Category: Media & Weblogs
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3 Quarks Daily, a blog that I read regularly and where I have made many friends, has announced an exiciting event - recognizing bloggers with cash prizes for the best writing. Please follow the link and find out the details. If you can remember a blog post in any of the four categories that you feel deserves the recognition, this may be a good…
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Dear readers, there is one more legal eagle on the A.B. roster. Our own Joe graduated from law school last weekend. Joe was one of the two earliest co-bloggers (the other being Anna) to join me on this blog. In late 2005 he was at home waiting to get into law school for the second time. He had…
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Accidental Blogger is happy to announce the addition of a new author to the current stable of six. Our roster now includes a seventh blogger who prefers for now to go by the name of "D." Please see his profile here. I invited D to join us after reading his many incisive and interesting comments on another blog. D hasn't told me what…
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Can't wait to see this happen. But given the physical and moral cowardice of right wing blowhards, it probably won't.
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CotL #89 is up at Johnny Pez's blog.
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Amid all of the print-is-dead triumphalism, Senator Benjamin Cardin of Maryland has taken the very encouraging step of introducing legislation that would allow newspapers to operate as not-for-profits. This would mean that advertising and subscription revenue would be tax-exempt, and one could make tax-deductible donations to newspaper as educational entities. I'm pretty sure this would…
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The new CotL # 86 is up at The Greenbelt. With the economy on spindly legs, many of the posts are about money, naturally.
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CotL #84, the Stimulus Edition is up at Submitted to a Candid World. Please check out who is to be bailed out by Obama's nearly trillion dollar stimulus package.
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The Magnes Zionist, a blog by a pseudonymous orthodox Jewish professor is worth checking out, especially for his views on the recent Israeli invasion of Gaza. (link via Brian Leiter in Leiter Reports)
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Welcome to CotL # 82. Accidental Blogger is pleased to host the very first Carnival of the Liberals of 2009. At this time, this year, liberals are in a mental flux. The curtain is about to come down on the eight nightmarish years of Bush-Cheney – surely a time to rejoice. A new guard is poised to take over…
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The last Carnival of the Liberals of 2008 (published on December 31st) is up at Rust Belt Philosophy. Please check it out. The next carnival will be featured here on Accidental Blogger on January 14th, 2009. Be sure to visit then.
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Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo have gathered the data on what web surfers were looking for in 2008 - a compendium of collective curiosity. In fact Goolgle calls its rankings "Zeitgeist"– a window into the public mind, at least the public that had access to the Internet. Not surprisingly, politics and pop culture scored high on the…
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