Web sites adjusting as political winds change(DU Mention)

[RamboLiberal]

Daily Newspaper: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (This is not the Scaife Rag).

President-elect Barack Obama ran a victorious campaign on the idea that change can happen, and it's happening fast on the Internet, as sites and blogs that have taken on the Republican administration shift gears and look for ways to reinvent and repurpose themselves in a post-George Bush world.

In the coming weeks, the wide array of left-leaning, liberal, Democrats-forever sites and blogs -- some dead serious, some wickedly funny -- will adapt to changing winds, others will go away and still others will become cyberspace junk.

On the other side of the coin, an equal number of Republican and conservative blog sites, like Let Freedom Ring and Wake Up America, are waiting in the wings with plenty of new material.

The Bill Clinton administration was the greatest thing that ever happened to radio talk host Rush Limbaugh's career and helped to spawn the rise in popular conservative/right-leaning talk radio. Similarly, the growth of new media has been fueled by its role as a forum for citizens who felt disaffected in the Bush years. Democratic Underground exemplifies the serious sites. It was launched on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20, 2001, and describes its mission this way: "To protest the illegitimate presidency of George W. Bush and to provide a resource for the exchange and dissemination of liberal and progressive ideas." Since then it has published six days a week and hosts a left-wing discussion board.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08316/926902-96.stm?cmpid=newspanel1

Ugh - to be mentioned in the same paragraph as Limpballs. But don't jump on Adrian McCoy - she's a nice lady, just a little naive about this media. Well, we're not going to become cyberspace junk anytime in the near future.

[endarkenment]

1. DU publishes?

who knew?

[marmar]

2. What do they mean by "has published six days a week"?

n/t

[PeaceNikki]

3. I guess we all respect the Sabbath!?

:shrug:

[Atman]

4. The front page of DU changes six days a week

There is (or used to be) original content that rotated on the DU front page from day to day. I know...I used to contribute cartoons which appeared on each Friday's "edition."

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[CoffeeCat]

5. Is that why I'm unable to log on on Thursdays?

I just thought all of you needed a one-day break from me!

;)

[ikojo]

6. AT one time DU did have an avantgo

page that could be downloaded to a PDA like a palm pilot. That's how I was introduced to DU. I would read it on the bus on my way to work. Of course since I was mugged last year I rarely take out any electronics on the bus now.

[Ian David]

7. They're a newspaper. You can't hold them to the high journalist standards of a blogger. n/t

[progressoid]

8. "Democratic Underground exemplifies the serious sites"

Evidently, the author missed this post:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x624815#top

Or the Duzies for that matter.

[HamdenRice]

9. That was the MOTHER of all DU posts!

Everyone who is not familiar should click on it -- it was the greatest post of all time~!!!

:rofl:

[progressoid]

10. Still makes my eyes tear up reading it.

Tears of laughter.

[WolverineDG]

11. DU is one of the "serious sites?"

Are you series?????

dg

[struggle4progress]

12. Now I'm nervous. How long will I be able to get my DU fix?