As the death toll climbs above 120,000, San Diego bloggers respond and reflect to the millenium's most destructive natural disaster. Derek provides a link to how to help donate. Mitch has done an incredible job covering the tsunami and has even written two excellent articles on bloggers ...

Revealing the potential of every weblog, Brandon Behle is now safe in Bangkok where he wrote yesterday: After arriving in Bangkok on the night train from Surat Thani, I ran the the American Embassy and then to the nearest internet cafe to realize that I not only had 35 Emails ...

Via 10News.com, I found the travel weblog of Brandon B. Behle from Rancho Bernardo who was on the Thai island Kho Phi Phi when the Tsunami struck. This is what he describes: I'm sure you all have heard it from the news, so ...

It's become apparent to many that blogs are most useful during states of emergency. Newspaper headlines become outdated before they are even printed, weeklies can only offer reflection which mostly excludes new, pertinent information, and most TV news shows play over and over the same 5 second video clips and ...

I'm not sure when this happened, but the San Diego Reader has contracted out the online arm of its classified ads to a web company called BackPage, which also has similar classifieds sites in 11 other cities. It seems like they are competing with Craig's List and ...

I hope that everyone had a very happy holiday weekend. Looking around our little corner of the blogosphere, it seems like most did. Chris Nelson is still having a great time with his new wife on their honeymoon in Peru. Beckie wishes everyone a merry Christmas and tells us ...

Though yet to be announced publicly, the San Diego Reader is now offering an RSS feed for it's great column on local news and media, City Lights. I have always found the City Lights column to be the best source of local news outside of the Union-Tribune's media ...

Snowman built on Palomar Mountain.

A couple months ago Ivan Jurado posted a link to a NY Times article which described San Diego as becoming more liberal. Then, just a few days ago, Patrick Finucane of the weblog San Diego Politics linked to a LA Times article which also described San ...

Comparing the 2000 and the 2004 Presidential election in San Diego County.

When friends from other cities come visit me in San Diego they always make the same four exclamations and almost always in this order: The weather here is absolutely amazing! The people here ... everyone is so friendly San Diego has such a laid back, stress free vibe The local media is really conservative You ...

On top of today's NY Times Editorial Page is a piece entitled Count Every Vote. Here is an excerpt: In San Diego, the No. 2 choice of the voters for the mayor's job may be headed to City Hall. Donna Frye, a write-in candidate, came within 2,108 votes of ...

Today's Local news has become a problem for North County residents

Yesterday, the Chargers earned their first playoff berth since 1995 and their first division title since 1994. At the minimum, San Diego is guaranteed a home game in the wild-card round January 8th or 9th. Eli Manning and his family can watch that Bolt playoff home game on ...

Yesterday afternoon the following San Diego bloggers met at the Lamplighter bar in Mission Hills at 1 p.m. and then we migrated over to The Gathering for a little more light and a more comfortable place to talk. Mitch Wagner Derek Joe Crawford Al Abut ...

Pat Jacoby of UCSD issued a press release on Thursday reporting that UCSD was chosen by The (London) Times Higher Education Supplement as the 24th best university in the world. While this is great for UCSD and great for my resumé since I am a Triton alumnus, ...

One last reminder while all you suckers are at your 9 to 5 jobs and I'm about to go enjoy this 80 degree weather at the beach (ok, that was uncalled for): Tomorrow is the San Diego Bloggers Meetup at 1 p.m. at the Lamplighter bar in Mission ...

Update (12/20/04): Left Coast Law responds on his own blog. Richard L. Hasen, a law professor at Loyola Law School, has written an excellent opinion piece on the soon to be impending law suit which will leave it up to a court to ...

The recent media sponsored recount of mayoral votes, which found that Donna Frye would have won if the "unbubbled ballots" were counted is generating a lot of commentary from both sides. Today at 9:30 a.m. Ron Nehring, chairman of the San Diego Republicans, sent out a third person press release (from his own email) characterizing Frye as a "flip flopper." He says: Sounding a lot like John Kerry, the king of liberal flop-floppers, Republican Chairman [Nehring] says “Frye was against the lawsuits before she was for them.” In response, at 2 p.m., Donna Frye herself sent out an email explaining: It is clear that the bubble has nothing to do with a write-in vote. That's why it's called a write-in. The purpose of the bubble for a write-in candidate is to help the scanner tally the votes more easily. Given the fact that every write-in ballot had to be hand counted, the argument that this bubble failure somehow makes someone's vote less worthy of being counted is disrespectful to everyone who voted. Voting is not a test; it is an expression of the will of the voters and who they want to represent them. What I find most interesting about the entire thing is that both Nehring and Frye espoused their allegations and explanations directly to their constituents rather than the major media. Which is how we here at San Diego Blog are the first ones to bring the story to you. This sort of direct interaction between politicians and citizens is what we have been advocating for a long time. I will copy their emails in full below.

Local Blogger, the Indepundit, will be on the Rick Roberts Show on AM 760 this morning at 7 a.m to discuss the Pablo Paredes affair. Navy Lady also shares her thoughts.