Talk of Alaska

Here's Phil Munger (on the left) and Steve Heimel, the host of Alaska Public Radio Network's (APRN) Talk of Alaska this morning getting ready for today's discussion on blogging the political trials. I appreciated that Dennis called up and identified himself as the commenter who supported Aaron Selbig's righteous indignation. And Aaron himself called too.

You can listen to the show here.

I'm still trying to figure out the circularity of how all this works in circles - from the trial to the blogs to the radio back to the people who commented on the blogs.


Phil Munger hosted the USA v. Kohring blog, which had a limited life from the beginning and has started a new blog called Progressive Alaska His first post yesterday said, in part:

There are* a growing number of progressive Alaska-based or Alaska-related web sites and weblogs. None seems to be keeping up with this site expansion in a comprehensive way.

I think it is vital that opportunities for these sites to be aware of each other, and to develop communication links, grow rapidly between now and the 2008 elections.

He has this bloglinked there and in the greater scheme of things, I guess it fits into the broad category. But I'm more interested in promoting authentic dialog that doesn't start with the answer, but with the questions. I'd rather see smart, genuine, cooperative politicians of a variety of viewpoints who are working for the public interest, than politicians whose only goal is to win for their side.


*[To [sic] or not to [sic.] When I quote in blocs like this I sometimes wonder if I should put a [sic] after obvious mistakes as one would in a quote in an academic journal to indicate that the mistake was in the original. Most of these quotes are simply cut and pasted so, unlike the old days when you had to retype the quote (and thus could introduce new errors) the odds today are that the error was in the original. Also blogs are a lot less formal and typos are not uncommon - in my blog as in others. So, I'll leave out the [sic] and let the readers figure it out or not. This fits in with Steve Heimel's comments that bloggers are defining the rules as they go along.]