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Who Are You?
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If you are a regular reader, you know that we go absolutely banana-cakes about statistics on this blog. And so over the past month, we have applied our preoccupation with…
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From our dataset on 38 statistics-releasing Maryland blogs, here are three that are on the way up as well as a category of them that is stalled.Headed Up Inside Charm…
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Examiner Writes MoCo Blog Round-Up
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Examiner reporter Claire Pak wrote a piece about four MoCo blogs: Just Up the Pike, Rockville Central, Gaithersblog and MPW. On MPW, she writes, “Maryland Politics Watch covers Maryland politics…
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Maryland Blogosphere: Up, Up and Away
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The 35 Maryland state and local blogs that release their site statistics set a combined record visit count in March. Then they set another record in April.We track site visit…
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Two Maryland politicians have recently denounced bloggers as malicious and inherently damaging to political discussion in the state. Their statements raise a question: should politicians care at all what they…
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Blogs Dominate Online D4 Coverage
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Imagine casual voters in District 4 investigating the candidates the new-fangled way: Googling their names. What would they find? You would think they would see a bunch of Washington Post…
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Maryland Blogosphere Takes Off
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The mainstream media (MSM) may be struggling but our data shows massive growth in Maryland’s blogosphere. Whether Post columnist Marc Fisher likes it or not, bloggers are running amok across…
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By Kevin Gillogly. Now that’s a loaded question. In fact since this is my first blog piece in nine months, you might answer that is where Adam had me exiled…
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For the first time in its history, Maryland Politics Watch has been the most-visited state political blog in Maryland over a four-month period.From October 2008 through January 2009, here are…