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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Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Newshoggers On Twitter

By Steve Hynd


Just in case anyone is wondering, you can find all the Newshoggers partners -  David, Ron, John and myself - on Twitter.


So far, I'm the prolific tweeter. I've discovered I can use it as a sort of combined link-dump and quick notes system which I kinda like. Now if only I had the time to write all the posts those notes and links suggest...



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  1. geoffOctober 7, 2009 at 11:23 AM

    I think, unless it is me which could be the case - an awful day too many mistakes, when I click to get on twitter and thus follow I get a server error.

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  2. geoffOctober 7, 2009 at 11:25 AM

    I've just try for the 5th time and got a response so it was or is me. Ignore my previous e-mail then, I think.

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  3. geoffOctober 7, 2009 at 11:35 AM

    Sorry, I know it's annoying but why not consider twittering, or whatever it's called, the Newshogger site using something like twitterfeed or other service. Much more inclusive even though I do truly like particular writers on your site I'm still generally interested in everything all who post with you say, or link to, even if only in passing

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  4. Steve HyndOctober 7, 2009 at 4:54 PM

    Good idea, Geoff. I'll talk to Ron and see if between us we can set something up.
    Regards, Steve

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