June 21, 2006

Blogalism Update

The Kentucky state government is censoring which blogs state employees can read on their office computers. ... Meanwhile, the blogs continue to hammer Jason "The Liar" Leopold and TruthNot.org contortionist editor Marc Ash over their continued insistence that Karl Rove was indicted (he wasn't) and allegations that Leopold lied to get his (false) scoop. MediaBlog has the latest. ... And Markos Moulitsas, a/k/a "Kos," is working overtime to squelch coverage of the growing payola scandal involving DailyKos.com and Kos' co-author and co-blogging-leftwing-activist Jerome Armstrong.

Meanwhile, here's a job posting that shows the increasing inroads that blogs are making in the newspaper business.: The primary responsibility of the position is to cover city and county government and contribute to the IR's growing on-line presence, which will include reporting, columns and blog moderation...