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1. June 1, 2011 01:03 PM

   A Look at the Arab Blogosphere

   Birth pangs of a new Middle East?

   By Bilal Lakhani

   Many of the estimated 35,000 bloggers in the Arab world have carved out reputations as online watchdogs on governments, in countries where there have been few public avenues for state accountability. Many were also credited with playing an important role in triggering the Arab spring of 2011—including the downfall of some governments and strong pressure for reform within others. But...

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2. February 23, 2011 08:53 AM

   A New Twist on the Wisconsin Story With Gin and Tacos

   By Felix Salmon

   Ed at Gin and Tacos picked up on a particularly audacious section of the Wisconsin budget-repair bill yesterday: the governor can sell off any state-owned heating, cooling, and power plants he likes, at any price, to anybody he wants, without any kind of auction or bid-solicitation process, and such a sale would be defined as being in the best interest...

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3. August 3, 2011 07:48 PM

   Audit Notes: Some Recovery, Tom Watson Profiled, Debt Myths

   By Ryan Chittum

   Calculated Risk gives us four indicators the National Bureau of Economic Research uses to call and date recessions and recoveries. They show just how far the economy has fallen since 2007: These graphs show that no major indicator has returned to the pre-recession levels - and most are still way below the pre-recession peaks. Real GDP is still 0.4 percent...

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4. May 5, 2011 12:59 PM

   COIN Stars

   Counterinsurgency bloggers help set the Afghanistan agenda

   By Maura R. O'Connor

   When Erik Smith accepted a one-year posting to Afghanistan as a United States Agency for International Development (USAID) official working with one of the U.S. military’s Provincial Reconstruction Teams, he received thirty minutes of Pashto language instruction and cursory training in counterinsurgency and stabilization strategy. “This is not the typical environment that USAID works in,” explained Smith (not his real...

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5. October 24, 2012 06:50 AM

   Did the financial blogosphere go away?

   Whither the econobloggers

   By Felix Salmon

   Tadas Viskanta and Josh Brown ask today where all the finance bloggers went. Both of them reckon that there’s been a decline in financial blogging of late, although neither attempts to quantify it; my feeling is that although there has been a decline, it’s not nearly as dramatic as they might think. One way of looking at this is to...

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6. December 19, 2011 12:22 PM

   Language, Free

   Blogs for grammar geeks

   By Merrill Perlman

   In Miracle on 34th Street, Kris Kringle makes lots of friends—and money for Macy’s—by sending customers elsewhere when Macy’s did not have something. In the same spirit, this week Language Corner is sending you to lots of other language blogs and sites, in hopes you’ll like us better for it, or at least learn something. Here are some of our...

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7. August 19, 2011 10:58 AM

   Matt Taibbi vs. the SEC

   Rolling Stone gets no credit from most of the press for a huge scoop

   By Felix Salmon

   Matt Taibbi’s 5,000-word exposé of the SEC’s document-shredding is a magnificent piece of journalism, and is the first and last place that you should look to understand what’s going on here. After the piece came out, Senator Chuck Grassley—who’s quoted in the article—made growling noises in the general direction of the SEC, which is now very much on the back...

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8. April 26, 2011 11:00 AM

   National Geographic Taking the Wheel at Scienceblogs.com

   Report of merger prompts campfire history tale on Twitter

   By Curtis Brainard

   “My baby's all grown up,” mused Christopher Mims, retweeting an unconfirmed announcement posted nineteen minutes earlier that Scienceblogs.com, the site he helped create and launch for the Seed Media Group in January 2006, would be sold to National Geographic. Retraction Watch’s Ivan Oransky had the scoop. Just after 3 p.m. on Monday, one of Scienceblogs.com’s most popular bloggers, Pharyngula’s PZ...

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9. May 9, 2011 10:57 AM

   New Media Goes Door to Door in the Deep South

   After a year and a half, Birmingham news site Weld is cleared for launch

   By Michael Meyer

   I first encountered Weld in September 2010, and it remains the only site I’m aware of that was given an award before it officially launched. Its “prototype,” a Birmingham politics and public affairs blog called Second Front, was named Birmingham’s Best Blog by a Birmingham Magazine reader’s poll just three months after it went live. Second Front was the work...

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10. July 3, 2012 03:00 PM

    The expectations game

    Blogs drive MSM speculation about Higgs announcement

    By Curtis Brainard

    Excited speculation about the discovery of one of physics’ most sought-after particles is coming in waves now, with media outlets trying to substantiate online gossip about an announcement happening July 4 at the Large Hadron Collider. Officially, it’s just the “latest update in the search for the Higgs boson,” according to CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research that runs...

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11. July 1, 2011 02:36 AM

    The State of the Blog

    Felix Salmon Talks to Alexis Madrigal

    By Felix Salmon

    I’ve felt for a while now that the kind of blogging I do — one person writing a series of blog posts in reverse-chronological order — is dying, even if it’s not quite dead. There are still lots of great blogs out there, but my Portfolio.com guide to the econoblogosphere, now almost four years old, is not nearly as...

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12. January 18, 2012 02:37 PM

    Will Fact-Checking Go the Way of Blogs?

    By Felix Salmon

    Lucas Graves has by far the best and most sophisticated response to NYT ombudsman Arthur Brisbane’s silly question about “truth vigilantes”. Graves makes the important point that Brisbane’s “objective and fair” formulation is itself problematic: as one of Brisbane’s commenters wrote, if a certain politician is objectively less truthful, less forthcoming, and less believable than others, then objectivity demands that...

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