Andrew Golis

I love the way Steve explains it here:

Can you own an issue to such a degree that you bring the world to you, that they can’t tell the story without your work?

Blogging as expertise, both journalistic and intellectual.  I love it.

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• SarahLacy.com: Maybe Blogging Is Just a Loss-Leader?
  A good post summarizing what I think is a vital point about blogging: many good blogs will simply be conversational and action hubs for people making money doing something else.
  (tags: blogging new.media sarah.lacy advertising hyperlinks)
• Moving Towards Each Other: More on NYT vs WSJ | paidContent.org
  The New York Times quietly moves toward news aggregation, linking out.
  (tags: new.media newspaper msm hyperlinks paid.content wsj)
• Amanda Terkel: The netroots holds the Bush administration accountable | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
  Terkel summarizes the political mood of last weekend.
  (tags: netroots new.media daily.kos guardian amanda.terkel)
• Pew Research Center: The Changing Newsroom: Gains and Losses in Today’s Papers
  Interesting.
  (tags: journalism newspaper msm finance metrics statistics)

The subtitle of this blog is “mostly links,” and that’s because I have a day job that isn’t blogging (but instead managing a network of blogs) so it’s often difficult for me to shift in and out of writing mode and provide you with any unique insights you couldn’t just find from reading the articles I’m reading.

But I recognize that the last two weeks or so the blog could easily be called “almost completely links.” Between a week of vacation, four nights in Austin for Netroots Nation, a few days in between to transition and a week after to get my bearings back at TPM, things have been quite busy.

But, this week hopefully I’ll be able to find time to start writing again, probably to share some thoughts that have been marinating on the progressive movement’s awful but inevitable choice between justice and progress, mainstream media’s painfully slow emergence into the hyperlink economy of web media, and the Obama Campaigns coming decision on movement management.  Movement and new media analysis, woo!

Thanks to the growing number of you that are reading, I’ll work to start getting the thoughts flowing again.

PS: Just figured out how to blog from my iPhone.  Expect some fun stuff to pop up here as a result.

• On Line – Off the Bus, but Growing Thousands Strong – Katharine Q. Seelye- Politics – Election 2008 – NYTimes.com
  Great story on HuffPo’s Off the Bus distributed reporting project. Go Amanda!
  (tags: new.media huffpo amanda.michel nyt 08)
• Jane Mayer on The Dark Side – Bill Moyers Journal . Watch & Listen | PBS
  Deeply depressing and horrifying.
  (tags: torture jane.mayer video bill.moyers cheney bush war.crimes)
• MediaShift . Digging Deeper::Young Newspaper Journalists Could Flee Because of Slow Pace of Change | PBS
  I hear things like this from friends…
  (tags: new.media newspaper journalism youth career mediashift)
• YouTube – Terror, Torture, and the Dark Side
  Steve interviews Jane Mayer.
  (tags: jane.mayer cheney steve.clemons youtube bush torture)
• How Good Is The Mainstream Media At Linking Out?
  Fascinating. Notice how few mainstreamers are linking from their web articles. Why? Cause it’s not web native (and therefore doesn’t integrate).
  (tags: new.media msm newspaper hyperlinks)

• Hasbro Finally Sues Makers Of Scrabulous; Invokes DMCA To Get It Removed | paidContent.org
  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  (tags: scrabble facebook copyright)
• Politico and RealClearPolitics Team Up – mediabistro.com: FishbowlDC
  Why wouldn’t politico just do this in house? Odd. Interesting, but odd.
  (tags: politico new.media real.clear.politics blogging 08)
• Newspapers in convention cities to run Politico stories – Poynter Online – Romenesko
  They’re voracious!
  (tags: politico finance newspaper new.media 08 romenesko)
• msnbc.com Deplys Hypersyndication Strategy for News Video
  Apparently in “the future” there will be portal news sites, and people will all link to each other! Whoa, someone give this guy a raise.
  (tags: new.media msm msnbc hyperlinks beet.tv video)
• The Democrats & National Security – The New York Review of Books
  Samantha Power essentially outlines the historical background to Obama’s aggressive stance on taking back National Security for the Dems.
  (tags: books democrats mccain obama samantha.power nybooks iraq iran foreign.policy)
• TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | World writes open letter to McCain
  Michael Berube is hysterical.
  (tags: michael.berube funny tpm.cafe mccain obama)

• Think Progress » Scarborough Defends McCain, Criticizes Bloggers ‘Eating Cheetos’ In Their ‘Underwear’
  I do eat cheetos! I do!
  (tags: morning.joe iraq blogging msnbc)
• GOP losing the new-media war – Jonathan Martin – Politico.com
  Interesting Politico story about how TPM and HuffPo are running circles around the Right. Huzzah!
  (tags: tpm huffpo new.media msm politico 08)
• The Commentocracy rises online – Daniel Libit – Politico.com
  Interesting story on commenting culture online quoting yours truly.
  (tags: comments blogging new.media tpm politico)
• Networks Lose Patience; Sue RedLasso Over Online Clips | paidContent.org
  Interesting.
  (tags: new.media red.lasso video television copyright)

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• HuffPost And GQ Throw Party At Netroots Nation (PHOTOS)
  It was a pretty good party.
  (tags: netroots partying huffpo gq)
• Times Higher Education – All the privileged must have prizes
  A vicious and insightful piece on the corruption and privilege of a Harvard education (written by a guy who taught in my department, was my thesis advisor’s roommate).
  (tags: harvard privilege finance greed education)
• Video: Scoble Tells the Comment Trolls To Go Back to Digg
  Famous tech blogger pines for the slower early days of the blogosphere where there were real ideas being exchanged, and folks could spend time thinking instead of just constantly reacting to keep up.
  (tags: new.media blogging scoble techcrunch)

• AFTERNOON INTERLUDE: IS SOCIAL DEMOCRACY A-COMING? – EzraKlein Archive | The American Prospect
  A great panel on what the left needs to do to prepare to govern. There’s a really long question at the end… that would be me making trouble.
  (tags: ezra.klein progressive.movement new.politics economics health inequality)
• PI at NRN: Jeremy Bird, Obama’s Ohio General Election Director | Progress Illinois
  J-Bird’s Netroots Nation explanation of the model or organizing I used to help him teach.
  (tags: new.politics organizing obama netroots video)

• The Political Scene: Making It: Reporting & Essays: The New Yorker
  Quite a grounding piece on Obama. The man is, in the end, incredibly ambitious and calculating.
  (tags: obama 08 new.yorker ryan.lizza organizing)