Blogs sponsor VA gov debate
Thursday, April 23rd, 2009BNN VA editor Vivian Paige has all the details.
Archive for the ‘elections’ Category
BNN VA editor Vivian Paige has all the details.
Tiny Maryland town’s mayor makes Drudge by bashing local blogs
Monday, March 16th, 2009And the newspaper leaves the name of this dastardly blog unknown to its readers. I bet I know which blog she means. I don't follow BNN's DelMarVa site every day, but of all our sections this is the one that creates more sparks and more angry email to me than any ...
Do any of you tweet?
Monday, February 2nd, 2009BNN is: You can follow any state at www.twitter.com/STATENAMEbnn (For those of you inside the beltway, replace STATENAME with the name of the state you want to follow. Really, Mitch, I weep for your future.) or You can follow BNN news and my random thoughts here. (We'll follow you back since ...
A quick question on local journalists
Monday, January 19th, 2009The Poynter Institute faculty tracked their journalist facebook friends' status updates for opinions about the election and the inauguration. Shocker, I know, they discovered that when journos expressed opinion, it was in support of Barrack Obama . What I found was a disconnect between what these journalists said and what they ...
Election night blogging
Monday, October 20th, 2008An interesting opportunity has come up for some bloggers who are going to be in or near Washington D.C. on election night -- live blogging at the HQ of a major national media outlet. If you'd like details, email me at editor@blognetnews.com.
Interest over education or ideology
Saturday, October 18th, 2008Liberals and conservatives regularly have a good time at the opposite side's expense pointing out one study or another that shows one side is somehow smarter, saner or more knowledgeable than the other. A new poll that breaks down a political knowledge quiz by the TV shows, radio networks and ...
BNN influence rank as qualification for office
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Perhaps this is going a little farther than I intended: "Below are my qualifications ... 4) Rated Georgia’s 3rd most influential Political Blogger for Heneghan’s Dunwoody Blog."
Local employers partying at the conventions?
Monday, August 25th, 2008The Sunlight Foundation, which does God's work in my opinion, has a cool new tool to let anyone check which companies are sponsoring parties at the Republican and Democratic Party conventions. Just choose "host" and then stick in the name of some local employers. Bloggers can have a field day ...
C-SPAN, the conventions and bloggers
Thursday, August 21st, 2008C-Span has launched a new site for the upcoming Democratic convention that is going to highlight selected blog posts discussing the goings on in Denver. If you are interested in getting some attention for your site, you have to submit individual posts through a form on the bottom left of ...
Blech: Earn points for propaganda
Thursday, August 7th, 2008Update: OpenLeft takes a swing at McCainiac astroturf Hat tip to Ohio blogger Jeff Coryell for a tweet linking the latest article from The Washington Post on John McCain's horrendously stupid practice of encouraging supporters to spread predigested talking points into comment sections all over the Internet. John, baby, this really, ...
