Sunday, August 17, 2003

The Fraters Echo Effect

In advance of Rick Rickert’s excellent adventure in Slovenia, King over at SCSU Scholars reports his observations on what faces not-ready-for-prime-time US athletes attempting to make a go of it in Europe.

Also, Mitch Berg expounds on my post about the City Pages Babelogue and their role in the burgeoning “No Justice, No Pants” movement. His contrasting of mass blogging exercises among the Right and the Left bears repeating:

Right Blogs - Coordinated blogging on Iranian independence day, to draw attention to the anti-theocracy protesters and their suffering, and to support their yearning for freedom.

Left Blogs - Coordinated blogging on behalf of comic Al Franken, to support his yearning for relevance.

Right Blogs - Gang fact-checking the New York Times, eventually helping to lead to the exposure of a culture of PC and disregard for the truth at the Old Gray Lady.

Left Blogs - "Cyber-mooning" Fox News.


And in my final attempt to move the news cycle forward, no word yet from Drudge, Instapundit, George Will, or Charles Krauthammer on my passionate appeals for their assistance in making CiCi Anderson a national star. Developing.....

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