BLOGGERS: Add Yourself to the Free Republic Blog Directory

vanity | 7/13/2003 | me

[Political Numbers Guy]

On Friday, I wrote a piece asking why Freepers don't get more involved in reading and writing blogs to expand Free Republic's influence in a growing medium that needs more conservative, pro-Bush voices. The response was phenomenal.

Click here to read the original thread, "Are Freepers Still Winning the Online War?"

One of the ideas that grew out of that thread was to start a Free Republic Blog Directory, or blogroll, as bloggers call it. From time to time, we will list all Freepers with blogs on threads like this to draw attention to their fine conservative writings. All Free Republic bloggers would then be encouraged to link to each of these sites -- and FreeRepublic.com, building a network and boosting traffic to all of these sites. More Links = More Readers visiting your site.

Here is the list so far of Freeper Bloggers. Click to visit their outstanding sites:

Cathryn Crawford
William McKinley
Regnum Crucis
Michael King
Federal Review
Hank's Blog
Imal

If you run a blog that's not on this list REPLY TO THIS THREAD to be added to the Free Republic Blogroll.

The purpose of this isn't just to promote existing conservative blogs that might get short shrift from many of the dominant libertarian blogs. It's to encourage prolific writers, commentators and other Freepers to start their own blogs so we can expand the conservative, pro-Bush blogosphere.

Visit http://www.blogspot.com to set up your own FREE blog and add yourself to the blogroll today.

OK. Now you're asking, I've got my own blog. How do I link to all these terrific sites? One way is to just copy the link list above directly into the links area in your template and add to it as you become aware of more conservative or Freeper blogs. Another way is to sign up for a free account at Blogrolling.com to manage your list of FR blogs.

Free Republic is the top destination for conservatives on the web, and blogs -- which are getting picked up more and more in the media -- are the next logical step in expanding Freepdom. In fact, you could call this Operation Expanding Freepdom.

[Political Numbers Guy]

Introducing Operation Expanding Freepdom.

[Support Free Republic]

SHOW ME THE MONEY !!!

[MHGinTN]

Well, after Cordova Belle embarassed me last evening, I started one at blogspot.com.

http://MHGinTN.blogspot.com

I'll be picking up the URL links of other freepers and adding them on ... let's get active, Freepers. Freepers Rule!

[snopercod]

Would you mind explaining exactly what a blog is? Yeah, I know it's short for web-log, but isn't it just a compilation of replies with no to/from information? Stream of internet consciousness, IOW?

[Highest Authority]

I give up, what the he)) is a blog?

[Political Numbers Guy]

Blogs, and the added value they bring to the table, are explained further in the original thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/944673/posts

[ecurbh]

Ping

[hole_n_one]

Alleged to be The Dullest Blog in the World

[Angelus Errare]

Great idea, BTW.

As in the other thread, here's mine:

http://www.regnumcrucis.blogspot.com

And here's ganeshpuri89's:

http://www.alphabetcity.blogspot.com

[snopercod]

OK, I read your link, and still have no idea what a blog is and why they are better than the give-and-take which occurs here on FR.

[RonDog]

I give up, what the he)) is a blog?

A "blog" is sort of like one GIANT "vanity post" here on Free Republic, except that (in general) only the original poster of the thread/blog can add comments. :(

Therefore, the author of that blog must be REALLY talented to make it work, IMHO.

[snopercod]

perfect example...

[backhoe]

Here's a list I lifted from Blogs of War:

The Agonist
Airstrip One
Alisa in Wonderland
Alley Writer
Eric Alterman
Amish Tech Support
Andrew Jackson's W*blog
Angua's First Blog
Another Say
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
A&L Daily
A Small Victory
Asparagirl
Athena
Babylonian Musings
Balloon Juice
Ted Barlow
Belligerent Bunny Blog
Bennett's Omphalos
The Beauty of Gray
Bitter Girl
Tim Blair
Blog Critics
The Bloviator
BoingBoing
Moira Breen
Bucket o' Rants
Mark Byron
Captain Mojo
Chicago Boyz
Chloe and Pete
Cinderallabloggerfella
Claremont Institute
C-log
Cold Fury
Command Post
The Corner
Coyote at the Dog Show
Country Store
Crow Blog
Cut on the Bias
Peter Cuthbertson
Dack
Daddy Warblogs
Dawson
Nick Denton
Doc Searls
Dr. Weevil
Dodgeblog
Charles Dodgson
A Dog's Life
Dreaded Purple Master
dropscan
The Edge of England's Sword
Electrolite
Emmanuelle
Dean Esmay
&c
Gary Farber
Fimoculous
Flit
Fly Bottle
Glenn Frazier
Freedom and Whisky
Geek Life
Jonah Goldberg
Grasshoppa
Happy Fun Pundit
Harry's Place
Hawk Girl
John Hawkins
Rick Heller
Jim Henley
Heretical Ideas
Hit and Run
Hoy Story
Diana Hsieh
Iberian Notes
Illuminated Donkey
The Insolvent Republic of Blogistan
Joanne Jacobs
David Janes
Jeff Jarvis
Jarvis's War Log
Christopher Johnson
Junkyard Blog
Kaus Files
Kesher Talk
Kevin's Ideas
Kathy Kinsley
Kolkata Libertarian
Lake Effect
Laughing Hyena
Layman's Logic
Ken Layne
Letter from Gotham
Liberty Punk
Lileks
Brink Lindsey
Brian Linse
John Little
little green footballs
Look Back in Anger
Mean Mr. Mustard
Megan McArdle
Mary Madigan
Man Without Qualities
Merde in France
Mind Over What Matters
more than zero
Moxie
Charles Murtaugh
Paul Musgrave
MuslimPundit
Newsrack
Dagh Nielsen
Fredrik Norman
No Watermelons
Nuisance
NZ Bear
Dawn "Up Yours" Olsen
Brendan O'Neill
One Hand Clapping
Howard Owens
OxBlog
Pejman
Damian Penny
Photo Dude
Tony Pierce
Daniel Pipes
Pizza Guy Tom
Plato's Cave
Neal Pollack
Stephen Pollard
Aziz Poonawalla
Popshot.net
Porphyrogenitus
Possumblog
Virginia Postrel
Powerline
Peter Pribik
The Primary Main Objective
Protein Logic
Public Interest UK
Punk Rock Academy
QuasiPundit
William Quick
Random Jottings
Eric Raymond
Relapsed Catholic
Rantburg
Readheaded Ramblings
Glenn Reynolds
Steven Rubio
Scott Rubush
Samizdata
Craig Schamp
Angie Schultz
Cathy Seipp
Sgt. Stryker
Shark Blog
Siflay Hraka
Rand Simberg
Roger Simon
Sine qua Non Pundit
Slipcue.com
Sneaking Suspicions
Natalie Solent
Sound and Fury
Spoons
Ginger Stampley
Bjorn Staerk
Mark Steyn
Andrew Sullivan
Kate Sullivan
Tacitus
Tal G
Talent Show
Talking Points Memo
Tapped
3Bruces
Tom Tomorrow
Michael Totten
Travelling Shoes
Treacher
Tres Producers
Josh Trevino
Turned up to 11
USS Clueless
VodkaPundit
Volokh Conspiracy
Will Warren
War Liberal
Watch
waxy.org
Matt Welch
Where is Raed?
Bill Whittle
Oliver Willis
Winds of Change
Ye Olde Blogge
Matthew Yglesias
Meryl Yourish

[RonDog]

A "blog" is sort of like one GIANT "vanity post" here on Free Republic...

And, of course, a "vanity post" here is a thread which does NOT start with a new story already posted somewhere on the Internet, preferably from a "reliable" source.

See also:

Way Too Many Vanities (Updated)
March 29, 2003 | Admin Moderator
Posted on 03/29/2003 4:52 PM PST by Admin Moderator

There have been way too many vanities lately. The news forum is being overrun with them. We have been spending a lot of time moving them to the General Interest ("Chat") forum. With the increased volume we have seen with the war starting, we have been missing mail and other moderator duties, such as zots. So, here's some guidelines for vanities. Of course, there are exceptions to these guidelines. We have seen some great vanities.

Vanities are never posted in breaking news. Exceptions will be from valid news sources where breaking news is happening immediately. Such as 'CNN just reported Baghdad has been overrun by coalition forces'. Or, 'Fox reports that WMD have been discovered in Saddam's palace by embedded reporter'.

Your one line vanites, for the most part can be posted as a comment on an existing thread. If you want to post a one line vanity, post it in the chat forum. One line vanities consist of but are not limited to, 'Did you just hear that guy on KASD?'. Or, 'Does anyone know where that thread is about that women who said something about chemical weapons'. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum.

Most emails are not valid sources of news. Who knows where they originated from. They will be deleted unless they are posted in the chat forum...

CLICK HERE for the rest of that thread

No offense intended, Political Numbers Guy.

Yous is a GOOD "vanity" post :o)

[RonDog]

Ooops!

Yous should have been Yours

[Once-Ler]

Here is a nice explaination of blogs and their implications to the news media.

from http://www.davidwarrenonline.com/SunSpec/Jun03/index83.shtml

A revolution is happening in journalism, right now; a revolution with huge political implications. Blogs are the cause. And the fall of Howell Raines this last week is like the first brick in a Berlin Wall. It will not stop tumbling.

Though made of words, a blog is a different thing, in kind, from printed articles in a newspaper or magazine, in which sources of information may be stated but must be taken by the reader on faith, unless the reader has the time, ability, and personal connexions to retrace them. And if he does, what he finds must then be taken on faith by his readers.

The blog may be updated by the minute or the hour, it remains accessible and searchable through its archives, but most crucially, it contains those Internet links. Through them, the bloggers are universally networked. They link each other's precise words, and -- comes the revolution -- are able to reference most of their sources almost instantaneously, in the original form.

The almost infinitely extendable electronic field of text, allows whatever space is necessary to delve into fine details. The "comments" that readers can append to each blog "post" provide a court of cross-examination, so the blogger himself is quickly exposed in any sharp practice. The bloggers also act as checks on one another, and cross-link when they contest each other's views and findings.

Example, bloggers have recently demolished one malicious misquotation after another of Bush administration officials, by leftwing newspaper reporters and columnists, simply by juxtaposing through links what the journalist tried to get away with, to the original transcripts.

In another breakthrough on Thursday, the Guardian, a British leftwing daily, found itself retracting two of its biggest recent stories. In the first it alleged Colin Powell and Jack Straw had had doubts about the evidence they gave before the war of Iraqi WMD, citing a meeting between them that -- had never taken place. In the second, it said Paul Wolfowitz had admitted the U.S. went into Iraq for its oil, quoting -- wilfully and dishonestly from a text retranslated through German. Bloggers had been all over both stories, and made the difference on the second.

[RonDog]

GREAT list!

And, coming soon, a NEW blog:

www.humaneventsonline.com/blog-ann.php

[RonDog]

Here is ANOTHER one:

annaz.blogspot.com

[TheAngryClam]

here's mine.