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Right. And you didn't reply to my prior post.

Did you notify rejected blogs? Or if we're not indexed does is mean we were rejected?

I repeat - in New Mexico, Joe Monahan is NOT a progressive. NewMexiKen has ceased publication. A third one you have listed hasn't put out anything. The fourth is New West - and while I like it as a newssite, I wouldn't assume that it's progressive either (though they tend to be).

I'm happy you added Democracy for New Mexico - they're good folks and definitely progressive. At this point it makes you 1 for 5.

In the last week I've posted about local vigils, the mayoral candidate forum sponsered by SEEDpac, (the local progressive pac), an analysis of Bush's numbers in New Mexico, the first poll on the mayor's race here, a discussion of Eric Griego's plan for municipal wireless (Eric is the progressive candidate), some questions about the state Economic Development blog.... oh yeah, and I asked local progressive bloggers to link to you.

Funny, there was nothing national in that list. SO there must be something else.

I'd like to know what it is, if you don't mind.

Thank you,
Greg

OK, I didn't realize I had to be local. I am not.

I'm international :)

Feel free to remove Remain Calm from your lists.

I really am writing to tell you that one of the blogs on your list, Coyote Gulch, is not a progressive.

Unless there is some pro-immigrant bashing, xenophobic wing of the progressives of which I was previously unaware.

There's just so much Tancredo (the ultimate immigrant basher in Congress, a fanatic about it, makes Flake and Rohrbacher look like amateur immigrant bashers) on there.

He is in Colorado, but I don't see how that justifies Coyote Gulch's coverage.

You need a link to alert you to lying scum like Coyote Gulch. I mean, its bad enough he is supportive of an immigrant basher like Tancredo and Republicans in genearl

I would like to echo the point, "Did you notify rejected blogs?"

Admittedly, my blog is not local, except oocasionally. Fair enough. But you should at least send a form email to applicants letting them know, rather than having people check, and wonder.

You're all right - we should probably have a notification system. We haven't been asking for email contact info, but we should. Will change that.

Greg, what's the address of your blog? I'll take another look today.

I'll also take another look at the rest mentioned.

Thanks for the reply, Kari. the address is Greg Burton's Albuquerque Blog

Kari,

I hate to say this, but your standards for determining state versus national make very little sense to me. I've looked around, I see prominent and predominantly national bloggers in their geographic location, such as Shakespeare's Sister and Suburban Guerrilla. I guess I don't see why PSoTD - which does focus on PA posts relatively often - can't qualify for PA.

PSoTD - we're working on it. There are a number of national blogs that shouldn't be in the local categories that they're in. We're tracking the number of local posts that each blog does, and in about a month we're going to pull the national ones.

PSoTD, let me ask you the key question: If you don't much post about Pennsylvania, why should you be in the PA category? Is that a service to the readers?

Greg -- I've now added your blog. I didn't have it in the reject-file, so I don't know what happened.

Thanks, Kari - appreciate it!

Greg

Now I feel silly.

I've done two local posts in the last two days.

If I keep this up, perhaps I should re-apply? But your site says I have to wait a long time.

Hrm.

So how do you collect the entries. I assume you have some kind of web-bot or other. You are not cutting and pasting, right!

Some have grey backgrounds some don't. Sort of random or is there a rhyme and reason?

If you don't much post about Pennsylvania, why should you be in the PA category? Is that a service to the readers?

I guess it depends on what you mean by "don't much post". I do have three separate content categories about Pennsylvania, I usually have 3-5 posts about Pennsylvania per week, but that is only about 15-20% of weekly posts. I tend to think what I post is of interest to PA-specific readers, but that's an eye of the beholder thing, I suppose.

Jeff - yeah, of course it's a bot. At some 2000 posts a day by all you guys, it's a lot.

The grey/blue background indicates that it's local content. Should make it easier to scan.

(And, for anyone who's still wondering, we've recently added PSoTD - but just their PA-category feeds. If only more blogs had category-specific RSS feeds!)

Could we get copied to the "State Parties" section? DPW doesn't have a blog, and we're officially an arm of them, so it would be nice to be included in that section, particularly since (or so I'm told)we often just parrot press releases from the party :)

Anyway, love the service, it's great to be able to get a quick feel for what the other WI progessive blogs are talking about.

I post mostly national or international but as campaign season gets going there are more local and state items.

At first I thought I wasn't being picked up on the feed but am listed on the state roll for Texas becuase I use RSS instead of Atom but now I am unclear.

Thanks Kari!

Just Wondering why i was rejected?

I'm working on doing more writing of my own.

But even what i have up is far more than many you have?

Um, I'n the oldest Indiana blog in the state; blogging since 1997. I do post a lot of local content; maybe just not on the day you visited.

Oops, my blog is mostly national in scope. (I am in the US Army, you see, and have been stationed in several states.) Do not bother adding 'An Atheist Soldier' as my subject matter mostly concerns military and national political matters,

I started my blog over the summer and don't have many posts up yet. I submitted it while having few posts, and I guess it got rejected. I guess there is also another blog called Dirty Water in the Massachusetts blogroll - http://sunking278.blogspot.com/ . That blog focuses on national issues (with what seems like a weekly porn post). I plan on focusing on local issues, when I start posting more frequently. I'll resubmit my blog in a few months or so, and I was wondering if I'll be able to be accepted even though there's another blog with the same title as mine?

The Unfavorable Opinion is definitely a local blog. I post about Bush, Rove, DeLay, etc. I also watch the local politicians like Shimkus in IL-19. He lives not too far from me. I also post about political issues on campus or the political link to certain events around me.

College Dem 20-somethings aren't as vocal as our GOP counterparts. http://apatriotlegion.blogspot.com/ is another one trying to bring a little life into our peers. Why should we even try? No one listens to us. Our voices, our votes don't seem to count.

I see that some posts have been removed. So be it. Things local are also part of the larger community. If i blogged on only things local, the result would be lack of democratic involvedment and effort, lack of attention from the state hierarchy for democrats in my county who have no effective leadership and apparently are not willing to look at alternatives. Our county is not included as a member of the state committee, so I guess we're not local.

Localpol... I haven't got any idea what you're talking about. We don't remove posts. Trust me, I don't have the ability or time to read the 1000+ posts every day.

More importantly, LeftyBlogs.com doesn't care one way or the other whether or not your county is part of some state committee or whatever. We're just tracking local blogs, man.

Karl.. I apologize for accusing the site of removing posts. Someone had changed the tab and I was looking in the wrong place!

Kari:

You've got a quite obviously Republican blog on the Texas list; one that doesn't mean anyone's definition of 'progressive'. Did he slip in under the radar? Contact me via e-mail and we can discuss off the board.

Kari,

Hi. I submitted my blog a couple of weeks ago (if memory serves) for the "national" category. But I realize you don't have a notification system. If possible, could you e-mail me with your decision if you've made one (or when you make it)?

Thanks,

Michael

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