Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Social Aggregation Aggravation

By Fester:



I just signed up for Facebook this week because one of my good friends is the de facto group photographer and the holder of the vast majority of photos of me that have been taken since my wedding.  He had previously hosted the digital images on a personal website but has migrated the albums to Facebook while closing the personal site.  Another good friend, my roommate from college, has been harassing me to send her a recent picture of my wife and I so I was stuck.  The only source of recent digital photos were on Facebook so I succumbed.  And now this is one damn many social networking systems I belong too --- twitter.com, LinkedIn, Facebook, Boxbe and a couple of others that I have spent thirty minutes on at some point.  There has to be a better way of integrating these different systems into a seamless system so that I can keep an eye on some high school buddies as they are rocking out in New York like I thought they would have ten years ago while having brief, high value tweets on urban resiliency... I wonder if there is a system that can integrate multiple social networking feeds into a single unified portal/interface so that if the same person is showing up on my Facebook and LinkedIn buddy lists their relevant information is combined....



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  1. carolMay 30, 2008 at 1:40 AM

    also, does ANYONE know where to play scrabulous not of facebook for the luvofallthatisholy?

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  2. dougie smoothMay 30, 2008 at 6:07 AM

    I will make the out-of-ass prediction that we are going to see some serious evolution of the browser in the near future. Its interaction with net content continues to this day to be as minimal as it could possibly be. It is merely a passive conduit. The advent of tabbed-browsing is but a prelude to a much more dynamic and feature rich web-wide content management, as it is the browser whose purview is the entirety of the internet, not any one site (even if that site aspires to aggregate aggregators). I think we may see the Google model of connected apps start to be merged with the browser itself. Google Browser Beta, anyone?

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