Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs
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 [...]
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.”
Is angry and violent language which dominates blog comments sections a sign of broader trends in our political culture?
Being a political blogger during election season is getting to be rather infuriating, especially if all you want to do is check your email.
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! “
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 has been blogging for a decade now. He remains one of the few truly indispensable bloggers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Another new media star is coming to the rescue of an old media dinosaur. Put it’s probably too late.
Is it odd that a political blogger dislikes actual political involvement ? No, not really.
Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.
Comments sections on larger blogs seem inevitably to turn into cesspools. Is it worth trying to stop it happening?
The AP will now start mentioning bloggers whose work they use in their stories. Fat lot of good that will do.
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 — [...]
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.
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 [...]
Political campaigns are engaging in a new form of “new media outreach” — paying bloggers for favorable coverage.
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.”
If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.
My SiteMeter statistics have suddenly become much less useful. Any suggestions on how to fix this?
Some long-awaited cleanup is underway, so please excuse any wonkiness as the work gets done.
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 [...]
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.
Megan McArdle cites an academic article someone disagrees with, proving she’s a dishonest hack.
There are some lessons for the blogosphere in this week’s Andrew Breitbart dust-up.
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 [...]
Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.
Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.
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 is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.
What can you learn about a blogger’s personality from his word choice?
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.
NATO should resist preemptively declaring cyber attacks “an attack on all” members under Article 5.
