Category Archives: Blog stuff

Via Byron, I’m pleased to discover a blog called the Panhandle Truth Squad, run by three liberal types out in West Texas. The Texas Political Bloggers list is pretty much dominated by Houston, Austin, and Dallas. I’d love to see … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The results of the BlogAds Reader Survey are out, and they’re pretty interesting. It’s a self-selecting audience and all, but I’m still surprised that it’s male by a 4-1 ratio. I’d love to see more detail about individual blog readership, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Bill Gates Likes Blogs Blogs are good for business, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates has said. In a speech to an audience of chief executives, Mr Gates said the regularly updated journals, or blogs, could be a good way for firms … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you’re a user of MT Blacklist (and if you’re not, you should be), now’s your chance to tell Jay Allen what you’d like to see in the next version of his wonderful utility. My wish list item is the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

SixApart is requesting feedback from MT users about how they use the product. In particular, they’re looking for data from people like Ginger who run multiple and multi-author non-commercial blogs. If that describes you, speak up! My situation is easy … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Hopefully by tomorrow, the world’s DNS servers will have told your ISP about the new site for Texas Tuesdays, which is http://www.texastuesdays.com and which is where we’ll be doing our publicity for the various Democratic campaigns through November. For now, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know, if SixApart had had Jay Allen make the announcement about the MT 3.0 developer edition and various changes to the licensing agreements in the first place, I daresay they wouldn’t have had all these problems. There’s now an … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ginger explains clearly and thoroughly why those who are now defending Movable Type’s ill-received announcement about its new licensing scheme are wrong to simply say “why don’t you people want to pay for your software?” Read it all and you’ll … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Wow. Michael isn’t kidding when he says that the trackback pings on SixLog’s announcement about the licensing scheme for MovableType 3.0 are hugely negative – I think Gigli got better reviews. Now, I’m a sole author of a single blog, … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve updated the Texas Political Bloggers page – cleaned out some 404 links and blogs that hadn’t been updated this year, added a few new blogs, fixed some URLs. Check it out, and please let me know if there’s a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

No, not here, but at the Political State Report, which recently purged its rolls of idle authors. Especially if you live in a currently unrepresented state, this is an excellent chance to ease your way into blogging – no setup … Continue reading → Continue reading →

And the march of bloggers going pro continues apace. Congrats to Ezra for landing an internship at the Washington Monthly and to O-Dub for his new gig with Media Matters. I look forward to seeing you on the Sunday talk … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Happy Blogiversary to Skeptical Notion! Here’s to another good year for you, Morat. I believe the most appropriate response to this announcement is “Jes-se! Jes-se! Jes-se!” Congrats on your new gig, Jesse! Best of luck to Julia for her upcoming … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Dallas Morning News has a pet blog. No, really. And you know what? Looking at the content, which includes a plea for help in finding a lost dog, I think this is a pretty good idea for a newspaper-based … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I suppose one could say that MeMo, the latest attempt at “blogging” by the Chron, is a step in the right direction in that this effort, unlike earlier ones, actually has a separate link to each day’s entry and a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ginger has a long and thoughtful post about the utility of having comments on one’s blog, and how that equation may change if one aspires to something other than amateur status. While I agree that comment threads at some of … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Christine asks “Do we need yet another way to read blogs?” in reference to Kinja the self-styled “Weblog guide”. It looks like a one-stop shop for various RSS feeds on different subjects, and I think Ginger nails it in the … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve been migrating all of my regular reads into the Bloglines RSS aggregator. I’ve been wanting some kind of aggregator for my blogroll for awhile now, and as I’ve been getting a good number of referrals from Bloglines pages, I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Some days there’s just a ton of stuff to look at, so let’s get started. The College Democrats have a blog, which among other things tells us that one of their own is a candidate for the State House in … Continue reading → Continue reading →

In the past couple of hours, I appear to have gotten several hundred referrals from search engine queries for some variation on Diane Zamora. I presume someone’s running a bot rather than doing this manually, unless they have amazingly fast … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The folks at Six Apart, makers of MovableType, are getting close to releasing a new version of theit software that will allow blog owners to deal with unwanted comments (comment spam and anonymous drive-by abusives) in an integrated fashion with … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kevin Drum has made his move over to Washington Monthly, where he will be blogging under the title “Political Animal”. (Is it just me, or is anyone else surprised to realize that no one else had claimed that moniker before … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Chronicle now has a spring training “blog”, continuing the great tradition of “blogs” that it started with Rachel Graves in Crawford. This is what, their fourth or fifth try at it and they still haven’t figured out that real … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I see the Kos and Josh Marshall got discussed on Wolf Blitzer’s show on Friday. The comparison of blogs to talk radio is a bit cliched, but I take great pleasure in this: Very interesting study out of George Washington … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Congrats to Kevin Drum for landing an honest-to-goodness paying blog gig for a real, respected publication. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Way to go, Kevin! Continue reading →

Among the many signs of spring around here is South by Southwest, which begins this Friday in Austin. Blogs have been an increasing focus of SXSW in recent years, and so with the background of the Presidential race, the Austin … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The 2003 Koufax Award Winners have been announced. I did not take the prize for Best Series – David Neiwert was the deserving winner – but it was a big honor just to be in the running. Much thanks to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Scarlet Pimpernel, also known as the Freewayblogger, has a contest going: This one’s easy: Take a piece of cardboard and paint the letters A, W, O, and L on it and affix it securely (duct tape and coathangers work … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Yellow Dog Blog, one of only two official state party blogs in the US, now has a fulltime blogger. Congrats to Burnt Orange member and brand-new Assistant Communications Director of the Texas Democratic Party Andrew Dobbs, for whom part … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The nominees for all of the Koufax Awards have been narrowed down, and final voting is going on at Wampum. I’m surprised and quite pleased to announce that I’m a finalist in the Best Series category. Honesty compells me to … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Burnt Orange, I see that Dallas’ D Magazine has a Continue reading →

The beta version of Technorati looks really good. It’s faster, it’s got direct links to posts that cite whatever URL you’re looking for, and it will index a lot faster. Read about it here. Via Sisyphus. Continue reading →

Another new and interesting entrant into the blog world: the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) now has a blog. I hope they use it to give us a good look at how an organization like that works and what kind … Continue reading → Continue reading →

If you’re looking for a reason to expand your blogroll, check out the vast number of nominees in the Best New Blog category of the Koufax awards. The breadth and depth of the new voices out there is amazing. Cast … Continue reading → Continue reading →