QandO has a balanced http://www.qando.net/ - Taxonomy of Liberal Blogs up.

Not long ago, geologists would have announced the drilling of a 2 mile bore-hole into the San Andreas active zone as: “NSF announces completion of Phase I boring, digital seismic arrays expected soon.” In a word, dull.
Today, however, the same event is reported as: “Scientists pierce the Earthquake Machine for the first time ever!” As it turns out […]

Politicians learned long ago that without a good sound bite, they would not be heard. The same is true with blogs but the headlines are what need to be catchy. With the advent of RSS readers, this is is even more important.
Creative headline writing can be particularly challenging when trying to get a timely posting […]

Extremely funny Canadian blogger “Angry in the Great White North” has added Independent Sources to his blogroll … and at least until he realizes his mistake, has us listed above Captain’s Quarters, Michelle Malkin, and Instapundit. Thanks, Angry!
“Angry in T.O.” has a target-rich environment much like ours in Southern California. Canada’s rich vein of political […]

Addendum to Independent Sources survey of the best Ebonics headlines in the blogosphere. I hope that Independent Sources’ copy editors are taking note how to write a great headline….

We be jammin’, yo?
Pardon me, stewardess. I speak jive
Appalonics
Kill Me Now Pt. 2 (The return of Ebonics?)
Yo, check it dawg!
Ebonics prepares kids for college? What College? Fitty Cent […]

Attn: Senior Administration Official
The editorial staff of Independent Sources thoroughly enjoyed your posting on Ebonics entitled “Ebonics? Again?”. We just wish you had taken as much pride in naming the post as you did writing it.
As you know, Independent Sources has had a mixed track record with naming its postings.
We have some titles to […]

Many readers of the Los Angeles Time’s “Bloggers Talk about the ‘Bubble’” article from July 16th came away with the wrong impression about the recent growth of real estate blogs. LAT’s Annette Haddad wrote:

“Since January, the number of sites related to real estate, excluding Realtors’ marketing sites, has jumped 19%, according to online market research […]

This morning L.A. Observed reported that the Los Angeles Times will launch a new online service, “Los Angeles Times Newspoint,” in August. The company that will provide the service makes it sound like a private label RSS reader, but one focused on “increasing (publisher) revenue through NewsPoint’s innovations in RSS-related targeted text, display, and classified […]

… Roderick … is no ordinary reporter or editor. He is also a “blogger” — an Internet or Web logger — part of the Internet explosion of writers and cultural observers who post opinions, ideas, news articles and many times just obnoxious ramblings.
From today’s Los Angeles Independent profile of L.A. Observed’s Kevin Roderick. We like […]

‘Brett Guthrie’ commented on our Robert Hilburn vs Bill O’Reilly item:
Back in 1978 Hilburn gave a glowing review to Gerry Rafferty’s “City to City” album. He called Rafferty “McCartneyesque” and since I was way into McCartney, I bought the album. What a downer that piece of vinyl was.
Guthrie probably thought no more of his complaint, […]

After reading Independent Sources, no doubt many of you are thinking “If these folks can do it, so can I!” Well the Electronic Frontier Foundation has prepared a Legal Guide for Bloggers just for you.

Like all journalists and publishers, bloggers sometimes publish information that other people don’t want published. You might, for example, publish something that […]