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| 09-17-04
| The Heavy Equipment Guy
Posted on 09/17/2004 2:09:06 PM PDT by backhoe
Blogs: Halting the march of the mainstream media What is happening is that for the first time in decades, if not ever, the power of the mainstream media
(MSM) in the United States is being seriously challenged by a mostly
ragtag army of outsiders armed with little more than the internet. The age of the blogger is upon us.
I think of it as a gestalt- the sum of the whole, together, is greater than the parts added separately.
Blows the "it was her brother" theory the idjuts are throwing out there out of the water ... From rintense's original
MONSTER thread about this
MORE RE: MRS. KNOX [Jed Babbin] Tell us about your SON. Who got special treatment, Mrs. Knox? This CBS story has become a soap opera
Its sort of like a mammoth examining the tar in the pit.
Big media's fall began with the Clinton Regime. Here was the most corrupt liar ever to occupy the office and the Redstream media attacked the truth tellers instead of the crooks. After watching the nightly news most of my life I stopped watching soon after Clinton was elected.
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03/27/2006 3:07:21 PM PST
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THE F.E.C. AND BLOGS -- this
seems like good news:
The Scarlet Letters
Apparently the Associated Press thinks that bloggers don't deserve the same protections against plagiarism that they themselves claim for their own work. Larisa Alexandrovna at the Huffington Post got quite a shock when she contacted the AP to complain that they lifted her work on a story regarding security clearances for gays: After seeing the pillorying that Ben Domenech received -- and rightly so -- for plagiarism, this arrogant dismissal of outright theft by the supposed "professionals" of the mainstream media puts the whole issue in perspective. This implicates not just the AP, one of the world's largest newsgathering organizations, but every client of the AP that runs their stories on their sites and in their newspapers. That includes almost every major newspaper, most if not all broadcasters, and almost all of the media outlet websites. Comments (10) "...both stated that they viewed us as a blog and because we were a blog, they did not need to credit us." I thought copyright was automatic. Under the present US copyright law, which became effective Jan. 1, 1978, a work is automatically protected by copyright when it is created. http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ40.html
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/
The AP announces its belief that they are free to plagiarize from anyone they consider to be a blog. Suddenly a wave of nostalgia for Ben Domenech is washing over me as I try to remember why he was not suitable for the Washington Post.
Tom Elia mocks Molly Ivins so we don't have to.
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03/28/2006 5:18:17 AM PST
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03/29/2006 2:01:28 PM PST
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THE HECKLER'S VETO [UPDATED]
Much talk in the blogosphere today about the refusal of Borders and Waldenbooks to carry this month's issue of Free Inquiry because it reprints Jyllands-Posten's cartoons of Mohammed. Not much talk, though, about another magazine's brave decision not only to publish the cartoons, but to put the most provocative one right on its cover.
Will the Internet Slay Islam?
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03/31/2006 6:48:20 AM PST
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backhoe
("Keep Your Powder Dry!" hattip: Minutegal)
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I was a bit surprised when CBS News launched their Public Eye “blog,” to find that LGF was listed on their blogroll: CBSNews.com: Blog.
Well, that didn’t last long. Guess who is now missing from their left sidebar? News Blog. link: 50 comments Iceman noticed that ABC has also taken some interest in our comments....
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"Ive never understood why ALL the mainstream media outlets are having their own "blogs" all of a sudden. do they not understand what a blog is? why they exploded on the scene? its a freaking reaction AGAINST the mainstream media." It's the hip buzzword of the day. But networks and other big media types don't understand that it's the contents that make the form, not the other way around. They think that people are more likely to stick around their site if they present the same material in a fresh way. But the beauty of blogs--on both sides of the aisle--was that it allowed for people to take the MSM's "objective" content and say, "Here's what I think is really going on here". The MSM is sort of in a catch 22--if they don't add blog-like content, they risk looking a bit lame. But then when they do add blogs, unless they do something really, really offbeat they'll look equally lame, because it's all from the same worldview. |
http://www.instapundit.com/
ANOTHER CIVIL RIGHTS VICTORY: "Yesterday the Nebraska legislature defeated a filibuster, and passed a Shall Issue law for licensing the carrying of concealed handguns by adults who pass a background check and a safety class. Nebraska's governor has said he will sign the bill into law." Read the whole thing for a summary of how things stand nationwide. Plus Jim and Sarah Brady shift to a far more reasonable position, assuming they mean what they say.
Amusing question in the comments: "If the GCA/Brady system doesn't violate the rights of gun owners, then what possible objection could there be to implementing the same system for voting?"
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04/01/2006 1:01:14 PM PST
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04/06/2006 6:20:12 AM PDT
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backhoe
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Lott 'Damn Tired' Of Taxpayers Who Check Up On Congress
Mark Tapscott continues his excellent watchdog duties as he prepares to leave the Heritage Foundation for greener pastures at the Examiner newspaper chain (coming to a town near you, and soon). Mark posts the latest hostile reaction to Porkbusters by the former Senate Majority Leader, Trent Lott: What I find most troubling is Trent Lott's attitude that federal spending is none of my business, and it's not the first time he's as much as said so. Comments (21) "Isn't this free spending, porkbarrel mindset the same type of attitude that finally swept the Democrats out and the Republicans in during the Perot reform/Gingrich adopted "Contract with America"?The GOP has been setting itself up for a fall for years now and Congress is nearing the precipice. It doesn't matter that the Democrats do not want to engage in fiscal responsibility. It matters that too many Republicans are adopting the liberal position and that they are in a majority. Uncontrolled spending is happening on their watch."
There is another huge scandal about to unfold. Mississippi is about to release up to $150,000 to every homeowner who was injured by Katrina without conditions of any kind...
PORKBUSTERS: SAY IT LOUD!
The blogosphere's movement to cut government spending is getting under one Republican US Senator's skin.
Trent Lott is squealing, and Porkbusters are busting him good.
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04/06/2006 6:21:55 AM PDT
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backhoe
("Keep Your Powder Dry!" [hattip:MinuteGal/Leni])
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Rep. Jack Kingston Gets It: The GOP Needs Blogs
Rep. Jack Kingston (R-GA) gets the importance of blogs in getting out the GOP's message: Show Comments Here (5) »
Cerberus is asking readers to list their top five Canadian conservative and liberal blogs. Check it out. Check out some of the links, as well. It's always good to expand your blog reading horizons!
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04/14/2006 11:29:06 AM PDT
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backhoe
(The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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"VLOGS: The cure for
'gotcha journalism?'" "Blogs have already damaged the credibility of the MSM," he wrote. "I believe vlogging has the potential to kill off agenda-driven, gotcha journalism. Newsmakers can now go straight to the people with the facts, not run them through the filter of what
Rush [Limbaugh] calls 'the drive-by media.'"
One hears a lot about how blogs (and now vlogs) have weakened the MSM. Rarely, though, do they cite what I think has been the driving force behind breaking the MSM's monopoly: LINKS. Ten years ago we had to rely on the media to characterize a speech or give us a politician's past positions. Now we just go to Google or click on a blogger's link and check out the truth for ourselves.The Left, Online and Outraged
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04/15/2006 7:14:43 AM PDT
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backhoe
(The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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The Washington Post looks at the sick, raging, impotent world of the moonbat blogosphere, with a profile of a woman totally obsessed with hatred: The Left, Online and Outraged. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) link: 168 comments "The other day somebody on a thread here said something very profound, that the passengers on Flight 93 did more to fight terrorism in 5 minutes than the Democrats have done in 5 years."
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/006762.php
Who Leaked The Report First?
Murray Waas wrote a rather sensational story for the National Journal yesterday about the Scooter Libby case in which he alleges that Dick Cheney told Libby to leak a classified report to the press. Again, as with so much in this case, the truth of the matter depends on reading the full context of the situation, and Waas fails to provide it. Fortunately, Steve Spruiell at NRO's Media Blog stayed on top of it. "It amazes me that we keep covering this same ground again and again, and yet no one learns anything and nothing seems to change. The facts of this case are exactly as the Captain has laid them out; yet every couple of weeks, another news story comes out, based on the same false premises, lies and slander and (deliberate) misstatements about the timeline."
Comments (4) Here is a typical illustration on how the drive by media does there dirty work of spreading Lies & Distortions.
http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013584.php#013584
The new media is serving as the truth detector for all Americans; & this is driving the Liberals absolutely nuts. If Republicans lose the house & the Senate; look for the new majority to kill the new media at all costs.
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04/15/2006 12:29:29 PM PDT
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(The Silence of the Tom's ( Tired Old Media... ))
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04/15/2006 12:30:02 PM PDT
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04/20/2006 3:58:04 AM PDT
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04/20/2006 2:02:19 PM PDT
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Here’s a new podcasting network featuring Michelle Malkin, Allahpundit, and Junkyard Blog: Hot Air.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003884.html
For "Tony The Media Moley"
Near the end of this lengthy and contentious comments thread arising from the Aaron Harris photo post, "Tony" suggests that my criticism of the "mainstream media" arises from .... jealousy.
Hell hath no fury like a wanna-be journalist scorned, goes the theory.
It's not the first time that accusation has been floated, nor am I the only blogger who's been confronted with it. After I'd addressed that question, Tony repled;
Like hundreds or thousands of other people (and like dozens of MSM types) I enjoy your blog, even if I don't always agree with your take on things, and like the vast majority of your readers I'm grateful that you take the time to do this and am glad you're doing well enough to find the free time. Thanks for addressing my note.
But I thought your post on Aaron Harris was ill-informed and unfair.
There are plenty of reasons to find fault with the MSM and your blog serves a valuable purpose in challenging its approach sometimes.
But please excuse some of us for reacting angrily when you paint the entire fourth estate with one brush, and malign a whole institution under imagined or erroneous pretenses, which is what I believe you have done in this case.
Because this goes to a broader issue, and because I believe I can speak for at least some of my readers - I've decided to reply here instead of continuing the comments thread.
I'll plead guilty to generalizing about the "mainstream media" insofar that I assume most readers know (or will figure out) that I'm referring to the general inclinations of the major players in the industry and the liberal "default setting" through which most of our news is filtered.
The generalization is mostly a result of the brevity required of blogging and not intended as a wholesale indictment of every individual practicing journalism.
However, as he is a self-described member of that fraternity, my response to Tony about his "angry reaction" is this: you have a lot of work ahead if you hope to undo the slow-motion suicide of the news industry - and don't bother protesting the validity of that premise. The decline in newspaper and magazine circulation, and the ratings numbers of the major networks speak for themselves..
We may agree to disagree on whether the Aaron Harris "serial crownings" at the Empire Club are worthy of a closer look and open questioning. Again, that's the nature of blogging. Sometimes people agree, sometimes they don't. Sometimes they don't care. Sometimes they think it's unfair. I would point out that this is the nature of news reporting as well.
Unlike the news industry, however, when I present a topic, the readers look at the evidence, hash it out, bring new information to the debate, and sometimes I even change my mind. (As a footnote: the Aaron Harris post was originally prompted by an ordinary reader who directed me to the CBC item privately, in the belief that the photo had been willfully defaced. That should be a signal that something might be wrong.)
But in this case, what isn't in dispute are the growing list of examples in the "mainstream" media of manipulated news "reporting", reporter editorializing, and altered/staged photos. These examples are contributing to a significant problem with consumer cynicism about integrity and possible political motives within the MSM. The blogosphere has enabled comparison and criticism - and with that an unsettling realization that media slight of hand and slight of word are hardly new practices.
If members of the industry can't withstand open scrutiny on this lowly blog without turning to rationalizations that I'm nothing more than a would-be journalist with a chip on her shoulder - then, you haven't gotten it yet.
I'm not a competitor. I don't want your job. I'm a frustrated news consumer. I'm sick of being spoken down to by people who can't pronounce words correctly. I'm fed up with reading transcripts that reveal that reporters have quoted people out of context to support a pre-ordained script. I'm tired of having speeches and statements "explained" to me by pundits after I've listened to them.
I'm not interested in news stories created by polls commissioned to create news stories.
I'm tired of reading that wire services have stringent "ethical guidelines", and that to suggest that a photo might be altered is well, just the realm of tin foil hat conspiracy mongering .
Better to ask yourself why so many of your former customers like myself - news "junkies" - no longer accept your stories and images at face value.
Call it the "fool me once" approach to news consumerism.
You've lost our trust. The question is now thrown back to you, Tony - how do you propose to earn it back?
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04/24/2006 1:15:55 PM PDT
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I'd like to post a warning to any and all bloggers out there. My website got hacked the other day, and with a bit of investigation, I discovered that the fellow who hacked me was hacking "For Islam." I've written a bit about it here, if you're interested in the back story. Outspoken web geniuses like Charles are probably subject to stuff like this all the time, but I'm essentially an internet nobody. |
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04/25/2006 5:02:27 AM PDT
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http://www.instapundit.com/AN ARMY OF MICHELLE MALKINS? I wrote her about Hot Air, and she replied:
The newscast is filmed in my basement with a Sony HVR-A1U Digital HDV Handycam and edited with Avid Xpress DV and Adobe After Effects. There's a green screen behind me. Bryan does all the wizardry. We're having fun and it is truly amazing how all this fairly inexpensive software and hardware is revolutionizing broadcast media. We're living the Army of Davids dream. (Can't count how many times someone has written and said "when are you going to have your own TV show?" Now, I don't need to wait!)
Nope. None of us do.
UPDATE: Read this piece from The Economist, on new media, too. This piece on blogs is good, too.
http://www.smalldeadanimals.com/archives/003894.html
Canadian Media Adopt American-Style "Drive By" Reporting
Stephen Taylor has begun to document the flood of gratuitous comparisons between Stephen Harper and Darth Bush's Rethuglamericans.
Stephen - that's a job for a team of bloggers.
Definition: Drive By Media
The perplexing part about this growing trend to tie Harper's policies to those of Bush is that it's taking place in the duly diligent world of fact-checking, editor supervised, professional journalism. WaPo, 2003; Comments (7)
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04/25/2006 1:32:18 PM PDT
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NEWSBUSTERS has a massive Tony Snow roundup. Meanwhile James Taranto looks at some reports of previous Bush criticisms from Snow and comments: "Snow's appointment suggests that President Bush is not afraid of constructive criticism."
The Glenn and Helen Show: An Interview with Vernor Vinge
I'm interested in the Singularity, and I'm a big fan of Vernor Vinge's. He's got a new book out next week called Rainbows End, set in 2025, and as I've mentioned before it's pretty much an Army of Davids kind of world. He's also the author of such previous classics as A Fire Upon the Deep and A Deepness in the Sky.
We talk to him about the Singularity -- and how it may come from the superhuman "ensemble behavior" of ordinary humans with powerful computers linked via the Internet rather than through the development of superhuman artificial intelligence -- about signposts indicating how we're doing, about humanity's prospects for utopia or extinction, and related minor issues. We also discussed writing science fiction (the secret, he says, is "brain parasitism," taking advantage of readers' smarts), whether college is becoming obsolete, mind uploading, and the joys (or lack thereof) of virtual-reality sex, a question that perplexes Helen.
You can listen directly (no iPod needed) by clicking right here, or you can get it via iTunes. (We'd like it if you'd actually subscribe on iTunes, as that's what pushes us up the charts there). There's also an archive of previous podcasts here, and you can get this -- and other -- podcasts in a low-fi dialup version here.
Hope you liked it! Music is "Indistinguishable from Magic" and "Robosexual" by Mobius Dick.
Once again, my lovely and talented cohost is soliciting comments and suggestions for future episodes.
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04/27/2006 2:59:37 AM PDT
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backhoe
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Join The 101st Fighting Keyboardists!
Our friends on the port side of the blogosphere have had quite a time tossing around funny little nicknames for those of us who support the war on terror and use our blogs to express our convictions about it. We've seen the names here at CQ in the comments section -- the term "chickenhawk" has appeared more than once, and others in the blogosphere have assigned us to a unit called the 101st Fighting Keyboardists.
I've thought about that for a while, wondering what exactly about both epithets appear so fascinating to left-wing bloggers. As a middle-aged grandfather supporting a chronically ill wife, I have few options for doing my part in the war on terror. After 9/11, I spent weeks looking into different options for service while trying to balance my family obligations. Our family found out just three weeks after the attack that the Little Admiral would soon join us, and the implications of terrorism and war weighed heavily on my mind. I resolved to use the skills I had -- writing -- to make the case for fighting a forward strategy against terrorists. Eventually that led me to this blog, but in the interim I argued for a continued muscular offensive against the Islamofascists that had murdered thousands of our fellow Americans.
Is that the same as military service? Of course not. The men and women of the military do the real fighting, and we salute them and support them by supporting their mission. Milbloggers give us the best of both worlds by not only defending our nation and fighting (and beating) terrorists around the globe, but also by reporting on the fight first hand. There is honor in engaging in public debate for policies which we believe are in our nation's best interest as well. For many of us, we know that without presenting our arguments in the national forum, many in the media and the public will quickly overpower the debate and threaten the policies we feel give us the best long-term opportunity to defeat terrorism and the states that fund and shelter them.
Many on the left disagree, however, and often they provide challenging arguments and valuable perspectives on policy and the manner in which it gets implemented. However, many more do little but make ad hominem attacks on those with whom they disagree. They spend a great deal of effort labeling people rather than providing rational arguments on policy, and even the labels they select don't provide much more than amusement.
That's why Frank J of IMAO, Derek Brigham of Freedom Dogs, and I have decided to create -- for real -- the 101st Fighting Keyboardists and adopt the chicken hawk as our mascot. First of all, the term "fighting keyboardist" describes our efforts pretty well, and we think the pseudo-military terminology is pretty danged amusing. Derek himself designed the logo.
And why the chicken hawk? When we looked into it, it turns out that the chicken hawk is a pretty impressive predator. It's the largest of its family. This species vigorously defends its territory, getting even more aggressive when the conditions get harshest. It adapts to all climates. Most impressively, it feeds on chickens, mice, and rats.
Make of that what you will.
Frank, Derek, and I invite you to join the 101st Fighting Keyboardists (motto: We Eat Chickens For Lunch). I'm starting a blogroll and will post the code for other members to display on their blogs. We welcome all of those who feel they qualify for the unit, but especially those who have a sense of humor as well as a sense of purpose. This way, the next time someone refers to you as a chicken hawk for your blogging, you can remind them that as a member of the 101, your talons are your best weapon and that feeding time is near!
UPDATE: Added the blogroll on the sidebar and have added a few new recruits. The first volunteer was a milblogger -- Baldilocks. I'll work on getting the code out to those who want to display the blogroll on their sites ...Comments (75) "There's nothing that can possibly satisfy the goal-post moving, lunatic left ,except agreeing wtih their seething hatred of this country and everything it stands for. The chickenhawk charge was never intended to be an argument. It was a way for the left to avoid argument by assigning some phony qualifying criteria to those who hold a different opinion. It has no other meaning. They stick their fingers in their ears and yell chickenhawk so they can't hear you. "
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04/28/2006 3:26:09 AM PDT
by
backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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DOS Attack
Looks like SDA is back up - Michelle Malkin has the gory details. If this DOS attack is like previous ones, don't be surprised if the site goes back down intermittently over the next few hours. (or days)
SDA is hosted by a company that specializes in blogs, including some of the big names - Instapundit, Powerline and Little Green Footballs among them. It means we have blog friendly service, but it has the downside of being among the collatoral damage when attacks come in. Comments (6)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/011238.php
We're back
Thanks for all your messages of concern. We were taken down in the big denial-of-service attack that took down several other sites, and which seems to have originated in Saudi Arabia, but all appears well now. And the site was not hacked at any point.
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BLOGS DOWN: HACK ATTACK
***scroll for updates...1230pm EDT Looks like the problem may be resolved, though several blogs still down...Glenn Reynolds confirms the attack originated in Saudi Arabia, as I suspected...Mary Katherine Ham of downed blog hughhewitt.com is guest-blogging over at Wizbang...Hugh's back up...looks like most are back up...update on Aaron's CC below...***
Many Hosting Matters-hosted blogs are down--including Instapundit, Power Line, Hugh Hewitt, and tons of others large and small. Hosting Matters' own website is also down.
Blogger Chuck Simmins e-mails:***update: LGF, a Hosting Matters blog on a different server than the others, confirms ( link: 209 comments )***On a possibly related noted, Aaron's CC blog has been hacked several times over the last month, reportedly by cyberjihadis mad at his provocative images.
Blogs down:
Instapundit (***Glenn is posting on his back-up site here***)
Power Line
Captain's Quarters
Pundit Guy
Chuck Simmins
Small Dead Animals
Radioblogger
Hugh Hewitt
IMAO
Mountaineer Musings
Say Uncle
Counterterrorism Blog
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
Castle Arggh! - John Donovan
She Who Will Be Obeyed - Beth Donovan
Michael Totten
Ticklish Ears
Samizdata
Theodore's World
300pm EDT update: Looks like most blogs are back up, but the story's not over. Aaron at Aaron's CC, the Hosting Matters blog singled out by the cyberjihadis, is also back up still down.But for how long? Hosting Matters announced:
Previous: The Islamists' war on the Internet * Jihad in cyberspace * Internet jihad continues
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04/28/2006 4:40:25 PM PDT
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backhoe
(Just an Old Keyboard Cowboy, Ridin' the Trakball into the Dawn of Information)
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