"This was the voice of moderation until 13 Sept, 2025"
It all started when Zachary Roth of Columbia Journalism Review’s Campaign Desk complained a bit waspishly about how the blogosphere was running exit poll numbers hours before the end of the 02/03 primaries. The phrase ‘journalistic ethics’ was used;
Then Kos sent in his own letter where he points out, fairly gently, that blogs aren’t actually bound by journalistic ethics, because they actually aren’t journalistic entities;
Yeah, sorry about that: I was vaguely ill today and von’s busy, busy, busy. Luckily, I’ve finally lined up a guest blogger: Michael N, take a bow. I happen to know Michael from the Outside World (in fact, he’s one of the 125 or so people on this planet who actually knew on sight what … Read more
The search continues for a – not replacement; more like a supplemental – blogger. Von, when you read this, check your email for my short list of candidates. I will not say who the candidates are, yet – only that they are of the Left and civil sorts, with interesting viewpoints to draw from. We’ll … Read more
… because TypePad finally deigned to provide us with a user’s manual. Yes, kids, we’ve been using the suit without the helpful alien book, and so I’ve been making it up as I went along. But now… now we can have buttons, and amusing little hotlinks, and links to charities, and oh, all sorts of wonderful things!
I can’t believe it, myself. I’m so happy about this, I’m walking on air…
Moe
The Commissar has come up with a very interesting set of rules for blogging; I dunno if I agree with all of them, but I’m going to follow Rule #1 right now and merely set up a couple of open threads. Moe
Outside The Beltway has provided a link to the Beta version of Technorati, which I for one was happy to see because it allows me to track down a couple more blogs for the Backscratch list. Remember, we link to those who link to us, and we have a special category* for the blogs of … Read more
… as in, “I may get one or two more in before bedtime and then see you all in a few days”. By this time tomorrow I’ll be in Boston at the Arisia SF convention and won’t be back home until Sunday, and I seem to have misjudged just how much free time I have … Read more
It won’t last, but it looks like the links generated by Katherine’s excellent Maher Arar posts have pushed us over into Marauding Marsupial territory for the first time. Katherine rules! (pause) OK, question for the more experienced bloggers reading this: it’s been two months since we started, more or less. Average daily traffic 948, last … Read more
Added a reference sites sidebar and moved some things around for convenience and whatnot. Any suggestions about new sites to add to the first are welcome.
In an attempt to get the blogrolls under control, I have instituted the Commentator category, representing the blogs of those who regularly post to the threads here. I’ve moved some and added a couple, including Catsy’s and praktike’s; feel free to use this thread to point out if I haven’t moved your blog to this … Read more
…what thread that damned spambot was in, so I can go in and burn it out? Moe PS: Katherine owned this blog today, huh? Three times average page hits, too; hard-core.
Wampum is holding them again. We’re up for one: Best Non-liberal blog – which is odd, considering that I’m the only Righty posting here. I was hoping that von and Katherine would get a nomination or something… still, check ’em out. Dwight Meredith’s just got a permanent gig there, and he’s got the Blogger’s Touch. … Read more
And I’m just testing the system to see whether those automatic pings to blo.gs and weblogs.com are going to work and all, so don’t mind me.
Resolved: This House (OK, this Blog) believes that the collective knowledge of the blogosphere is greater than the collective knowledge of professional journalists regardless of the subject. For my own part, I noted that I was pretty much in agreement with what poster Al said in comments, but I should note here that I don’t … Read more
It’s interesting: we’ve had this blog up and running for just over a month, and already we’ve jumped into at least three contests. There was Wizbang’s 2003 Weblog Awards (it was a shame that our site was still jumping up and down the Ecosystem at the time, because I felt too weird about voting for … Read more
Does anyone have an opinion about when an update to a post should become its own post? Frex, I wanted to note (via Matt Stinson, who deserves whatever little extra traffic I can throw his way) that Chait’s anti-Dean blog (mentioned here) has spawned an anti-Chait blog in its turn. This is a two day … Read more
1) You will have noticed the new bloglist: Backscratch Blogs. These are blogs that link to us that we don’t already have in one list or another: if you do so blog to us, feel free to let us know and if you’re not evilnastybad we’ll note your extreme good taste. 2) Question to Typepad … Read more
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We quite enjoy it when people link to us. Please use the URL http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/ for your links. We also quite enjoy it when people let us know that they’ve linked to us, so feel free to use comments below to do so.
As you may have noticed, the blogroll has been cut up – as near as I can tell and remember – into all of our particular choices. I’ve added another one which will be added to based on various suggestions that either I or one of the other bloggers agree upon.
Well, I was on the cusp of updating le blogroll (one of us requested fafnir’s… whatever it is… and I’m about to put up IMAO* in sheer self-defense), when I actually looked at the blogroll. It’s pretty chaotic; does anybody actually care about how there’s no grouping by theme or anything? Remember, I can’t alphabetize, … Read more
Which, given that they were lifted from Tac’s Posting Rules (who mined them from the Agonist, shouldn’t be too much of a surprise. Here we go: Be reasonably civil. No profanity. For the record, ‘hell’, ‘damn’ and ‘pissed’ are not considered ‘profanity’ for the purposes of this rule; also for the record, the more offensive … Read more
As you might have noticed, the blogroll’s been updated in the usual across the spectrum fashion. I’ve been told here by fellow TypePad users that an alphabetizing feature is currently being pleaded for, so I know that advice for that isn’t precisely forthcoming… but is there any way that I can dump the spaces between … Read more