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Ok, why should I care? I was notified a while back that I would be in the top 25 Circle of Moms Political Mommy Blogger race, where we are supposed to get people to vote for us to win...nothing. Big deal, right? However, my first inclination was to try to gather those whom I thought would vote for me and ask them to keep voting, (you can vote once a day,) until the competition ends at 4pm PT, 7pm ET on April 4th. So, like most things in my life I forgot about it, until a couple of days ago,...

Sometime this afternoon my blog at www.ourrvadventures.wordpress.com was archived or disabled for violation of their Terms of Service. This blog details my wife and my travels in our RV. I have no idea what I could have done to violate the Terms. I've had this blog for 3 years and never had a problem. I contacted Workpress earlier this afternoon, but still haven't heard back. Anyone have any ideas, or a better way to handle this, maybe the home phone number of the president of Wordpress?

I spent a good portion of today monitoring the positively horrible postings on various Leftist sites and on the Facebook accounts of proud adherents of “The Tolerant Left” — observing the absolute glee they’re taking in Andrew Breitbart’s sudden death yesterday. If you’re a regular reader here, you’ll know I trot out “the Death Star obliterating Alderaan” analogy quite frequently — because the scene resonates with me in especially trying times, as it’s one of the earliest memories I have of seeing something up on a movie screen (having most likely seen it for the first time during one of...

Indignant voices from the rightmost fringes of the Blogosphere... Toons/links at Reaganite Republican Have a great weekend, everybody~

Pundit Press is proud to present interview number 46 in our ongoing series. Our interviewee requires no introduction. One of the top bloggers on the net, Pamela Geller has been leading the fight against Islamofascism and runs Atlas Shrugs. We thank her for her time. 1. When and why did you start Atlas Shrugs? After 911 I felt guilty I did not know who had attacked this country. And when I found out, I felt guilty I didn't understand the ideology that would inspire such hate and mass murder. Increasingly I turned to the web because the media was derelict...

Pundit Press is proud to present interview number 45 in our ongoing series. Today, we're interviewing Tanni Haas, who authored Making it in the Political Blogoshphere. The book includes interviews with over twenty of the most influential political figures on the web. We thank Dr. Haas for taking part in this interview. 1. When and why did you decide to write Making it in the Political Blogosphere? I decided to write the book a couple of years go. It occurred to me that the insights and experiences of some of the world's most successful political bloggers would be of interest...

After years in the shadows of major media sites, blogs have come into their own. They now compete directly with the most well-funded online content sites, many of which are owned by the largest media companies. With the rise of several blogs, which are extremely successful both financially and editorially, the mainstream content corporations have tried to either flank or buy them. Many mainstream companies like The New York Times have started dozens of blogs of their own. Those who want evidence of the financial value of blogs need look no further than the buyout of The Huffington Post by...

Gunny G: NOW BLOG THIS !!!!! NOW (Right Now!) is the time for all good Americans to come to the aid of our country, while we still can! Real Americans: Get your own blog, free and quickly, online and Blog (Vote?) Daily--the only way left for your voice to be heard at all !!!!! Writing, phoning, and voting are all well and good...but Bloggers are what they HEAR! You've heard the expression, "vote with your feet," well, I say, VOTE WITH YOUR OWN OUTSPOKEN BLOG DAILY! Guess why “they” are now putting so much energy into getting rid of bloggers,...

Link only Notice is about Top of the Ticket blogger, Andrew Malcolm, moving on from LA Times. Look for him at Investor's Business Daily.

Some observers have noted that history doesn't always repeat itself, but that it does tend to rhyme. This was first alleged about geopolitics, but it appears to be true in many areas of life: the cycle of economic boom and bust, climactic cycles, from La Nina and El Nino to glaciations, and even management fads ("Empty what's full; fill what's empty; and scratch where it itches.") In particular, one can see such occurrences play out over time in the retail sector. When I was young, there were comparatively few chain stores, and most of those were regional, not national. (This...

This sniveling and silly study in resentment and ingratitude have been widely praised in the Lib blogosphere. It does show just how the US victim's mentality has now passed into absurdity. John Scalzi is a minor science fiction writer in the current Pewter Age of SF. I have added in parenthesis what being really poor is after each of John's whines

Best from the New Media Right this week... Links/humor/more at Reaganite Republican -have a super weekend, FReeper patriots

I will try to make this vanity post quick and to the point. As you will notice by looking at my profile, I am new to Free Republic. I have enjoyed reading all the articles posted at Free Republic for a few year now, and just recently jumped in to become an active member.I am an evangelical young earth right wing conservative who has voted for every Republican presidential nominee going all the way back to Jerald Ford. Like many of you the internet has broadened my knowledge of the world around me. Then I found Free Republic and it...

Title of Thread Repeated In Body of Thread 5/6/11 Red Fox This is a thread titled Title of Thread Repeated In Body of Thread. And now the body of the thread: Title of Thread Repeated In Body of Thread.

As I was skimming posts on here, I noticed the many complaints about blog pimps. My own blog is not at all political, so breathe a sigh of relief, you won't see me posting any articles on here from it. :) But, sometimes when I get a down moment, I like to see what others have written. So, if you have a blog, feel free to post your link and what it's about here.

An original Right wing site has been struggling over the years to attract bloggers, WWW.THENEXTRIGHT.COM, and I need some help to fight off a resurgence of Liberal infestation ..... trying to turn the site into "The Next Left". Easy to log in for posting comments, and it needs some RIGHT wing bloggers to counter the "Infestation". Go visit.....have some fun chasing away the Rats.

Suspended teacher defends blog calling students lazy whiners 4:19pm EST PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A high school English teacher suspended from her job after she blogged that her students were "rude, disengaged, lazy whiners," said on Wednesday that she did nothing wrong. "Some of the students, parents and administrators don't want to hear the truth," said Natalie Munroe, 30, a teacher at Central Bucks East High School north of Philadelphia. In a blog she said was intended to be seen only by a handful of her friends, but was shared on Facebook by a student who discovered it, Munroe was highly...

As more and more people turn their focus online to get their news and information, the credibility of news and opinion blogs has increased. Enough time has gone by for the web-inclined to learn which ones are reliable and which ones are rubbish. Some blogs have cultivated a reputation of being a source of solid information; some have become popular due to its uniqueness or for the writer(s) themselves. These are a few of the latter:

-Best of the New Media's Resurgent Right- The Camp of the Saints brings you his regular quote-of-the-week -here-  The Conservative Wahoo sounds the call: Steele Must Go  -here- Moonbattery -this week's RR Featured Blog- finds Bush Derangement Syndrome still raging amongst liberals -here-  The Lonely Conservative reports that serial failure Obama is leaving the economic summit empty handed... is anybody surprised -here-  Adrienne's Corner has an informative Bill Whittle clip on gun rights -here-      Weasel Zippers finds Bubba actually praising W's new book... -here- Fishersville Mike:Coming to Terms with a One-Term Obama  -here- Conservative Pup sees the Communist Party USA dropping all pretenses -here- And So It...

Here are some of the top headlines from conservative blogs: Ace of Spades - Financial Briefing: Shave and a haircut, two bitsAmerican Spectator - Obama Redefines America's Gift to the WorldAmerican Thinker - Remember Reagan's words this Veterans DayAtlas Shrugs - Piglosi: A RetrospectiveBreitbart TV - Honoring Our VeteransCNS News - Obama Has Visited Indonesian Mosque But No Synagogue Anywhere Since Taking OfficeDaily Caller - GE to buy 25,000 electric vehicles by 2015Doug Ross - Larwyn's Linx: Going Out of Their Way to Kill the ConstitutionFirst Thoughts - Another Grand Explanation of ObamaGateway Pundit - Pelosi Wants to Push DREAM...

A thread on Barbara Billingsley has been pulled because they called it a blog. It was taken from Associated Content that was bought by Yahoo. How is that considered a blog? I read what I read. People seemed to be enjoying the article. What gives? Free Republic started as a blog, correct? How can Yahoo news be a blog? I don't try to break rules here. I've been around for quite a while. I'm curious..that's all. Thanks.

The value of many of the most significant blogs have increased in the past year as the economy continued to improve and advertisers were willing to pay more to reach audiences online. Readership at most of the 25 blogs on the list has increased. Some of them have been around for five years or longer and their competition has either fallen by the wayside or been unable to gain significant market share. All of the blogs on the 24/7 Wall St. list are private companies, as has been true in all four of the earlier lists. None are owned by...

We always knew Darren Murph had oodles of talent and was extremely prolific -- but now the man has got the paper to seriously prove it. Our own Mr. Murph was just awarded the Guinness World Record for most posts ever by a blogger. Not only is this a first for Darren, it's a first for Guinness as well, creating a new category for the group. Darren joined Engadget in July of 2006 (his first post is here), and almost four years to the day (when these numbers were submitted to Guinness) he'd arrived at 17,212 individual posts (since surpassed,...

Ive gotten 95% of my information from the internet over the past 5-6 years. There exists a special mix of intelligence, altruism and collegial respect that can unite to make internet forums worth much more than the price of admission. As such I've become habituated to a variety of sources, bloggers, websites, and internet personalities. Of late it seems these forums have become more shrill and predictable in their aggregate coverage of real life. Recently the signal to noise ratio is so low that I find myself using the internet for learning less and less, and when I do, with...

I want everyone to know that I love the comments posters on political blogs. OK, truth be known I love the ones that agree with me. The others, not so much. But I really can see the logic to those that say comments are the worst part of the Internet Tubes. 99% of the time the comments section add nothing but vitriol and pointless blather…. not to mention a dearth of grammar and spelling. While there's the occasional really detailed and good comment that does add to the thread, the good ones are far and few between. Heck, there’ve been...

July 30, 2010 "Islamic Jihadi aka Ibn Ali al-Turki Makes Dua For All Zionists To Be Executed (Updated)" SNIPPET: "Generic dua death threat? What a twit he/she is First, Islamic Jihadi aka Ibn Ali al-Turki tweeted to make dua for execution of Pam Geller of Atlas Shrugs. Next he/she makes dua for execution of StarCMC. Lastly, he tweeted a reminder to make dua for execution of Atlas Shrugs"

The One has made His intentions known to control the internet, along with Amerika itself. His administration has been been attempting (ofttimes succeeding) to censor and silence writers including this one, working to block me from getting news releases out to various media sites. Persecution and censorship of writers has begun. However, this one takes the ultimate censorship cake. . According to the Communist News site, People’s World, a new internet software blocker titled, GodBlock is now up and running. Its purpose, according to its designers, “Is to test each page that your child visits before it is loaded, looking...

July 18, 2010 8:59 PM PDT Mystery shrouds closures of blog, forum platforms by Greg Sandoval Font sizePrintE-mailShare27 comments Yahoo! Buzz .Share 770diggsdiggTwo services that enable users to blog or create online forums have disappeared from the Internet under mysterious circumstances. Blogetery.com, a blogging platform, went dark on July 9, less than a week before Ipbfree.com, a service that helped users create Web message boards, went offline. No one has said these situations are linked, but they nonetheless possess intriguing similarities. • Each of the services host loads of user-generated content. • Operators at both Blogetery and Ipbfree said they...

After the U.S. Government took action against several sites connected to movie streaming recently, nerves are jangling over the possibility that this is just the beginning of a wider crackdown. Now it appears that a free blogging platform has been taken down by its hosting provider on orders from the U.S. authorities on grounds of “a history of abuse”. More than 73,000 blogs are out of action as a result. Hot on the heels of recent threats from Vice President Joe Biden and Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator Victoria Espinel directed at sites offering unauthorized movies and music, last month U.S....

The New Media's 21-st Century Minutemen aren't going to just lay back and learn to enjoy it, like Team Obama might suggest. Rather, we're taking the fight to the enemy right up until November, when we sweep these statist fiends from office, thereby neutralizing the insane -yet ongoing- Obama spending orgy... OUR side's winning now, Dear Leader. Links to the best of this week's conservatives (along with a little cartoon humor) today at Reaganite Republican-

SNIPPET: "The federal prosecutor's office said in a statement that the accused, identified only as Hussam S., had been detained Sunday in the western German town of Montabaur."The accused is strongly suspected of working to recruit members or supporters for Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in Iraq, Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb and the Islamic Jihad Union," the statement said." SNIPPET: "Hussam M. is believed to have used Internet forums and blogs belonging to the German section of the "Global Islamic Media Front" and the "Al-Ansar Media Battalion" since 2007 to attract militants to the various Al-Qaeda groups. And since February 2009, he allegedly...

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Abstract In this essay, I argue that neither non-economist bloggers, nor economists who portray economics —especially macroeconomic policy— as a simple enterprise with clear conclusions, are likely to contibute any insight to discussion of economics and, as a result, should be ignored by an open-minded lay public. The following is a letter to open-minded consumers of the economics blogosphere. In the wake of the recent financial crisis, bloggers seem unable to resist commentating routinely about economic events. It may always have been thus, but in recent times, the manifold dimensions of the financial crisis and associated recession have given fillip...

Why would a conservative activists site ban a conservative activist? This question remains largely unanswered. Conservative Examiner has been summarily banned by Free Republic. For over a year I have been posting Conservative Examiner articles at the Free Republic conservative networking forum. From the very start I found the site to be admirable due to their clear goals of conservative activism--to advocate for the conservative cause and to work toward reclaiming our government, through the electoral process, from those who appear to have little regard for the Constitution.

After profiling the different types of blog commenters recently, I had some requests for advice on how to be the good kinds of commenters, rather than the bad.  Here are some dos and don’ts that might help: 1) Be charitable. If you are not making a comment out of love, you have no reason to make it. 2) Do not comment when you’re angry. You’ll probably regret it and won’t be able to undo it.  Anything good to say will still be good in a few hours when the anger has worn off a bit. 3) If you quote part...

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong” (Voltaire). Some twenty-five years ago, a discussion arose in the seminary about when a priest should or should not be dressed as such. All manner of examples were thrown out for consideration: restaurants, movie theaters, baseball games (with and without altar boys), etc. One of our professors, Msgr. William B. Smith, STD, whose obituary your M. Div. wrote last year and will post here eventually, had the most lucid comment: “Whenever a priest is in a situation where being known as a priest would...

The same sloppy legislative writing that created so many unintended consequences in ObamaCare also plagues the DISCLOSE Act, the effort in Congress to tighten spending rules in the wake of the Citizens United decision — and that’s the generous take on the situation. Reason’s Bradley Smith and Jeff Patch warn that the perhaps-unintended consequences of legislative language will allow the FEC to regulate political speech online. The fact that media entities like the New York Times have specific exemptions built into the bill makes the intent, or lack thereof, rather murky: Last week, a congressional hearing exposed an effort to...

TUESDAY, MAY 04, 2010 "U.S. Treasury Site Compromise Linked to the NetworkSolutions Mass WordPress Blogs Compromise" SNIPPET: "UPDATED: Saturday, May 08, 2010: 5 new domains have been introduced by the same gang, once again parked at 217.23.14.14, AS49981, WorldStream."

A bunch of leftists (who hate Sarah Palin) are trying to hijack the Bloggers Choice Awards. But a good FReeping can change that. To vote, you have to register, which is no big deal. To vote for FR as Best Political Blog (even though it iosn’t a “blog”) click on “Best Political Blog.” FR was on page 5 last I checked. To vote for FR as Best Blog of All Time, click on “Best Blog of All Time.” FR was on Page 36 . To vote for Daily Kos as Worst Blog of All Time, click on “Worst Blog of...

Bloggers Choice is a site that gives out awards for "best" sites in various catagories. Voting is going on right now and the leading sites in the best political blog category are sites that exist solely to smear, post lies about and to denigrate Sarah Palin. http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/categories/19 Also, there is also a worst blog site category and wouldn't you guess, that Conservatives4Palin is leading. http://bloggerschoiceawards.com/categories/2 I believe in order to vote that you have to register. We can turn this around by giving this a good freeping.

Vuz Vuz 2 is a discussion board of, by and for the English-speaking residents of Kiryat Arba, Israel. It is a place where the curious may find out more about Kiryat Arba, Judah and Shomron, and Israel generally, and those already living or just visiting our town may share their personal observations, advertise job opportunities/seeking employment, property for sale/rent/looking to buy/rent (both personal and real), news, political shmoozes, humor, and generally get together and talk. When the shortcomings of Google web sites made it unrealistic to continue using in the original Vuz Vuz site, I decided to start from scratch...

SNIPPET - quote: HE HAD A BLOG... ...he said a lot. Then he went to Somalia to join the jihad, and now he's dead.

SNIPPET: "A buddy just sent me this link to RevolutionMuslim.com’s Abu Talha al-Amriki attempting to refute a report by West Point’s CTC in his recent essay, ”A Refutation Of The Claims Of West Point Saying That Al-Qa’ida Kills Mostly Muslims.” For background, RM is a pro-jihadist group of online guys – jihobbyists if you will – that used to be ‘e-mired’ (get it?) by Yousef al-Khattab. If you read my blog, you’ll know al-Khattab recently handed the reigns to Abdallah as-Sayf Jones. There are a number of other contributors to the site, including this “Abu Talha al-Amriki” (I guess his...

This sentence contains a provocative statement that attracts the readers’ attention, but really only has very little to do with the topic of the blog post. This sentence claims to follow logically from the first sentence, though the connection is actually rather tenuous. This sentence claims that very few people are willing to admit the obvious inference of the last two sentences, with an implication that the reader is not one of those very few people. This sentence expresses the unwillingness of the writer to be silenced despite going against the popular wisdom. This sentence is a sort of drum...

As for what Obama reads online, his advisers said he looks for offbeat blogs and news stories, tracking down firsthand reporting and seeking out writers with opinions about his policies. Obama was particularly interested in Atlantic Online's Andrew Sullivan's tweeting of the Iranian elections last year, said an aide, who requested anonymity to discuss what influences the president. When they spoke for attribution, administration officials played down the notion of a Googling commander in chief. "I don't think time permits him to be surfing all the time," Axelrod said, adding that the president reads "magazines like crazy," including the New...

Right-Wing Flame War! By JONATHAN DEE Published: January 21, 2010 Charles Johnson has been writing a blog for almost as long as the word “blog” has existed. A bearish, gentle-voiced, ponytailed man who for three decades enjoyed a successful career as a jazz guitarist accompanying the likes of Al Jarreau and Stanley Clarke, Johnson has always had a geek’s penchant for self-education, and in that spirit he cultivated a side interest, and ultimately an expertise, in writing computer code. His Web log, which he named “Little Green Footballs” (a private joke whose derivation he has always refused to divulge), was...

Conservative, liberal, Democrat, Republican, it really doesn’t matter; pretty much the topic of conversation today is the special election being held in Massachusett(e)s to fill the seat left by the passing of Ted Kennedy. It’s a real barn-burner, it is, what with a stolid, leaden Democrat candidate woefully trailing a vibrant and optimistic Republican front-runner (I know, it’s almost unbelieveable). Television, newspapers, blogs are all covering the race with either despair or indifference (Democrat party hacks and the MSM) or breathless admiration and excitement (pretty much everyone else). Except one blog. This particular race doesn’t seem to have hit the...

SNIPPET: "I had an interesting demonstration this evening from a hacker who goes by the handle “The Jester” or in so-called l33t speak, th3j35t3r which is his Twitter ID. Since January 1, The Jester has been systematically wreaking havoc with several websites he associates with Al Quiada and Jihadists via a Denial of Service attack delivered over the web through an anonimizer service. The Jester has been documenting his attacks against www.alemarah.info, www.radicalislam.org, islamicpoint.net, www.almaghrib.org, www.as-ansar.com, www.islamicnetwork.com, www.islamicawakening.com, www.ansarnet.info, since the beginning of 2010." SNIPPET: "So my message to The Jester (I know you are reading this since I sent...

A new study by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism says that when it comes to reporting new news, old media wins hands down over new media. From Journalism.org Where does the news come from in today’s changing media? Who really reports the news that most people get about their communities? What role do new media, blogs and specialty news sites now play? How, in other words, does the modern news “ecosystem” of a large American city work? And if newspapers were to die—to the extent that we can infer from the current landscape—what would that imply...