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<p>Apparently the Brisbane Times and Sydney Morning Herald will not allow articles to be posted, due to copyright complaints ... so I've provided a link to the article.</p> <p>The gist of the article is that a few radical feminist blogs (such as the Womens Space and Gentle Sprit) have recently been attacked and shut down in severe denial of service attacks.</p>

I used to think blogs would transform ideologues into nonpartisan truth-seekers. Man, was I wrong.On December 13, 2001, I posted an essay on my personal weblog titled “Two Ships Passing in the New Media Night,” in which I contrasted the energetic, proletariat-embracing exultations of rising blog superstar Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds with the dreary, public-distrusting defensiveness of then–Los Angeles Times columnist John Balzar. I had launched my blog (or shall I say “warblog,” which is what I named it, apparently coining a term I’ve come to loathe) five days after the September 11 massacre and almost immediately found myself swept up...

E-mail Author Author Archive Send to a Friend <% printurl = Request.ServerVariables("URL")%> Print Version March 02, 2005, 1:16 p.m. The Bloggers' TriumphJust don't forget: This is a right-wing revolution. The moment of "blog triumphalism" is upon us. This may sound like odd news to you, since it's entirely possible that you still don't know what a blog is. If you're in the dark, hie thee to the nearest Internet search engine and type in the word. The phrase blog triumphalism speaks to the growing sense of optimism, self-confidence and power — and, perhaps, depending on one's perspective, arrogance and...

THE INTERNET AND POLITICAL JIHAD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10-07-04 There is a new terrorist organization in the United States according to Tom Brokaw. The goal of this terrorist group is to undercut the mainstream media, most recently by "demonizing Dan Rather and CBS". Members of this group do not use their real names. They hide behind their websites. This terrorist group communicates strictly through the Internet with criticism that "goes well beyond any factual information" according to Brokaw. This new terrorist organization has declared "a kind of political jihad". The name of this insidious group of Internet demonizers is the Pajamahadeen. The...