The World Is His Blog

By Kleinheider Posted on August 18, 2008 at 9:10 am

Aunt B. notes a certain blogger-like tendency on the part of our governor to shoot off at the mouth with less consideration than one might expect from a man in his position:

Our Governor literally has a blog (if one can “have” a blog if one only blogs, on average, twice a year), but I want to talk more about Bredesen’s blogger-like self-presentation. Am I the only one who has noticed that Bredesen runs around the real world acting like it’s his own personal blogosphere? I’m just thinking about how anyone who hangs around blogs for very long starts to notice that there are certain postures people adopt when blogging and commenting which, though I’m sure designed to make the posturer feel like Mr. McAwesome, leave the rest of us rolling our eyes.

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Internet Geeks Have Blogs, Mike Padgett Has A Journal

By Kleinheider Posted on May 1, 2008 at 7:23 pm

U.S. Senate candidate Mike Padgett, taking on Bob Tuke in the Democratic primary (among others) to face Lamar Alexander in fall, has started a blog called “The View From The Front Porch.” From the first posting:

What can you do, one fellow asked me, about the lack of discipline in schools? Schools were on my mind because I had spoken with a young wife, a working mom, just before we got there. Unlike so many of our young people, she had chosen to stay here in the community where her folks are, but she, like my friend at lunch, is frustrated with the public schools. She has enrolled her kids in private school.

Well, I offered the same answer to both of them: We need to think outside the box about schooling. And we might want to take a cue from home-schoolers.

Actually, according to the email announcement, “The View From the Front Porch” is not a blog. The word blog is not used. Sure, there will be dated entries, internally they are using some sort of blogging software and the url says “/blog” but its not a blog, it’s a journal.

Whatever it takes, I suppose. Welcome to the party, Mr. Padgett.

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