I’ve enjoyed following all of the coverage of the big wins chalked up by Virginia Quarterly Review (my employer) at Tuesday night’s National Magazine Awards. These are some of the highlights. Advertising Age: The Cinderella story of the evening was The Virginia Quarterly Review, which won both for general excellence and for fiction. Editor Ted …
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The triumphant return of Commonwealth Commonsense.
Virginia blogger Bob Griendling had to put his truly excellent blog, Commonwealth Commonsense, on hold last year to work with his candidate, David Poisson, to defeat incumbent delegate Dick Black. Mission accomplished, the hold continued while he joined Del. Poisson for the General Assembly session. And the session went on and on (Extra Innings pegs …
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National Journal on Will Vehrs.
The National Journal’s Beltway Blogroll has picked up the story of Will Vehrs’ suspension, thus assuring that Martinsville looks silly to an ever-larger audience. Note that Beltway Blogroll editor Danny Glover is speaking at the Blog Summit.
QandO on eavesdropping.
QandO offers a helpful summary of how President Bush’s eavesdropping program turns out to be a huge program monitoring millions of Americans.
Clearly, the end times are upon us.
First Will and Lowell are friends, and now Jerry Fuhrman and the Roanoke Times wuv each other vewy much. And the Blog Summit hasn’t even happened yet.
Will Vehrs busies himself.
Will Vehrs has a great account of his attempts to gain temporary employment. The one and only time I went to a temp agency I ended up as a roadie for the Rolling Stones. Will is also guest-blogging for Bill Wyatt’s Martinsville Daily–now there’s a man who knows how to turn lemons into lemonade.
James Martin makes Eagle.
James Martin to be named an Eagle Scout, earning him congratulations by Sen. Creigh Deeds.
Summit attendees, speakers.
I’ve just heard about three of the legislators who will be attending the Blog Summit: Del. Bob Brink, Del. Chris Saxman, and Del. Kris Amundson. All three are not just legislators, but also bloggers, of course — Saxman on VACostCutting, Brink and Amundson on on Extra Innings. I understand that a number other legislators are …
Blog Summit photos.
I’ve put up a little Flickr set of pictures from last year’s Blog Summit. The titles even identify who’s who.
Danny Glover at Blog summit.
Sorensen Institute: Danny Glover will be speaking at the Blog Summit. Danny is the editor of The National Journal’s Beltway Blogroll.