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CONTEST...PROCRASTINATING, DON'T TELL LEONARD Hi everyone! OK I'm not supposed to be blogging, I have to work on my Murder Boards and my Questionnaire (and might I add, its going to be the best questionnaire ever , I should apologize to future nominees for setting such a high precedent! J/K LOL... if only...) . Anyway I'm taking a short break just have to remind you, today is the deadline for the Call You're Senators logo contest. You probably thought I forgot... no way Jose, I'm a nominee of my word!! Also I should explain about "Don't Tell Leonard," Leonard Leo...

Political bloggers have made the Internet their own personal soapbox. They can react 24/7 to anything or anyone on myriad Web sites across the political spectrum. They freely rant and rave to like-minded or diametrically opposed bloggers the world over. The Federal Election Commission has been ordered by a federal court to draw up regulations that would extend the nation's campaign finance laws to political activities on the Internet. But the court didn't tell the FEC how to do it. The commission has apparently resolved a number of Internet matters but is still considering whether long-standing freedom of press exemptions...

Who should be the Crosley Solo Blog of the Week? Peace Like A River comparing Fred Barnes to Peter Jennings. Powder Tracks noting we don't know how John Roberts will vote, either. Kihnworld on the Trust Me line towards Miers.Biblical Christianity on the Hewitt V. Levin interview. Holy Coast on good Christian doesn't always mean good judge. Vote HERE.

A ruling in Delaware: The bloggers' defense Monday, October 10, 2005 The Delaware Supreme Court has built a sturdy wall between anonymous political critics on the Internet and the public officials trying to flush them out. It is a victory for robust political debate and the first time any state supreme court has ruled directly on the matter. The Internet contains weblogs on virtually every topic under the sun. If a blogger posts anonymously, it takes a court order to probe the entrails of cyberspace for an identity and, therefore, someone to sue for defamation. That's what an aggrieved town...

NEW YORK A George Will column leaked to a blogger has caused the Washington Post Writers Group to rethink the advisory it includes with content it syndicates. WPWG sent the column -- which sharply criticized President Bush's nomination of Harriet Miers to the Supreme Court -- to Will's 450-plus clients on Tuesday. The advisory said the column was "for immediate release," which has traditionally meant "for immediate release" in the next print edition -- in this case, Wednesday's paper. But the column was posted late Tuesday afternoon on the ConfirmThem.com blog under the words: "I don't know if this is...

LONDON (Reuters) - Proponents of the latest Web trends were warned Tuesday that the rest of the world may not have a clue what they are talking about. A survey of British taxi drivers, pub landlords and hairdressers -- often seen as barometers of popular trends -- found that nearly 90 percent had no idea what a podcast is and more than 70 percent had never heard of blogging. "When I asked the panel whether people were talking about blogging, they thought I meant dogging," said Sarah Carter, the planning director at ad firm DDB London. Dogging is the phenomenon...

As blogging matures, participants are learning—sometimes the hard way—about the liabilities. In tempting a new degree of honesty from their writers, blogs foment passionate debates that often border on libel. And easy access to cut-and-paste tools can inadvertently facilitate plagiarism and copyright infringement. Indeed, it’s not unusual for bloggers to cross the line into illegal activities. But if the author is anonymous, who is left to blame? There’s precious little legal precedent in the blogosphere, but some blog publishers recently have been finding themselves held accountable for content written by others. Aaron Wall, a 26-year-old consultant specializing in search engine...

September 21, 2005: With the retirement of Arthur Chrenkoff from blogging, his regular "Good News" reports concerning Afghanistan and Iraq might be missed. However, this gap is being filled by a new site, GoodNewsFromTheFront.com, which will carry on Chrenkoff's work. This site is being supported by a variety of blogs (including Iraq the Model) and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. The site is covering the "good news" in both Iraq and Afghanistan, as a means of partially countering the "police blotter" style of reporting that usually dominates coverage of the war in both countries. This is comprehensive, covering the...

Sept. 14, 2005 - If I am hearing Simon Rosenberg right (and he is worth listening to), a nasty civil war is brewing within the Democratic Party, and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton—the party’s presumptive 2008 nominee—needs to avoid getting caught in the middle of it. “It’s not a fight between liberals and conservatives,” Rosenberg told me the other day. “It’s between our ‘governing class’ here and activists everywhere else.” In other words, it’s the Beltway versus the Blogosphere. What’s interesting is that Rosenberg is himself a Beltway creature, a preternaturally self-assured young insider with a cherubic face and a cold...

NEW YORK Tribune Media Services confirmed today that it will begin syndicating excerpts from The Huffington Post group blog/news site starting Sept. 12. That was the target date TMS had cited earlier this summer (E&P Online, July 27). The site -- named after TMS columnist Arianna Huffington -- includes mostly liberal commentary by prominent people from the worlds of publishing, politics, and entertainment. TMS will syndicate news analyses and commentaries twice a week -- with this content drawn from what's posted on the site throughout the week. The material is available to newspapers and their Web sites in the U.S....

The Three C's of Blogging What the blogosphere is doing to help in the aftermath of Katrina. IT IS TEMPTING to speculate about how the new Supreme Court will differ from the old (Senator McConnell might want to find another complaint to file against McCain-Feingold), but that debate will rage for months into the future, and the blogosphere has had a very interesting two weeks responding to Katrina and its aftermath. This has been the period when the blogs showed their three Cs: Compassion, connection, and correction. First, compassion. Led by Glenn Reynolds and N.Z. Bear and beginning on September...

Hugh mentions Free Republic like it is a main stream media / news outlet. Cool! ===== The Three C's of Blogging What the blogosphere is doing to help in the aftermath of Katrina. by Hugh Hewitt 09/08/2005 12:00:00 AM IT IS TEMPTING to speculate about how the new Supreme Court will differ from the old (Senator McConnell might want to find another complaint to file against McCain-Feingold), but that debate will rage for months into the future, and the blogosphere has had a very interesting two weeks responding to Katrina and its aftermath. This has been the period when the...

Armed with food, water, a diesel generator, a camera and at least one firearm, five employees of New Orleans-based DirectNIC have been holed up since just before the storm blew in nearly a week ago on the 10th and 11th floors of the building that houses their headquarters. ...providing firsthand footage of looting, fires and other civil disturbances that have ravaged the flooded city. There's no order at all. No respect for private property, no respect for life." And later on Wednesday: "The police are looting. This has been confirmed by several independent sources. Some of the looting might be...

A 'Weather Nerd' in Indiana Sent a Warning to the Mayor By ANDREW ADAM NEWMAN One of the earliest and perhaps clearest alarms about Hurricane Katrina's potential threat to New Orleans was sounded not by the Weather Channel or a government agency but by a self-described weather nerd sitting on a couch in Indiana with a laptop computer and a remote control. "At the risk of being alarmist, we could be 3-4 days away from an unprecedented cataclysm that could kill as many as 100,000 people in New Orleans," Brendan Loy, who is 23 and has no formal meteorological training,...

WASHINGTON — Army officials say their latest warning about posting photos isn’t an attempt to silence military bloggers, but critics worry it could be the first step. Last month Gen. Peter Schoomaker, Army chief of staff, issued a memo to all senior officers urging them to make sure soldiers aren’t posting sensitive photographs and anecdotes on the Internet. The message mirrored a February alert on the same topic. “The enemy aggressively ‘reads’ our open source and continues to exploit such information for use against our forces,” the message said. “Some soldiers continue to post sensitive information to Internet Web sites...

13778. We've been Played by nairao, 9/3/05 9:46 ET Fellow African Americans, our country has tried to hide what has really been going on in New Orleans. We are the only ones left behind? Why you ask? because we are black! Do you think in we were white people, in florida, where bushs brother is, we would be left to die for 5 days or more? No? In fact hell no. Most of white america does not give a hoot about us. I just found my family today, after 6 days and some people are still missing. This is bullcrap....

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If anything, the situation grows more desperate in New Orleans, as these very up-close and personal, and terrifying, pleas for help at a Times-Picayune readers' forum reveal this morning. (more)

This journal has become the Survival of New Orleans blog. In less perilous times it was simply a blog for me to talk smack and chat with friends. Now this journal exists to share firsthand experience of the disaster and its aftermath with anyone interested. http://mgno.com/

A former Special Forces soldier is becoming an online media sensation with his vivid and sometimes brutal blog accounts and photos of the daily battles, patrols and raids conducted by U.S. troops fighting terrorists in Iraq. Michael Yon, 41, a Florida native who now calls Massachusetts his ``home base,'' set off for Iraq earlier this year – paying his own way – in an effort to find out and convey exactly what's going on in the war-torn country. ``Naturally, I had an interest in what was happening in Iraq – I had friends in harm's way,'' Yon said from Iraq...