Local DC blogger, Dan Silverman of Prince of Petworth was interviewed along with a Silver Spring blogger on WaPo’s Raw Fisher Radio about hyper local blogs serving as a journalistic outlet.
If you’re interested in the intersection/overlapping between blogging and journalism, it’s worth a listen.
He was also on the Kojo Nnamdi Show talking about his blog a while back as well.
I was pretty stoked listening to Morning Edition on my way into work today.
They aired a piece by Chicago Public Radio on the Governor of Illinois having to fill Obama’s Senate Seat, which is open this Sunday.
In covering the story, they didn’t interview somebody from the Chicago Tribune or the University of Chicago.
They interviewed a journalist/blogger – Rich Miller (www.thecapitalfax.com)
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It’s a pretty good piece.
The Governor’s been surrounded by scandals and his approval rating is lower than Bush’s but he’s a little more popular now that he gets to pick Obama’s replacement.
This guy tries to monetize a blog on camera…he’s pretty hilarious:
Nate Silver kicked some serious statistical butt:
Nate Silver is the founder of FiveThirtyEight.com, which predicted the presidential election’s popular vote outcome to within a tenth of a percentage point (it projected 52.3 percent for Obama, who received 52.4; and it projected 46.2 percent for McCain, who received 46.3). Silver’s unique combination of accuracy with numbers and accessibility with narrative made FiveThirtyEight, founded in March 2008, the first blog ever to be selected as a Notable Narrative by Harvard’s Nieman Foundation.
Silver has been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Science News, and New York magazine, and has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, HDNet, WNYC, and Air America, among others. Silver’s newfound celebrity has led Gawker to offer him tailored advice on how he can continue to “rule the world,” Facebook members to found a group entitled “There’s a 97.3 Percent Chance That Nate Silver Is Totally My Boyfriend,” and several media outlets to refer to him, without irony, as a “wunderkind.”
(via Andrew Sullivan)
Daily Kos:
Obama 390, McCain 148
You can take a look at his map here.
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Karl Rove:
Obama 338, McCain 200.
His map is here (pdf).
