Bloggers Fighting Government Regulations (Kos quote)

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050628/ap_on_hi_te/bloggers_lobby

WASHINGTON - Bloggers who built their Internet followings with anti-establishment prose are now lobbying the establishment to protect their livelihoods from federal regulations.

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"I like to think of myself as just a guy with a blog, but it's clear that 'just a guy with a blog' is different today than it was when I started three years ago," said Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, founder of the Web log www.DailyKos.com. "One sign of having arrived is when government regulators start wanting to poke their fingers into what you do."

Moulitsas was to testify Tuesday at a hearing on a Federal Election Commission proposal that would extend some campaign finance rules to the Internet, including bloggers.

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Duncan Black — who founded the www.atrios.blogspot.com blog — featured a headline Monday on his Web site, "Bite me, Congressman," that linked to a diatribe against a Republican House committee chairman over global warming.

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1. www.atrios.blogspot.com?

I'm sorry, but why is it so hard for a reporter to figure out what atrios' actual url is? Last week the press had him at www.eschaton.net.

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2. Shoddy reporting

>>Duncan Black — who founded the www.atrios.blogspot.com blog — featured a headline Monday on his Web site, "Bite me, Congressman," that linked to a diatribe against a Republican House committee chairman over global warming.<<


Duncan's "diatribe" had nothing to do with global warming.

It was about Barton threatening scientists.

And it wasn't even written by Duncan.

http://www.chriscmooney.com/blog.asp?Id=1926