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[11/18: Comments now closed, we'll start another open thread.]
I've been wanting a GMail e-mail account since July when I blogged at the DNC in Boston next to Ezra at Pandagon who had one. It's in beta-testing still and you can't just sign up for one. Just this week it integrated with Outlook.
Instapundit to the rescue. Glenn graciously provided me with a Gmail account yesterday. With hundreds of e-mails a day coming in, the search feature should be big benefit. I'll let you all know soon on how it compares. My e-mail address there is talkleft@gmail.com.
In New York City today, liberal bloggers have packed the Tank, for a symposium on how liberal energy can remain focused and effective following the 2004 election.
There will be a Drinking Liberally party tonight at The Tank, open to all.
The Tank was home to liberal bloggers for the RNC in New York. Here's a picture of a bunch of us blogging there.
A big thanks to Crooks and Liars, the new liberal video blog, for making this clip of the debate on Hannity and Colmes last night on the Scott Peterson verdict. They edited the show down to highlight my segments. It's best viewed on Windows XP but it looked fine to me on Windows 98.
Alternative viewing: Keith Olbermann interviewing Joe Trippi on the role of the Internet in finding voter irregularities in the election.
Or this most entertaining Daily Show clip of John Stewart discussing John Ashcroft's resignation.
Thanks to all the TalkLeft readers who contributed to our "pledge drive" the past two days. There were about 30 of you, who contributed in amounts from $1.00 to $50.00. Just as great were all the notes of encouragement and appreciation that accompanied the donations.
There's so much work ahead of us the next four years. I really do believe that bloggers can make a difference. We get the word out, shore up support and provide a place to vent. As frustration over this Administration's policies and choices mount, it's nice to have a place to call home, and the left-leaning blogosphere is now home to hundreds of thousands of readers. We'll carry on. Thank you for your support.
Congrats to Noah Shachtman whose excellent blog Defense Tech was just bought by Military.com. If you're not familiar with Defense Tech, it's a blog about how technology is changing "how wars are fought, crooks are caught, borders are protected, and individual rights are defined."
Good luck, Noah, and thanks for including me in your list of site thank yous. I'll be reading you over there regularly.
The Firefox browser was released today in the 1.0 version. I've been using it for a few months (except when I post on TalkLeft, because I can't get the "hot buttons" in textile to work with it--although that may be my shortcoming) and it really is cool. The best feature is no pop-ups. It has tabbed browsing. It also lets you bookmark the rss version of news sites and blogs so as you run your cursor over them in your "favorite places" you can see last ten or so headlines and just click on those that interest you.
Many believe Firefox is going to give Microsoft's IE a run for its money. It's free, you can read about it and download it here.
It's that time. TalkLeft has not asked often for reader contributions in recent months due to revenue received through our blogads. But, blogads have all but disappeared since the election. Even after dropping the ad rates, there have been no takers.
As regular readers and commenters know, this site takes hours of my day and evening to maintain. What began as a fanciful hobby is now a news and opinion site read daily by 15,000 people, and growing. Many of these readers return several times throughout the day, evening and weekends, looking for fresh material. So far, I haven't disappointed.
Without the ad revenue, I have to ask for reader contributions. There really is no other way to keep the site going at the current level. So, if you are a frequent reader, or if you just like TalkLeft and want to see it continue and thrive, please make a donation. All amounts from $1 up are welcome and appreciated.
(If you recently gave, no need to give again.)
Update: Thanks to all you generous readers who are making contributions. I really appreciate your response. Individual thank you notes will be sent soon.
A blogger named "anniesj" at Live Journal criticized Bush the week before the election and received a night-time visit from the Secret Service. She is single and lives with her mother. The agents determined she was not a threat to national security, but she now has her very own FBI file that includes her photo, email, and weblog address.
Now, as to what made them pick her: She wrote a post after the presidential debate critical of Bush. Another reader called it in to the authorities. The Secret Service told her they were following up.
Some advice:
The tale is a lesson to us all. Number one lesson is that what happens on the internet can and will bite you on the a** in real life. We've seen it time and time again with internet affairs and sordid emails - now, you'd better watch where you put your political commentating toes. Number two is that no matter how cool and geeky the community - and LiveJournal is both - there will always be someone that ruins it for everyone else.
Put another way, people need to keep in mind that the internet has no erasers.
Here's Annie's version of her ordeal. [link via What Really Happened.]
Update: Not so clever attempts by Right wing bloggers, including a prosecutor, to post words in the comments to this post that will result in this site being linked to unacceptable behavior when googled have led to a decision to shut the comments down. Their comments have been edited.
More wonderful blogs are closing up shop in the wake of last week's election. We wrote about Tristero here. Today we received an e-mail from Anna of Annatopia. She's shutting down. Another big loss for the blogosphere. Hesiod at Counterspin has also shuttered his doors. Let's hope they just need a rest and will join us again soon.
Update: New blogs are coming on board. Say hello to the new weblog of the U.S. Marijuana Party by the organization's indefatigable Loretta Nall.
The election is over and blogads naturally are down on bloggerland's political sites, including TalkLeft. In hope of attracting some new advertisers, we've cut our rates substantially.
Take a look, and if you're interested in having 15,000 distinct daily visitors view your product or service or learn about your organization or its issues, try an ad on TalkLeft. Three spots are available:
Tonight is the third Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash at Falling Rock Tap House, 1919 Blake St, Denver. Now here's the cool thing for those of you too far away to attend....you can watch us on this webcam which is updated every second. Thanks to Colorado Conservative Darren Copeland for organizing the event.
There doesn't seem to be a start time, but 7:00 or 8:00 should do it. Liberals will be in very short supply, and you don't have to have a blog to attend, so come on down if you can.
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