Drum to MoJo, new Political Animal

One of my favorite bloggers, Kevin Drum, has left his blog Political Animal at the Washington Monthly and set up a new home at Mother Jones. Taking over Political Animal is Steve Benen, formerly of the now closed The Carpetbagger, and Hilzoy. Here’s Kevin’s last post on Political Animal and Steve’s first.

Blogengood

I’ve been remiss in failing to mention that my good friend Ian (known as The Cooler and pictured above) has joined in the blogging fun and started his very own site, A Slice of Life. We’ll see how long he keeps up with it but so far it’s quite funny. You should check it out. [...]

Wonkette going indie

The interesting news on the internets today (or at least the parts I pay attention to) is that Wonkette has been spun off from parent Gawker Media along with two other Nick Denton properties (Idolatar and Gridskipper). Wonkette will be owned by current editor Ken Layne in some sort of partnership with Blogads.
Despite certainly [...]

Engadget Mobile backs down from no one

This is pretty cool: Deutsche Telekom, owners of the global T-Mobile brand, had their lawyers send Engadget/Engadget Mobile a letter telling them to stop using the color magenta in Engadget Mobile’s logo. Seriously? Yeah, seriously. The Engadget Mobile guys decided to take things up a notch and did a little site redesign, as you can [...]

Heilemann’s “Monolith”

You see Michael’s admin interface. You see WordPress 2.5 take on an admin interface. You start laughing… Then you realize you will be working with the latter. And you cry.
The above quote is from a commentator called Waldo on Michael Heilmann’s post reveling his work on a potential administration interface for Habari. “Monolith”, as Heilemann [...]

Blog comment of the year

From a post on the Washington City Paper’s blog City Desk comes this great comment by Arlene Stuff:

I’m always frankly startled that the Washington City Paper, which presumably goes by the same ethics and standards of most newspapers, would allow a writer to comment in such a way.
Jason, here is how your comments read: [...]

Happy 7th anniversary to TPM.

Bloglines has put out a list of the top 1000 blogs on Bloglines. Citizen Jake is probably 1001st or something. (via Darren)

And the winners are….

The results have come in from for the Golden Wingnut Award and your winners are:
1.John Hinderaker: “It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius….”
2. Glenn Reynolds: “Maybe we should rise above the temptation to point out that claims of a ‘quagmire’ were wrong….Nah.”
3. Michelle [...]

“Wingnuttiest blog posts of all time”

Kevin Drum is holding a fun little contest to figure out the “wingnuttiest blog posts of all time”. There are 14 nominees and you can vote for the top 5 here. I went with:
1. Ann Althouse: “Let’s take a closer look at those breasts.”
2. John Derbyshire (after the Virginia Tech shootings): “Where was the spirit [...]

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