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culture11.com - 1/30/2009

The Long Farewell

— culture11.com — In what is likely to be my last post at The Confabulum, I’d like to tell the... story of how I came to Culture11, thank the people who helped make the project possible, and reflect on what comes next (for journalism — I’m not sure what ... (more) The Long Farewell

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theheretik.us - 2/3/2009

Mess? What Mess?

— theheretik.us — Bush’s guy Karzai ain’t Obama’s guy. Or Biden’s: “ After his return from Afghanistan, Mr. Biden, who... has had a contentious relationship with Mr. Karzai, described the situation there as “a real mess. ” Awakening ... (more) Mess? What Mess?

White House

Afghanistan

Barack Obama

Robert Gates

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shakespearessister.blogspot.com - 2/1/2009

(How to Be) Impossibly Beautiful

— shakespearessister.blogspot.com — Today, the always-responsible Daily Mail covers the " Jessica Simpson Weight Controversy " in its typically ghoulish... way (under the headline "Thighs the limit as Jessica Simpson squeezes into skin-tight leather trousers")—and I warn you that clicking ... (more) (How to Be) Impossibly Beautiful

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Last Rites
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Joe Carter and Conor Friedersdorf say goodbye to Culture11.

“A beautiful mess”
Southern Appeal — ... ) @ 8:37 pm Joe Carter on the demise of Culture 11. And fwiw, I am pretty sure I was one of the “old” guys on Joe’s “top 100 conservative pundits” list. :) ...

The Internet Taketh, and the Internet Taketh Away ...
Ross Douthat — On the one hand, the shuttering of Culture11 and the dissolution of Pajamas Media's blogger ad network are the sort of unfortunate events that you'd expect in a downturn: Startups and experimental business models always do badly in economic crunches. But given how badly things are going for the media's established business model, and the work that it sustains - and here I recommend Conor Friedersdorf, late of Culture11, on what the collapse of local newsgathering can mean for a city - I hope I'll be forgiven for seeing their fate as a particularly ...

The Flight and Foibles of Culture 11
The Moderate Voice — ... about whether the underlying reasons were financial, as indicated by Kuo and others, or whether there were deeper problems at play with the site. No one seems to disagree that Culture 11 itself was an experiment. Often referred to as a “right-of-centre Slate”, Culture 11 sought to embark on a new course of writing, bringing the spheres of culture and politics into closer proximity to see what might fall out of that trajectory. As Managing Editor Joe Carter wrote, We also realized that America didn’t need another website that focused ...

The Rise and Fall of Culture 11
PoliGazette — ... the principals got skittish. In December, when a pseudonymous contributor to Ladyblog, Culture11’s “conservative feminist” forum, posted an entry titled “In Defense of the ‘Hook-up Culture,’ ” Carter yanked it off the blog. (”I didn’t like the content,” he later said. “We wanted dissent within the conservative perspective, but to me that fell out of line.”) Interestingly, its former managing editor, Joe Carter, also noted the problem in his farewell article (emph. mine): We disagreed, openly ...