Taylor Carik

Word is Martha Stewart is calling up the Twine Museum in Darwin, Minn., to express interest in our fair state’s world-record, 9-ton twineball. Plus, Power Line swipes Tomorrow, a graphic designer visually rebuts GOP “obfuscation,” and more.

Amid budget woes that have pinched City Pages’ online budgets, area blogs are test-driving new ideas — from a new foodie site by a laid-off City Pages restaurant critic to a tech-blogger’s pay-per-post microfinancing plan to “Content Partnerships” at City Pages’ 2008 local blog of the year.

Obama outshines McCain in weekend newspaper endorsements — but some 300 editorial pages are yet to weigh in. Online ad revenues slip for the first time in 17 quarters, while John McCain promises — f’real this time — to appear on David Letterman’s show. This and more in today’s edition of Media Monitor.

After a technical glitch kept City Pages’ “Best of” edition offline awhile, one of its winners, the blog Mediation, offered a quick tweet: “I think it takes guts to not have your biggest issue of the year online on time and then go after vita.mn instead. Well done, CP.” Now that it’s up — and [...]