Only Idiot Campaigns Actually Pay Political “Bloggers” For Favorable Coverage, But There Are A Lot Of Idiot Campaigns, And Political Bloggers

The Daily Caller yanks back the curtain on a story that’s going to have all sorts of legs in run-up to the 2012 presidential: Katie Couric once described bloggers as journalists who gnaw at new information “like piranhas in a pool.” But increasingly, many bloggers are also secretly feeding on cash from political campaigns, in [...]

To My Friends In New Hampshire’s Chattering Class

Martin Luther King, Jr. once said: We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less [...]

Bella de Jour & Anonymous Blogging

Belle de Jour, probably the Internet’s most famous anonymous sex blogger, is anomymous no longer. Which leads Techcrunch’s Paul Carr to bemoan the near impossibility of popular bloggers being able to continue blogging anonymously indefinitely. Good Sunday reading for a good Sunday think.

Monday Morning Clacker/Blue Hampshire/Red Hampshire/NOW Hampshire/Granite Grok/NH Political Report RISING!

So claims Politico’s Ben Smith after hearing the Union Leader news from earlier today. Of course, I think that many of us did a pretty good job of influencing the political conversation last cycle, long before today’s UL decision. But I’m just a Clacker, what could I possibly know?

“We Are Honestly Partisan Here”

Give Blue Hampshire credit where credit is due – they are crystal clear about their agenda. In the New Hampshire new media spin wars, Blue Hampshire’s openness about who they are and who they support makes them a much more credible and powerful voice. By being open about their agenda, the focus of Blue Hampshire’s [...]

There But For The Grace Of God, Goes This Blogger

I’m in Vermont this week, smelling the flowers. And blog brethren Rob Horning understands why long, leisurely Tuesday lunches under late spring lilac bushes isn’t always easy at the dawn of the Information Age: I have been on a road trip to Idaho for the past week or so, which is why there have been [...]

An Embargoed Press Release? How 20th Century!

Matt Drudge (and several others) aren’t the only ones laughing in the face of PR machines who seek to do business as though it was 1999.

Table 114

ONE super supporter Michael Castaldo has started his own New Hampshire blog, Table 114. Table 114, I wonder what THAT could refer to in New Hampshire… Hmm…

SNL Isn’t So Hot On Bloggers

h/t Videogum

“This Is Why You’re Fat”

A new website collects examples of food that will kill you. Epic. h/t Trevor S.