Comments on: Nice Work If You Can Get It: A Closer Look at Campaign Blogger Remunerations

By: John Edwards Woos Tech Bloggers » The Bivings Report

John Edwards Woos Tech Bloggers » The Bivings Report — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 20:24:32 +0000

[...] For political bloggers this stuff is old hat. They meet with candidates, exchange emails with staffers, participate in campaign conference calls and have opulent parties thrown for them. Hell, last cycle a number of them got put on the campaign payroll. [...]

By: Julie Fanselow

Julie Fanselow — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 05:27:05 +0000

Grassroots for Grant was taken offline at the candidate’s request shortly after Election Day. It is still available, but it’s password protected. Anyone with a legitimate reason to view it can contact me at juliewrites@yahoo.com for log-in info.

By: Bloggers for Sale? at Blog P.I.

Bloggers for Sale? at Blog P.I. — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 01:06:17 +0000

[...] National Journal’s K. Daniel Glover, who never gets too old for this, co-wrote an op-ed for the New York Times today on bloggers who work for campaigns (based on his own reporting, which I later extrapolated into an unwieldy series of charts), and the reaction from the blogosphere could probably be best described as extreme hostility. [...]

By: Mindy Finn

Mindy Finn — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 17:46:23 +0000

Interesting topic to research; however, I have to call your methodology seriously into question. You have listed me as a paid blogger/new media coordinator for the Santorum campaign and assumed my salary was for compensation in that area. You are right, but the FEC report doesn’t list additional responsibilities which I had and I imagine the other campaign staffers also had i.e. microtargeting, volunteer/voter management, web design and management, writer, mass email director, etc. Comparing someone who handles a broad aspect of the campaign to someone who purely blogs for the campaign is an apples to oranges comparison. Also, you cite one of my colleagues as a blog advisor who was the Director of Coalitions and was only minimally involved with the blog. I like your post, but I challenge you to dig deeper in your research.

By: I Am Jack’s YouTube Account at Blog P.I.

I Am Jack’s YouTube Account at Blog P.I. — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 01:59:47 +0000

[...] Six months is none too shabby — that’s almost half the billion-dollar startup’s young life. (I’ve never met Kingston aide David All, but he must be worth the $6,500 Kingston let Mike Bouchard pay him in September.) Then again, as Senator-elect James Webb’s Facebook wrangler discovered last month, when it comes to social networking, politicians have to be warier of who links to them than most: [...]

By: Akkam’s Razor

Akkam’s Razor — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 03:16:26 +0000

[...] Nice Work If You Can Get It: A Closer Look at Campaign Blogger Remunerations at Blog P.I. How much money is flowing to bloggers from political campaigns? (tags: blogs campaigns Politics) Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]

By: Exit Music For A Campaign at Blog P.I.

Exit Music For A Campaign at Blog P.I. — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:56:26 +0000

[...] Also of some interest – what Danny Glover did for political blogger/consultants last week, today he does for political blogger/donors. Earlier in the week I extrapolated from his numbers (in some cases perhaps a bit too far) to create charts based on them. Today, why don’t I rank his latest findings in order, from those donating the most to those donating the least? Why not indeed: [...]

By: Grayson

Grayson — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:38:55 +0000

Oh yeah, there’s that “loaner” from Jack Kingston, (R) GA. Maybe Southern pols don’t pay their bloggers? If that’s the case, you’d think we’d know better about not paying people for their labor around here. Guess not.

By: Grayson

Grayson — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:31:31 +0000

Now I know why I don’t yet have a paying blog job. Seems that, other than VA, Southern politicians have not yet discovered blogging as a means of communcations. Other than John Edwards that is, but he doesn’t count, not this year at least. We iz still a lil slow down here.

By: The Volokh Conspiracy

The Volokh Conspiracy — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 06:16:48 +0000

I hope Nancy Pelosi’s check is in the mail:…

This post details some of the payments various bloggers are getting from political campaigns this fall. Other blogger……