<![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, glenn reynolds]]> http://tags.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gawker.com.png <![CDATA[Gawker: valleywag, glenn reynolds]]> http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/glennreynolds http://gawker.com/tag/valleywag/glennreynolds <![CDATA[Even conservatives are tired of Fox hogging the debates]]> Normally if I saw Arianna Huffington, Craig Newmark and Markos Moulitsas coauthoring a statement, I'd click my Back button and Move On, as they say. But Instapundit editor Glenn Reynolds has joined the mostly leftospheric collection of bloggers who've dubbed themselves the Open Debate Coalition. They want two things, which I've helpfully edited down to 10 words each:

1) Fox News, please let us post clips instead of threatening to sue.

2) Adopt a Digg-like voting system to let the audience choose the questions.

The first demand seems as easy as the second is sure to be rickrolled. (Photo by The Fun Times Guide)

]]> http://gawker.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5055398&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Blogfights: A 100-word history]]> Nearly ten years before Violet Blue vs. Boing Boing, the Internet's early bloggers discovered their new medium's killer application: Personal spats. Radar Online blogger Choire Sicha, angling for his 14th return to us here at Gawker Media, recounts blogfeuding's past. Choire: tl; dr. Only one era bears recounting: the months after 9/11.

2001 and 2002: With the emergence of "the warbloggers" post-9/11, as they were called, everyone feuded with everyone. Seriously. Everyone! (N.B. that account includes some serious misreading.) It was sheer chaos, a mass freakout that distended psychoanalytic space and time. There were even Denial of Service attacks. Dave Winer, the feudiest of all internetters, took on the world, briefly.

You won't click all those links, so just read the one where Instapundit agrees with Denton.

(Photo via Wonkette)

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