The Friday Week in Review: You Lie! Edition

It’s Friday, and time for another long look back at a brutal week in politics, sports and the Web. We’re going to try for a reasoned, respectful debate here, so no shouting! But feel free to call us out in comments if we start going on about death panels. Remember: There remains some significant details [...]

Pew Study Shows Emerging Trends in Political, Civic Engagement Online

On KARN radio on Monday, political bloggers Blake Rutherford and David Kinkade commented on how new media has finally arrived in Arkansas, and how blogs and social networks will play an even bigger role in the 2010 election cycle (one that’s already sure to be exciting given a certain U.S. Senate race) as more Arkansans [...]

Friday Week in Review: Pouring One Out for Teddy K.

And there you have it. Another week in the can, another Kennedy cast off this mortal coil. Other stuff happened too, and there were blogs that wrote about it. Let us reminisce …
Walter Hussman spread the gospel of No Free Meal on the Internets.
Blake Rutherford remembered Ted Kennedy (how could anyone forget?) and shared some [...]

The Friday Week in Review: Abbreviated Edition

Have we mentioned how out of it we’ve been? This week has been one slow slog into oblivion. Fortunately, some stuff happened, and now we’ll relive it.
Here’s a quick look back at The Week That Once Was, blogwise:
Bullwhiz, the e-mail gossip sheet founded by Paul Johnson back in the day, has made its latest comeback.
We [...]

What You Can Learn on Twitter

It’s been a long couple of weeks, and we’re somewhat out of the loop. Thankfully, Twitter’s here to help!

The answer came swiftly:

Mystery solved!
Or is it? All those quotation marks deepen our suspicion. This weekend, I’ll be catching up on my Tolbert Report!
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Austin San Antonio running for … something

Tune In: I’ll Be a Guest on Arkansas Sunday Edition This Weekend

UPDATE: We’re off the air. It was a fun show! Congrats to Blake on his radio debut, and my thanks for inviting me to come on. Along with RJ Hawk, Jessica Dean and David Kinkade, we talked health care, Blanche Lincoln, GOP candidates for U.S. Senate and Bob Dylan. We even got a call from [...]

The Friday Week in Review: Don’t You Forget About Me Edition

In case you haven’t heard, John Hughes died this week of a heart attack at age 59. Of course, you probably have heard, because you can’t login to Tumblr or Twitter or Facebook without seeing this clip or this clip or this image or this clip posted about a million times. “Don’t You Forget About [...]

Friday Week in Review: The Week Everyone Left

It’s another Friday Week in Review! A week in which we lost so much and gained so very little.
Among those shaking the dust of this crummy little town, Nick “Zack” Stovall, the Arkansas News Bureau Web guru and Unfamous First Words blogger who hates our blue shirt, likes to scream at us on the street [...]

Ernie Passailaigue’s South Carolina Days, the ‘Moritz Scale’ and More in This Week’s Arkansas Business

It’s Monday. On the bright side, there’s the new Arkansas Business. In this week’s edition:
Mark Hengel investigates Ernie Passailaigue’s time as head of the South Carolina. Let’s see: There was an FOI lawsuit, a conflict over a $7.5 million advertising contract, and allegations that Passailaigue, a former South Carolina state senator, benefited from cronyism. Otherwise, [...]

Friday Week In Review: The Week We Tweeted-up

Holy crap it’s Friday! The day we finally convicted Tony Alamo for something other than his lack of fashion sense, and the day after most of us Tweeted up. Before plunging headlong into another lost weekend, here’s a last long look at the carnage behind us:
Walter Hussman allegedly kicked the tires on another “news-paper,” which [...]