Recommend me a level-headed, cool-minded political blog

Oh, I just love Quibbles & Bits.

first one is funniest

Cycloptichorn

Yay!!

Thank you so very much for your help, and for doing your bit jumpstarting us into this too.


A2K name for me. For now.

You have mine


I like Bfn's idea of Quibbles & Bits! Without anything added, so just ver. 1.


Me too

To explain this: it's mostly b/c I'd like to remain anonymous here.

I mean, I could never be the combative and contentious prick I can be here (as, urr, on the bailout thread to Robert just now, I'm afraid... ) if I were posting under my own name, could I? Or post as often during apparent working hours?

So -- since I'm guessing that Obs'ism will feature ample linking back to here, I'm hesitant using my real name there either ...

Bah. Complicated, online lives

Yeah, I went through the same thing!

I had this thought about "well what if the blog becomes big and I'm outed like Nate Silver was [the erstwhile 'poblano'] and then everyone knows who 'sozobe' on A2K is too!!" (I blame Robert, he's talking about promoting it "aggressively" and we all know that Robert + SEO is a powerful combination.)

Then I thought that I still don't know hilzoy's real name.

Then I thought that even with Robert-assisted delusions of grandeur I might be getting ahead of myself.

So sozobe... for now. (All of us kept our A2K noms de net, so I don't have to edit the "about us," yay.)

Sent a password I think but I don't keep sent mails at that account. Re-sent it anyway.

Happy to do the tutorial if need be, pretty straightforward though, give it a try.

I have more than one I think -- which one do you want to use? Whichever one you used most recently?

FIRST!!!

Yee-haw! And we're off.

Nice job, engineer.

I'm mulling my first.

OK, I put up a polling update for today.

Pity that the graph doesnt fit in full size! I included a linked thumbnail instead. Otherwise it all looks great! Thanks again, Robert!!

It's an awesome post nimh!

I think I've finished adding the blogs mentioned here to the blog roll on the site. Any important ones missing?

I'm very impressed so far -- and such a good-looking bunch of contributors! Now if I could only figure out how to add images.

Wow, this is very cool. I'm happily reading along.

Wow, great first posts, guys. I hope I can keep up.

Thanks, RG!

I'm willing to do more of these group blogs if others are interested. For example, I'd love to turn waggery.com into a blog for satire (think onion) and would set it up if a handful of really silly (not the folks who need proper government training for it either) folk are interested in giving it a try.

Any chance of changing the settings on the Observationalism blog to allow a preview of comments we've written before they are posted so we can check them for proper formatting and syntax when using the format codes?

Note to Observationalism admins:

Brace yourself for some higher traffic. I sent links to some of your articles to a bunch of people and put them on Digg.

soz, i emailed you at your yahoo address, but haven't heard back. sometimes it goes directly to spam from the blog sites, so if you do add me, please let me know. i delete my spam 3-4 times a day, a bit obsessive that way.

I've dugg a couple of their articles, and right before doing so I installed a blog plugin that caches their articles to survive traffic bursts.

Getting one of the bursts would take a bit of luck on those social media sites (or a lot of work) but it should at least be a bit more prepared.