The fine folks at Wampum are holding a fundraising drive to help them defray the costs of the annual Koufax Awards process. As detailed here, they don’t really have any other viable options for making this less expensive on themselves. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Scott, I see that the ACLU of Texas has its own blog now. I think that’s great – really, at this point, I have a hard time understanding why any advocacy group wouldn’t have a blog of some kind. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m pleased to note that I’m the Houston Press pick for Best Local Blog in their annual Best of Houston competition. That’s two years in a row, which is pretty darned sweet. We waited for someone to step up and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Everybody’s already written about the new Google blog search tool – I’ll give Dwight the finder’s credit, since I saw it at his place first – so it’s time I joined in. I like it a lot – it’s fast, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My webhost now has a blog, which strikes me as the sort of thing that webhosts in general ought to have. This post about how they deal with fraud made them worth the effort to add to my Bloglines subscriptions. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You’ve seen my Texas Political Bloggers page, which I try but often fail to keep updated. One thing I haven’t done with that page is distinguish between left-leaning and right-leaning blogs. Well, the folks at Lone Star Democracy Builders Association … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Dwight, Chron Help Line columnist and well-regarded local musician Jay Lee has joined the ranks of Chronicle bloggers. This is an excellent use of the form by the Chron, for as Jay notes in his initial post, it will … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The brew crew at Saint Arnold’s has a blog. Truly, we live in wondrous times. Continue reading →

Here’s a new blog on the block – Tejano Insider, the official blog of the State Tejano Democrats. They’ve got a nice piece on Howard Dean’s visit to the 2005 Hispanic Leadership Summit in South Texas today. I’ll be adding … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Express News columnist Carlos Guerra has a blog now dealing with issues on and around the Texas-Mexico border. Some good stuff there, so check it out. Via Latinos for Texas. Continue reading →

Atrios says he’s “always been puzzled by the fact that alt-weeklies have largely missed the blogging boat.” I don’t quite understand it, either. I don’t know how things work at the Houston Press, but like Atrios I’ve long thought that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

All things must end, and that includes my Saturday morning stint on BizRadio 1320 AM. Host Jon-Michial Carter emailed me earlier this week to say that he had to stop doing the show because of other time commitments. I greatly … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Local blogger Beldar had himself a bit of a scare last week, but everything turned out okay in the end. My best wishes to you for continued good health, Beldar. Via Banjo. Continue reading →

I’ll be back to my usual not-in-the-studio guest gig on BizRadio 1320 AM again tomorrow circa 10:30. It was really cool doing the show at the mike last week, though it’s a bit nerve-wracking to work without a net like … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chronicle is running an online contest called Ultimate Houston, and its list of nominees in certain categories has generated some complaints. What is odd is that CollectSpace.com was nominated [for Best Blogger]. It’s a big website, but a website … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We’re back after a lovely week in Portland where (unlike Denver a couple of weeks ago) the weather was actually cooler than it is here in Houston. We had a great time, and of course everyone loved seeing Olivia. Tiffany … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Governing Magazine has a cover story on political blogs in Texas, in particular blogs that focused on the State Legislature. Eileen Smith is the cover girl and main focus of the piece, but they did talk to a few other … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My sincere condolences to Lair on the death of his cat, Edloe. May he find many treats in kitty heaven. I’ll give Harry an extra Milk-Bone tonight in Edloe’s memory. Continue reading →

KTRK’s Michael McGuff interviewed yours truly plus Kevin and Anne for a pretty spiffy article on the local blog scene. Reading through it, I’m reminded that I apparently haven’t lost my touch for giving colorful quotes: “If there’s one way … Continue reading → Continue reading →

We made it all back home in good shape today (have I mentioned what a boon it is to have a baby who sleeps on airplanes?), and amid the laundry and unopened snail mail I’ll be doing my usual stint … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Scott went to a panel on bloggers and blogging at a seminar put on by Campaigns and Elections magazine in D.C., and he came away with some very interesting informaiton. I’m going to try to blog this in some more … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Regretfully, I will not be able to make it to DemocracyFest this weekend in Austin due to other commitments. Looks like there will be a lot of interesting stuff going on, and I personally always enjoy a little networking opportunity, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, that’s too long, as they say. Fortunately, you can rectify that situation at 10:15 AM on Saturday at the usual place, BizRadio 1320 AM. I’ll be there, as will Kevin, who’s presumably tanned, rested, and ready after his weekend … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Congratulations to Byron LaMasters, founding father of the Burnt Orange Report, for graduating college and landing a job. I know I’m not alone in saying that I’ll miss his voice on BOR (he’ll still post occasionally), but he’s leaving the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Another catchup…The Chron reports on the Phantom Professor, a formerly-anonymous blogger who wrote in rather unflattering tones about her experiences teaching at SMU. For most of the past two semesters, nobody knew the identity of “The Phantom Professor.” The educator’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Texas Political Bloggers page has been updated with all the new and new-to-me blogs that I could find. As always, if I’ve missed something, please let me know about it. I’ll be adding some of these blogs to my … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The San Antonio Express-News has added a few blogs to its online publication. I can’t say there’s anything there that grabs my interest, but they do have a decent variety of topics, and I like the idea of temporary blogs … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ll be on BizRadio 1320 at the usual time tomorrow (circa 10:15). This time, the plan is for us to pull into the Costco parking lot (Costco is on the way home from Olivia’s swim lesson) and let Tiffany and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s been another outbreak of new and new-to-me blogs on the scene lately, so I’m overdue for an update on the Texas political bloggers page. I promise to try and have some action on this by the weekend, but it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

After a rerun last week, Kevin and I will be back on the air tomorrow circa 10:15-10:30 for the Carter and Carter show on BizRadio 1320. I feel pretty confident that the subject of crazed grackles will come up. If … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Rick Perry Versus The World blog has moved to its own domain and a Nucleus-powered back end, meaning it now has comments, trackbacks, and so on. Update your links accordingly. Continue reading →