Aug 12th, 2008 at 12:22 pm
Timeline is Not Surrender
William Beutler has assembled a handy timeline of my career:
To answer one issue he raises, during the “pink” period I was, in fact, writing Tapped posts for the then-anonymous blog alongside Nick Confessore.
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August 12th, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Huh. I had honestly forgotten you’d even had a blogger blog.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Your blogging history is very cool, but everyone wants to know: How Was Rancid.
August 12th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Yo, check out ThePage, McCain says Putin wants to restore the Russian empire. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Imperio_Ruso.PNG
weird.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Admit it. You just like f’ing with blogroll links.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
For what part of the timeline were you referred to as Big Media Matt?
August 12th, 2008 at 1:18 pm
You still got nothing on Ackerman.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
2009? Isn’t that kind of optimistic, considering?
August 12th, 2008 at 1:34 pm
I think the worst was the TPMCafe blog. Ugly design, annoying comments interface, and total lack of basketball blogging.
I have been pleasantly surprised by this one. T’Atlantic was OK, but the broken comments engine was annoying.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm
Your time at The Atlantic was pretty cool. It made me bookmark James Fallows. Fallows did a little of his own basketball blogging today sharing how to say LeBron James (lebulang janmusi) and Dwight Howard (dehuaite huohuade) in Chinese.
August 12th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
I’m still getting used to the new look. But the comment engine here at Think Progress is much better. As for timelines, I’m glad nobody has done one for my career. As a consultant, my timeline would be a jumbled mess of incestuous engineering relationships. Companies come and go with shocking frequency, but I seem to work with the same people a lot.
August 12th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
But the real question is, what does Petey think about your career?
August 12th, 2008 at 2:03 pm
Matt,
Do you have archives of all your blog posts from the start?
It could be vital when you’re writing your autobiography!
On the other hand it might be vital to destroy them and make sure that no other copies exist.
August 12th, 2008 at 2:31 pm
ok so can someone tell me where all the posts from the archive here were originally published? if here, then why not a parallel “think progress” bar on the chart above going back to 2004? if elsewhere….?? have i been missing important yglesi-esque thinking by just reading his atlantic blog lo these many months? and why didn’t someone tell me?!?!?
August 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
How little has changed. Matthew’s second post ever:
MICHAEL KINSLEY’S new media bias piece strikes me as basically on-target in the typical blah Kinsley kind of way. What I’m more interested in, though, is the conservative bias of television commentary. How frequently have you seen a news anchor interviewing some other journalists for a little opinion and insight. Invariably (if the subject is political) they’ll bring a conservative commentator (say, Tucker Carlson) to give a right-wing view. And who do they find to give the liberal p.o.v.? Typically a “straight” journalist for an apolitical publication (say, Margaret Carlson).
Even if we accept that mainstream journalists like Margaret are liberals, as journalists who wish to appear non-biased (which would be pointless in a Weekly Standard columnist) they have significant constraints placed on them. Consider also the difference in worldview between a person who happens to hold a certain political position and a person who is a professional advocate for that position. No matter how liberal Margaret Carlson may be, she has no reason to spout the Democratic party line when (as the lines of political parties often are) it’s a disingenuous one. Tucker, however, is part of the line-spouting process.
That creates a real and disturbing bias.
posted by Matthew at 1/11/2002 12:03:00 AM
August 12th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
What this really needs are notations for landmark posts, from the sublime (Green Lantern) to the ridiculous (broosketta).
August 12th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
It’s nice to have the added functionality of having your posts archived here both from the Atlantic and the twogenerations of matthewyglesias.com, but is there a technical hurdle stopping you from getting the typepad posts? Some other reason for not including them here?
August 12th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
That would be a fine image for a Matt Yglesias t-shirt or mug.
August 12th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
Incomplete: Timeline needs “Matt born,” “Matt goes on Internet for the first time” (presumably correct chronological order), “Matt spends x hours/days deciding on blog template” (repeat as needed), “Matt’s first YouTube link,” “Matt posts first public-transit porn.”
August 13th, 2008 at 5:30 am
You’re been out of college for four years, numbnuts.
You don’t have a “career.” You have a bunch of forgettable blog posts that are disconnected on several blogs run by other people.
Oh, and one book that hasn’t sold ten copies because it’s listed under the “Y’s” on the bottom shelf.
And some really bad videos of you screeching at other know-nothing clowns.
Summer Glau has a career.
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