Props from a new MSM entry into the blogosphere
If you haven’t caught it in my feeds yet, the Pierre Capitol Journal has added a politically aimed blog of their own. And in one of their first posts, they were nice enough to give me a mention:
The beauty of the world of blogs (also called the “blogosphere”) is the wide variety of options out there. I won’t pretend to give any sort of comprehensive list of blogs to read, but I did want to share a few news blogs I do read — and ask for suggestions on other blogs to follow.
There are a number of good South Dakota blogs, and I don’t read enough of them.
In the straight news category, Rapid City Journal reporter Kevin Woster publishes Mount Blogmore, which is, like Behind Government Lines, a blog focused on politics. The Argus Leader invites a number of their reporters to blog.
Some of the best scoops in South Dakota political blogs come from bloggers with open political allegiances. On the left, Todd Epp at South Dakota Watch does a lot of reporting (though much of his work has a Sioux Falls focus). Scott Ehrisman at South Dacola is a cartoonist and often takes a lighter approach to news.
On the right side of the South Dakota blogosphere, the heavyweight is Pat Powers at the Dakota War College. Also on the right (but no friend of Powers) is Steve Sibson’s Sibby Online.
Read it all here, and everyday at capjournal.com.
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Comments
Springer: Go to: http://www.capjournal.com/articles/2009/04/23/blog/behind_govt_lines/doc49eff3c4f21e8336140207.txt#blogcomments
Nice to know that someone in the MSM finally understands and appreciates the power of the Eppster. I’m HUGE in Pierre! A legend in my own mind! 
And what’s this about PP and Sibby not being friends? Shocking! Who knew!?
Todd Epp
SD Watch http://www.southdakotawatch.net
The same paragraph? I feel like I should put on bib overalls and form a new political faction that accomplishes nothing, and ….
I thought Sibby and Ellis ran satire sites? It’s good to see I don’t have competition anymore since Sibby and PP are in the same category now.
I think Sib and Pat might have a clandestine off-line “good cop/bad cop” pact sealed in pheasant blood at the Nemec farm in November 2007. I think I might have seen them doing a secret handshake or something. Kind of a Dakota Hillbilly Repub Skull and Bones thing. Shhh.
Actually, Nick and I learned quite a lot from Sibby that day. Amazing how a little human kindness and a good bowl of chili can soften the hard neocon heart.
http://rapidcityjournal.com/blogs/outdoors/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/11-26-07-bloghunt11s.JPG
Sibs should be able to twist that juxtaposition into some type of Last Supper reference, but likely without the kiss in the garden. That’d be a little too gay. Such reference would only serve as a lead-in for something like a demand for school vouchers so the gov can pay for our kids to be taught at Sibson’s Church of Perpetual Suffering. I’m suprised they mentioned Sibley’s blog without mentioning his cousin’s more entertaining and better written work. I literally, can’t even begin to imagin his cousin’s take on this.
Sibby’s “no friend of Powers?” Oh no. Say it ain’t so. I thought it was just a little family feud.