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KARE11's Jana Shortal did a piece on Blogs on last night's 10PM news.

The piece was interesting inasmuch as it showed me a side of blogging that I have, in three years, completely ignored; blogging about things other than politics and current events. They spent some time with Ron Wade, a Saint Paul Saints employee who writes - this astounds me - a diary blog. Kind of a fun one. I didn't know you could do that with a blog. I might have to try that.

The report also spent a pretty fair amount of time on a woman, Tammy Tucker, who writes a blog called A More Perfect Union, in which she seems to take Wild Wendy seriously and asks for more taxes, and which seems to have a grand total of seven posts in nearly four months - roughly 15 minutes' production for the combined Minnesota Organization of Bloggers.

Speaking of which...

Attention, news media; I have a real story for you. Why not do something on the MOB? The Minnesota Organization of Bloggers, a group which is completely unique in the entire United States, mostly but not exclusively conservative (let's face it, most of the really good blogs in the Twin Cities do lean right, but tthere are excellent blogs in the center and on the left), a group that formed for purely social reasons but is starting to generate an interesting critical mass of writing, cross-pollination and ideas. OK, maybe it's more of an MPR thing (paging Christopher Lydon!).

It was fun to see some of the footage they shot of the radio show, featuring Powerline! andabunchofotherlocalbloggers. The camera really does add twenty pounds. But to be fair, it added ten pounds to my voice, too.

Bit by bit, the media will get it right. Thanks, Jana Shortal!

Click here to read and/or view the piece.