Blogs

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 Log Cabin Republicans.
Piehowski has vowed to reject blogs who are too harsh and to lay down the law [...]

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 independent media outlet The Uptake has made video of the press events available on the Web [...]

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 Cam Gordon’s aide, Robin Garwood, posted a five-graf gripe on Gordon’s 2nd Ward blog that questioned the progressiveness of [...]

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 one where Barack changes his middle name to be more “patriotic” and another where he appears before a Twin City [...]

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 Sen. McCain is successfully unifying the Republican Party or drawing conservatives into his fold. To the contrary, [...]

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 bill passed by Congress and signed by President Bush.

Her bill and public statements in support [...]

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 who broke the story, reporter Jackie Crosby showed the same kind of transparency as Target — that is, very little [...]

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 January by former employees of Village Voice and New Times (now merged as Village Voice Media), the [...]

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 Reddit, RSS was an acronym just being born, and social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook didn’t yet exist. He had [...]

Cross-posted at Vox Verax.

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