Lefty Blogs Aggregator for South Dakota

Lefty Blogs for South Dakota aggregates RSS feeds from a number of "lefty" blogs in South Dakota and puts a few words from each post it decides fits its tests. Also indicates how many people pick those posts to read at the actual blog. In the link list are also links to "lefty blogs" in all 50 states. If you have the time, the links are here to keep you busy. On the other hand if you want a quick scan of the current "lefty" blogs in SD this is also a good place for a quick check.
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South Dakota Magazine Blog

Most South Dakotans have seen a copy of South Dakota Magazine on a magazine rack or a coffee table or have or are subscribing to it, so you might have a good idea of what you will find at South Dakota Magazine Blog. Those not familiar with either should check the blog and subscribe to the magazine if you really have an interest in South Dakota. Bernie Hunhoff and his staff put together a homespun interesting and even often beautiful magazine..some of that spills into the blog site. My only complaint is that the photos there never link to a larger version. Minor gripe however. So take a look.
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USDedu Blogs ..Blog Server

The Department of Education at USD provides a blog system. A whole lot of blogs under one heading not a predictable mixture..everything from education technique and issues to politics with none of them necessarily approved or not by the U of South Dakota. So check it. A blog smörgåsbord with a few tasty delights and some chewy dense stuff.
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Democracy in Action Blog

The Democracy in Action blog is subtitled "Women working for a better world". That doesn't mean it should not be read by males however. Generally liberal and usually thought-provoking. Multiple authors and contributors. Moderated comments (by Melanie Sekellick and Patti Martinson). State and national perspectives, but focused also on the Rapid City area. Blog is associated with an organization aimed apparently at "doing" as well as just talking and writing.
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SD Moderate Blog

At last, I get the South Dakota Moderate blog by Bob Schwartz. Months ago..well maybe a year or so..I had the best of all possible intentions to get this blog into another bloglist. Alas, it was not until this week that I got around to copying the masthead and getting it in here. But, truth be told Schwartz rattled my cage at Dakota Today. You can too if you think you have a blog of your own or another to add here. The SD Moderate blog is sort of centrist politically, but often has non-partisan and non-political posts as well. So check SD Moderate today and don't forget it. You will find links to a lot of sites there including a few to other blogs and sites made by Bob Schwartz.
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Rant a Bit by Scott Hudson Blog

I must confess the type on this blog was nearly unreadable the first time I looked at it. It is better now. Scott Hudson does rant a bit on the local conditions and general lunacy in Sioux Falls. He also has music on his blog. Me thinks it is for a different generation than mine however. Check it as an indicator that South Dakota has a broad spectrum of blogs even if there still aren't very many of them here.
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The Minus Car Project Blog

The Minus Car Project Blog is Michael Christensen's greenish blog reporting his experience in his attemt to replace a a lot of car miles with some mixture of bicycle miles and car miles. Check this blog for a working attempt to reduce environmental impact resulting simply from we humans occupying space here. Lots of links to cyclist blogs and sites, environmental issues, etc. Check this blog even if you aren't a dedicated tree hugger searching for grub in the ground in an area miles from other humans.
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AC Ellis Photography Blog

AC Ellis photography blog is coming to you from Brookings, SD. Samples of professional photography mostly of local people...weddings, etc. Interesting anyway and a break from the blogs most of us write with miles of text. Cory Ann Ellis is showing some of her photography and of course in the process selling her work, but I suspect more than a few people visiting this blog will be saying something like, "OOOOhh, isn't that cute!" or "Hmmm, wonder what that is?" So, enjoy yourself for a few minutes now and then at this photography Blog.
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Richard Harter's World -- a Bloglike Webpage

OK, this site isn't a Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, or any other kind of a blog system based website. Nope looks like it is a hand-coded log of personal observations, editorials photos, humor etc collected for the past 10 years. Perhaps "tepidly" bloggish, but close enough for this collection. Probably gives a good indication of what could be done before "blogs" became the poorman's CMS system. With all the stuff on this site, nearly everybody should be able to find something interesting, funny, amusing, or just plain worth reading...of course there is a lot of other stuff there too. Thanks for Bernie Hunhoff of SD Magazine for noting this comparatively unknown gem of a site.
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Progressive Republican Blog

If you can see the image, you know this is a Republican site and if you read the fine print, you find "Commentary on current events with a dash of humor from a curious student of human and political behavior."

Unfortunately, he apparently hasn't found much fitting the criteria since July. It would be good for South Dakota if the progressive Republicans would say more and some of the other kind would say a lot less and think about it too. I probably shouldn't jab anybody about not spouting off regularly enough. I am finding a number of "South Dakota Blogs" that are very dormant. I suspect many people start them and then find it takes a lot of time to build up any kind of readership. Blog analytics can be a tad bit depressing. Well, log into this blog a few times and maybe the author will rouse like Rip Van Winkle...
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Republic Insider Blog

A year or more later than some of the so-called Mainstream media in South Dakota, the newspaper Mitchell Daily Republic found that their readers liked a temporary blog on a bonding issue, and have decided to make it a regular feature of their paper. The "About" area has this "This Daily Republic blog is moderated by Seth Tupper, the newspaper's city reporter and assistant editor. The Daily Republic reserves the right to remove any posts that its editors find to be obscene or libelous, so please keep it civil."
You can get to this new blog via Http://www.mitchellrepublic.com or you can use the link below which may get you there directly. A newspaper blog that isn't in Rapid City or Sioux Falls may fill a hole in the SD bloglandscape. Watch it grow or make it grow.
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BOJ News Service Blog

BOJ News Service is the creation of the poster calling himself "Blind Orange Julius" when he posted comments at Mt.Blogmore. He has some South Dakota roots, but found a decent job in Wyoming I think. Even so, let us consider this to be a South Dakota blog..at least in spirit. The specialty at BOJ NEWS is photography, but not because they are pretty pictures...more like photo cartoons..phototoons perhaps. My first comment about his blog should be repeated, "...uses his graphics talents for truly evil purposes. He points out foibles... there just isn't any more evil thing to do by yourself...". Warning..not for the faint heart or the easily offended..er well..perhaps especially for the easily offended..yah, that's my story and I'm sticking to it. Check his blog, but be prepared to laugh out loud.
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Prairie Roots Blog

Prairie Roots blog is pretty much planted as a close neighbor to Madville Times. Not to be too cute about it, Erin is Cory's wife. Her blog emphasizes sustainability while practicing permanence on the great plains. Her profile suggests she has at least two full-time jobs, but not quite said that way. But, check her blog. I guess if you can find her blog you can find his and vice versa...so check their interesting linklists too.
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Blue Note Blog

The Blue Note blog seems to be one of the poorest named blogs in South Dakota. It suggests music or porn and it is none of that. This if the official South Dakota Democratic Party Blog. It is edited by staff of Democratic Party..more or less rarely apparently. It appears any news analysis function has been shifted to the Bad Lands Blue Blog mentioned in a previous post here. But, don't be turned off by the name. Check here once a month or so and see if there is still a pulse. I suppose I should now search for an official SD Republcan Party blog, but suspect that too can wait awhile without missing much.
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Haggard News Blog

This is a blog I just never quite got into my RSS feeds or reader. Never mind that, here is the data from Haggard News "About": Haggs ,Canton, South Dakota I'm an idependent guy who enjoys discussion of politics and stuff on the internet.
The header image indicates..well you can read it too..."A Progressive Blog". Today it looks like discussion of SD news and local Canton, SD. news and views. So, get another moderate progressive view on some areas of South Dakota and stuff interesting to South Dakotans. Haggard News has been online since 2006. Categories suggest an eclectic taste in stuff. Somewhat less than very regular posting however.
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Voices at Argus Leader Blog

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader papers has tried a number of things bloglike, but their current Voices Blog may be getting it right..a tad bit more like the RC Journal's Mt. Blogmore. Looks like the writers are regulars in the dead tree version of the paper. Patrick Lalley, Matt Okerlund, David Kranz, Sheri Levisay, Tiffany Leach, and Nestor Ramos...at least those names show up on posts today. It is a regular newspaper blog, so the issues here tend to following the local, state, and national issues the paper includes as news. I'm sure some of the writers have their own partisan or ideological preferences, but I also suspect the intent is to stay pretty much middle of the road or at least balance one issue with another of the opposite stripe. The Voices blog can be especially effective if a particularly hot ongoing issue is being discussed or a court case is being held, etc...so, another blog worth checking on regularly. Comments are allowed.
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Madville Times Blog

Cory Allen Heidelberger Lake Herman, South Dakota, United States has been editing Madville Times for a few months or a year. Easy to lose track of time when blog years are the equivalent of ...er..5 years of herding cat years or something like that. More seriously, Heidelberger covers the news around Madison, SD and Dakota State U pretty well and intelligently discusses many local and state issues...some issues in very good detail.
So, worth keeping track of the tracks at Madville Times...no it is not Mudville Times just because it is close to a lake.
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Holabird Advocate Blog

You will just have to look at the Holabird Advocate Blog. I haven't figured out how to describe it. People not from South Dakota might want to know that there is a Holabird, SD. somewhere between Pierre and Huron, South Dakota and it has a population of..well, I don't know. Our SD map doesn't show a population for Holabird. Maybe it disappears when the writer and his family turn out the lights. For some reason the Holabird blog does not load correctly in Firefox Browser...kind of sprawls across the screen...but check the blog for a change of pace....shifting down into a lower gear on Highway 14...
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Black Marks on Wood Blog

Corey Vilhauer writes at his Black Marks on Wood blog. Even so it is all pixels, but of a literate nature. He says he started the blog to post his writing, but the blog evolved into book reviews and generally good writing. This is a blog not quite like all overtly political blogs I have listed. A bit like the Prairie Progressive but somewhat different, tone, and interests. Take a look at it.
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Dakota Voice Blog

Dakota Voice blog has a collection of writers including Columnists - Bob Ellis, Carrie K. Hutchens, Gordon Garnos, John W. Whitehead,Ken Korkow, Paul Scates, and Raymond J. Keating. Check the link lists, and with the exception of a few in the SD Blog list, they are very much conservative, fundamentalist, and/or Republican. This is a blog that should open with a church bell as an audio device. But check it anyway. It will give you some idea of what a more literate "Sibson Online" might be. Don't expect to see logic in its finest forms however. Bob Ellis has no reluctance to twist facts and ignore them in the interests of an argument..even if that argument is irrelevant, but appears to be somewhat significant. Read Carefully. Moderated comments are accepted..even a few from yours truly have darkened the blog.

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Progressive on the Prairie Blog

A Progressive on the Prairie is actually a lawyer in Sioux Falls, but he has the prairie perspective with an erudite twist. The blog started as mostly progressive politics, but the author became more interested in posting about books, videos, movies, TV, blogs, etc and reviewing them from a progressive perspective. A Prairie Progressive fills a big hole in the prairie blogosphere rather than piling more mud the huge pile already made by expressly political blogs regularly blowing smoke and tossing mud. Moderated comments and regular updates. The guy gets more read, heard and viewed in a week than I do in a year.
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SD Straight Talk Blog

SD Straight Talk Blog has been running for a year or so. It is edited by Joel Rosenthal who has had a lot of experience in South Dakota Republican politics and SD business. Check his "About Me" for more information. His perspective seems to be mostly nearly sensible middle of the road Republican. He is interested in more than politics however and his blog is worth checking. He also gets posts into the KELOLAND blog aggregator. Check this blog and SD War College and you might have as good an idea of what current GOP thought is that is possible without being one of them on the inside. So, if you are interested in old guard, new guard, Janklow, Pressler, etc GOP politics, you can't ignore these blogs even if I am not sure that Republican SD Straight Talk can be anything but an oxymoron..but then my bias and perspective is toward the other end of the political spectrum. Regular posts and moderated comments. A "Squarespace" blog.
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Robbinsdale Radical Blog

Robbinsdale Radical blog is hiding in a Rapid City suburb apparently. The blog has been running for a year or so and specializes in civil rights issues and other liberal issues. Regular posts are made and moderated senisible comments are usually accepted.
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The Other Whirled Blog

And now something completely different..well almost... From the blog owners own description:

"what is the otherwhirled? i'm just having a bit of fun here...i wax towards the satirical, the acrimonious, the snarkery....our elected officials are my favorite targets. a photographer myself, i play upon what i believe to be the inherent editorialization which so many of the photographers and stringers on the political beat capture ...i live in the general vicinity of sioux falls, south dakota..."

Also a warning not to take much of anything there seriously. Satirists always say that, but not sure I believe them. Have a little fun. Check the photography and the photography fun manipulations. Comments allowed by "commander other".
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Badlands Blue Blog

If you have forgotten the "red and blue states" of last election coverage, this is another reminder of party fixation on that "blue". No mistake about it, this is a Democratic Blog started a few months ago. Posts are by "Lowell", but there is a poltical advertising disclaimer at the bottom of the page.."Paid for and authorized by the South Dakota Democratic Party"
. But, you can get real news and information here whether or not you are a Democrat or a Republican. And, the disclaimer at BadLands Blue is a marked contrast to some of the South Dakota blogs in the last election which were more or less bought if not paid for by the Thune campaign or Republican organizations, but tried to maintain the idea they were just unbiased reporters of South Dakota Politics...as contrasted with the oh, so terrible "liberal media" in SD.

So, take a look at Badlands Blue..it is an honestly labeled contrast to a lot of other SD Blogs.

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