Vodkapundit’s Tenth Blogiversary
Stephen Green is marking the tenth anniversary of his blog Vodkapundit by linking to the first post he wrote back in the Stone Age of the Blogosphere. I can’t remember when I first started reading blogs on a regular basis, but Vodkapundit, along with OTB, was among the first that I started reading regularly. So [...]
Site Note
Thanks to all the kind sentiments on the passing of my wife, Kim. The outpouring from all corners has been gratifying. Alas, it has also put a tremendous strain on the server load for the first time since moving to the current configuration. Ed is working on some technical fixes to mitigate the problem. As [...]
Paul Campos ‘Outs’ Self as Anti-Law School Blogger
University of Colorado law professor Paul Campos, author of Jurismania: The Madness of American Law (1998), turns out to be the author of a previously anonymous blog called “Inside the Law School Scam.” Shockingly, it took less than two weeks for other law professors to guess the author. Oddly, Campos is disheartened that, rather than critiquing [...]
60 Million
Sometime in the last week, OTB crossed the 60 million unique visitor mark, as measured by SiteMeter. As always, thanks to all who read, comment, and link. Previous milestones: 50 Million – October 13, 2010 40 Million – December 21, 2009 35 Million – June 17, 2009 30 Million – October 14, 2008 29 Million – [...]
Firedoglake: Hey, Barack Obama Might Just Be A Worse President Than Bush
One blogger at the lefty Firedoglake utters the unthinkable: No, I’m not ready to crown Barack Obama the Worst President Ever just yet, but consider this: Yes, George W. Bush wrecked our economy, destroyed New Orleans, turned a budget surplus into massive deficits, ignored warnings of a major terrorist attack and used that mistake to [...]
Facebook ‘Like’ Issues?
Some of you have presumably noticed the addition of social media buttons, notably the Facebook “Like” button and a Twitter “retweet” button, to the posts some time back. Over the last couple of days, however, I’ve started having trouble with the “Like” button on random posts. On most posts, it works as it’s supposed to: [...]
FP Twitterati 100
Foreign Policy‘s annual Twitterati 100 list of “who’s who of the foreign-policy Twitterverse in 2011.” I’ve made the list again under the “Washington Wonks” category. WASHINGTON WONKS Spencer Ackerman (@attackerman) — National security correspondent for Wired‘s Danger Room; tweets on everything from Afghanistan policy to comic books to punk rock. Joe Cirincione (@Cirincione) — President of [...]
Federal Court Throws Out Righthaven Copyright Infringement Suit
A Federal Judge in Nevada has issued a devastating ruling against Righthaven, the company that has sued hundreds of bloggers for alleged infringement of material from newspapers such as the Las Vegas Review-Journal: A federal judge in Las Vegas today issued a potentially devastating ruling against copyright enforcer Righthaven LLC, finding it doesn’t have standing [...]
Like the Bad Old Days on Blogger (Plus, What’s up With Althouse?)
Apparently, Blogger has been down for almost a full day (see this story at the Blogger Buzz blog). It reminded me of the early days of blogging when James Joyner started OTB in January of 2003 and I started PoliBlog in February. We both started on blogspot blogs and the tendency of the service to [...]
Wonkette Loses Ads After Trig Palin Post
The needlessly mean-spirited blog post about Trig Palin’s birthday that Dodd Harris wrote about yesterday, has had a rather quick and immediate impact over at Wonkette: At least nine advertisers have announced plans to pull their ads from Wonkette after the political blog ran a post making fun of Sarah Palin’s son, Trig. Wonkette’s Jack [...]
Chess, Art, Robots, and the Future of Science
Pardon me while I indulge in a little self-promotion. I’ve penned my first real long-form essay up at my Forbes blog , weaving in and out of a few themes to develop what I think is the potential for a real creative explosion in science in the future by harnessing automation and computers. I thought [...]































