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Tuesday, November 02, 2004

Blog silence

Apparently many people are having trouble reaching blogs today. I just tried a few and got timed out messages from Wonkette and Boing Boing; Michael Froomkin says he's had trouble, and there are lots of readers' comments saying the same thing. Kevin Drum says his blog has been slow to respond, although I got in quickly.
This may just mean that blogs really have become important source for political information these days; readership is going up and on a day like this, everyone wants to read blogs. The fact that the New York Times has featured political bloggers several times in the last few weeks (including today's op-ed piece from several bloggers) may have something to do with it.
(I just had a really slow response from the New York Times, too. There may be Internet overload everywhere tonight.)

(Bonus feature: here's part of Wonkette's endorsement from the Times piece:

I was all set to vote for George Bush even after finding out that he wouldn't let me marry Mary Cheney if I wanted to...But in the end, with the fate of the free world at stake and all, I've got to go with the guy who would admit that sending thousands of American soldiers and Iraqi civilians to their deaths to protect us from imaginary weapons was, in fact, a mistake.)

posted by liz at 6:28 PM

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Elisabeth Donovan

Elisabeth (Liz) Donovan was a Herald librarian for 10 years, and Research Editor for 13 years. She came to The Herald in 1981, following several years at the Washington Post. She started blogging in 2000, with a news research blog, followed by the blog at Herald.com in 2003. A frequent speaker and writer on news research, she was honored in 2004 by the News Division of the Special Libraries Association for her contributions to the field.

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