Donklephant has been nominated for ‘Best Political Blog’ in the 2009 Weblog Awards. You can vote for the nomination here. Also, do check out some of the other categories, as there are many great blogs (and bloggers) that are nominated every year.

First, E.D. Kain of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and New Majority has started up a new health care policy blog over at True/Slant called American Tory. It’s a must read in only its first week. Then Bill Dupray of DC Republican Examiner and Patriot Room gives you political horse race analysis from the conservative [...]

Hey all, just a quick site note… The last time we wrote a post that didn’t have at least one comment on it was in late September. So I just wanted to thank you for reading, writing and helping me continue this grand experiment in creating a place where we can agree to disagree without [...]

I didn’t delete ONE little tag in a post and it screwed up how the entire blog looked. Ahhh WordPress…I love you most of the time, but 5% of the time… Moving on…

To all of those Donklephant commenters, this one’s for you… How am I supposed to complete my English assignment on finding fallacy in political blogs when all you people keep backing up your sources!? Where are all the non sequiturs and equivocations!? I suppose there were a few hasty generalizations, but I need more please. [...]

Between multiple outside projects and general blogging malaise at the end of the summer, I’m fairly unmotivated. Pile on top of that the fact that most of the people I invited to help out on the blog a couple months ago have either dropped out, barely done anything or haven’t even started (with the notable [...]

“It is difficult indeed to maintain a reasoned and accurately informed understanding… on the part of our citizenry when many prominent officials, possessing no standing or expertness except as they themselves claim it, attempt to further their own ideas or interests by resort to statements more distinguished by stridency than by accuracy.” – Ike

Hi all, Earlier today a post entitled “The Rules Of Zionism” was published on the site by a new contributor. Upon reading it I felt the tone was entirely inappropriate, so I immediately took it down. Also, at mw’s request, I took his one-sided post down too. So why did this happen? On Donklephant, my [...]

Today is Donklephant’s 4th anniversary, and I can’t think of a better way to celebrate then inviting some new writers into the fray to help build the community and make the conversations more diverse. Specifically, I’ve invited 4 daily bloggers and 3 guest bloggers to join. Most of the new authors will be starting immediately, [...]

I wrote about this last week and I was pleasantly surprised with the number of people who’ve applied so far. Lots of great submissions and selecting the best has been difficult indeed. However, since this is vacation season I wanted to make sure we weren’t missing anybody, so I’m posting this list of qualifications and [...]

I’m looking to add 3 bloggers to the roster, and the following is a list of some qualifications I’d be looking for and expectations I’d have: You must understand the basics of blogging (linking to other sites, embedding pictures and video, etc.), and having a blog is preferred but not absolutely necessary. Good grammar and [...]

So, I’ve been invited to join a cool new site called True/Slant and my first day was yesterday. No doubt some of you who follow my Twitter feed know this already. Here are my first stories… Shorter Sanford: King David Didn’t Step Down, So… Nokia And Siemens Aiding Iranian Government? Iran’s Balloon Protest Paints The [...]

Hey all, Just found out about this blog and it’s disturbing. Basically, Iranian authorities are using Blogger blogs to ID protestors so they can arrest them. Here’s how you can help: Visit the blog and at the very top there should be a button that says “Flag Blog.” Click that. This will send you to [...]

Then here are 5 simple tips… The purpose of this guide is to help you participate constructively in the Iranian election protests through Twitter. 1. Do NOT publicise proxy IP’s over twitter, and especially not using the #iranelection hashtag. Security forces are monitoring this hashtag, and the moment they identify a proxy IP they will [...]

I wrote an editorial about the Publius situation yesterday and the conversation since has been great. Lots of opposing opinions, and here are a few. First, Tully argues that anonymity doesn’t hurt the credibility of blogging… Can you possibly set the bar any LOWER, Justin? Journalists have spent much of the last couple of decades [...]

If you haven’t heard yet, a liberal blogger was outed over the weekend by a conservative blogger. Fallout? By and large, most of the folks I’ve read have come down on the side of the blogger who was formerly known as Publius. And hey, fair enough. I understand and respect the reasons why somebody would [...]

“I just wish everyone would take a step back from this extremist brink. It can’t lead anywhere good. At best, it will bring the right-wing blogosphere into disrepute, and at the worst it could lead to violence if you encourage these real nuts out there.” – Charles Johnson, founder and lead blogger at Little Green [...]

More here: The ‘Twitter Revolution’ of Moldova’s high-tech teens

So the site has been blazing fast recently because we moved to a Dedicate Virtual server at Media Temple, but today the cluster my server was on went down…even though we switched to DEDICATED hosting. Ugh. Sorry again. I know some of you have told me I have nothing to apologize for, but hey…I hate [...]

(AP world headquarters) A while back, the A.P. targeted a site called the Drudge Retort for using excerpts of its stories on the site. This caused quite an uproar among bloggers because they felt that excerpting portions of a story’s copy was considered “fair use”, and I let my feelings be known as well. The [...]