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Media Monitor: Is Martha Stewart eyeing Darwin’s twineball?

By Paul Schmelzer | 08.04.09 | 5:21 pm

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.

Media Monitor: Foodie site launches as blogs test funding ideas

By Paul Schmelzer | 02.17.09 | 12:32 pm

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.

Media Monitor: Obama leads endorsement race, online ad sales slow, and Letterman to host “squirrelly” McCain

By Paul Schmelzer | 10.13.08 | 11:10 am

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.

City Pages “Best of” issue: Media notables

By Paul Schmelzer | 04.23.08 | 1:02 pm

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…