dagblog - Comments for "One of the advantages"

Yeah, nostalgia's overstating

Flavius — Sat, 14 May 2011 21:05:29 +0000

In reply to Baker's pieces are all easily

Yeah, nostalgia's overstating it.Idly speculating about would be closer. As I idly speculate about your reaction occasionally to stuff I read in the Guardian or the FT

To be even more unrealistic I speculate about how some of the dagbloggers would respond to comments appearing on the right wing blogs. For the first time in 5 years I checked out Just One Minute last week to see how it was covering the Bin Laden affair. Answer: by essentially ignoring it. But what particularly struck me about JOM's one post on that affair were the comments in response.Pretty similar to the ones here..

I agree completely with the

Flavius — Sat, 14 May 2011 20:22:25 +0000

In reply to I appreciate your point.But

I agree completely with the last paragraph and appreciate the two above that.

As to the first paragraph I clearly caused confusion by joining an old opinion of Baker's with a current one of Brittan's. . It was my shorthand for saying we benefit of being exposed to people who know what they're talking about whether it's a leftish Baker wisely warning about an impending disaster or a conservative Brittan looking backwards.

We don't benefit from econowhores being paid to say that the Administration is doing well or poorly..

Maybe there is a simple

artappraiser — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:21:10 +0000

In reply to At the "In The News" section

Maybe there is a simple solution

Click on "more" to get and use the full "In the News" page, rather than trying to access "In the News" from the little box on the front page, which is basically just a teaser menu.

(There's only so much any website can fit on a single page, sometimes you have to go to another section. A good example would be Reader Blogs at TPMCafe. It did not feed on any main page, you had to go there. Here at least, Genghis has a global feed of all comments on the site which you can use to bounce around to dfifferent sections, all comments on the site being posted everywhere. At TPM, they got rid of that in like 2006, it was a bummer, mho.)

I like Krugman well enough,

Dan Kervick — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:57:46 +0000

In reply to I listen to Brad Delong and

I like Krugman well enough, but was never much of a fan of DeLong.

Baker's pieces are all easily

Dan Kervick — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:56:23 +0000

In reply to One of the advantages

Baker's pieces are all easily accessed at either the CEPR site, http://www.cepr.net/, or at TPM Cafe. Anyone can read one and then blog about it here. So I see no need for nostalgia about anything.

I seem to love looking like

we are stardust — Sat, 14 May 2011 16:00:13 +0000

In reply to The blogroll only shows on

I seem to love looking like an idiot, don't I? ;o)

I like dagblog because it

Bruce Levine — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:34:16 +0000

In reply to One of the advantages

I like dagblog because it allows regular folks to write about topics and to draw on sources, some expert and some not, and to throw it into the mix. I also like the way the creative stuff and the news are in separate sections. I'm not sure how well it would work if experts were featured, because I think that draws in more folks and it becomes harder to do the fairly effective unregulated regulation that goes on here. Of course, I wouldn't blame the powers that be if at some point they decided that maybe it wouldn't be a bad idea to receive some compensation for the time they spend on this thing, and then of course that might cause things to change. In the meantime, take your shoes off, post, schmooze, discuss, quibble, shout, and enjoy.

At the "In The News" section

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:29:30 +0000

In reply to You raise an interesting

At the "In The News" section I can scroll across a topic with Firefox and get the pop-up window as well as a link to/for comments. With Internet Explorer I get no pop-up and can only go to the original article and can only access comments at Dagblog by clicking on someone else's comment, if there is one in the comment section. Maybe there is a simple solution at Dagblog's end or at mine, Firefox solves the problem for me and I haven't persued it, but if others only use IE they may get less from ITN and therefore use it less.

The blogroll only shows on

Michael Wolraich — Sat, 14 May 2011 15:20:00 +0000

In reply to Oops; sorry; looks like the

The blogroll only shows on the home page.

You could omit Cowen.Actually

Flavius — Sat, 14 May 2011 14:58:13 +0000

In reply to Personally I think the In The

You could omit Cowen.

Actually someone could scan them and select the greatest and latest for the dagblogers.