Screenshot from Doc’s Political Parlor.
It wouldn’t be a series about blogging without focusing on what some would consider a statewide pastime and hobby here in Alabama - politics. One of the largest segments of blogs maintained in Birmingham are political in nature and none seem to garner more attention than Doc’s Political Parlor (& [...]

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Screenshot of Dopplegänger Flutter’s last post from 12.10.2007.
The world recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the blogosphere (at least as we know it). Some shined a brighter light on the phenomenon more than others. NPR is doing a week-long series that began this morning. There are even rumors that The Birmingham News may run a [...]

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Thicket will be the newest magazine about Alabama to hit area newsstands and bookstores when it arrives early January. If you want to know how and why Todd and Julie Keith (formerly of Portico Magazine) settled on that name for the new publication, check out this entry (and then all of the other ones) [...]

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Of course, we’ll do the reminder first - if you haven’t yet, go over to http://www.winanmri.com, look up Cooper Green Mercy Hospital, watch the video (and laugh!) and then vote to help them win an MRI machine that they desperately need. And then follow that routine every day through New Year’s Eve. Now for the [...]

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Mayor Langford immediately after the council vote on Tuesday.
Photo credit: Bob Farley/f8photo
One of the interesting things to do is to take a look at what others are saying about our new mayoral administration so far, particularly about this week’s vote. Here’s just a sampling from around our local blogosphere:
Mayor Langford, Pundit by the Pint
Birmingham’s [...]

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Yeah, I’m in Vegas, baby!
No, I’m not trying to win money to run the site (though I’m still thinking about it ), I’m making connections and working on updates and improvements to the site in the coming months by attending BlogWorld Expo at the Las Vegas Convention Center.
It is being called the largest blogging and [...]

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Screenshot of Evanston, Illinois’ Patrick Cooper’s website.
Well, he’s finding the whole situation quite interesting. The Patrick Cooper in Virginia that is. He was the one that came up first when you would look up the name of the former Birmingham mayoral candidate and current contester of the election during the early days of his campaign [...]

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