Wish the Buzz link could be set to open a new tabb/page. DSL’s not available to me yet, so closing/re-opening the HA page just to Buzz up is a time-consuming operation.

It opens in a new tab for me in Firefox/Safari.

LGF has a link for Digg, Newsvine, and del.icio.us. Some news sites also have StumbleUpon, Facebook, Orkut, etc. You guys should go that route.

Sounds like a recipie for Social Media Fatigue Syndrome. By just having one or two, you consolidate and amplify your community’s effort.

I vote we quit calling them progressives.

I don’t like “progressive” in the same way I don’t like “conservative.” They’re meaningless labels. Conservation of WHAT? Progression towards WHAT? Liberal doesn’t work… it more directly applies to libertarians than leftists.

HOLY CRAP! IS THAT PURITAN??? Where the hell have YOU been???

Tony737

(greets Tony by wrapping him in a warm but manly hug)

(shrugs, coughs, thinks of baseball)

…out picking posies in the meadows of my mind….

There’s an election coming up…have to dip in an oar…where better to dip than on HotAir?

…the ‘lipstick on a pig’ gaffe. To be honest, this is an old saying. I don’t think he meant it as a sexist comment, it was just a case of bad judgement. “Judgement to lead!” Yeah, lead us right down the toilet.

…we don’t need a rockstar as president. This is a dangerous world with lots of twisting alleys and dark corners.

We need a chess player. You know…thinks about as many as of the potential consequences his actions and his words might bring into being before he opens his pie-hole.

Of course, in isolation it was a simple remark…regardless of his bending it over backwards in is attempt to sound like a “reg’ler guy”. Nonetheless, he left himself open for a spanking.

Now…fast forward to a bunch of bathrobe-wearing Muslims pumping angry fists in unison for the thinnest of reasons outside some sand-blown mosque somewhere. Judgment…judgment is key.

Paul Murphy on September 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM

Thanks, Paul. I wanted to state some of those points, but couldn’t seem to explain it clearly.

I seem to recall a year or two ago when Michelle tried Digg or some such, she noted that we conservatives need to patronize search engines, photo/video hosts, etc. that are least biased against us, and establish enough of a market presence in them to keep them fair. I agree with that.

Maybe you could give some advice in this regard?

JC Silverberg on September 10, 2008 at 11:16 AM

“And twice a week I shall require a cannoli…”

Many of the folks on those sites only post statements that make them “sound cool”
dinobalz on September 10, 2008 at 11:07 AM

If you are speaking of one-liners, there’s plenty of that going on here, too. Not as much as some sites like LGF, but enough.

You will also have to deal with the fact that many users on these sites believe it is perfectly acceptable to have multiple identities, and will pose as a conservative who “saw the light” and has decided to vote democratic. That is in contrast to most of the folks on sites like this one who usually insist on playing fair.

Won’t matter unless The Boss open registration again. It is a potential problem, though.

Paul Murphy on September 10, 2008 at 10:33 AM

Very well said, Paul.
Some other consideration of using sites like Yahoo! and Facebook are that due to the age group of the typical users of those sites, conservatives are going to find themselves greatly outnumbered, to Paul’s point that the feedback is not likely to represent your core audience. Many of the folks on those sites only post statements that make them “sound cool” and a conservative viewpoint ain’t that these days.
You will also have to deal with the fact that many users on these sites believe it is perfectly acceptable to have multiple identities, and will pose as a conservative who “saw the light” and has decided to vote democratic. That is in contrast to most of the folks on sites like this one who usually insist on playing fair.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m the last to suggest running from a fight, but you have to know what the rules are.

Anytime an LGF post got a high listing on Digg it promptly got beat down by the troglodytes that “live” there.

As Murphy hinted at earlier, the types attracted to these sorts of sites have a great deal of time on their hands and an allergic reaction to ideas different from their own.

You may find that the amount of additional traffic isn’t worth the constant fight. Not to mention the additional trolls coming your way.

Just in case you haven’t thought about it… there are two distinct kinds of risk in using tools like buzz-up.

Both result from the fact that Yahoo and sites like technorati attract radically different kinds of users.

This is clearest if you think in terms of google search vs yahoo search because google uses free text while yahoo built its audience on simpler categorized (controlled vocabulary) searches. Thus if you check the weekly listings of the top ten searches on both sites you’ll find very little overlap – and the reason for this is that the two search strategies attract very different mind sets.

By using buzz-up you attract, or at least feed, the yahoo mindset – so check the top ten yahoo searchs for a couple of weeks and ask yourself whether this sufficiently reflects your core audience that you want to let them influence your editorial policies and/or article rankings.

The second risk is related. Zdnet uses similar technology on my own Unix column – and the results have been very consistent. People who don’t like what I say (mostly junior MCSE types pretending to Wintel expertise) vote things down while the people I want to appeal to can’t be bothered. As a result vote counts are small and negatively correlated with article quality.

she just stuttered and stammered and tried to change the subject.

Tony, stuttering, stammering and mumbling is progressive disease. And by ‘progressive disease’ I mean it seems to get worse with age.

Just check out Kennedy, Obama, Kerry, and a bunch of the others. Levin has a whole mumblers loop that he plays frequently on his show. It’s hilarious.

Haha, well, it’s not really MY plane, I mean the flight I was working, I’m a flight attendant. But I DO own stock in the company, so I guess it is kinda mine! :-)