Outside the Beltway

A cryptic email leads to the discovery of what appears to be some sort of Barack Obama themed sex toy. A typically day in the life of a blogger.

Just a tip to fellow bloggers who are still running their blogrolls using the old blogrolling.com widget: Your sites have been banned for some time because of malware issues.

The relationship between the Obama White House and the progressive blogosphere isn’t very good right now, and it’s a preview of what is likely to happen on the right if the GOP gets back in power.

Another new media star is coming to the rescue of an old media dinosaur. Put it’s probably too late.

Is it odd that a political blogger dislikes actual political involvement ? No, not really.

Taking a short trip back in time via Instapundit’s archives reveals a September 11th post that turned out to be prophetic.

Comments sections on larger blogs seem inevitably to turn into cesspools. Is it worth trying to stop it happening?

It’s getting harder and harder to tell blogs from newspapers.

The AP will now start mentioning bloggers whose work they use in their stories. Fat lot of good that will do.

Technology guru Leo Laporte had been using Google Buzz to aggregate his social media presence for a few weeks and discovered that his feed had stopped going out and discovered that nobody gave a damn.

Political campaigns are engaging in a new form of “new media outreach” — paying bloggers for favorable coverage.

Zeldorf Ragshaft III asks, “What is it about bloggers on this site? You somehow have the idea you know better than the rest of us what is right and what is wrong.”

Why do we need to license barbers, again?

If you think Jimmy Carter is the Worst Figure in American History, you really need to read more.

My SiteMeter statistics have suddenly become much less useful. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

Blogs are all grown up now and indistinguishable from other online media.

Andrew Sullivan welcomes two more dogs to the Dish.

Some long-awaited cleanup is underway, so please excuse any wonkiness as the work gets done.

The Internet has given us many good things, but it’s also led to a decline in political discourse that we’d do well to reverse before it’s too late.

Megan McArdle cites an academic article someone disagrees with, proving she’s a dishonest hack.

There are some lessons for the blogosphere in this week’s Andrew Breitbart dust-up.

Andrew Breitbart is still patting himself on the back for a job well done in the Shirley Sherrod affair. In reality, he failed miserably.

Journalism and the New Media combined in a feeding frenzy yesterday and a woman lost her job. She probably shouldn’t have.

Andrew Sullivan is back from vacation and back obsessing over the birth of a two-year old kid in Alaska.

What can you learn about a blogger’s personality from his word choice?

Over at The Daily Dish, Dave Weigel hit the nail on the head in his criticism of Andrew Sullivan’s bizarre obsession with a two year-old infant.

For those readers who haven’t warmed up to the magazine layout of the front page, something more akin to the standard blog layout is one click away.

Why I didn’t talk to Dave Weigel before writing about him.

Congrats to Steve Clemons, whose “Washington Note” has been named one of TIME’s Best Blogs of 2010.

Markos Moulitsas gets a lesson in caveat emptor from his former pollster.

Rick Moran is noticing an odd pattern in political discourse.

Magazines routinely run great pieces by highly biased writers. Why can’t newspapers do the same?