Category Archives: Blog stuff

Nice mention in the local media for the Amarillo-based bloggers of the Panhandle Truth Squad. Keep up the good work, guys! Continue reading →

The Carter & Carter show on BizRadio 1320 for tomorrow morning is a rerun, so Kevin and I will get the day off. As a consolation, I’ve finally gotten around to uploading the MP3s from the past two weeks. Here’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Been meaning to mention that Juanita is back in business out in Fort Bend after a couple of months’ hiatus. She’s clearly in fine form, so drop by and catch up on the latest from the World’s Most Dangerous Beauty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

As promised yesterday, check out the new TechBlog and MeMo (who’s apparently a little resistant to the change – Kyrie, speaking as a ten-year veteran of customer service work, I have bad news for you: It really is always the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dwight Silverman says to look for a new look for the Chron’s blogs soon: We’ll be moving the TechBlog, MeMo and Richard Justice’s blog to new software designed specifically for blogging. It will allow readers to post comments, and will … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s Saturday, so that means it’s time once again to tune in to BizRadio 1320 at 10:15 to listen to Kevin Whited and me on the radio. I’m thinking I’ll have a few words to say about Jeff Van Gundy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Yes, I managed to survive Olivia’s swim lesson today and make it to my cellphone on time to do the weekly gig on BizRadio 1320 today. And before anyone asks, no, I wasn’t talking while driving – Tiffany drove us … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tomorrow is my now-apparently-regular gig on BizRadio 1320 at 10:30 along with Kevin. This one will be from the road, as Tiffany and I are taking Olivia to her first swimming lesson at 9:30 out in West Houston (long story … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In the Pink points to this article on Capitol-focused blogs. It’s a good piece – in fact, I’d say it’s the piece I thought Gardner Selby was going to write when he contacted me last month on the same topic. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Had my second appearance on BizRadio 1320 yesterday. Good thing it was relatively early, because I was a zombie for most of the rest of the day. I think I sounded like hell, but at least I was able to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My debut on BizRadio 1320 went pretty well, I thought. Kevin led off and they talked to him about lonely toll booth operators and Sports Authority shenanigans, then it was my turn and we discussed hosting the Super Bowl and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If anyone in town reading this is awake and near a radio tomorrow (Saturday) morning at 10:15 AM, you can tune into BizRadio 1320 AM and hear me talk about This Week In Blogging. Kevin did this last week, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Poor Man makes a connection that had eluded most of us (well, me, anyway) until now. Continue reading →

State Rep. Aaron Pena has gotten his colleagues on board the blogging train with Lone Star Rising, a group blog for House Dems. There’s three posts up so far, all by blogging newcomers, with more sure to follow. Also noted … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Apparently, I was featured on the “Inside the Blogs” feature of CNN’s Inside Politics yesterday. Here’s CNN’s Jacki Schechner: On the other side of the political spectrum, before we run out of time here, we go over to Off the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sen. Barack Obama (D, IL) now has a blog on his official Senate webpage. Someday, when it will be remarkable that an elected official does not communicate to his or her constituents (and potential constituents) in this fashion, we can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via SixApart, here’s a guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on how to blog safely. The part on anonymousness is too late for me, but you can still help yourself if you’re teetering on the brink of blogging. Check it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Agonist has all the linkage you need on GannonGuckert Day at the National Press Club. Apparently, it’s being rerun on C-SPAN2 tonight at 7 PM EDT, so set your TiVos accordingly if you’re into that sort of thing (and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

State Rep. Eddie Rodriguez takes his first step down the blogging highway with a guest post on Rep. Aaron Pena’s blog. Next thing you know, he’ll be fiddling with stylesheets and hunting around for plugins. We’ll be there for you, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m a signee of this open letter to the National Press Club about their upcoming conference on bloggers and journalists. It’s difficult to regard a panel which includes JimJeff GannonGuckert as anything other than a wretched parody, but then we … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you’re a Texas-based progressive political blogger and you have not received an email from me in the last week or so, please drop me a note (kuff-at-offthekuff-dot-com) and tell me how to reach you. I’ve got a little project … Continue reading → Continue reading →

State Rep. Aaron Pena has moved his blog to a friendlier location. Whether the peanut gallery of which I was a part got him to switch or not I couldn’t say, but I’m glad for it. Rep. Eddie Rodriguez, it’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Christian Science Monitor picks up on the story of politicians who blog. There’s not a whole lot new to that angle, but I found this tidbit intriguing: Entire communities have turned to the Web in hopes of providing information … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Don’t know who’s behind this new blog from Williamson County, but I’m glad to see one from there. Williamson, like Fort Bend, voted for Bush in lesser numbers in 2004 than it did in 2000, and I think it stands … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I have to say, I was excited at the prospect of a Harris County Democratic Party blog from the time I first heard about it, and since its launch late last week, it’s been exceeding my expectations. You don’t have … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The good news is that the fine folks at the Texas Observer are doing something that they were born to do – they’ve set up a Legislature blog, which promises “incisive reporting on key issues of the 79th Legislature and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

From San Francisco City Supervisor Chris Daly (via Kos) to Rep. John Culberson (via Rob), more current elected officials are taking up blogging. Note their stated reasons, Daly first: As it becomes increasingly clear to me that San Franciscans are … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Byron, I see that Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams blog. Well, sort of, as Byron says, since the index page is a set of links to individual entries rather than a set of the entries themselves. His links page does … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’m pleased to announce the birth of HoustonDemocrats.com, the official blog of the Harris County Democratic Party. It’s a group effort, and having met most of the people who will be powering it, I expect it to be a rollicking … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Bankruptcy expert Professor Elizabeth Warren and three of her students are running a blog on the state of the awful MBNA-favored bankruptcy bill as an adjuct to Josh Marshall‘s site. Pretty cool. Check it out. Continue reading →

Two more Texas blogs for your perusal: Secure the Blessing, written by a husband-and-wife pair of expats now in Washington, DC, which promises a “Progressive Christian perspective on current events”; and the interestingly named Canal Water Review, who has a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Netaloid has been studying the recent uptick in comment, trackback, and referral log spamming, and has come to some interesting conclusions as well as a suggested course of action. Read the whole saga here, here, and here. Meanwhile, via rc3, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Congratulations to all the winners. If your blogroll consisted of nothing but blogs mentioned in that post (plus, you know, me), you’d have a mighty fine selection. Special kudos to Grits for their co-win in the Best Single Issue Blog … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Just got a note from Houston Chronicle tech guru Dwight Silverman announcing a brand new page of RSS feeds at Chron.com. I’d been meaning to ask him about that since his Techblog got launched, but he beat me to it. … Continue reading → Continue reading →