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CYBERSPACE — During the US presidential election, many heard for the first time about the rise in influence of the “bloggers,” the wave of self-publishing internet journalists whose up-to-the-nanosecond news reporting caused the downfall of CBS’s anchor-Titan Dan Rather. Now that the bloggers have found themselves powerful enough to depose one of mainstream broadcast media’s most powerful icons, they are realizing their power in other areas. A group of pro-life bloggers has banded together to try to stop the starvation death of Terri Schindler-Schiavo. One of the writers on the group blog, “Tim,” wrote, “Terri's bloggers have a lot of...

Mark Jen landed a dream job with an American Internet search engine giant in January. He was fired less than a month later. His infraction? He ran a Web log, where he freely gabbed about his impressions of life in his workplace. Others who lost their jobs courtesy their personal blogs include a flight attendant who claims she was fired for pictures she posted on her personal blog that her airline deemed "inappropriate." An online social networking site canned an employee last summer for her online musings about the company. Web logs, or blogs, the online personal diaries where big...

I started a Conservative based Blog about a month and a half ago with 2 friends who have since bailed on the project. I am looking for 2 conservative/libertarian minded individuals who would be willing to contribute to this blog project. The website is called Right On! and if you would like to join, email me at macguru jamesmeister com. Thank you so much, and I hope that this isn't considered SPAM. -James

"GRAND FORKS, N.D., Feb. 16 - From a chenille-slipcovered sofa in the basement of their friend Dave's mom's house at the edge of a snow-covered field, Brad and Other Brad, sock-footed pioneers in the latest technology revolution, are recording "Why Fish," their weekly show. Clutching a microphone and leaning over a laptop on the coffee table, they praise the beauty of the Red River, now frozen on the edge of town, and plug an upcoming interview with a top-ranked professional walleye fisherman. Then they sign off. "I'm Brad" says Brad, in real life, Brad Durick, a 29-year-old television advertising salesman....

Lately I have been hearing so much about the social security crisis and the immigration crisis. President Bush is spending much of his “political capital” on his attempt to fix the social security crisis. Bill Bennet on his radio show Morning in America has spent almost two weeks discussing the issue of the immigration crisis. While I agree with both that we do in deed have problems in these areas, none of the discussions that I hear seem to get back to the root cause of the problem and hence have no real chance of coming up with a good...

The media buzz over the rising power of Internet weblogs (the "blogs") reached a new crescendo when CNN's chief of newsgathering, Eason Jordan, resigned over sloppy charges he made at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. When Congressman Barney Frank suggested at the conference that journalists dying in Iraq have been "collateral damage," Jordan objected. On the forum's own weblog, journalist Rony Abovitz reported that Jordan "asserted that he knew of 12 journalists who had not only been killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, but they had in fact been targeted. He repeated the assertion a few times, which...

-----Original Message----- From: [steel_resolve] Sent: Mon 2/14/2005 9:59 AM To: Iraq'd Blog Cc: Subject: Your Latest Article - Wow! BLAH BLAH BLAH!! Iraq passed a crucial test, and you have nothing good to say about it. You seem to have no problem whatsoever highlighting the negative (early and often) so why not give a few column inches to this amazing success and the peaceful political transition it is formenting? Because you can't. You see Stuart, you want Iraq to fail. Much like Ted Kennedy and that loser John Kerry, you can't see past your own selfish interests to see a...

I've been doing this for a long time now. By "this" I of course mean eating while I type. But I also mean this Internet thing. This column in fact pre-dates NRO itself and NRO is now considered one of those ancient landmarks of the Internet, like some old city that has been razed and rebuilt so many times nobody remembers why certain streets have the names they do. I remember when the first blogs started to appear and I was not particularly bullish on their chances for success. Of course, I was wrong about a great deal and right...

Well ..I hesitate a bit to put this up, and mods if you need to pull it, go ahead. I usually glance at DU from time to time as I think it is important to see what they are thinking about...(The Democrats must be listening to them as their BS is perculating all over the political landscape.) Last night I wandered into a post about Guckert/Gannon .The DU link is here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3106117 They say a big story about him is about to break. The website that is after him is: AMERICAblog.org, at http://www.americablog.org/ As best I can tell they are...

Bloggers as News Media Trophy Hunters By KATHERINE Q. SEELYE his article was reported by Katharine Q. Seelye, Jacques Steinberg and David F. Gallagher. With the resignation Friday of a top news executive from CNN, bloggers have laid claim to a prominent media career for the second time in five months. In September, conservative bloggers exposed flaws in a report by Dan Rather; he subsequently announced that on March 9 he would step down as anchor of the "CBS Evening News." On Friday, after nearly two weeks of intensifying pressure on the Internet, Eason Jordan, the chief news executive at...

When the Web logger Laer ("Cheat Seeking Missiles") called to cancel his 25-year subscription to the Los Angeles Times last Monday, he was made an extraordinary offer. The circulation service rep, detecting that he was fed up with the paper's liberal bias, offered to sell him the newspaper without the news sections. Laer was thunderstruck. ...Journalists who got their panties twisted over Mattis apparently see nothing newsworthy about having the executive vice president and head of news for CNN accuse the U.S. military of deliberately killing journalists. ...Washington Post media analyst Howard Kurtz finally wrote something on Feb. 7. Kurtz...

A Dime's Worth of My Two Cents haven’t spouted off in a little while, largely because there have been a few events in the last couple of weeks that have, quite frankly, left me speechless (My husband may be marking this date as an important event in marital history). I’ve recovered now... The fact that the media, and some radical, nigh-Socialist Leftists have been eager to attack the President and our troops likely isn’t going to be a surprise to anyone who hasn’t been hiding under a rock for the last few years. But lately, there have been some lengths...

The LA Times' review of Hugh Hewitt's new book Blog is enlightening. The Times selected a person named Michael Standaert, with whom I am unfamiliar. I do know this... he has literally set the standard for left-leaning MSM shills to follow. He will be hard to top. I hereby call him out for a brisk fisking...

For those of you who are Catholics - especially those who are traditionally oriented - Angelqueen.org now has a Catholic News ticker for your web site and RSS feeds available HERE.The News feed is updated several times daily. You can also get feeds for the latest forum posts or daily Martyrology if you like.Other areas you may be interested in is the Traditional Latin Mass, illustrated and explained, the 7-step Rosary or the weekly 1962 Sunday Missal Mass readings/propers.God bless.

Mark Jen was fired for blogging, the ex-Googler confirmed in a Web posting on Thursday. "On Jan. 28, 2005, I was terminated from Google," Jen wrote on his blog, Ninetyninezeros. "Either directly or indirectly, my blog was the reason. This came as a great shock to me because two days ago we had looked at my blog and removed all inappropriate content...If I was told to shut down this blog, I would have." Jen's departure came just 11 days after he joined Google as part of a wave of new hires and began recording his impressions of his new employer,...

I have to admit the upcoming Dukes of Hazzard movie has a strong supporting cast. Seann William Scott and Johnny Knoxville will play the good old boys, Bo and Luke Duke. Willie Nelson will play Uncle Jesse. Burt Reynolds is the surprising, yet promising, choice for Boss Hogg. And, finally, Jessica Simpson will step off the set of her made-for-TV marriage and into some short shorts as the Pride of Hazzard County, Daisy Duke. Granted, most movies based on old shows pack as much punch as Newfound Glory singing Celine Dion,but, so far, this one's looking pretty good. Everything rests...

I am embarking on a quest to create an online community for the masses. It will include the opportunity for users to create their own blogs, forums, and e-books. As well as vote in polls and hopefully some other fun stuff as things develop. I am very excited to be announcing this first on FreeRepublic.com and would like to thank Jim Robinson and the crew for offering such a wonderful venue for us netizens. The site is quite rough now, but it is in development and will continue to improve with more input and an increase in memberships. I have...

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An Iraqi American friend of mine is back in Baghdad blogging on all things Iraqi. He spent 3 months last summer reporting on the transition of power, now he's reporting on the current situation. It's a little bit political, a little bit personal. http://www.ayadrahimtriptoiraq.blogspot.com. I traveled with his family to Detroit to vote last weekend, and their story: from Saddam's rise to power, to now, is remarkable. Enjoy.