Saturday, November 8, 2008

Saturday Progressive Blog Roundup - November 8, 2008

Throughout the post-Palin selection period of the 2008 national election, Alaska's progressive bloggers contributed to getting the truth out about Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. We contributed a lot. We mostly kept to posting essays that were informative about Palin's past and present activities. We mostly kept out of describing the Palin family, keeping toward policies and beliefs of the governor.

During September and October the combined readership of the progressive blogs listed on the right-hand side of this page was significantly higher than readership at the Anchorage Daily News. That will probably change during November.

The number of journalists from outside of Alaska and the USA who worked with or got help from Alaska bloggers marked an important aspect of why the Palin candidacy changed the face of Alaska in many remarkable ways. And an important aspect of why the Palin candidacy, more than any other aspect of the McCain campaign, caused that campaign to fail.

Two of our progressive Alaska bloggers have gained a lot of national traction. AK Muckraker's Mudflats blog has become nothing less than a phenomenon. It is seeing far higher traffic than any other Alaska political blog has ever seen, with a large community of regular, creative commenters, from all around the planet.

And Shannyn Moore, with her blog, Just a Girl from Homer, as a sort of base, continues to draw many supporters around the country, through the blog, through her radio and television appearances, and through her essays at high-traffic national blogs, such as Huffington Post.

Now that the election is over, I did little bit of housekeeping at the Progressive Alaska Blogs listing on the right-hand side of the page:

I've eliminated Alaska Anonymous, Alaska Cafe, Alaskablawg, Radio Icebox, rant.mivox, and the Ray Metcalfe blog. They have all gone inactive.

I've added Aaron Selbig's blog, The Penitent Scribe, I Eat Gravel, and Alaska Politics (not the Anchorage Daily News politics blog - a different one).

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

You all have done a heroic job getting the word out to the rest of us. Please know that we appreciate you very much!

Anonymous said...

no dan fagan ?

Philip Munger said...

anon @ #2 - I have no idea what you mean...

Alaskan Dave Down Under said...

Phil: from Oz, "Good on ya, mate!"

I first heard about this witch in 1996 when I was in Squarebanks. My first thought was shock that she didn't come from North Pole.

Anonymous said...

My husband and I, Homer residents, run the website grizzlybay.org. Our webpage on Sarah Palin (www.grizzlybay.org/SarahPalinInfoPage) had at least 800,000 hits since Palin's VP pick. (probably lots more hits, but our tracking software busted due to so much traffic for a while). Just wanted to add our site to the mix of how popular blogs became in this election. Our webpage's top ten facts on Sarah Palin, and our picture of her surrounded by vikings, went viral - the page was copied and pasted to thousands of websites and blogs around the world. The internet really had an effect in this election - finally a way for people to learn about issues beyond the mainstream media.

Our site focused on Palin's environmental record (ignored by other media outlets), especially her cruelty towards wildlife. We have recieved thousands of emails by voters stating that they didn't hear this info elsewhere, and knowing her policy towards wolves and other wildlife made them change their votes.

If you can, please add a link to our website, we are keeping it updated on environmental issues in Alaska.

Aaron Selbig said...

Thanks for the link, Phil. I don't know how political my blog will be, though ... I intend to focus mainly on subjects important to folks in Homer. But I'll try to keep it updated and interesting.

Hope you and your family are well.