Category Archives: Blog stuff

The new year continues to bring new Texas political blogs, so I’ve done another update of the Texas political bloggers page. A few I’d like to call your attention to are the Capitol Annex and Inside the Texas Capitol, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Two new blogs to check out: Dos Centavos, by Stace Medellin of La Raza Unida, and Latinos for Texas, which is affiliated with Democracy for Texas. Ther latter brings news that State Rep. Richard Raymond is going to run for … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Unfortunately, the fine folks at Wampum were not able to cover the steep bandwidth costs resulting from their annual hosting of the Koufax Awards, and so their site is currently offline. If you want to help them get back up … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Happy three-year blog anniversary to Julia! Here’s to many more. Judging from her updated user icon, I’d say the appropriate way to celebrate would be a nice big plate of cookies. Way to go, Julia! Continue reading →

They’ve narrowed things down to eight finalists per category in the Koufax Awards at Wampum, so hustle over and help pick the ultimate winners. If you thought the choices were hard before, they’re even harder now. The good news is, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Search engine Ask Jeeves has bought Bloglines for an undisclosed sum. Various mainstream coverage is here, here, here, and here. They say they won’t make any major changes, at least not at first, but you never know what will happen. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn now has a Movable Type-powered blog with comments. Zorn had been blogging for the Trib before, but that was on their branded site with their software; now, though he’s still on the Trib domain and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You did know that final voting for Koufax awards ends on Monday, right? Here’s a link to all posts of nominations. Hurry up and make your voice heard, and if you’d thought about making a donation to help cover Wampum’s … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Lots of new Texas blogs popping up lately. I’ve already mentioned Pink Dome, which won my personal snarky post of the week award on Monday, and now it’s been joined by the similarly-named In The Pink Texas, written by “professionally … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I never would have thought that the economics of 19th century whaling could be that interesting. Good thing Ted thought so, though. Be sure to read the comments, too. Continue reading →

You know, I was just saying to myself this morning that what the Texas political blogging scene really needs is a snarky Wonkette-style gossip blog centered around the Texas Lege. And lo, the fates have heard my plea. Thanks to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Banjo Jones tells his story of getting fired by the Chron for blogging to NPR. Also see the Houston Press story from the time. Continue reading →

If your head is still spinning from having to pick just one winner from all the fabulous entrants in each of the nominating categories for the Koufax Awards at Wampum (current contest I’m pulling my hair out over: Most Hmorous … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and prove it beyond any doubt for the whole fricking world to see. James Howard Gibbons will not be getting chocolate from me anytime soon. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I heartily endorse this idea. Newspapers clearly are embracing the idea of staff blogs, and one area of news coverage that’s ripe for blogging is the politics and government beat. At the Times Argus and Rutland Herald in Vermont, a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Naturally, as soon as I hit Publish on that last post, I realize I should have noted that I’ve also started reading The Brazosport News, which returned from a multi-month hiatus in December. You want to know about the City … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Couple of new and new-to-me Houston blogs to check out. First is The Red State, run by Eddie Rodriguez, who used to work for State Rep. Carlos Uresti (D, San Antonio) and served as the Chief Clerk for House Committee … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Voting for the 2004 Koufax Awards is going on at Wampum. There are several posts up with the nominees in different categories for your approval. I’m as motivated by enlightened self-interest as the next blogger, so I’ll point out that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting suggestion for a more comprehensive way to fight comment spam: Create standard HTML tags that tell search engines to ignore the content within when indexing. With such a tag around your comments, there’d be no good reason … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Happy New Year everyone! Among other things, today marks my third anniversary as a blogger. I’ve seen better political years than 2004, but it was pretty darned good to me personally, and I wish that same kind of success and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This DMN article on blogs post-election has been making the rounds lately. You’d think they might have talked to a couple more representatives of the home state, since Texas is chock full of political blogs, but they didn’t. At least … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kevin Hayden has announced a new set of blog awards called The Perranoski Prize, which is intended as a complement to Wampum’s Koufax Awards (nominations for which close at 5 PM Eastern time today, so don’t dawdle if you haven’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Slacktivist has started posting his analysis of the “Left Behind” books again. Today’s installment: Buck Williams as Arthur Dent. Check it out. Continue reading →

Just a reminder that nominations are still being taken for the annual Koufax Awards (current nominations thread is here), and that it would really help the fine folks who do this award every year if you donated a few bucks … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know what to do. Remember, only blogs that get nominated in this round make it to the finals voting, so if you don’t speak up here, you can’t complain about a missing choice later on. And please think about … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve mentioned before that I love the new MT Blacklist, which in my mind is worth the price of upgrading Movable Type by itself. Seeing how much comment spam I’ve gotten in the month or so since I upgraded ( … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Though I’ve added the newer blogs that I’m currently aware of, I know I’m clearly remiss in updating the Texas Political Bloggers page. Please feel free to help me out and leave any sites I’ve overlooked in the comments. Thanks. Continue reading →

Well, I got on her case for not having one, so the least I can do is announce that Avedon now has an RSS feed. It’s in my Bloglines subscriptions and it should be in yours. Thanks, Avedon! (Oh, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

According to the nifty MT Blacklist main page, which is integrated into MT 3.x, I’ve blocked or deleted over 30,000 comment spams, all (presumably) since I upgraded to MT 3.121 on November 19. That’s over 2000 a day. I’m in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Sarah Berel-Harrop, a frequent commenter around here of late and a member of the Hubert Vo campagin team, has her own blog now. I promised her I’d give her some publicity when she got started, and I’m pleased to do … Continue reading → Continue reading →

No, this is not a feeble attempt to one-up all those catbloggers. I’m just noting a story about Yet Another Trend In Blogging. Baby blogs are fast becoming the new mommy (or daddy) must-have. Like other kinds of blogs, they … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Given the vast everflowing river of comments that my recent KLOL-related posts have become, I should perhaps be hesitant to mention this, but I will anyway. Christine says this is Blurker Amnesty Week. Says she: Yo! You! There in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mac Thomason dropped me a note to say that with the apparently premature death of Bloghosts.com, his regular blog site is unavailable. He’s set up a temporary home for War Liberal here, and will eventually migrate everything (including, I hope, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Nice article in the Press about Houston’s own Matt Mullenweg, creator of blog software WordPress. Two comments: One, if you read through the whole thing, you’ll note that I got mentioned in there. The reporter contacted me about this story … Continue reading → Continue reading →