balloon-juice.com - 12/11/2008
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Ben Smith, who really ran a solid blog (as well as Jonathon Martin) during the election, is usually better than this :
President-elect Barack Obama’s Transition today launched “Open for Questions,” a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to submit questions, and to vote on ...
politico.com - 12/11/2008
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politico.com —
President-elect Barack Obama's Transition today launched " Open
for Questions ," a Digg-style feature allowing citizens to...
submit questions, and to vote on one another's questions, bringing favored inquiries to the top of the list. It was ...
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Blagojevich questions censored on Transition site
chicagotribune.com - 12/11/2008
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chicagotribune.com —
When it comes to Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Dead
Meat), many national TV talking heads can't resist playing...
amateur psychiatrist. "He's crazy," said one talking head of our governor. "A sociopath!" said another. "He should have been put in a ...
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By Chicago standards, Blagojevich isn't crazy -
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... . But declaring censorship is an accusatory way of describing something that's a new and innovative attempt to gauge the will of the people, writes Balloon Juice's John Cole . Reuters deserves criticism for writing that conservatives are "gleeful" about Blagojevich's arrest, writes ...
I Swear
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I swear this Blagojevich stuff will go on forever, maybe longer. I swear it doesn’t help Obama if his Obaminions clean questions from his website. I swear why would they do that. I swear there are lots of questions.
I swear I had no idea how to spell Blagojevich before yesterday. [Expletive.] I swear I swear a lot these days.
Asking questions, and flagging them
Ben Smith's Blog —
A couple of analysts whose opinions I respect, including John Cole, criticized my item yesterday on what I see as an abuse of the "flagging" function on Obama's "Open for Questions" site.
I wrote about the ability of some readers to take a highly-rated, not obviously inappropriate questions -- like the one above, which you can see got lots of votes within the system -- and "flag" the item as "inappropriate." The system appears automatically to remove those questions from the main page, and leave them ...
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Rezko’s Sentencing Is Delayed —
WSJ.com: Washington Wire 12/11/2008
Cam Simpson reports on the Blagojevich case.
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