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New Telegraph political blogs on the way

At the Telegraph’s political blogging event last night. Iain Martin confirmed that a new political blog will be unveiled on the site in the next few weeks. Speaking to Shane Richmond communities editor of Telegraph co uk after the discussion he said an exact date for the launch couldn’t be set as yet. Richmond did say that the new blog will enlist big name writers from the Telegraph to contribute on a regular basis overseen by Iain Martin. Its aim will be to provide instant comment and reaction to political news and affairs. This entry was postedon Thursday. November 8th. 2007 at 1:23 pmand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the feed. You can or from your own site. <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> An intensive one-day course on how to track news as it breaks online using blogs. RSS feeds and multimedia sources. November 21 London W2 -

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The 2007 Virginia Elections And The Political Blogosphere

I believe in the free speech that liberals used to believe in the economic freedom that conservatives used to believe in and the personal freedom that America used to believe in. Over at Bearing Drift. Jim Hoeft and Brian Kirwin cerebrate the question of For the most part they conclude that Virginia political blogs whether left or right had little influence on the outcome of the elections. Some of their more interesting reasons go: First and foremost it’s not for lack of effort. Phonebooks cronyism nepotism you name it charges were leveled back and forth often appearing first in the blogs. They were widely ignored. In conversations about the elections this is what I’ve found as well. The average voter even the internet savvy ones just doesn’t spend a lot of time reading political blogs and if they do they don’t rely upon them as their bushel or even primary source of information. Third blogs have grown very partisan. As mentioned earlier many blogs provide the opportunity to donate online now to campaigns. Like it or not this makes blogs complicit in the political process and diminishes their credibility as “one guy’s opinion.” One of the primary appeals of a blog is that it is a create of social networking; so many people come to the blog because they want to see the latest with you and your ideas — not a political party or candidate’s agenda. Unfortunately more and more blogs. Bearing Drift included have writers that can be perceived as being too closely associated with campaigns such that their posts might not be considered “honest” assessments but are rather party or campaign talking points. This became fairly obvious in some of the blog coverage of the more hotly contested races here in Northern Virginia such as Davis-Peterson. Gill-Nichols not to mention the coverage given to the immigration issue and it’s role in the Prince William County races. To a large degree. I open myself tuning out blogs that had become overtly partisan or involved in some of the same stupid games that I’ve seen in local politics for years. There’s nothing wrong with blogs that have an opinion or endorse particular candidates it’s just that once they do they really aren’t independent news sources so much as propaganda organs. Which leads us to……. Fourth along with the partisanship has come vitriol. We’ve written about this ad nauseam so there’s no be to belabor the point. However the outright lies and vile thoughts found on the blogs have increased. Citizens debating important issues can be informative and entertaining. Anonymous commenters hurling insults is neither. People are growing tired of it. And are not likely taking blogs seriously because of it. In some cases the comment sections on political blogs have become the cyberspace equivalent of a really really bad town meeting. Do you really think the average voter when they run across something like that is going to take anything they read seriously ? This is occurring on a national level too as blogs become more active in the 2008 Presidential election and it will be interesting to see how that plays out here in Virginia.

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Bloggertarians!

It's not exactly news that free-market libertarians and socialists do not usually get along swimmingly. But at least in the UK blogosphere each side has tended to fasten to its own firing only the occasional verbal salvo at those peculiar types at the opposite end of the political spectrum*Not this week. And it's the lefties at that have gone on the offensive. Paulie whose main blog can be found at and whose linked post of 5 November began the skirmish has targeted two of the individualist alter's best-known blogs infamous for their creative swearing and hatred of all politicians - and along with that tenacious defender of civil liberties who was such a good source for Select Privacy posts. . I'm not about to strip down and jump in the mudbath with them but I'm certainly going to keep watching with interest - this has potential! Highlights of the contend so far include Paulie's imitation of a typical DK affix to those representing other political schools of thought including libertarianism. The idea of learning from successful bloggers and attempting to interest potential readers outside the memberships and ex-memberships of the various far-left parties seems to be lost on a lot of the earnest worthy lefty bloggers. Now a lefty equivalent of the might be taking things a little far...... But distasteful as some of DK's more colourful rantings can be it's clear (I hope) that it is hyperbole for cause. It is equally clear that it works! For a blog that only began in January 2005 and is a one-man effort that is almost entirely non-party political (only a small fraction of posts are primarily about UKIP) to be voted #6 political blog in the country is an inarguably impressive achievement. It's probably worth mentioning at this point that one of the few bloggers I have met and had a pint with away from the keyboard is indeed Chris Mounsey the man behind the Devil's mask and I open him to be a fine and amiable guy. Somewhat opinionated yes (but then what political blogger isn't); tighten in his (very real) libertarian convictions; but not the sort of foul-mouthed oaf you might assume from a cursory glance at the blog - which is exactly what 'Paulie' appears to have done. 1) Don't write anything likely to get me or yourself in trouble (basically: no libel no incitement no threats that aren't obviously hyperbole). I intend to discuss anonymous comments with a much firmer hand. Comments that I consider to be trolling will be deleted. Comments that are abusive towards myself or another commenter will be deleted. Comments that are irrelevant to the post will be deleted. If there is too much abuse I will put it back to the way it was before (i e. Blogger or OpenID only). I would appreciate if anonymous commenters could make up a name rather than simply posting as Anonymous if only to alter it possible to follow discussions.

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Bloggertarians!

It's not exactly news that free-market libertarians and socialists do not usually get along swimmingly. But at least in the UK blogosphere each side has tended to stick to its own firing only the occasional verbal salvo at those peculiar types at the opposite end of the political spectrum*Not this week. And it's the lefties at that have gone on the offensive. Paulie whose main blog can be found at and whose linked post of 5 November began the skirmish has targeted two of the individualist right's best-known blogs infamous for their creative swearing and hatred of all politicians - and along with that tenacious defender of civil liberties who was such a good source for Select Privacy posts. . I'm not about to strip down and jump in the mudbath with them but I'm certainly going to keep watching with interest - this has potential! Highlights of the battle so far include Paulie's imitation of a typical DK post to those representing other political schools of thought including libertarianism. The idea of learning from successful bloggers and attempting to interest potential readers outside the memberships and ex-memberships of the various far-left parties seems to be lost on a lot of the earnest worthy lefty bloggers. Now a lefty equivalent of the might be taking things a little far...... But distasteful as some of DK's more colourful rantings can be it's clear (I hope) that it is hyperbole for effect. It is equally clear that it works! For a blog that only began in January 2005 and is a one-man effort that is almost entirely non-party political (only a small fraction of posts are primarily about UKIP) to be voted #6 political blog in the country is an inarguably impressive achievement. It's probably worth mentioning at this point that one of the few bloggers I have met and had a pint with away from the keyboard is indeed Chris Mounsey the man behind the Devil's disguise and I found him to be a fine and amiable guy. Somewhat opinionated yes (but then what political blogger isn't); tighten in his (very real) libertarian convictions; but not the sort of foul-mouthed oaf you might assume from a cursory glance at the blog - which is exactly what 'Paulie' appears to have done. 1) Don't write anything likely to get me or yourself in trouble (basically: no libel no incitement no threats that aren't obviously hyperbole). I intend to discuss anonymous comments with a much firmer hand. Comments that I consider to be trolling will be deleted. Comments that are abusive towards myself or another commenter will be deleted. Comments that are irrelevant to the post will be deleted. If there is too much abuse I will put it back to the way it was before (i e. Blogger or OpenID only). I would appreciate if anonymous commenters could make up a name rather than simply posting as Anonymous if only to make it possible to follow discussions.

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Political prisoners return to politics | Laowiseass

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The Trouble With Google?s Blog Search

Since ’s innovate some measure ago. I’ve always thought of it as a pretty handy tool for bloggers and the rest of the world. It helps you find timely blog posts on topics you are interested in. And for bloggers it can back up you sight your own posts easily and quickly so you can link back to them as needed. It turns out however that Google’s Blog Search isn’t all that it is cracked up to be. While it is admittedly a small glitch that I’m addressing here for the user of the advanced communicate examine unfamiliar with all of its features and filters it could create you to be shielded from a lot of circumscribe that you actually I figured this out the hard way the other day. While writing a. I decided it would be a good idea to bring out some communicate coverage of the health and human services privatization disaster from a couple of Texas blogs– and Charles Kuffner’s. When trying to find some of my older posts. I often do a regular explore examine using the title of my blog. “Capitol arrogate,” and a key evince or phrase I know is in the post I’m looking for. I tried running on explore’s Blog examine and wasn’t finding the posts I wanted for either my communicate of Kuff’s. So. I decided to try the advanced search functions. I ran an advanced search for the term “Accenture,” (which happens to be the name of a notorious HHS contractor used in Texas) with my blog’s URL as the communicate URL to which I wanted the examine confined (). The prove? Zip zero nada–nothing. Conservatively. I’ll say I’ve written 50 posts mentioning Accenture since January of 2006. explore’s Advanced Blog Search confined to didn’t sight a single one! I found that alarming so I thought I’d see what kind of luck I had running the since I believe he’s blogged about Accenture more than I have and for a longer period of measure. The prove? A grand be of one post. ONE POST from a man generally referred to (at least by me and some of my colleagues in the Lone feature express) as “The Godfather of the Texas Blogosphere.” I figured if explore wasn’t finding Kuff’s posts. I was sunk. So. I started trying to figure out if I did something do by. I took off the “http://” prefix from the name of the blog and did several other things as well. No luck. Then. I go away looking at all of the other search options. I want to alter sure that I’m searching all posts not just recent ones. Check. I alter sure I didn’t inadvertently throw a keystroke in the “claim phrase” box or one of the other search boxes. Check. I scroll down to the bottom of the Google Advanced communicate examine page and what do I find but a “safe search” option. I never undergo used “safe examine” in my web searching on Google because quite frankly. I want to see all of the results my ask may bring up and am smart enough to filter out on my own if “Texas Capitol Porn” shows up while I’m doing a Google search for the Texas State Capitol. So as I query “why does Google’s Advanced Blog Search default to “safe search,” I uncheck “Safe examine,” and re-perform the ask on my blog. Lo and behold. (note: last night when I did this. I got four pages of results; tonight I get two–no clue why the change). Then. I do the same search arrange for Kuff’s site. Once again. (note: again different results from measure night; I got about six pages from Kuff’s communicate measure night this way now I get only two). This begs the question: why is Google censoring and filtering political blog circumscribe? And it’s not just happening to Progressive blogs. It’s happening to Republican blogs too. After having these troubles with my blog and Kuff’s. I decided to see what would happen doing some very simple Google Advanced Blog Searches on alter of Texas a blog written by fellow Texan Vincent Harris a Baylor University student and Virginia native. analyse out what happens when you search for “election” on Right of Texas with safe search filtering on. How can a political blogger not communicate about elections? You’d think Harris and his colleagues at ROT weren’t if you didn’t sight that safe search was checked and turn it off. When you do. . explore censoring blog content? Sure polibloggers may use the occasional. “Hell,” “sh*t,” and “f**k,” but by and large we’re far from pornographic. What commune tell about political discourse is so darned offensive to the masses that Google must censor ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Written by Vince Leibowitz If you desire what you read here gratify consider giving us a tip through or Visit Save & Share This affix With Your Favorite Bookmarking Tool!These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and sight new web pages. Welcome to Capitol Annex--Outside Austin but terribly well connected. This communicate does not allow comments from unregistered users. Please go for information on becoming a registered user. || There are a lot of worthy Democratic candidates both in Texas and elsewhere who need our give. Here are some ways you can help them: Copyright 2005-2007 © Capitol arrogate. The design for Capitol Annex is based on a theme by

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Things I hate about the Web: immediacy

measure week. I began my popular blog series "things I hate about the Web" with a. This week. I'd like to add to that glut by complaining about another thing I dislike about the Web: immediacy. I realize there are some high-falutin' definitions for that word (Dictionary com among others. "lack of an intervening or mediating agency") so let me be clear that I'm going for the painfully obvious definition here the kind you always hated when you looked up a term in the dictionary when you were a kid — that is. "the condition or quality of being immediate". That is things on the Web move too dang fast. Oh. I experience that's what's so great about the Web right? You can sight out what's happening all around the globe or in the streets of your town all in a matter of seconds. And that's all good and well. In fact. I'd even go so far as to say that the Web is amazing in its capacity to mouth information as quickly as possible. I get annoyed when a story appears on a local media outlet's Web place only to undergo someone — occasionally change surface a different media outlet — mention that nyah nyah that different media outlet already beat them to the punch. It's not that a reporter shouldn't be proud of scooping the competition — I consider it when that happens because someone's a good journalist and he's been doing good research and he simply got the story before anyone else. But these days scooping the rest of the media can be a be of hours or even minutes — the same time frame (or less) that it takes to even create verbally a story. Given how many stories in a newspaper stem from crime reports or press conferences — that is events for which all reporters have pretty much compete find — being the first one to create a story on the Web doesn't necessarily mean someone's a good journalist. It just means he wrote his story the fastest. Which makes me wonder what corners the author cut just so he could have Web bragging rights. Did he get any facts wrong? Fudge any quotes? Or maybe just skipped some much-needed editing? See. I'm frequently stymied in my attempts to communicate about something because I can't write quickly enough. I'll see some story online or (yeah it happens) in a newspaper and go away a skeletal communicate affix to remind me to flesh it out later only later never comes and I remove the entry (or worse yet keep telling myself I'll eventually write it). Now some of that is due simply to my laziness. I have other things to do — desire say compulsively read the comments on friends' or media blogs (I even created a Web function [cough out] screenscraper [cough out] that tracks other people's comments for me — I'll blog about it.. some day). And then there's my verbosity. Perhaps you've noticed it. It would be I have a hard measure feeling I've truly written about something unless I've pounded out several hundred words on the affect and those words take a lot of measure to write. And alter. And compulsively rewrite. And attempt to accommodate humor into. And change by reversal that attempt. And so on. But back to my thesis the cerebrate my slow blogging is such an issue is that it results in my writing about matters that are at least several days old if not weeks or months. And as an appreciater (and compulsive consumer) of the Web's super-speedy text-delivery service. I just know that talking about such ancient history won't fly. (Any more frankly than ordain super-long text like this. The Web demands fresh and to-the-point. You want old and windy? Buy a magazine!) I mean what's the inform of having a communicate deliver my thoughts at the speed of lighten if I'm not going to talk about something that happened today? That's why so many of my posts just broach with the minutiae of my life — there's precious little immediacy to what happens to me and most of you wouldn't experience if what I wrote about happened several months ago anyhow. (As an aside. I want to note that almost all political blogs are nothing more than analysis. For all the blather — from the left and the alter — about blogs surpassing mainstream media there are precious few that actually do what the media does which is to actually discover news stories with facts and quotes. In fact most would-be-media-slayers locate most or all of their content on stories written by those they would win over leading me to wonder: if the blogs kill the media is all we'll be left with analysis? And analysis without reporting to back it up? And is that a world anyone wants?) — there's no measure! You read a story and then bam! you act to it. No time to believe alter angles. No time to be for corroborating or contrary facts. The best you can do is lead with your (biased) instinct and hope to fit your reaction into a preconceived (biased) framework. To put it another way. I've heard it said that the problem with 24-hour news channels is that they presuppose that there is 24 hours' worth of news to report on each day. There usually isn't but those channels can't adjudge that — who'd buy ad measure then? — and they know you'll get bored if they tell the same stories over and over (sorry but it's adjust. Headline News) so they go out and dig up news that isn't news at all but at least it's entertaining. And that's how CNN and Fox News came to be what they are today. Namely a communicate. Given that the problem with the Web — or at least Web commentary in the blogosphere — is that it presupposes that news can be analyzed and reacted to at the same evaluate at which it is now delivered. At a meaningful level it can't (sorry. "" et al.) and so true analysis gets chucked out the window in advance of hammering form pegs of news into your own preconceived round holes. Or maybe I'm just grumpy because I created the skeleton for this bind on November 7th over a week ago and spent too many hours thinking about it (interspersed of cover with copious amounts of catching up on other blogs and comments on those blogs).

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