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February 16, 2006BELTWAY BLOGROLL
The C-Span Of The Blog World
Atrios and I are on the same wavelength.
Last summer, after the History News Network started a blog focused on the presidency, I suggested that the time for a blog on Congress also had arrived. Atrios, whose given name is Duncan Black, pitched a similar idea at Eschaton in the wee hours this morning.
"Something that's missing is a blog-like shadow of C-Span, essentially explaining what's going on in the House/Senate at any given moment," he wrote. "Sure it isn't exciting most of the time, but often when it is exciting, the viewing public isn't really sure why. And, in between interesting moments, it'd be the perfect place for more gossipy stuff."
His idea comes on the heels of "RedState's Call For A Capitol Hill Blog." The two proposals combined provide further evidence that bloggers are getting serious about watching what happens in Washington. It should be interesting to see how Washington reacts to being watched.
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Beltway Blogroll’s Danny Glover, Eschaton’s Duncan “Atrios” Black, and Red State’s Mike Krempasky independently call for a C-SPAN of the blogosphere: A blog cooperative that monitors the everyday minutiea of Congress.
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