Meet the bloggers: Bruce Carroll Jr. & Daniel Blatt.Ages: 38 and 43 Location: Charlotte, N.C., and Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Blog: GayPatriot.org Year launched: 2004 Visitors per month: 45,000 to 50,000 Why you started: Carroll: "To counteract the idea that all gays think alike politically. To protest the outing witch hunt targeting congressional staffers based on their political beliefs." Purpose of blog: Carroll: "To provide a forum of alternative political viewpoints to the gay community. To reach out to Red State America and to counteract the stereotype stereotype (stĕr`ĕətīp'), plate from which printing is done, made by casting metal in a mold, usually of paper pulp. The process was patented in 1725 by the Scottish inventor William Ged. that all gays are uberliberal." Year you quit your day job: Carroll: "Haven't yet." Biggest advertiser: Carroll: "Our advertising is all done through the Pajamas Media Pajamas Media, briefly known as Open Source Media, is a startup company founded in 2004 by mystery writer, screenwriter and blogger Roger L. Simon, and Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs "with the intention of... network ... so I don't even know anymore. You might be interested to know that before we joined Pajamas Media, we were refused our request to join the GayBlogs consortium [on BlogAds.com] due to our blogs political views." Strangest posting: Carroll: "Any of the postings involving the political candidacy of Jonathan The Impaler Sharkey--the vampire vampire, in folklore, animated corpse that sucks the blood of humans. Belief in vampires has existed from the earliest times and has given rise to an amalgam of legends and superstitions. politician [from Minnesota]." Hottest link: Carroll: "Any posting with a photo of [country music singer] Keith Anderson For the reggae artist also known as Keith Anderson, see . Keith Anderson (born on January 12, 1968, in Miami, Oklahoma) is an American country singer. Early life ." Three cons of blogging: Carroll: "People who make knee-jerk statements but don't actually read our postings; not having the time to write more." Blatt: "Hate mail and hate comments." |
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