Links from
Barbara O’Brien’s Blogging America
(organized by number of the endnote)
Chapter 1:
Storming the Bastille
1 Some prominent
bloggers are known only by pseudonyms.
2 Oliver Burkeman, “Bloggers Catch What Washington Post
Missed,” The Guardian, December 21, 2002.
3 See, for example, Melanie Sloan, “Whatever Happened to
the Plame Investigation,” Buzzflash.com, December 10, 2003
www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/12/con03369.html
4 Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook (Perseus, 2002), p. 2.
5 Interview with Christopher Lydon, July 31, 2003 (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/07/31#a213).
6 Jay Rosen, “Press Think,” TomPaine.com, January 22,
2004 (www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9814).
7 Kay McFadden, “Dismal Iowa Caucus Coverage Was Just the
Tip of the Iceberg,” The Seattle Times, January 24, 2004.
8 Rebecca Blood, The Weblog Handbook (Perseus, 2002), p. 23.
9 Kevin Drum, “Blogs vs. Newspapers,” Calpundit, January
21, 2004. (http://www.calpundit.com/archives/003093.html).
10 Jay Rosen, “Private Life, Public Happiness and the Howard
Dean Connection,” Pressthink, December 9, 2003.
11 Rosen, ibid.
12 Christopher Lydon, “Dick Morris: An Entirely New Age
in American Politics,” The Blogging of the President: 2004,
December 11, 2003.
13 Speech at O’Reilly’s Digital Democracy Teach-In,
San Diego, CA, Feb. 9–10, 2004 http://www.itconversations.com/transcript.php?id=80).
14 Scott Rosenberg, “Politics by Other Means,” Salon,
Feb. 4, 2004 (www.salon.com/tech/col/rose/2004/02/10/democracy/index.html).
15 “Political Influentials Online in the 2004 Presidential
Campaign,” The Graduate School of Policy Management, The
George Washington University, Washington, DC, released February
5, 2004 (www.ipdi.org/Influentials/Report.pdf).
16 “Pyramid and Sphere: Stirling Newberry,” interview
with Christopher Lydon, Oct. 28, 2003 (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/10/28#a399).
17 Matt Stoller, “A Response to Jay Rosen,” The Blogging
of the President 2004 (BOPNews), December 23, 2004 (http://www.bopnews.com/archives/000105.html#000105).
18 Frank Rich, “Napster Runs for President,” The New
York Times, December 21, 2003 (www.nytimes.com/2003/12/21/arts/21RICH.html?ei=5007&en=035abc452122c4ec&ex=1387342800).
19 Ed Gillmore, “Internet Emerging as a Political Force,”
The San Jose Mercury-News, Jan. 21, 2004 (www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/7759804.htm).
Web Sites Referenced
in This Chapter
Chapter 2:
Charting the Blogosphere,
Part 1—The Right Blogosphere
1 Michael Kinsley,
“In Defense of Matt Drudge,” Time, February 2, 1998.
2 Adam Cohen, “The Press and The Dress,” Time, February
16, 2004.
3 To read this blog, go to MSN (www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3395977/).
4 Mickey Kaus’s very conservative political blog is sponsored
on MSN.
5 Interview with Christopher Lydon, July 31, 2003 (http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/lydon/2003/07/31#a213).
6 Ibid.
7 Andrew Sullivan, “The Blogging Revolution,” Wired,
May 2002.
8 http://denbeste.nu/cd_log_entries/2003/02/LiberalConservatism.shtml.
9 www.truthlaidbear.com/archives/2002/07/31/foreign_policy_ttlb_stylethe_bear_doctrine.php.
10 Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., “And the Word Was Made Web,”
LewRockwell, February 5, 2004 (www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/Web.html).
11 The blog Volokh Conspiracy for August 2, 2002, defines fisking:
“The term refers to Robert Fisk, a journalist who wrote
some rather foolish anti-war stuff, and who in particular wrote
a story in which he (1) recounted how he was beaten by some anti-American
Afghan refugees, and (2) thought they were morally right for
doing so. Hence many pro-war blogs—most famously, InstaPundit—often
use the term “Fisking” figuratively to mean a thorough
and forceful verbal beating of an anti-war, possibly anti-American,
commentator who has richly earned this figurative beating through
his words. Good Fisking tends to be (or at least aim to be) quite
logical, and often quotes the other article in detail, interspersing
criticisms with the original article’s text.” (Eugene
Volokh).
12 Email to the author, February 12, 2004.
13 Archived at www.nicedoggie.net/archives/003742.html#003742.
14 http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9749_Slouching_Toward_Big_Brother.
15 www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/002162.html.
16 Published in the January 24, 2004 issue of Time magazine and
on his blog at www.andrewsullivan.com/main_article.php?artnum=20040126.
17 Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass.
Web Sites Referenced
in This Chapter
Chapter 2:
Charting the Blogosphere,
Part 2—The Left Blogosphere
Web Sites Referenced
in This Chapter
Chapter 3:
Blogging the Issues,
Part 1—The State of the Union
1
http://volokh.blogspot.com/2002_08_04_volokh_archive.html
2 Link to www.vodkapundit.com/archives/004365.php
3 Byte Back is a blog (www.dimn.blogspot.com).
4 http://djslybri.blogspot.com/2004_01_01_djslybri_archive.html#107475937368545997.
5 “Reports that say that something hasn’t happened
are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known
knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there
are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things
we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns—the
ones we don’t know we don’t know.”—Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
6 The “weapons of mass destruction-related program activities”
line lived on for several weeks, as liberal bloggers replaced
the previous abbreviation WMD with WMDRPA.
7 IMHO—In My Humble Opinion.
8 Andrew Sullivan’s very popular and often controversial
blog—www.andrewsullivan.com. See p. 112 for Sullivan’s
comments on a proposed “protection of marriage” amendment.
9 Fox News Network.
10 Barbara Ehrenreich, Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By
in America (New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2001).
11 The reference is to President George W. Bush’s father,
President George H.W. Bush, who raised taxes after promising
not to: “Read my lips. No. New. Taxes.”
12 Moonbat, also called a barking moonbat—Someone on the
extreme edge of whatever their -ism happens to be. (Definition
attributed to Perry de Havilland.)
13 Cluebat—a metaphorical instrument used to drive home
a clue.
14 Spelling Clinton with a K is a time-honored convention of
the Right. I don’t know why.
15 “This” links to an article on the Kim du Toit blog
dated 1/20/2004 on federal spending; URL: www.kimdutoit.com/dr/weblog.php?id=P2569.
16 In June 2003, the Supreme Court decided to uphold the University
of Michigan's law school affirmative action policy, which favors
minorities. The 14th Amendment guarantees equal protection under
the law, and is thereby used to argue both for and against affirmative
action policies.
17 Daniel Oppenheimer, “One Nation, Under Blog,” The
Valley Advocate, February 5, 2004. On the web at http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/News/content?oid=oid:52704.
18 http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2004_01_11_dneiwert_archive.html#107412700471234186.
19 www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/01/19/no_jobs/index.html.
20 In November 2003, a domestic terrorism investigation found
a sodium cyanide bomb in the hands of three people in Texas connected
with white supremicist and anti-government organizations. The
story is covered here: http://cbs11tv.com/investigations/local_story_330180036.html. David Neiwert’s
commentary is at http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_11_30_dneiwert_archive.html#107049902794836725.
21 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2001831790_dean08.html.
22 Nedra Pickler is an Associated Press reporter thought to be
biased against Democrats. See, for example, Matthew Yglesias,
“Nit Picklering,” The American Prospect (web exclusive),
January 20, 2004, www.prospect.org/webfeatures/2004/01/yglesias-m-01-20.html.
23 This refers to an unsubstantiated claim that Saddam Hussein
had sought to purchase uranium in Africa, made in the 2003 State
of the Union Address.
Chapter 3:
Blogging the Issues,
Part 2—Gay Marriage
Chapter 4:
The Best of the Blogs,
Part 1—Blogging the Economy
1
www.cbo.gov/table11. FY=fiscal year.
2 www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdint.htm.
3 www.publicdebt.treas.gov/opd/opdpdodt.htm.
4 As of May 2004, estimates put the actual cost of the final
bill between $500 and $600 billion.
5 John Lott, a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute,
is described on the Blogosphere either as an eminent scholar
and magnificent defender of the Second Amendment or an unethical
hack with gender identity issues.
6 www.cdharris.net/archives/003225.
7 In a February 26 blog, economist Brad DeLong suggested projecting
employment at the end of 2001 forward by the rate of trend labor
force growth and comparing the result to the current level of
payroll employment, “and you’ll see that we are 6.2
million jobs short.” Read remainder at www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/2004_archives/000370.html#000370.
8 This blog was cross posted to another blog, The Axis of Weasels,
at www.axisofweasels.com/blog/archives/000457.html. “Hillarycare”
refers to a proposal to overhaul the health care system that
was created under the management of then–First Lady Hillary
Clinton during President Clinton’s first term. The proposal
met with rousing disapproval across the political spectrum.
9 Brad DeLong, who among other things is a professor of economics
at the University of California at Berkeley, blogs at www.j-bradford-delong.net/movable_type/Index.html.
10 www.epinet.org.
11 Flit, www.snappingturtle.net/jmc/tmblog/archives/003811.html.
12 www.nytimes.com/2004/02/26/opinion/26FRIE.html?ex=1393131600&en=
b1aeb4ca84ea7d67&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND.
13 www.imdb.com/name/nm0561026/. The reference is to
Jeffrey Scott’s listing in “The Internet Movie Database.”
14 http://maxspeak.org/mt/archives/000148.html. Here’s the referenced
paragraph: “Outsourcing today debunks the common idea of
a separation between ‘professional’ and working class.
You get a specialty, you might have thought you were set for
life. Uh-uh. Manufacturing workers learned this a long time ago.
More are learning it now. Outsourcing discounts the value of
human capital. All you have left is your labor power. The other
people have the capital, the good health insurance, the vacation
home, the tax-deductible $75,000 SUV. You have the house, the
aging car, and your dog Santorum. If you're lucky, some kind
of shaky pension fund. You're a worker. Welcome to the working
class. You have nothing to lose but your credit card balances.”
15 Bureau of Labor Statistics; see ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/empsit.txt.
16 www.ows.doleta.gov/press/2004/040104.html.
17 www.napm.org/ISMReport/ROB042004.htm.
18 Larry Kudlow, “This Recovery’s Not Broken,”
National Review Online, March 28, 2004.
Chapter 4:
The Best of the Blogs,
Part 2—Divided We Blog
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