Moot?

I use “moot” – of little or no practical value or meaning… frequently, but never gave a lot of thought to its “debatability”. I might have to change that. For example, I commented recently “that the truth is impolite is moot” – regardless of being a former governor and senator etc etc ad adnausium, Corzine [...]

New header image for Polizeros by Wood Ingham

Our pal, the multi-talented Wood Ingham in Wales, redid the header image. The previous logo was all renewable energy and no longer fit the blog as we obviously wander deeply into politics too. The new image fits the site better.

Wood has written over 50 books, including dozens for RGP game publisher White Wolf, co-founded online [...]

Federal judge rules bloggers not journalists

A federal judge in Oregon has ruled that a Montana woman sued for defamation was not a journalistwhen she posted online that an Oregon lawyer acted criminally during a bankruptcy case, a decision with implications for bloggers around the country.

Crystal L. Cox, a blogger from Eureka, Mont., was sued for defamation by attorney Kevin Padrick when she posted online that he was a thug [...]

Who is Ten Bears?

As Bob has so graciously invited me to post here…

Please allow me to introduce myself:

Logger, Hippie, Biker. VFW. Fourth Generation Oregon.

Single Parent, Proud Grand-Parent, Master of Science, Gnostic.

The High Desert is my Home, I’ll never be “Homeless”.

What a long, strange trip it’s been.

As product of mid-fifties promiscuous pregnancy and sixties serial southern [...]

Making it in the Political Blogosphere. Book Review

The World’s Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success, by Tanni Haas

Tanni Haas interviews twenty top bloggers, and ranks their interviews by readership. HuffPo is first, followed by Political Wire, then FireDogLake. This ranking makes sense, even if I have a slight quibble with it. Some bloggers, like John Robb at Global [...]

My Posterous photo blog

Posterous is a great free site for posting photos, videos, text, whatever. You can post by email and tell it to auto-post to other sites.

So, for example, if I email an iPhone photo to flickr@posterous.com, it appears on my Posterous blog and on Flickr. You can do the same with YouTube, Twitter, Facebook [...]

Polizeros Radio tonight. Eric Martin interview

Interview and discussion with Eric Martin, Senior Editor of Progressive Realist , “a metablog about American foreign policy.” In addition, Eric is a regular blogger at American Footprints and Obsidian Wings.

Topics:

Debating an attack on Libya. NPR sting – is the Tea Party racist? Afghanistan – have we reached the end? 2012 [...]

The emptiness of liberal and progressive discourse in the US

Emptywheel at FDL continues the discussion triggered by Freddie DeBoer’s “the blindspot,” which is about the lameness and complicity of the liberal blogosphere, and the lack of a genuine left here in the States.

There’s a thriving left in Britain that has an accompanying blogosphere. A quick glance at Socialist Unity or Lenin’s Tomb [...]

Polizeros Radio

Steve Hynd of Newshoggers, and Josh Mull of Firedoglake & Rethink Afghanistan and myself have done six podcasts on BlogTalkRadio so far, and judging from the listens, we seem to be getting an audience.

Polizeros Radio is on Thursday night at 8:30 PM PST, however you can listen anytime and also download the mp3. [...]

Quora. Something new in blogging?

Scoble thinks so, posing the question Is Quora the biggest blogging innovation in 10 years? then answering Yes.

Quora is a bloggy-like platform, where you ask questions, get answers, and can follow people as well as topics. It is simple to use but quite powerful.

You can find friends on Facebook and Twitter, as [...]