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Election Night Coverage

I’ll be participating in a live blog of tonight’s election returns at United Liberty along with Georgia political blogger Jason Pye and whoever else shows up. We’ll start sometime around 6:45pm and continue until, well, perhaps until the Alaska write-in votes are counted  in two weeks (not really). I’m sure there will also be a [...]

NATO in an Age of Austerity

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World Politics Review has published a special issue on “NATO’s Identity Crisis” ahead of next month’s Lisbon summit and the unveiling of a new Strategic Concept. I contributed the lead essay, “NATO in an Age of Austerity.”

Blog Rage

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Is angry and violent language which dominates blog comments sections a sign of broader trends in our political culture?

Constructive Blog Comments

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Automated constructive blog comments cartoon fro xkcd.

Campaign Blogger Relations Etiquette

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Being a political blogger during election season is getting to be rather infuriating, especially if all you want to do is check your email.

Bloated Blog Bureaucracy

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Mickey Kaus quips, “Andrew Sullivan has “small staff of four people to help him handle the blog” says NPR. Er, what’s a “big” staff for a blog? . . . In ten short years Sullivan’s created a bloated blog bureaucracy! “

50 Million Served

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OTB crossed the 50 million unique visitor mark, as measured by SiteMeter, sometime overnight. As always, thanks to all who read, comment, and link. Previous milestones: 40 Million – December 21, 2009 35 Million – June 17, 2009 30 Million – October 14, 2008 29 Million – August 26, 2008 28 Million – July 11, [...]

Andrew Sullivan on Charlie Rose

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A fascinating discussion about the nature of blogging.

Typo of the Week

his blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.

Andrew Sullivan’s Daily Dish Turns 10

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Andrew Sullivan has been blogging for a decade now. He remains one of the few truly indispensable bloggers.

Obamarator: Something Interesting For the Blog

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A cryptic email leads to the discovery of what appears to be some sort of Barack Obama themed sex toy. A typically day in the life of a blogger.

Blogrolling.com Malware Warning

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Just a tip to fellow bloggers who are still running their blogrolls using the old blogrolling.com widget: Your sites have been banned for some time because of malware issues.

Fear of Being Wrong on the Internet

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Eugene Volokh explains why he’s not writing on a controversial subject recently in the news: He doesn’t know enough about it and doesn’t want to be wrong.

Liberal Blogger Accuses White House Of “Hippie Punching”

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The relationship between the Obama White House and the progressive blogosphere isn’t very good right now, and it’s a preview of what is likely to happen on the right if the GOP gets back in power.

Mickey Kaus To Newsweek

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Another new media star is coming to the rescue of an old media dinosaur. Put it’s probably too late.

Political Blogger Avoids Politics

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Is it odd that a political blogger dislikes actual political involvement ? No, not really.

Instapundit’s Initial Take On 9/11

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Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

Blog Comments a Tragedy of the Commons

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Comments sections on larger blogs seem inevitably to turn into cesspools. Is it worth trying to stop it happening?

Sexing Up Headlines

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It’s getting harder and harder to tell blogs from newspapers.

AP to Credit Bloggers

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The AP will now start mentioning bloggers whose work they use in their stories. Fat lot of good that will do.

Alex Knapp is a Dad

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Congrats to OTB’s Alex Knapp, who’s a proud new papa.

Further Thoughts On Philadelphia’s So-Called “Blogger Tax”

Vivian Paige, a Virginia blogger who also happens to have a background in accounting and tax preparation, makes this observation about the so-called Philadelphia “blogger tax” that I wrote about yesterday: The devil, as always, is in the details: After dutifully reporting even the smallest profits on their tax filings this year, a number — [...]

Breaking: Twitter Doesn’t Matter

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Technology guru Leo Laporte had been using Google Buzz to aggregate his social media presence for a few weeks and discovered that his feed had stopped going out and discovered that nobody gave a damn.

Philadelphia Imposing “Blogger Tax” ?

There’s some conversation going on in the blogosphere this morning over reports that the City of Philadelphia is telling bloggers that they have to pay a $ 300 annual fee: For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that features occasional posts about green living, out of [...]

Comment Of The Weekend

Deep in the comment threat on one of my Friday posts, regular commenter Sam gives us a comment that is just pure gold.

Bloggers For Hire

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Political campaigns are engaging in a new form of “new media outreach” — paying bloggers for favorable coverage.

Comment of the Day

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Zeldorf Ragshaft III asks, “What is it about bloggers on this site? You somehow have the idea you know better than the rest of us what is right and what is wrong.”

Site Work in Progress

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We’ve moved OTB to a new server. Let me know if you see anything unusual.

Worst Figures in American History

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If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.

SiteMeter Bleg

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My SiteMeter statistics have suddenly become much less useful. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Blog-Media Convergence

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Blogs are all grown up now and indistinguishable from other online media.

Commenting Issues

I’ve again disabled the comments HTML editing buttons, as they seem not to be working properly and may be causing site sluggishness.  I’ll have Ed take another look into the issue when he returns from vacation.

Andrew Sullivan’s Underdogs

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Andrew Sullivan welcomes two more dogs to the Dish.

Site Work in Progress

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Some long-awaited cleanup is underway, so please excuse any wonkiness as the work gets done.

Shirley Sherrod Says She’ll Sue Andrew Breitbart

It looks like the Shirley Sherrod story isn’t quite over yet. This morning, she announced that she’s going to sue conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart: Former Agriculture Department employee Shirley Sherrod said Thursday she will pursue a lawsuit against conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart – the man responsible for posting an edited video clip of Sherrod appearing [...]

Instapundit Drinking Game

The Troglopundit is working on The Instapundit Drinking Game. Everyone can play !

Has The Internet Ruined Political Discourse ?

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The Internet has given us many good things, but it’s also led to a decline in political discourse that we’d do well to reverse before it’s too late.

Is Megan McArdle Always Wrong?

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Megan McArdle cites an academic article someone disagrees with, proving she’s a dishonest hack.

Blogger Ethics And The Breitbart/Sherrod Story

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There are some lessons for the blogosphere in this week’s Andrew Breitbart dust-up.

Balko’s Laws Of Political Debate

Radley Balko proposes two new rules for political debate: I propose…. A new rule for righties: If in the course of a policy debate, bar argument, or blog squabble you mention that the person or organization you’re debating “gets money from George Soros,” you automatically lose the argument, and forfeit your privilege of being taken [...]

How Andrew Breitbart, And The Conservative New Media, Failed

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Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.

The Shirley Sharrod/Racism Story: Much Less Than Meets The Eye ?

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Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

Europe ‘Crisis’ Overblown

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My latest for The National Interest, arguing that the talk of crisis in Europe is overblown, is up. Naturally, they’ve titled it “Crisis in the EU.”

Andrew Sullivan Dives Right Back Into Trig Trutherism

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Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.

Blogger Personality and Word Choice

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What can you learn about a blogger’s personality from his word choice?

Dave Weigel Calls Out Sully’s Trig Trutherism, On Sully’s Blog

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Over at The Daily Dish, Dave Weigel hit the nail on the head in his criticism of Andrew Sullivan’s bizarre obsession with a two year-old infant.

Housekeeping Note: OTB Blog Edition

For those readers who haven’t warmed up to the magazine layout of the front page, something more akin to the standard blog layout is one click away.

Andrew Breitbart’s Big Peace Needs To Keep Its Memes Straight

Is Obama Hitler or is he Neville Chamberlain ?

Writing Without Interviewing

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Why I didn’t talk to Dave Weigel before writing about him.

NATO’s Cyber Threat

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NATO should resist preemptively declaring cyber attacks “an attack on all” members under Article 5.

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