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New York City Gay bloggers make their mark :: EDGE New York City

"The mainstream media is so full of lies and distortions that we need the unfiltered information which comes from some of these blogs" she said. "Unfortunately too many gay men have the body of Gods and the brains of 15-year-old school girls. So I try to mix in some politics with more entertainment-oriented posts to trick them into caring about issues other than Jennifer Aniston's new hair style."

Best Blogs of 2006 that You (Maybe) Aren't Reading

So do you really need me to prattle on about the significance of Kottke and Waxy, Romenesko and Gawker, Engadget and Scoble? I think not. Instead, this year I've gathered 30 blogs that you perhaps aren't reading.

Entire Bush Administration Flees USA - Wonkette

We get uneasy when the only White House official still in Washington is Greg Pitts, who was just flown home after being pummeled outside a Honolulu bar. So where did everybody go? Here s the scorecard:

Blogs least trusted news source

Asked which sources are accurate, true and unbiased, 66% named national TV. National newspapers were chosen by 63%. The same percentage rated regional and local newspapers. Radio was believed to be less accurate, chosen by just 55% of those surveyed. Only 36% of respondents rated websites and just 24% rated blogs.

"Media Matters"

Media pounce on "screeching," "frothing [liberal] bloggers" -- while waving on conservatives who advocate ... murder

Fake e-mail publisher defended in Boston Globe

The Globe article makes Zengerle out to be a victim, when in reality, he victimized several people, including me, by his sloppy, inaccurate writing, I can't really call it reporting. But the underlying premise, first pushed by Chris Suellentrop with no evidence, was that Kos is taking money from pols for support. God, what a ****ing stupid transposition of reality. Kos gives money to pols. Most of the current ads on his site are for media products and unions.

A Blog Mogul Turns Bearish on Blogs

Nick Denton is the master of anti-PR.

Is Era of Right-Wing Site Popularity Over?

During the past three months, for instance, http://rushlimbaugh.com traffic ranking has declined 18 percent. Even Fox News, that gold standard of right-wing media, is down 13 percent. Ann Coulter is coining money by attacking widows and orphans -- a new game for her since she's run out of Democrats, living and dead, to defame and verbally pillage. Traffic to her site, http://anncoulter.com, is down 10 percent.

James Wolcott: Hard Fascism, Soft Heads

Admittedly, I don't circulate as much as Mickey Kaus, who I gather is moonlighting as the Jerry Zipkin for fright-night bachelorettes, but you would think that by now I would have come across some of those Angry Bloggers I keep reading about, those tommy-gun typists who have escaped captivity and eschew the finer points of etiquette, not to mention spelling and punctuation. I briefly met Kos, for example, and was quite disappointed by how genial and low-key he was. Perhaps he was having an off-day, since those more astute than I perceive an angry radioactive core. Had a brief chat with Steve Gilliard when the vile Republicans were in town in '04, and he failed to put his fist through the nearest window in my presence or break innocent pencils in two.

Get Out Your Tinfoil Hats

Netvocates is an organization that sends people out to web logs to post propoganda in comments. They appear to be tied to conservatives and there appears to be a tie to townhall.com, the ultra-right-wing web site.

The Blogfather

But then Armstrong, 42, bills himself as a different kind of consultant, an online insurgent who, with Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, aka Kos, is leading "a bloodless coup" in national politics. "We are at the beginning of a comprehensive reformation of the Democratic Party -- driven by committed progressive outsiders," Armstrong and Moulitsas write in their recent book, "Crashing the Gate," which sold 5,000 copies online before it was even published.

Sargent: The Blog Rage Canard

What all the MSM complaints are really about.

BlueFrog spammer war whacks blog site

Six Apart Ltd, which runs the popular LiveJournal and TypePad blogging services, has become the collateral victim of a "very big, very sophisticated" denial of service attack mounted by a Russian spammer against an unrelated security company.

Blog Readers Unmasked

Think the people who while away their hours reading and commenting on political blogs are slovenly twenty-somethings with nothing better to do? Think again.

Mistaking caricature and generalization for journalism

The Washington Post published yet another article today -- this one entitled The Left, Online and Outraged, by David Finkel -- seeking to depict the liberal blogosphere as being nothing more than the venting ground for the crazed and hateful rantings of what it calls "the Angry Left." The article's principal tactic -- really, it's sole tactic -- is to search through hundreds of comments on O'Connor's site and sites like Eschaton, pick out the most extreme ones, and then feature them as representative of the blogosphere generally.