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SD bloggers reflect the traits we brag about

We South Dakotans tend to talk about how friendly and helpful we all are. While it sometimes may just be lip service, I learned again this week that it’s true and, moreover, that it carries over to our blogosphere.

When the lights went out here for an extended period of time, PP at South Dakota […]

Tim December 21st, 2007 | Tags: | Category: Blog/Internet | One comment - (Comments are closed) | |

Another print v. “lit blog” spiel

It seems blog-based book reviewers and so-called “lit blogs” continue to perceived as threats by print reviewers. The latest example is an essay in today’s Boston Globe Ideas section by Sven Birkerts. Titled “Lost in the Blogosphere,” it makes a couple valid points, such as the fact that reviewing is not the same as criticism […]

Tim July 29th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life, Blog/Internet | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) | |

PP! I never knew!!!

Shocked, just shocked! Appalled, absolutely appalled!

Somewhat behind on my web reading, I have just learned that my GOP friend PP of the South Dakota War College is part of a cabal planning to take over the world. After all, good and certainly unquestionable authority says PP is — gasp — a “Zionist operative.”

Now […]

Tim June 26th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: SD Blogosphere | Comments are closed | |

The print-blog battle continues

Richard Schickel, film critic for Time magazine and “a frequent book reviewer” for the L.A. Times, uses that newspaper’s op-ed pages to launch the latest salvo in the apparently escalating war between print book reviewers and those, like me, who review online. Here’s the part I find most offensive:

Let me put this bluntly, in […]

Tim May 22nd, 2007 | Tags: | Category: A Reading Life | Comments are closed | |

Voices v. Vilhauer (or life in a Gannett newspaper town)

Prudence would dictate staying out of this but it’s kind of like when the big kid is beating up the little kid. Even though you know you’ll probably get thrashed too, something compels you to open your mouth or intervene. Okay, so this is really blogger v. blogger but one is your typical personal blog […]

Tim January 17th, 2007 | Tags: , , | Category: Media, State and local matters | 4 comments - (Comments are closed) | |
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