The Political Whore

For logistical purposes, CL has been consolidating its multiple blog platforms into one, and now it is The Political Whore’s turn to hang out the “We’re Moving” sign. It makes sense: we can’t use a common search engine among more than one blog right now. And we have to cross-post Green Community posts to both sites, to use just one example of content that fits into both blogs.

This will be the last post in this old blog site (Friday, August 21, 2009). Future PoHo posts will appear in our Daily Loaf blog, which also includes Green Community, arts, entertainment, sports, sex & love, film, TV and other pop culture posts.

You can read PoHo news pretty much the same way you read PoHo now, if you just want news & politics and not the rest of the Daily Loaf fare. Just change your bookmark from http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/

to

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/category/politics/

And the RSS feed changes from http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/politicalwhore/feed

to

http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/dailyloaf/category/politics/feed

See you over at the Daily Loaf.

I mentioned former CL reporter Alex Pickett’s new blog last week but just realized I never mentioned the new blogs from the other two editorial colleagues laid off in December.

Copy editor Anthony “Sal” Salveggi’s VIrtual Journalist keeps you up-to-date on media news and pop culture.

And music writer/Bar Tabber Wade Tatangelo is pointing to his freelance work from all over (*tbt, St Pete Times, New York Daily News et al.) on his eponymous blog.

I recommend you add all three to your RSS reader.

h/t to the folks over at the Splog.

My former news colleague Alex PIckett, let go in a round of layoffs in December, has surfaced with a new blog of his own, Tales of an Unemployed Journalist. I love his story from earlier today, “BayWalk loses its protestors:”

In a blast to like-minded souls on their e-mail list, St. Pete for Peace announced the decision:

Due to the dramatic drop in business at Baywalk, we no longer find it to be the best use of our time and energy to continue our monthly protests there.  We believe we can reach more people in venues other than Baywalk, but if business at Baywalk increases or there are future attempts to restrict demonstrations on the public sidewalks near Baywalk, we will then reevaluate our decision.

When even the protesters won’t show up to a leisure entertainment destination, you know times are tough.

In trying a new comment interface, one that has a tie-in to Facebook, something went awry in the machine and our comments aren’t posting the way you are used to seeing them. Some are not showing up at all. Please bear with my tech guys while they troubleshoot the problem and get us back on our commenting feet. Thanks.

UPDATE: We’ve gone back to our old comment box for now, and it should be working fine, so please let me know if it isn’t working for your by emailing me at wayne.garcia@creativeloafing.com.

From Riptide 2.0 at our alt-cousins, Miami New Times:

If there are any two prominent figures around South Florida’s small blogosphere, it’s definitely former Stuck on the Palmetto, current South Florida Daily Blog blogger Rick and Val Prieto and Co. at Babalu. They couldn’t be more polar opposites either: Rick is decisively liberal, while Babalu’s anti-Castro rhetoric keeps them on the ultra-conservative side of the spectrum, so naturally both blogs tend to lock horns on what they believe is right.

But the latest feud between arguably South Florida’s two most popular blogs comes down to censorship. Babalu has never been one to deny that they delete comments which don’t match their sentiments, and Rick hasn’t been shy to point that out, among other things, that Babalu’s objectives are the same as Castro’s: media control and censorship of different ideology.

But in a fight that seems more like old ladies bickering about who gave who dirty looks, it’s no surprise it has come to this: In the ultimate form retaliation Babalu has effectively “banned” Rick’s blog from linking to them. Any outbound links from SFDB to Babalu results in a blank page.