Category Archives: Blog stuff

Happy Furry Puppy Story Time has abandoned Blogspot for a new home. Update your bookmarks and drop by for a visit. Continue reading →

Continuing the Blog Trend of the Year for 2003 as determined by Jim Henley, there’s a new group blog in town, The American Street. Has a nice, albeit work-in-progress look about it and a good cast of contributors. Check it … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s more stuff to vote on for the Koufax Awards. For your consideration are the Most Humorous Blog, the Best Series, and the Best “Conservative” Blog. I put “Conservative” in quotes because it really should have been called Best Non-Lefty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s time to cast your votes for the Koufax Award nominees. If there’s one thing I can guarantee, it’s that Diebold will not be involved in the voting process. Well, that and there’s a ton of good stuff to check … Continue reading → Continue reading →

The Political State Report is one year old as of December 27, and new editor Temple Stark has a report on the site’s status and history. He’s also looking for feedback and a few more contributors, if you’re interested. As … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Today marks the end of my second full year of blogging. It’s been a fun ride, and I expect it to continue to be for the foreseeable future. Thanks to everyone for riding along with me. I don’t do a … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ginger was kind enough to email me a link to BlogRunner’s list of Top Authors, which it determines by “counting unique references to articles and posts authored in the last 60 days”. A who’s-linking-who popularity contest, in other words. I … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s time for the 2003 Koufax Awards, and nominations are going on now. There’s a lot of deserving blogs and bloggers out there, so some tough choices have to be made. My nominations are beneath the More link. Forgive me … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Austin American-Statesman political columnist Dave McNeely now has a blog, making the Statesman a three-blog newspaper. He’ll continue doing his regular column, but promises to post to his blog, called “Inside Texas Politics”, when events warrant: Updates will be as … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Via Kos, I see that another Democratic organization has gotten the blogging bug: Presenting the New Democrat Network Blog. They’ve already got some good stuff up, so check it out. UPDATE: Credit Where Credit Is Due Dept: Greg Wythe was … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You’d think sharing a bathroom with a guy for two years would leave more of an indelible memory on one’s brain, but apparently I’m farther down the path of total incoherence than I’d feared. It’s the only explanation I can … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Tom Spencer is hanging up his cleats, citing a need to spend more time on more important activities. Among other sad things, this reduces the number of Trinity bloggers that I know of to just me. Mazel tov and vaya … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Ezra Klein is moving from Not Geniuses over to Pandagon. A new Not Genius named Nico Pitney is moving in to take his place, and with the hiatus-taking of Joe Rospars, who has become an official cog in the Dean … Continue reading → Continue reading →

A few new sites to check out: The Houston Democratic Forum, a group that is “an organization of Houston-area Democrats committed to upholding the best traditions of the Democratic party in our city, state, and nation”, has a brand-new blog. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This entry of mine, on what to do with the Astrodome, made it into this week’s Chronicle Hotlist. More proof that if you hang around long enough, you can clog up almost any Google search. Continue reading →

Blog long enough and sooner or later you’ll be a result in enough Google searches to really get noticed and/or become a pain in the butt to anyone trying to find good data. However you slice it, The Register picked … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Has it really come to this? Don Luskin threatening to sue Atrios for…well, what, exactly? Definition of character? Excessive snarkiness? Operating a blog without the express written consent of Major League Baseball? Hell if I know. Didn’t anyone learn from … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Halley Suitt has brought up an issue that’s come up in the past: is there gender bias in the blog world? Says she: This week as we looked into the Perseus Study, which David Weinberger linked to in his excellent … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Kos points out an interesting new blog called the Swing State Project, which aims to analyze the upcoming Presidential race in 19 states that were decided by less than 5 points in 2000 (full methodology explained here). It looks pretty … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Like a number of other lefty bloggers, I’ve been receiving mail from a fellow who calls himself the Scarlet Pimpernel lately. SP has been sending links to photos of snarky anti-Bush messages that have been showing up on the highways … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Check out Forbes Magazine’s list of the Best Sports Blogs, in which the estimable Off Wing Opinion came in at #2 overall. Congrats to Eric for some well-deserved recognition! If you like sports, you should be reading Off Wing. (Note … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Congratulations to Kevin Whited for winning the first Best Local Blog award from the Houston Press! Way to go, dude. Continue reading →

The Political State Report, which was down earlier due to a registration lapse, is back up. I’ve just posted my Duncan v. Craddick piece there. Continue reading →

Hey, look, the DNC has a blog, called Kicking Ass. That would be way cool and worthy of a spot on my sidebar even if they didn’t include me in their blogroll. Well done, ladies and gents, and thanks very … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Can’t tell you how happy I am to see Ted posting at Crooked Timber. I know I speak for many when I say I’ve missed my regular fix of Barlow-y bloggy goodness, and he’s been in fine form over there. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

There’s a new group blog in town, Open Source Politics, which features a few bloggers familiar to me (such as Jack and Jesse and a number of people I’m not so acquainted with but who look interesting to me. They’ve … Continue reading → Continue reading →

It’s been way too long since Ted last updated his blog, but if the comments he posted on Soundbitten are any indication, he still has the blogging instinct. UPDATE: Well looky here. I guess I no longer have any excuse … Continue reading → Continue reading →

My friend and former band-mate Doug Haunsperger has started a blog. As you can tell from the title, his views don’t exactly mirror mine, but he’s a sharp guy and I expect he’ll bring some good ideas to the table. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Not content to let the artsy types be the only bloggers on their block, the Austin American-Statesman now also has a political blog called The Lasso. It’s a one-person blog that appears to be mostly a news-roundup kind of thing. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

You know that the Dallas Morning News has a Corner-style political blog written by its editorial board, but did you know that the Austin American-Statesman has an arts and entertainment blog written by its arts and entertainment staff? It made … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Well, what do you know? The Dallas Morning News has a blog, a real, live Movable Type-powered blog in the style of the Corner, not some faux, imitation, not-really-blog-like thing that can be easily mocked. It’s pretty crappily implemented – … Continue reading → Continue reading →

“Late” in the sense that it was breaking several days ago, and I’m only just now getting around to mentioning it. I blame a combination of TS Claudette and Howell Raines, and I note that my headline is technically true. … Continue reading → Continue reading →

This week will mark the one year anniversary of this domain. Which date you want to pick to mark the occasion depends – the domain was created on July 17, the first blog post was made on July 19, and … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I’ve added several more blogs to the Texas Political Bloggers page. Counting the expats and myself, there’s a total of 66. A special shoutout to newcomer Appalachia Alumni Association, who has the best intro and name explanation I’ve seen in … Continue reading → Continue reading →