Outside the Beltway

It’s unlikely that the Chinese yuan will replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency any time soon.

Automated constructive blog comments cartoon fro xkcd.

Being a political blogger during election season is getting to be rather infuriating, especially if all you want to do is check your email.

Mickey Kaus quips, “Andrew Sullivan has “small staff of four people to help him handle the blog” says NPR. Er, what’s a “big” staff for a blog? . . . In ten short years Sullivan’s created a bloated blog bureaucracy! “

A fascinating discussion about the nature of blogging.

his blog post originally stated that one in three black men who have sex with me is HIV positive. In fact, the statistic applies to black men who have sex with men.

Andrew Sullivan has been blogging for a decade now. He remains one of the few truly indispensable bloggers.

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.