Social networking analyzed by a UC Berkeley PhD student. Bottom line of her thesis? While MySpace continues to be the social networking destination for kids on the fringe who may or may not have any interest in college, Facebook appears to be growing into a site filled with college-educated, "upper"-class users: Most teens who exclusively use Facebook are familiar with … Read More
Blogging From 1914
A good idea for blog: blog from history. Naomi Klein is blogging the diary of her grandmother, Dora Lurie, a Lithuanian stranded while travelling in Europe when World War I broke out. Unable to return to her country, Dora and her companions became U.S. citizens. The title of the blog is, appropriately enough, "Stranded".
Digby Outted
Anyone who knows anything about the political blogosphere knows of Digby, the witty writer of Hullabaloo. Many is the time when other bloggers (including myself) have written posts with the title "What Digby Says" and simply linked to, well, what Digby said. Insightful and witty, with the ability to focus on with laser-beam accuracy on the issues of the day … Read More
Hi There!
Such an interesting week politically — two NH Democratic debates, another GOP debate, Scooter getting jail time. And I’ve been on the sidelines for all of it. Probably just as well — I can keep my two cents and donate to a worthy cause. Sad news about Steven Gilliard, a popular liberal blogger — he passed away this weekend at … Read More
“The Seventh Sense” Gets Picked Up By The Mainstream Media
The Chicago Tribune quotes from my blog in its editorial pages this morning. Read it here (scroll down a bit — right above Arianna Huffington’s post) [Thanks to Mark S. for informing me….] Really, people! Such a fuss! I bloviate this stuff aaaaall the time and nobody reads or listens to me. Heck, I don’t listen to myself most of … Read More
Now I’ve Done It….
Sully’s link to my blog post — a post critical of the military’s handling of the Pat Tillman matter — has gotten me a lot of attention. Over 8,000 hits in the past two days alone. But now, I think I’m in some hot water over it. Look who visited my blog a few minutes ago: Domain Name (Unknown) IP … Read More
This Is My 4,000th Post
What? No cake? The blogswarm from yesterday seems to have abated somewhat. All-in-all, about 6,000 visits to my site between 1:00 p.m. and the end of the day. But traffic is still heavy so far today (including a visit from someone at the office of the Army Director of Information Management — hmmm……), due to Sully’s link to my post … Read More
Yikes! It’s A Blogswarm, Dorothy!
2,500 3,300 Over 4,000 visits to my blog since 1:30 p.m. today?!?!?!? Whaddup? Folks, I swear — there’s no porn here. I mean it was just a simple post about Alyssa Milano. Really. Ah, it’s Andrew Sullivan (from The Atlantic Online) linking to me and my not well-composed "thoughts" about Pat Tillman. Jeez, if I knew y’all were coming over, … Read More
I Blog Like A Girl
At least, I blog like a girl according to researchers who have devised an algorithm for this sort of thing. Well, I blog sort of like a girl. Words: 540 Female Score: 724Male Score: 559 The Gender Genie thinks the author of this passage is: female! Try it yourself.
Trial Blogging
The coverage of the Libby trial represents a milestone in the history of blogging. For the first time in a major new event, bloggers are ahead of the mainstream media, as even the Washington Post acknowledges: The perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, has drawn every major news organization in the … Read More
Amanda Marcotte Joins Edwards Team
Greenwald comments: In an obviously growing trend of political campaigns hiring bloggers, Pandagon’s Amanda Marcotte has been hired by the John Edwards presidential campaign. That is part of a larger trend whereby the blogosphere is slowly ceasing to be its own closed, separate system and is instead seeping into, even merging with, all of the more traditional political and journalistic … Read More
The “Eldersphere”
Don’t think that blogging is just for the young. Donald Crowlis, age 93, is the writer of an increasingly popular blog, Don To Earth. He’s thought to be the world’s oldest blogger. Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise wonders just how big the eldersphere is.
About Jane
I don’t know Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake, but like many progressive bloggers, I enjoy her writing. All are rejoicing at the good news that her surgery for breast cancer (her third bout with it) went well yesterday. TBogg, who has come to know Jane, is naturally happy at the news, but reminds us of other people who think Jane’s condition … Read More