In his on going effort to baffle me as to how the "progressive bloggers" differ from liblogs or blogging dippers, Scott Tribe has become a full-on Liberal and as such will not be moderating Progressive Bloggers. Details are here and his new blog is here.
Update: Sorry, I misread things. Scott Tribe is still moderating just not posting a diary. I will admit ignorance, I don't read ProgressiveBloggers daily and this nuance was lost on me. And please don't take this post too seriously, I just like teasing my pal Scott.
Comments (12)
Didn’t he get the memo?
Identities are additive, not substractive!
Posted by DanL | December 13, 2006 2:35 PM
Posted on December 13, 2006 14:35
Interesting to see the Liberals moving to the Left, I guess - although perhaps it is more a case of “discovering their inner Leftist” than actually changing their political views…
Posted by DCardno | December 13, 2006 2:42 PM
Posted on December 13, 2006 14:42
The progressive bloggers are not a partisan political blogroll; they’re multi-partisan. The Blogging Tories, being the first on the blogroll scene, gobbled up most of the conservative bloggers. You might have a similar arrangement on the right if the Canadian Alliance and the Progressive Conservatives were still operating.
Posted by James Bow | December 13, 2006 3:09 PM
Posted on December 13, 2006 15:09
Scott was already a Liberal blogger in my mind…. formalizing that changes nothing. :P
Posted by Andrew | December 13, 2006 3:48 PM
Posted on December 13, 2006 15:48
Greg:
Not true… I’ll still be moderating Progressive Bloggers, as I’ve said in that post you refer to at the Prog Blog site. I jut wont be editorializing from there any longer, because it does a disservice to th Prog Blog community if I’m perceived as using that soapbox to praise Dion and the Liberals - when 65 to 70% of our site isnt Liberal blogs. Hence the reason for getting my own blog.
As for how we’re different over there, James nailed it.. we are multi-partisan. Call it a loose coalition of anti-conservatives if you want :). There are Liberal and NDP blogs, its true… but we also have a large # of Green Bloggers, as well as a fair # of James Non-Partisan Alliance blogs who think of them as “progressive” in outlook (StageLeft being one notable example), and a lot of unaffiliated blogs.
Last count we did had the site running close to 40-50% of blogs who were either non-partisan or unaffiliated, and 5-10% who were Green so you cant just paint Progressive Bloggers as being a Liberal/NDP hangout.
Posted by Scott Tribe | December 13, 2006 7:18 PM
Posted on December 13, 2006 19:18
I agree with James. But I should also add that more and more progressive conservatives have fallen away from the Blogging Tories group (as well as from Harper), because they can’t stand the far right chanting anymore.
There are plenty of progressive conservative bloggers who are not affiliated with Blogging Tories, and they’re either part of James’ group or even progressive bloggers.
Posted by Werner Patels | December 13, 2006 9:10 PM
Posted on December 13, 2006 21:10
That raises a good question - why isn’t there a major Progressive Conservative blogroll, or are PCs happy joining Progblogs instead?
Posted by saskboy | December 14, 2006 10:52 AM
Posted on December 14, 2006 10:52
Good point, Saskboy. I think they should create a separate blogroll.
Posted by Werner Patels | December 14, 2006 4:59 PM
Posted on December 14, 2006 16:59
I’ll tell you why - there arent enough of them to form a blogroll :)
Posted by Scott Tribe | December 14, 2006 7:44 PM
Posted on December 14, 2006 19:44
You can have a blogroll of two, and I can think of at least two fine non BT bloggers that might count as progressive conservative - and I’m pretty tired and not able to think of a lot right now.
Posted by Saskboy
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December 15, 2006 2:30 AM
Posted on December 15, 2006 02:30
There can be offshoots of the blogging tories but why put all the names roaming around already on a what?..a blog that the conservative party arranges? pffft… We are many already and I am not comfortable sitting on the fence of where I stand..took me long enough, all my life in fact, to become Conservative. Now that I have made a choice…like to hang with “my kind” .. why you guys so concerned about it anyway? (do I really want the answer) not!!
Posted by Kristinb | December 15, 2006 7:26 AM
Posted on December 15, 2006 07:26
Great job done, keep it up!with the best regards!
Posted by Malcolmxcv | January 27, 2007 4:59 PM
Posted on January 27, 2007 16:59