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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Matt Taibbi's Taibblog
1.   Matt Taibbi is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone Magazine and frequently writes political blogs on their website as well as the magazine.
2.   Matt Taibbi's main focus is on politics on the domestic sphere, as well as the occasional piece on foreign policy.  He mostly focuses on commentary and tries to keep an unbiased point of view but rather wants to educate the masses about what is going on in the world of politics from a magazine that is more focused on popular culture.
3.  Matt's main focus is to bring about educating people who are not normally interested in politics by writing about it in a popular culture magazine.  By giving the audience a holistic approach on both foreign and domestic politics we can paint a better picture of the world around us.
4.  He publishes his blogs on a bi-weekly basis.
5.  The comment threads that follow his blogs mainly consist of people either disagreeing or agreeing with what Matt has to say.  For the most part it is monitored closely and the comment do not seem to stray from the topic at hand.
6.  The website has a Facebook, Twitter, and an RSS feed.

Paul Krugman's The Conscience of a Liberal
1. Paul Krugman is a contributing editor at the New York Times and a Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
2.  Krugman's reputation rests mainly on issues of international trade and finance and he is credited as one of the founders of the "new trade theory"which deals with international trade.
3.  His primary goal is for his readers to gain an increased understanding and comprehension about currency and financial affairs.
4.  He publishes on a daily basis.
5. His comments vary from strongly disagreeing with him, and saying how progressive his ideas are.
6.  There is a twitter, and a RSS feed.

IMFdirect
1. The IMFdirect is a compilation of the International Monetary Fund, consisting of over 180 countries which highlight debates over the financial crisis.
2. The IMFdirect mainly consists of highlights over policies that tend to help solve the global economic crisis.
3.  Their primary goal is to help solve the global economic crisis, as well as promote high employment and sustainable growth, facilitating international trade.
4.  The blog gets comments on a daily basis.
5.   While reading the threads I was really impressed on how civil the comments were.  If one of the users did not agree with what was posted, they did not go on a tirade but rather offered their point of view as well as respected the other side's argument.
6. The site has a Twitter and RSS feed.

Naked Capitalism
1.   Naked Capitalism is a compiled database of multiple contributors that try to take on the economic crisis on subject at a time.
2.   Naked Capitalism is a compilation of highlights, news, blogs, and how to change the financial policies all across the globe.
3.  Their primary goal is to educate those who want to be educated about the idea of capitalism and the economy when it's stripped down to the bare bones.
4.  Published on a daily basis.
5.  While reading some comments I noticed that it was a little bit more casual than some of the other websites that I looked at.  Probably because this one had more of an inviting feel to it than the other websites.
6. They have subscriptions to podcasts, emails, and Twitter.

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