Category Archives: Blog stuff

I’ve always wanted to be a bonus assignment on someone’s homework. Thanks, Ms. Jones, whoever you are. Continue reading →

Ted Barlow is a national treasure. Is it time to start making Koufax Award nominations yet? Continue reading →

What Ezra said. I like what I’m doing just fine, I feel I’m making a difference with what I do here and at Texas Tuesdays, and if you look real close, you’ll see I’ve got no ads. Frankly, I don’t … Continue reading → Continue reading →

For a long time, my friend Margo has sent out emails describing her adventures as a Russian teacher, amateur chef, martial arts student, and wandering gadfly. Some months back, I replied to one of her missives and suggested that she … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Annals of Improbable Research (formerly the Journal of Irreproducible Results) has a blog. And they now have a contender for next year’s Ig Nobel awards. Via the overjoyed Julia. Continue reading →

Some years ago, I created a series of Get To Know Your Neighbor questionnaires for a mailing list I was on. One of the questions was “What are the five categories you’d most like to see in Double Jeopardy? What … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Major congrats to the Burnt Orange Report for being named the Best Local Political Blog by AusChron readers. A well-deserved award, guys. Way to go! And while I’m in congratulatory mode, kudos as well to ArchPundit for being named Best … Continue reading → Continue reading →

So as a 2004 Houston Press Best Of winner, I get to include a little icon on my blog that proclaims my victory for all to see. There’s a problem, though – the GIF they’ve provided (this is the one … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Julia, one of my daily faves, gets interviewed by The Goddess on the What She Said blog. What She Said is a huge compendium of female political bloggers and a good place to look the next time you find yourself … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I got the following email this afternoon, which reads in total: You stupid liberal! Put the koolaid down! How can I resist such advice? And yes, it was spaced like that in my email. It also came with this excellent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well. I’m rather at a loss for words regarding this.I’ll settle for “Wow! That’s pretty cool.” I don’t know who at the Press makes these choices, but whoever you are, thanks very much. One thing, though: [A]mong political bloggers, Kuffner … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I seldom use my Blogrolling links on the sidebar to read blogs these days, since my Bloglines subscriptions do a much better job of keeping track of what I have and haven’t read for me, but if I’m going to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kevin Hayden has put together an excellent collection of progressive bloggers organized by states. There’s at least one such blogger in 49 of the 50 states – the one holdout is Wyoming, but at least they have an active lefty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Eric Zorn asks ArchPundit Five Easy Questions, the latter of which is of interest to me: 5. In all modesty, describe your current place in the blogosphere and where you see that place and your role in the future of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In this corner, we have the Statesman’s Lasso blog, which features permalinks, categories, archives, and (yes! finally!) an RSS feed. More of a linker than a thinker, and author Bill Bishop does refer to himself in the third person, but … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Also via FSS, we have new Texas blog, The Left Wing, by Kenna Kempton of Tyler, Texas, who calls herself “both a liberal Democrat and a Christian”. Check it out. Continue reading →

Ezra gives a recommendation for Greenpass, a new blog by Zoe VanderWolk, who had interned with the Gadflyer. Some good stuff there, mostly from the convention. I strongly agree with what she says about tending the netroots. Check it out. Continue reading →

This Chron story on the bloggers at the Democratic Convention may come a bit late in the game (not exactly atypical for our hometown paper, of course), but it has the virtue of being non-condescending. It even contains a decent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

By now you’ve probably heard the news that Atrios is psuedonymous no more. His name is Duncan Black – it now says “Eschaton — a weblog by d u n c a n b l a c k” at the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s not as prestigious as the Koufax Awards, but I imagine this will get some publicity: the Washington Post is holding a Best Blogs contest, and they’re taking nominations in ten categories between now and September 3 (voting begins September … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The San Antonio Express News jumps on the blogging bandwagon with a Democratc Convention-themed blog. No catchy title, RSS feed, or any other bells and whistles as far as I can tell, but at least each entry has its own … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Two of the Burnt Orange Report guys, Karl-T and Byron, are blogging up a storm in Boston. They’ve also gotten themselves quoted in the media an impressive number of times – see here and here for the latest examples. It’ll … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I agree with Kevin: the fact that we have a story about blogs and blogging that isn’t about the phenomenon of blogging – in particular, which doesn’t make a point of noting that “blog” is “short for ‘weblog’” – is … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Major congrats to Jay Allen, creator of the indispensible MT Blacklist for winning the grand prize in the Movable Type 3.0 Plugin Contest. If you use Movable Type and you’re not using MT Blacklist, you’re probably spending way more time … Continue reading → Continue reading →

New blog in town, from Drive Democracy, featuring “Drive Democracy Director Glenn Smith, former Texas Observer editor Geoff Rips, and one of Texas’ most experienced online activists, Nathan Wilcox” plus various Special Guest Stars. Their initial post is about economic … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Slacktivist proposes a new TV show. Eventually, someone from the Cartoon Network will realize that Fafnir and Giblets really ought to be made part of the lineup on Adult Swim. This would entail getting a team of animators to create … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I can’t tell if the person who just now left the second comment on this post is a joker with a good working knowledge of Internet trivia, or someone testing out a new comment-bot. Anyone wanna take a guess? Continue reading →

John Lyon sent me this link about Blogging With The Boss’ Blessing a week ago, and despite meaning to blog it I’d forgotten about it until I saw it again in Lis Riba’s journal. I expect to see more of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Jeff Cooper is back in action. This is a good thing. Happy one-year blogiversary to the fine folks at the Appalachia Alumni Association. They may claim to be “inconsistent in subject matter, irregular in posting and lazy in updating links”, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

SixApart has announced its licensing and pricing scheme for MovableType 3.0. It looks like they really listened to the voluminous feedback they got from their users about how they actually used the product. Good news for me: I can continue … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My old Trinity classmate Robert Nagle extends on my recent post about BlogAds. His interest is more from a literary perspective, but I agree that the issues faced by small site operators are basically the same. Check it out. Continue reading →

Someone once said that true fame is to be the answer to 8 Down or 14 Across in the Sunday crossword puzzle. Given a choice, I’ll take being the subject of a Norbizness captionapalooza. I may have to print that … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Dwight Meredith gets a mention in the LA Times, thus shaving a few seconds off his fame clock. I’d say that’s a good trade. Via Julia. He then goes on to demonstrate why in a just world he’d be in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Here’s a new lefty political blog from Austin for you to check out: The View from the Left. He’s got an RSS feed, so a subscription to same can be found in my Bloglines blogs. Other recently-added subscriptions include: – … Continue reading → Continue reading →