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March 24, 2006BELTWAY BLOGROLL
Friday Festival Of Blog Bits
Ben Domenech has been on the blog beat at The Washington Post only a few days, and already there are calls for his resignation -- by fellow conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin, whose book was edited by Domenech. Ouch!
The issue: plagiarism. Domenech stands accused of it by liberal bloggers who clearly have been out to get him from the start. But even conservatives who make their money off words (or want to) don't appear eager to back Domenech in light of the evidence unearthed by their liberal counterparts.
"As someone who has worked in daily journalism for 14 years," Malkin wrote, "I have a lot of experience related to this horrible situation: I've had my work plagiarized by shameless word and idea thiefs many times over the years. I've also been baselessly accused of plagiarism by some of the same leftists now attacking Ben. The bottom line is: I know it when I see it. And, painfully, Domenech's detractors, are right. He should own up to it and step down."
Other tidbits from the blogosphere:
-- Tim Tagaris, a blogger at the Democratic National Committee, has been compiling a list of campaign blogs, other blogs and more news sources. He calls it "the ultimate RSS reader" -- though with a Democratic tilt. The running list is available at both Daily Kos and the DNC blog.
-- Matt Stoller of MyDD explained why he lost interest in the hard-fought Illinois 6th District race this week -- and some of his netroots colleagues bear part of the blame.
-- The American Civil Liberties Union helped successfully defend a blogger's right to parody the anti-gay billboard of a religious group.
-- Do bloggers "take public positions more extreme, less nuanced, easier to stereotype, than they would over beer with friends?" Marty Kaplan tackled that question at The Huffington Post.
-- Virginia politics and the blogosphere seem to be a match made for mischief this year.
-- Jeff Jarvis chastised New York Times executive editor Bill Keller for his decision to stop reading blogs. "Well, I'd say that Keller thus forfeits the right to complain about or mock people -- starting with the president -- who say they don't read newspapers, especially his."
-- PoliPundit was among the conservative blogs that recently hinted at a conspiracy by Blogger.com against said blogs (cue the black helicopters). D.J. Drummond shared a response from Blogger.
-- A condo project in Taiwan called BLOG -- a sure sign that blogging in general has hit the fad stage, despite the great work being done out there by people who take the format more seriously.
-- And here's a clever fable about "The Grasshopper, the Ants and the Blogger."
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