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I know what you were thinking, "if only I, the blog reader at home, could read some kind of aggregator of Twitters from Netroots Nation participants." Well, okay, the odds that you were thinking this are low. But someone at the Huffington Post thought it would be a good idea and asked me to participate, which I may or may not actually be set up correctly to do. Check it out. Or not.

Meanwhile, Austin: very hot, full of bloggers and inexpensive alcoholic beverages.

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But someone at the Huffington Post thought it would be a good idea

Isn't this more blogging than we need?

I mean, there is a world out there with grass and trees and people in it.

Posted by Swan | July 17, 2008 12:17 PM

Heat, cheap alcohol, bad-tempered bloggers -- sounds like a recipe for trouble. Fortunately, these are liberal bloggers, so it will probably just be fist-fights with no guns involved.

Posted by peep | July 17, 2008 12:21 PM

Heaven is very inexpensive, full of hot bloggers and alcoholic beverages.

Hell is very hot, full of inexpensive alcoholic bloggers and... actually I can't think of anything bad about beverages.

Posted by Matt Weiner | July 17, 2008 12:25 PM

Two posts in a row leading with "If only . . . " shtick (one in the opening sentence, one in title).

Bit lazy, don't you think?

Posted by E.B. White | July 17, 2008 12:30 PM

Best tip I can give you--go to Las Manitas for breakfast, brunch and/or lunch at some point this week. It's off of Congress at roughly 2nd St. (a couple blocks up from the Congress St. bridge). The restaurant has been the subject of some dispute in the local politics scene b/c of the sweetheart loan it got after the Marriott was threatening to shut them down (long story, not worth your time), but don't let that stop you. Pound for pound (pun intended) quite possibly the best Mexican restaurant in the country.

Alternatively, you can hit up Guero's that's on South Congress. It's Bill Clinton's favorite, and absolutely delicious, but not quite up to the Las Manitas standard.

Also a few solid Mexican, Southern and Barbeque places on the east side you can check out (Juan in a Million, Hoover's, Sam's)--and realize exactly how the residential segregation in Austin breaks down (hint: I-35 plays a prominent role).

Posted by MSB | July 17, 2008 2:13 PM

Isn't this more blogging than we need?

I, for one, won't be satisfied until science creates "Total Experience Blogging--" where I can stick a USB plug into a port in my head and, via RSS feed or similar mechanism, have my brain instantly updated with every thought, however trivial, that Matt thinks. "Being Matthew Yglesias," as it were.

Posted by James Gary | July 17, 2008 3:06 PM

Matt, don't look now but Renée Zellweger is tweeting about you.

Posted by Peter K. | July 17, 2008 4:53 PM

...and if you have enough inexpensive alcoholic beverages, it will appear to be full of very hot bloggers.

Posted by Jay | July 17, 2008 7:51 PM

If the stuff at that link is any indication of what's on Twitter generally, then I think I'll be an old fogey and skip it. It makes Reader's Digest look deep.

Posted by low-tech cyclist | July 17, 2008 10:17 PM

This was amusing. This morning I got an email from some nitwit at HuffPo informing me of this Twitter nonsense. I think this should be considered spam, by the way. Apparently they still have me down as a commenter even though I was banned a couple years ago for exposing and criticizing Josh Marshall's banning me from TPM.

Apparently both Josh and Arianna are "crypto-Zionists" and can't tolerate too much "Israel-bashing". And you're not allowed to criticize the HuffPo's "partners", regardless of whether it's true or not.

But they forgot to drop me from their list, hence the email this morning.

Morons.

Posted by Richard Steven Hack | July 17, 2008 10:38 PM