How the Blogosphere changed the Election

Much has been made of the blogosphere, and the twitterverse and many have questioned the value of this level of meta-chatter as part of our national political discourse. The blogosphere has been debunked as the “echo-chamber” little more than a place where like minded people repeated their opinions (often based on bias information) back to [...]

New Theme

OK, so maybe not “The Change We Need.” But I thought why not shake it up a little here at thinkPOP. Take a look and let me know what you think of the new theme….comments welcome.

Best Bloggers in the Business

This is one of those times where I show my naked admiration for professional bloggers that are (at least to me) leading the way in covering this extraordinary campaign season. While there are many excellent reads out there (see blog roll) I need to mention these three, in no particular order. 
Johnathan Martin covering republicans for [...]

A Note on Comments

 

Here at thinkPOP we believe in open discussion of the day’s issues, politics, policy, and pop culture. In fact, we’re dedicated to fostering it. Our comment boards are extremely inclusive, in fact we enjoy comments in disagreement more that comments of agreement. If you make a comment on a post of ours here on thinkPOP [...]

What We Didn’t Hear This Week

The banking crisis that developed from the credit crisis that developed from the sub-prime crisis has generated extraordinary actions and reactions on Wall Street and in Washington. The swift and decisive corrective actions of Treasury secretary Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have the presidential campaigns and the commentators on across the spectrum breathless trying [...]

Sarah Palin dominates the Sunday morning shows and WordPress

There are those that think the Palin pick was brilliant (few), there are those that think the Palin pick was desperate (more). One thing’s for sure, it has dominated both the Sunday morning shows and the blogosphere today. Some links from around wordpress…
An Alaskan Perspective
Sarah Palin’s Religion
The Traveling Catsuit?
Photos and more photos.
And we here at [...]

How I got started blogging

In an effort to embed myself further into the blogosphere, I’m writing in response to a post I found, looking for the story of how I began blogging. ThinkPop is a relatively new blog. I started it about a month ago, however, its a rebirth of sorts of a blog I started about year ago [...]