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Your generosity & readership made us #62 on Wikio's Top Political Blogs!

By GottaLaff

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Dear wonderful readers,

Because of your donations, we reached our fundraising goal! And the icing on the cake? We moved up 20 points in the last couple of months on Wikio's Top Political Blogs to number 62!

There are a kajillion blogs out there, as Paddy pointed out here, and you're pushing us up there to take our place along side with some of the best. What an honor!

Thank you so, so much for your generosity and support. Without you, there would be no Political Carnival.

Next step, finding a way to move to a bigger server to provide you with the best bloggy woggy we can.

Love, Paddy and Laffy

Video- Greg Sargent Picks the Top Online News Stories of 2009

Via Jed. In case you're not familiar with it, The Plum Line is one of the top "don't miss" blogs out there.

#78!

By GottaLaff

Please indulge us. We're bursting with pride here.

The Political Carnival hasn't been around all that long, well under two years. We have no staff. It's just Paddy and me, and originally, the wonderful Cliff Schecter.

Considering we're just a couple of working girls (sort of... when possible) who have too much passion to keep bottled up and so feel the need to vent here, we're awfully proud of reaching #78 on Wikio's Top 100 Political Blogs.

We're in great company.... for the most part ::coughconservanutscough::

So, on behalf of Paddy and myself:

UPDATE: We're #248 overall! Wowzers!

How remiss am I? Thank YOU for reading and keeping us afloat! Without our amazing readers, we wouldn't exist!

'New York Times' Launches Large-Format Photo Blog

Very cool. This one gets bookmarked.

NEW YORK After more than a year in development, The New York Times launched a large-format photo blog Monday to showcase photojournalism projects.

Lens, as the new blog is called, joins a growing field of sites that showcase photo projects that might not be able to find a home in print. The blog has the advantages of drawing on the prestige of the Times, which just won a Pulitzer Prize for photography, and the popularity of NYTimes.com, the most popular U.S. newspaper Web site.

“We’re pretty darn proud of it,” says Josh Haner, a New York Times staff photographer and one of three Times staff assigned to produce the blog. The others are senior staff photographer James Estrin and metro reporter David W. Dunlap.

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Haner describes it as a “centralized showcase of best work” from the Times photo department. “We really wanted a home for photography,” he says.

Pic from.

President Obama doesn't read TPC

By GottaLaff

But maybe his staff does? Maybe they're some of our Anonymi. Maybe I'm delusional:

Q: And Web sites?

Q: No blogs?

A: I rarely read blogs.

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And part of the reason we don't spend a lot of time looking at blogs is because if you haven't looked at it very carefully then you may be under the impression that somehow there's a clean answer one way or another - well, you just nationalize all the banks, or you just leave them alone and they'll be fine, or this or that or the other. The truth is this is a very complex set of problems and bad decisions can result in huge taxpayer expenditures and poor results.

Paddy and I promise to never give clean answers. In fact, I think that's been pretty obvious.

Josh Marshall On "1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" About McCain And The Media

Shuster's doing a week about what the "Progressive Blogs" are talking about, and he started with TPM's Marshall.