AN ONLY MILDLY WARRANTED TRIUMPHALISM:

The Year Of Blogging Dangerously (Edward B. Driscoll, Jr., 12/27/04, Tech Central Station)

[F]rom the home office in San Jose, California, allow me to present, via my 1972 IBM Selectric and my jammies, the top ten events that ricocheted through the Blogosphere in 2004. They're presented in order of importance, not chronologically; no doubt, you'd assemble a very different list; but I trust you'll agree with at least some of these choices. [...]

6. The Exit Polls: On Election Tuesday, depending on whom you want to believe, either the networks or the Kerry camp released mid-afternoon polling data to several extremely prominent Websites, including Matt Drudge on the right, and Anna Marie Cox's Wonkette Weblog on the left. The result added even more of a roller coaster quality to an already manic day, leaving Kerry voters temporarily euphoric, and Bush supporters in a state of sullen disillusionment.

Even as the Democrats started doing victory laps on Election eve, Bill Kristol came on FOX News's coverage and just buried the exit polls--the first time anyone on the networks did so. One would assume he was being coached by the White House, but it was interesting that the blogs had the story hours earlier.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 27, 2004 8:19 AM