Blogging Tag

I value the input.  I'm sorry I can't respond to all the e-mails but I read them all. I particularly appreciate the proofreaders!  And the bumper sticker contributors rock! From reader Anne, on why Bill Nelson may be safe in Florida.: I read with interest your comments on...

Don Surber is giving up blogging: After 7 years of blogging, I am quitting. I am exhausted. It was simply too much work. I am still employed by the Charleston Daily Mail and still writing editorial and columns and performing the sundry other tasks that go...

The year-end 2011 Law Prof Blog Rankings from TaxProf are out. It is noted only for the record, in the interest of preserving a slice of America as we know it for future generations, not because it matters to me. I'm above worrying about the small stuff...

Recall my prior post, Big Law Firm Takes Down Big Conservative Blogger, about how Paul Mirengoff of Power Line Blog was forced by his big law firm stop blogging after a blog post Mirengoff made after the Tucson shooting memorial service, in which the service was...

This afternoon I received my 5000th follower on Twitter. If you are on Twitter, you can follow me at @LegInsurrection.  If you are not on Twitter, get on it. Facebook switched everyone to the new Timeline view.  You can "like" LI's Facebook page, which has just over...

For blogs, my "Blogs I Read" list in the sidebar and many of the Blogs to Note are my go to places.  But, I'm constantly on the prowl for better places to get "news" - whatever that means. As you know, I dropped Politico as a regular...

I posted previously about Ariann Huffington's business model, Hey HuffPo Bloggers – Was It Fun Working For Free To Make Arianna Richer?: First, let me congratulate Arianna Huffington on selling The Huffington Post to AOL for a reported $315 million.  Isn’t America a great place? Arianna came...

Captain Carroll “Lex” Lefon, USN (ret), of Neptunus Lex blog, passed away on March 6: Carroll "Lex" LeFon, ATAC F-21 pilot, retired Naval Aviator, TOPGUN Graduate and prominent military blogger known as Neptunus Lex, was killed in a plane crash on the morning of March 6th,...

Google has done away with Friend Connect for non-Blogspot blogs, which means that 800+ people who followed me that way no longer can do so. If you are one of the people who followed that way, you can sign up for the RSS feed. I also started...

I only spoke once with Andrew Breitbart. He reached out to me, and we spoke by phone.  The topic is not important, but I was shocked that he even knew who I was; but as I've come to learn, Andrew seemed to know who everyone...

WaPo is pushing the girl power theme, asserting that the ladies are taking over the social media dance floor: Are social media sites destined to always be the online equivalent of a seventh-grade dance? Men on one side, women on the other? The numbers suggest that, instead, women will...

Blogger Gina Cobb passed away at the end of last year, as announced in this January 21, 2012, blog post from her family: It is with tremendous sadness and sorrow that the family announces the recent passing of Gina Cobb. She departed very peacefully to her heavenly...

The Red Carpet Blogger Awards event was held at CPAC this morning.  I am very pleased to announced that Legal Insurrection received the award for the Most Underrated Blog. I guess that is fitting, and I appreciate recognition that we have not yet been sufficiently recognized...

Via Ann Althouse, comes this BBC story about tracking down and confronting an "RIP troll": Full BBC story here....