Color Coding Blogs by Political Bias
Andy Baio and friends have undertaken an interesting project: color coding political blogs to track bias.
A Few Quick Thoughts on Commenting
James Joyner has had a couple of interesting posts over the last week concerning blog comments, especially here at OTB. Here are some more thoughts.
Are Online Comments More Trouble Than They’re Worth?
Animal’s Joel Johnson declares “Comments are Bad Business for Online Media.”
Two Blogospheres, Dated Research
Aaron Shaw and Yochai Benkler have an article in the current issue of American Behavioral Scientist titled “A Tale of Two Blogospheres : Discursive Practices on the Left and Right.”
OTB on Colbert
Doug Mataconis’ Thursday posting “Herman Cain Releases Bizarre New Video Involving Apparent Goldfish Murder” got picked up on that night’s edition of The Colbert Report.
Captain Carroll LeFon, Neptunus Lex, Killed in Crash
Carrol LeFon, better known on the Internet as Neptunus Lex, one of the original milbloggers, has been killed in a fighter jet crash.
Megan McArdle’s Hiatus
Megan McArdle is taking a break of unspecified length from blogging to “work on another project.” Said project, she hastens to add, is not a baby.
