I’ll be providing special coverage tonight for President Bush’s immigration speech with a dedicated tracking page showing all the bloggers who are liveblogging or reacting to the speech.
The page is here, and includes a quick form for bloggers to sign up and let me know that you’ll be covering the event.
Be sure to also tune in to Hugh Hewitt’s show tonight, as he’ll be doing an extended edition to cover the speech, and I’ll be helping him out in covering blogosphere reactions.
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the new ttlb
It’s a big day here at TTLB: Welcome to the new release!
Let’s cut right to the chase. Here are just some of the goodies you’ll now see around the site:
- Topics, topics, topics: TTLB’s topic-tracking functionality has been completely overhauled, and is now focused laserbeam-like on all the most interesting subjects being discussed in the blogosphere. Check the top of the front page for the at-a-glance view, or view the full topics page for history graphs on all the latest topics.
- Search: Don’t like the topics TTLB is tracking? Use the search function and make your own topic page. If you’ve signed up for a free account, you can even save your search to your very own ‘My Topics’ page for future reference.
- Blog Details: The blog details page has been expanded with completely new functionality, including a Metrics tab showing how a blog is doing in terms of traffic and links compared to its historical average (is this a “hot” day or a “cold” day?) and new spiral graphs which show which blogs are linking to the tracked blog — and which ones it is linking to.
- New Design: With the help of the talented Karl Egenberger, we also have a new look to go with all the new features. Karl enhanced the existing bear logo, added a spiffy (and far more accurate) new portrait of the lovely Lady M, and helped clean up the graphics and styles throughout the site.
While the new release has been in testing for quite some time, there are sure to be glitches, so please bear with me in these first days as we shake them out. In particular, be aware that Ecosystem rankings and link-counts are in flux due to some of the work around the release, but will stabilize back to normal over the next few weeks. (So no “why did my ranking drop???” queries for at least a little while, please.)
Much effort has gone into this launch, and so I’d definitely welcome feedback, comments, and suggestions. Take a look around, get to know the new look, and please — let me know what you think!
Best…
N.Z. Bear
Update 8:28pm PDT: Ah, nothing like an Instalanche to provide some nice performance/load testing! One feature — the spiral Inbound/Outbound links graphs on the blog details pages — appears to be causing performance problems. I’ve disabled it for now whilie I work on a fix…
if you have to ask, i don’t think you’ll understand the answer
The Pulitzer prizes were announced today, and the winner in the Editorial Cartooning category is Luckovich of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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FRANKEN: ‘SCREW YOU!’
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class=”linktitle”>Shedding Some Light? (7 links)
Peakah’s Provocations…
Glad to see others are learning what I lived for 9 yrs. I am still muslim but no longer part of or have any affiliation with Sheikh Mubarak Ali shah Gilani. I despise his teachings and his wicked ways, they r brain washed into believing that HE visits them spiritually, while all the while he is in pakistan. His followers give up 30% of their earnings to him as he says ” its for the sake of God, so
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Hot posts: 03/31 7:42 PM
class=”linktitle”>That Didn't Take Long: Cynthia &quo (8 links)
Ace of Spades HQ
Nice! I'm glad when I don't have to wait around for crap like this. Instant gratification and all….
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Hot posts: 03/31 6:38 PM
class=”linktitle”>Arrest Warrant Will Issue For Cynthia &q (7 links)
Ace of Spades HQ
Yes! Capitol Hill police plan to issue an arrest warrant today for Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.). The warrant is related to the incident Wednesday when McKinney allegedly slapped a Capitol Hill police officer. Charges could range from assault on a…
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Hot posts: 03/31 5:43 PM
class=”linktitle”>Air America Anniversary, Sacramento, New (7 links)
The Radio Equalizer: Brian Maloney
DEBACLE
After Two Years, How Else To Describe Air America?
As certain as the presence of a dozen Dunkin’ Donuts outlets
Hot posts: 03/31 4:54 PM
class=”linktitle”>Remembering Terri Schiavo (7 links)
Stop The ACLU
WND has a very good article up today.
One year after the death of Terri Schiavo, her family who fought for seven years in court to keep her alive is not giving up its battle against euthanasia.
Parents Robert and Mary Schindler, along with brother Bobby Schindler and sister Suzanne Vitadamo have developed two separate organizations […]]]>
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Hot posts: 03/31 3:42 PM
class=”linktitle”>Prayer Study: Humans Fail to Manipulate (7 links)
ScrappleFace
(2006-03-31) — A team of scientists today ended a 10-year study on the so-called “power of prayer” by concluding that God cannot be manipulated by humans, not even by scientists with a $2.4 million research grant.]]>
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Hot posts: 03/31 2:55 PM
class=”linktitle”>Cynthia McKinney To Be Arrested? (7 links)
Pirate’s Cove
Via the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Capitol Hill police are expected to seek an arrest warrant next week for Rep. Cynthia McKinney of Georgia, who was involved in a physical confrontation with a Capitol police officer Wednesday, police and legal authorities said Thursday.Officially, the investigation of the incident, in which the DeKalb County Democrat allegedly struck a […]]]>
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Hot posts: 03/31 1:43 PM
class=”linktitle”>Friday Ark #80 (7 links)
Modulator
We'll post links to sites that have Friday (plus or minus a few days) photos of their chosen animals (photoshops at our discretion and humans only in supporting roles). Watch the Exception category for rocks, beer, coffee cups, and….? We will add your post to the list if you do one of the following: Leave a comment or trackback to…
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class=”linktitle”>Sometimes I'm really glad I live in (7 links)
Danny Carlton — alias "Jack Lewis"
Two items seem to be gaining popularity in Europe. The first is called “P-mate” or also “she-pee”. It’s a disposable,…]]>
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Hot posts: 03/30 5:43 PM
class=”linktitle”>Fidel Castro Reported Dead (7 links)
The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta
Rumors have begun circulating in Spanish language publications that Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has died. Cuban officials are denying the reports. Developing…….
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Hot posts: 03/30 11:58 AM
class=”linktitle”>The verdict, take 2 (7 links)
Power Line
Last night John rendered his “Verdict: The New York Times blew the story.” The “story” was the testimony of five…
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Vaffanculo (7 links)
Eschaton
Boston Herald:Despite Scalia’s insistence that the Sicilian gesture was not offensive and had been incorrectly characterized by the Herald as obscene, the photographer said the newspaper “got the story right.” Smith said the jurist “immediately knew he’d made a mistake, and said, ‘You’re not going to print that, are you?’
John Podhoretz Attacks Jill Carroll (7 links)
Think Progress
Today, Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll released after three months of being held in captivity in Iraq by kidnappers. The National Reviews John Podhoretz responded by attacking her mental state:
Its wonderful that shes free, but after watching someone who was a hostage for three months say on television she was well-treated because she wasnt beaten or killed while being dressed i
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class=”linktitle”>Answering 13 Frequently Asked Questions (8 links)
Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
1) How many illegal aliens are there in the United States? Since they're not here legally, there's no way to…
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Answering 13 Frequently Asked Questions About Illegal Immigration (8 links)
Right Wing News (Conservative News and Views)
1) How many illegal aliens are there in the United States? Since they're not here legally, there's no way to…
U.S. Journalist Jill Carroll Released (7 links)
Stop The ACLU
Good news to wake up to this morning via FOX
Kidnapped U.S. reporter Jill Carroll has been released after nearly three months in captivity, Iraq police and the leader of the Islamic Party said Thursday. Her editor said she was in good condition.
She was released this morning, shes talked to her father and shes fine, […]]]>
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RUMORS OF CASTRO’S DEATH CIRCULATE IN LATIN AMERICAN PRESS (7 links)
Publius Pundit – Blogging the democratic revolution
I just came through reports, in Spanish, about the likely death of Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. The news, strangely, has been given by several news sites, among which the far-leftist Indymedia in Argentina, which quoted some Latin American media as having reported the news. The Cuban regime has immediately dismissed the claims.
I assume that […]]]>
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Hot posts: 03/30 8:37 AM
class=”linktitle”>American Hostage Jill Carroll Free (Upda (10 links)
The Jawa Report v3.0 Beta
American journalist Jill Carroll has been freed by her captors. This post will be updated throughout the day. Jill Carroll had been held hostage for nearly three months by a terrorist organization calling itself 'The Revenge Brigades'. The group killed…
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Hot posts: 03/29 4:45 PM
class=”linktitle”>Illegals To Americans: We Hate America (8 links)
Captain’s Quarters
It's hard to imagine that the schoolchildren who engaged in a pro-illegal immigration rally yesterday helped their cause much, except to harden the polarization already felt on both sides of the issue. While our politicians in Washington talked about how…
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Hot posts: 03/29 2:48 PM
class=”linktitle”>I Have No Words (7 links)
euphoricreality.net
03/28 : Student protest
Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High. (Leo Jarzomb/Staff photo)
H/T: Malkin and FR
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ABDUL RAHMAN HAS LANDED (7 links)
Michelle Malkin
Just in:
An Afghan Christian convert, who had faced the death penalty in his country for abandoning Islam, has arrived in Italy which has offered him asylum, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi said on Wednesday.
“He is already in Italy,” Berlusconi told a news conference in Rome.
But others have been left behind at the mercy of the
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Dating Meeting Site]]> (7 links)
Ace of Spades HQ
You can't really “date” in Islam, I guess, but this site provides you with the opportunity to “meet” people you will immediately marry without dating. Again: I guess. I don't want to make fun of people's deeply-held and nonmurderous religious…
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