Tag Archives: Blogosphere

Andrew Sullivan Says to Stop the Lawsuits

By Gib | November 7, 2008

One of the most successful bloggers in the whole blogosphere (who happens to be a happily married gay man with conservative politics as his focus) opines:
My advice to the marriage movement: educate, speak, reach out. Stop the litigating. Resist the impulse to revel in victimhood.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (November 07, 2008) - [...]

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Quote of the Day: Paperwight

By Gib | November 7, 2008

I responded to Paperwight’s comment over on a American Constitution Society Blog, visited Paperwight’s sight and read a post with this fantastic quotation.
If you want to be someone better, you have to do something better.
The rest of the blog is pretty awesome, too and focuses on John McCain and how the media has treated him [...]

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Split Screen in FireFox

By Gib | November 3, 2008

What’s brutal for people arguing on television is great for browsing.
I’m using this new FireFox extension (new to me, anyway).
Great for bloggers.
[Hat tip:  Philaahzophy ]

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Twitter Tools to Make Twitter Faster, Funner, More Fantastic

By Gib | October 30, 2008

I hope to review a few of these in depth because I’m not a Twitter expert nor am I as tech-centric as I seem to be to non-gadget friendly folks.
In the meantime, a little link love for a great article from Brian Solis:
PR 2.0: Twitter Tools for Community and Communications Professionals.
If you’re using Twitter already [...]

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Prop 8 Projections

By Gib | October 24, 2008

Graphic from FiveThirtyEight.com: Prop 8 a Toss-Up

Kip commented on a recent post that Proposition 8 “likely won’t” pass.
Looking at the numbers above from FiveThirtyEight, I can see why the queer blogosphere and people I know against Prop 8 are saying “we’re loosing.”
It looks like the Yes folks are gaining ground.
Kip mentions in his comment:
A little [...]

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Jamie Lynn Spears & Bristol Palin — Making Babies, Making Headlines

By Gib | September 4, 2008

The Blogosphere and gossip columns and sites have been ablaze since yesterday with the false story that Ms. Spears sent Ms. Palin a baby gift and a note of support.
My Question: Who started it? It’s brilliant! Because the same media that has been tsking and spouting nonsense about Mama Spears being a bad mom [...]

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Bon Mots of the Day — Activist Legislators

By Gib | August 12, 2008

I’ve been reading KipEsquire’s excellent blog A Stitch in Haste quite a while now. Besides his self-identification as a “part-time pop scholar,” this has got to be one of my favorite phrases of the day. This favorite and the others appear in bold below (empahsis is mine):

The only reason the Supreme Court handed [...]

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Hillary Clinton Atlantic Article Online

By Gib | August 11, 2008

If you’ve been following the blogosphere and pundit talk, you won’t want to miss Joshua Green’s article.
My thoughts later.

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Andrew Sullivan Takes a Vote on Comments

By Gib | March 3, 2008

Über-blogger, author & tv commentator Andrew Sullivan asked his readers to vote for whether they would like comments or not. He advised his readers (I’m one) that they could vote more than once if they felt strongly:
“You can vote any number of times, so those who care strongly about this - pro and con [...]

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Mainstream Media Outlets, Mainstream Media Writers — but still blogs

By Gib | November 10, 2007

Peter Tolan is writing a blog about the Writers Guild of America strike.
What’s fascinating for me about his being asked — and his writing the blog — is how blogging can be simply a platform for internet publishing… but it can also be about the singularity of voice.
Tolan’s blog feels like a blog in its [...]

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