The Blog Cabin, MinnPost’s new blog about blogs, is run by new hire Justin Piehowski (formerly of KSTP). Its name bears a striking resemblance to another political blog: Blog Cabin, the blog of national gay group, the…
Al Franken may have written for and performed on “Saturday Night Live!” but his campaign has apparently pulled the plug on allowing live video from its now-daily press conferences about Minnesota’s statewide recount. For the last two days, the…
Thursday’s vanishing post on a Minneapolis City Council member’s blog highlights the hazards of online ruminations within a face-to-face City Hall culture that hasn’t yet adapted to the ways of the Web. On Tuesday, Council Member…
Barack Obama is making appearances all over the world. Well, in dreams at least. A new blog, I Dream of Barack, collects Barack Obama dreams and visions. Of course, these are actual sleepytime dreams, like…
John McCain’s troubles with the right wing opinion-making elite of the Republican party are continuing unabated, as the comments of Focus on the Family head James Dobson reminded us again this week. (“I have seen no evidence that…
Rep. Michele Bachmann, R-Minn., is pushing the Light Bulb Freedom of Choice Act, a bill that would repeal a phaseout of incandescent light bulbs in favor of more energy efficient fluorescent bulbs. The phaseout was part of the last energy…
There’s irony to be had in the Star Tribune’s front-page story Saturday about Target riling bloggers with its undisclosed practice of rewarding teens for promoting its stores on Facebook: By not crediting the local blogger…
AltWeeklyDeathwatch shuts down: The anonymous blog AltWeeklyDeathwatch, having taken more than a passing interest in City Pages’ editor Kevin Hoffman, has stopped publishing after reporting Hoffman threatened legal action against what he dubs a “hate site.” Created in…
When Mike Tronnes co-founded the website Cursor.org with Rob Levine, Mike Mosedale and Brad Zellar 10 years ago, few of the attention-getting strategies of the internet were at his disposal. Cursor predated Digg and…
Cross-posted at Vox Verax.
I have been far too quiet on these pages. Between teaching 215 students about film, refereeing far more soccer games than my left knee wants to allow, trying to rewrite a screenplay before a…
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