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No More Rants About Panties And Condoms

Bloggers who fancy themselves journalists might get a different idea if they take a close look at the types of jobs their comrades are taking these days. When bloggers decide to trade in their pajamas for more traditional business attire, it isn't typically to work in the newsroom. More often than not, they are headed to some elected official's office or political arm.

Add Pandagon founder Jesse Taylor to that list. In a post last week, he announced his new job as the online communications director to the Ohio gubernatorial campaign of Democratic Rep. Ted Strickland.

"I'm not going to the Strickland campaign to do Pandagon for them," Taylor wrote. "I've enjoyed the past three-plus years here, but it's time for a new challenge, and it's also time for me to take on a more serious challenge than daily ranting."

So what exactly is a serious challenge in the heartland of the Buckeye State? Try outreach to "the Knox/Licking County Farmers Union." Strickland has a blog on his campaign site, and Taylor's first byline there on Monday hit the high points of Strickland's talk to that group.

Somehow the subject matter just doesn't seem as engaging as the scandal surrounding House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the outing of a CIA agent, or "Red State Panties, Blue State Condoms" -- the last three topics Taylor covered at Pandagon. And something tells me that Strickland is going to be a bit more strict about the issues Taylor broaches in the land that the wannabe governor has staked in the blogosphere.

(Hat tip to The Blogometer.)

Posted by | 09:21 PM

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Yes, it's nice to see that ranting is good career prep for a respectable job: harnessing the ranters.

Then again, the soon-to-be-launched (and renamed) Pajama Media is finding a steady supply of people in respectable media to jump into blogging.

Of, course, it needs to solve the problem that the Huff Post hasn't yet-- how do you bring together twenty lead guitarists and make music that people will listen to and enjoy? The periodicals, such as this one, can bring in some pizazz, but still succeed on the strength of their rhythm section.

Jon Garfunkel | 10.19.05 12:32 PM

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