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Carnival of Ohio Politics #100 update: 54 to go!
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So, the count, at 10:51pm, Monday evening, January 14, stands at 46 firm contributions, with just under 24 hours to go. I’ve hit up some friends with a little old-fashioned self-deprecation and groveling, but this really is for the readers, people who live in and/or care about what Ohioans think – and we know there are a lot of those folks.
Here’s a reminder of what’s going:
It is only by a fluke that I’m editing the 100th Carnival of Ohio Politics this week. But please, don’t let a fluke get in the way of your submitting – first timer or veteran – to this week’s edition of the Carnival.
Send up to three links to blog posts you’ve written about Ohio and politics by tomorrow night, 1/15, 9pm to ohiopolcarnival AT gmail DOT com and voila – you’ve made Ohio political blog history.
Please feel free to spread the word and keep the posts coming.
100 posts in the 100th edition is the goal.
Thank you.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 10:55 pm January 14th, 2008 in Announcements, Blogging, Carnivals, Ohio, Politics | 2 Comments
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Mark Naymik on RootsCamp 2008; video of Frances Strickland’s presentation
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No one has found the Plain Dealer’s Mark Naymik in the pictures yet, but I’m still holding out the lunch offer (Mark is excluded from winning, but he is probably prohibited from guessing anyway).
Here’s Mark’s take on RootsCamp.
Progress Ohio has posted this video of excerpts of First Lady Frances Strickland addressing RootsCamp. Again, I say, she was just great (well, I liked her).
You can see the entire address by her from Jeff Coryell aka Yellow Dog Sammy aka Ohio Daily Blog here.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:51 pm January 14th, 2008 in Elections, Government, Ohio, Politics, WH2008 | Comments Off
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The Zipless Voter: Erica Jong on media’s lousy work & voter complicity
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Go read writer Erica Jong‘s post here and if you haven’t read Fear of Flying (I first read it in 1984 when I was 22), ever or in a while, go read that too.
From her post:
I want to talk not about candidates but about our media turning every presidential election into a high school popularity contest. And we let them get away with it. And we don’t stop Rupert Murdoch, Clear Channel, Disney, GE, Sumner Redstone and a few others from owning all the media all the time.
Yup, although, even when I say, go sister, what I really want is for her to tell us more about how we do it – not let them get away with it, that is.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 5:37 pm January 14th, 2008 in Campaigning, Elections, Media, Politics, WH2008 | 2 Comments
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14
Follow elections on new blog, Political Base, from a founder of CNET
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Here’s the formal coming out post for the new political blog, Political Base:
Our goal is pretty simple: to build on an electorate energized for change by providing a comfortable place to debate, learn the issues, explore different viewpoints, and promote your own.
We look at Political Base as a community that will only grow and thrive with your participation and contribution. We provide a powerful, easy-to-use platform, along with (hopefully) insightful front-page commentary, tools like campaign finance data, up-to-date polling, and AP news feeds, and it’s up to you to join the conversation, discuss what’s important, share what you know, and learn what others around the country care about. Ultimately, a democracy can’t function without an informed electorate and that’s what we hope to accomplish here. If we don’t know what’s going on, how can we properly participate and make sensible decisions about which candidates or issues to support?
First, a quick note about the genesis of the site. It’s the brainchild of Shelby Bonnie, the co-founder of CNET — one of the world’s first online media companies — and one of the true pioneers of the digital world. Along with Shelby, and his small team of engineers and developers (all CNET veterans) who built this platform from scratch, is me — Mark Nickolas — a traditional in-the-trenches political veteran who’s spent the past decade in Democratic campaigns at the presidential, Senate, gubernatorial, and congressional levels and someone familiar with the blogosphere, having published a well-regarded state-based political site called BluegrassReport.org. While my formal title is Managing Editor, a more accurate one might be Community-in-Chief, as my job will be as much moderator and facilitator than pundit and analyst.
Adding it to my RSS. It sounds a bit like RedBlueAmerica.com, if that site were only about politics – which it’s aiming not to be.
Hmm – I ‘m shooting for 100 posts to the Carnival of Ohio Politics #100 edition this week, which I’m editing. Maybe I should shoot for 400 feeds too (I’m in the low 300s right now).
One complaint:
We know that there are at least 300 women-run political blogs and millions more about many topics run by women. Why are the moderators of both these sites men? Am I missing the women-run ones? Political Base indicates that its founding fathers are, in fact, all men (five of them). Whether they’re fathers or not, I don’t know.
Come folks – women vote as much if not more. Women use the Internet as much if not more. I promise, I won’t reject every argument you give as to why men got the nod, but give me at least three good reasons why a woman didn’t.
Seriously. Not whining here – just wanting to understand what’s going on – or not going on.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 2:56 pm January 14th, 2008 in Blogging, Media, Politics, Tech, WH2008, Women, Writing | Comments Off
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100 post update: Carnival of Ohio Politics #100 to break record?
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As of 9:30am today, just a couple of hours after sending out the submission reminder and posting on
(I use those privileges when duty calls; I might even drag myself to Daily Kos where I’ve only posted once and commented maybe three times in almost three years), we’re a fifth of the way there – and from only 8-10 contributors.
So – remember:
It is only by a fluke that I’m editing the 100th Carnival of Ohio Politics this week. But please, don’t let a fluke get in the way of your submitting – first timer or veteran – to this week’s edition of the Carnival.
Send up to three links to blog posts you’ve written about Ohio and politics by tomorrow night, 1/16, 9pm to ohiopolcarnival AT gmail DOT com and voila – you’ve made Ohio political blog history.
Please feel free to spread the word and keep the posts coming.
By Jill Miller Zimon at 9:32 am January 14th, 2008 in Blogging, Carnivals | 3 Comments
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Contribute to Ohio political blog history
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It is only by a fluke that I’m editing the 100th Carnival of Ohio Politics this week. But please, don’t let a fluke get in the way of your submitting – first timer or veteran – to this week’s edition of the Carnival.
Send up to three links to blog posts you’ve written about Ohio and politics by tomorrow night, 1/16, 9pm to ohiopolcarnival AT gmail DOT com and voila – you’ve made Ohio political blog history.
Please feel free to spread the word and keep the posts coming.
Should we try for 100 posts in the 100th edition!?
By Jill Miller Zimon at 6:47 am January 14th, 2008 in Announcements, Carnivals, Ohio, Politics | 1 Comment
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