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Tag: blogs

Dec 30
2011

Wingnut Outrage Of The Day

Media

CAIR complained to wordpress.com about an Islam bashing website hosted on their service and WordPress removed the site: he Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that an anti-Muslim Internet hate site that contained a number of threats of violence targeting mosques, including the comment “I want [Muslim] blood on my hands,” has been taken […]

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Sep 6
2011

Did Hoffa Make Violent Comments Towards The Right?

Politics

If you watch Fox news or read the right wing blogs, that’s exactly what you would think. Yesterday Fox ran this clip of Hoffa warming up the crowd for President Obama: The “let’s take these son of a bitches out” is the big part the right is focusing on. You can see that by just […]

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Jan 17
2010

Hey Boston Globe – There Is More Than One Liberal Blog Voice

Politics

In an article talking about Tuesday’s race, the Boston Globe decides to talk to one single “liberal blogger” to gauge the feel of the entire blogosphere: Liberal blogs are loaded with complaints about Obama and demands that the president move to the left. During the campaign, “they energized enthusiasm among people who were really jazzed […]

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Dec 3
2009

Reid Tells Democrats That Republicans Aren’t Interested In Passing A Bill

Science

Talk about the duh moment to top all duh moments: In a closed-door meeting of his caucus, the Senate majority leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, told Democrats that Republicans were not interested in passing a bill. In effect, he prepared them for trench warfare, saying the Democrats must stick together and should be ready to […]

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Oct 28
2009

It’s Always About Joe

Misc

When news broke yesterday that Lieberman would back a Republican filibuster against health care my instant reaction was “so”. As I continued seeing the blogs go haywire over the news my reaction changed a bit, from “so” to “so what”. Did anyone really expect Joe Lieberman, the man who was side by side on the […]

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Jun 29
2009

The Crazies Latch On To Honduras

Misc

Larisa has uncovered some very disturbing posts by the right wing crazies: I was going to add this as an update to my earlier post, but thought it deserved its own post. Apparently, some glue-sniffing types are hoping that our own military will be inspired by the Honduras coup to overthrow our own president in […]

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Jun 16
2009

Ideas For A Dying Media

Misc

I know first hand that one of the biggest costs associated with the traditional media and their online presence is the platform they currently have their websites in. These are high dollar systems that require countless hours developing. One way the media can curb some costs, yet keep up with an ever changing world in […]

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Apr 9
2009

Why Are Bloggers Still Using Haloscan?

Misc

For the past couple of weeks I have noticed very slow loading times on some of my favorite blogs. It turns out the slowness has been Haloscan. Its taking up to 20 seconds for my browser to even connect with them. This has to be killing their traffic. If any of those bloggers read this, […]

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Apr 9
2009

Growing A Better Blogosphere

Misc

There is a lot of discussion about the blogosphere and a lack of advertising right now. Most of it has been sparked from a post by Greg Sargent, in which some of the top liberal bloggers voice their displeasure with progressive organizations not spending advertising money on blogs. I know first hand that running these […]

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Apr 9
2009

Interesting New Legal Twists For The Blogosphere?

Misc

There has been talk about this for weeks now, but it looks more and more like the FTC is going to put some regulations in that could effect bloggers: In the new proposed rules, The Federal Trade Commission also addressed advertising in new media (Web 2.0). Essentially, if an advertiser pays a blogger to write […]

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