I'm watching C-Span right now with bloggers Oliver Willis and Patrick Ruffini.

I think Mr. Ruffini looks sharp and polished, wearing a nice suit. Mr. Willis wore an ill-fitting shirt and tie without a jacket.

I know that bloggers are supposed to be worried more about content than packaging, but we should all be media savvy enough to know that when you are in the visual media, you need to be dressed professionally. Fair or not, how you look and comport yourself affects your credibility. By dressing the way he did, Mr. Willis damaged his credibility, and did not help the image of bloggers in general.

Glenn Reynolds was unfortunately wrong: Oliver Willis is not ready for television. But he sure has a face for radio.

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Content was to be expected. Mr. Ruffini did well, but didn't say anything profound, which was to be expected. Mr. Willis repeatedly said that, "there is no liberal media," even though he works for a liberal organization called "Media Matters for America." He also said, "I'm just not willing to launch a headhunting campaign against someone based on secondhand reports."

Somehow, I think James Gannon/Jeff Guckert won't buy either of those stories.

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Now we have the suspect Willis comments above captured on video, will Brit Hume call for his resignation?

Update: Oliver Willis writes to Glenn Reynolds: "Now, am I willing to launch a campaign based on firsthand knowledge? You bet."

So Oliver, which liberal blogger solicited Jeff Gannon?


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I love blogs and blogging. I think you do, too, or you wouldn't be reading this.

Blogging is still in its relative infancy, but is maturing quickly, with thousands of new bloggers starting up every day. A lot more people will be getting into it in the months and years ahead. Unfortunately, growing pains won't be easy on any of us, and so I'm asking you to help me out on a bit of a blogging community project.

After I read of the incident where a 13-year old was verbally savaged over not following good netiquette, I thought it was a good idea to try to compile some blogging-specific netiquette to hopefully cut down on incidents like this. I intend to compile and display what I can here:

http://blognetiquette.blogspot.com/

What I ask of you is to let me know what you consider good form and bad form alike when blogging. From inappropriate trackback to comment spam, to attribution issues and blog promotion, or other thing I may have missed, I'd like to get your input.

I'll be accepting comments for several weeks, and just ask that as you run across something that you think needs to be mentioned, to please drop me a line at confederateyankee-at-hotmail.com.

I hope to take the site live in the first week of March, and hope it could be a resource that we could all use to help new bloggers get started.

Thank you very much for your time, and any input you can provide.

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ROTFLMAO

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I may not be blessed with a lot of class, but there are some lines even I won't cross.

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(hat tip, basil's blog)

Dear Michelle,

I also have found the Google News folks to be a bit less than objective in which sites they feel are worthy. To be frank, they expose a severe leftward slant. Despite that, I think they must be forced to play within their own set of rules.

basil has already offered his services as a headline news writer. I would like to offer my services to the editorial board of michelemaklin.com as an editor. I have relevant practical work experience as a technical writer and editor, and have the academic degrees to support such a position.

I have a salary requirement of $0.25/year, and would be quite willing to assist in developing a formal editorial review process.

Thank you very much for your time.

Respectfully,

Confederate Yankee

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