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By: aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south.

aTypical Joe: A gay New Yorker living in the rural south. — Wed, 20 Jul 2005 22:30:53 +0000

Welcome to my hypertext non-fiction novel

Avoiding the news while on vacation, I’ve decided to make the announcement now. A few weeks ago, after a hearing on a Federal Election Commission proposal that would extend some campaign finance rules to the Internet, including bloggers, and in…

By: B12 Partners Solipsism

B12 Partners Solipsism — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 12:13:18 +0000

Working in a Coal Mine: Lord I Am So Tired, but Good-Looking – New York Times

The NYTs (or Josh Ozersky at least) reads my ‘online magazine’….Working in a Coal Mine: Lord I Am So Tired, but Good-Looking – New York Times:Working in a Coal Mine: Lord I Am So Tired, but Good-LookingMOST people tend to think of coal mining as a da…

By: Busy

Busy — Mon, 04 Jul 2005 22:02:21 +0000

Good. I’ve always thought blog was kind of a gross word.
… Oh wow – Dynamic preview! Nice!

By: bykathryn.com

bykathryn.com — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 23:02:26 +0000

hmm

what’s going on? where are the posts? the knitting, the pictures, the rants about how the judicial future of this country is doomed? these…

By: Mike Panetta

Mike Panetta — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:18:25 +0000

Or you could do what I did with dumpsantorum.com - just install WordPress on Canadian servers. FEC has no jurisdicition up there. I'm seeking "digital asylum" in the great white north.

By: Beltway Blogroll

Beltway Blogroll — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 16:08:59 +0000

Blog Days In D.C.

The Federal Election Commission held public hearings this week on how to apply campaign-finance rules to the Internet, and bloggers had a prominent place at the witness table. But their role went beyond testifying; they also served as sources for…

By: jim

jim — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:09:40 +0000

As the two Guinness guys say: “Brilliant!”

By: Trevor

Trevor — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 13:03:04 +0000

I’m sorry, but I’m just not going to redesign, or retitle my blog for the FEC. I’d rather be fined or jailed.

You can jump through hoops if you want. I think refusing to do so and forcing the FEC to show itself for exactly what it is – a vehicle for censorship and government control of individuals – will have a more positive effect on the rest of the blogosphere.

I’m not going to cooperate with the anti-freedom machine.

By: Ike

Ike — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 05:13:08 +0000

The FEC called.

You had them fooled until they looked at your “article-specific message boards” and didn’t find smileys.

Man… you were so close!

By: Outside The Beltway

Outside The Beltway — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 02:01:35 +0000

Blogs Becoming “Online Magazines”

Apropos the ongoing controversy over bloggers and campaign finance laws, Duncan “Atrios” Black asks,

Why is somebody who prints up and mails out weekly vanity newsletter entitled to the media exemption but not me?

Why is Michael Savag…