The Washington Post reports on Blogads' survey of political blogreaders. It's not the 20-something crowd.

In an unscientific Web survey of 36,000 people, Blogads reported that political blog readers tend to be age 41 to 50, male (72 percent), and earn $60,000 to $90,000 per year. Two in five have college degrees, while just a tad less have graduate degrees.

The full survey results can be found here. TalkLeft's results are here. What do the results mean?

Our hosting company had a denial of service attack which made us inaccessible this morning and again tonight. We're back online now, but if we go out again, you'll know why.

The site outage is over. All sites at our hosting company were inaccessible this morning due to problems with the networks connecting into their site, in other words, it wasn't at their end.

But, I'm out of time to blog for a few hours....so how about taking over for me?

Thanks much.

There's a great profile today of Daily Kos front page diarist Georgia10 in the Chicago reader. Who knew she is only 23 and a full time law student? She sure is smart and a good writer.

The article also presents a lot of information about Daily Kos and an easy to understand explanation of how diaries work on the site and how the front page diarists are selected.

We need more open threads to satisfy those of you who have something to say on topics other than those TalkLeft covered yesterday and today. Go for it, and I'll be back late this afternoon.

It's time for our Tuesday Open Thread. You can pick the topics and dicuss what you want. I'll be around and not around for most of the day.

Michelle Malkin has started a new videoblogging venture for consersatives called Hot Air, described as "The world's first, full-service conservative Internet broadcast network."

While I'm sure I won't agree with the content, I think the graphics, sound quality and section layout are excellent. Watch Michelle's video to get a sense.

There are helpful links to podcasting tutorials on the site, but Hot Air appears to be far more professionally designed than what most of us can do at home. It's also got paid advertising.

As for the numbers, Instapundit and his wife Dr. Helen's 13 audio podcasts have been downloaded over 3 million times.

Liberals need to be doing more of this. BloggingHeads TV is one site, but it has no visual appeal. And it's just two talking heads, with no graphics or pizzaz. Current TV is another site, but it has lots more than politics and seems geared to video artists rather than bloggers.

Jane at Firedoglake has an excellent post up tonight about some of the problems in blogging to both newcomers and regulars:

...some times it seems impenetrable; bloggers tend to talk to the blogosphere, we assume people are following the conversation and are familiar with the cast of characters, storylines and slang that are conventions here. It can make it awfully hard to catch on. In our defense, people who show up here day after day get tired of having the same things explained over and over again, and since those are the ones we hear from the most we tend to respond to their wishes.

I see lots of news out there, but I'll be offline most of the day. Here's a place to talk about it.

Update: In the coincidence department: Has anyone noticed that the name of the father of one of the accused in the Duke Lacrosse case is Kevin Finnerty, the same name as the guy who switched identites with Tony Soprano in the dream sequences in episodes 1 and 2 of the Sopranos? You gotta feel for the guy.

Second, does anyone want to take bets on when Gloria Allred will step in to represent the accuser in the Duke case purportedly pro bono (but of course for the book rights)?

On a completely unrelated topic, Crooks and Liars reports on a new Fox News poll showing Bush's approval ratings have slipped to 33%.

It's time for the Tuesday Open Thread. The TL kid popped into town for a few days, and if there's anything I'd rather do than blog, it's hang out with him. Markos of Daily Kos is also in town, and of course I want to hang out with him too. I'm even going to be out and about by 8:30 a.m. to attend a coffee klatch with him at Progress Now at 9:00. So my blogging may be close to non-existent until this evening.

Join us tomorrow from 8:30 until 9 a.m. for an interview with Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of DailyKos.com, live from the ProgressRadio webcasting studio. DailyKos is America's top blog, drawing more than 1,000,000 visitors each day. Tomorrow, beginning at 8:30 a.m., connect with Markos and ask questions at this web address. And if you're in the Denver-Boulder area, here's Markos' schedule.

Hopefully, TChris or LNILR will pop in a few times, and I may as well, but just in case you end up here on your own with little or no guidance or new posts, just use the comments as a place for you to have some fun.

For those of you online today with thoughts to share, this space is for you.

Your turn. I'll be back this evening. And blogging through the holiday weekend.

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