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Link Bank

This post was actually created starting on on Aug. 20, 2005--I'm parking it out of the way back here so it won't clutter up current posting.

To date, some of the fun links and citations I've gotten include Instapundit, Just One Minute, Brent Bozell's Media Research Center, Newsbusters, (by Clay Waters of Times Watch), NRO's Media Blog by Stephen Spruiell, and Soccer Dad.

Added Aug. 24: Captain's Quarters, and that post contributed to the War Blog at FrontPageMag.

Aug. 25: Michelle Malkin. Later links include Sept. 8.

Sept. 8: Jay Rosen at PressThink, cross-posted at Huffington Post.

Sept. 9: Cosmo the Wonder Dog at NRO's The Corner.

Sept. 9: Wonkette.

Sept. 13: Memeorandum.

Sept. 23: Instapundit, Newsbusters, NRO Media Blog, Memeorandum.

Oct. 4: PressThink

Oct. 9: Instapundit, Newsbusters   

Oct. 19: Wizbang

Oct. 20: Memeorandum Memeorandum Memeorandum Yeah, fun day.

Oct. 20: Amy Ridenour's National Center Blog

Oct. 21: Patrick Ruffini. Bunch o' times really, here's one. Hope you have a magnifying glass.

Oct. 27: Stephen Spruiell at NRO's Media Blog

Nov. 3: Stephen Spruiell at... you get the idea.

Nov. 10: The Commons blog. Thanks Amy.

Nov. 11: Spruiell

Nov. 22: Stephen Spruiell in a proper NRO column. Thanks.

Dec. 6: Newsbusters. No, this is not me linking to myself.

Dec. 9: Jay Rosen at PressThink

Dec. 12: Memeorandum, though it's a bank shot--a cross-post by me at Newsbusters

Dec. 13:  PressThink

(All the above are 2005) (I think)

Some more fun links in 2006, not all-inclusive:

June 7, Soccer Dad

June 12, Stephen Spruiell at NRO's Media Blog.

June 12, Planet Moron, maybe better known in some humor circles though Hugh Hewitt recently linked it.

July 2, Instapundit and Patterico. Don't call it a comeback. Sites that link to Patterico's citation of PostWatch but that, tragically, omit mentioning my blog include Michelle Malkin and Powerline.

July 3, Say Anything

July 5, July 11, Memeorandum, nice to revisit that robot, whatever its formula may be.

July 5, Michael Yon.

August  14,  TimesWatch 

August 15, Media Research Center's Brent Bozell

August  16,  libertarian comic genius Ace of Spades 

August 18, On The Square, the blog of Catholic/Evangelical journal First Things, courtesy of a post by Charlotte Allen. This here is one big-tent blog, from Ace to First Things. Anyway if I could read only one journal, that would be it.

August 20, Haveil Havalim, a weekly roundup of the best in the Jewish blogosphere, thankfully in my case including some broader sources like my item about the Post's coverage of Israel. Great to be included, and thanks to Soccer Dad for the nomination and A Barbaric Yawp for hosting the edition in which I was included.

Sept. 16: Benedict Blog and a companion blog, Against The Grain

Sept. 25: Michelle Malkin

Oct. 15: Amy Ridenour's National Center blog.

Oct. 22: Sphere featured my post (along with others) as an attachment to a Time.com story on Iraq. That's what the Sphere badge is for. Plus it matches my color scheme.

Oct. 25: Newsbusters courtesy of Mark Finkelstein and Tim Graham.

October sometime: a Wikipedia entry on Battlestar Galactica.

Oct. 28 or so: Congressional Quarterly's "Behind the Lines", which I can't link to since it's a subscription service, but Isaacf says they did and posted an excerpt and that's good enough for me. It doesn't appear that CQ liked my Battlestar Galactica item, but life is bitterly hard that way.

Oct. 31: PostGlobal, part of Washington Post Newsweek Interactive, known around here as washingtonpost.com (they're not identical, but close enough). WPNI/PostGlobal invited me and plenth of other bloggers to comment on various issues at their site; the opening issue for me was gay marriage (and thank you very much, not). The link above brings you to my comment, embedded with all the others, but when first posted it runs on the homepage for awhile.

Nov. 15: Michelle Malkin and Blogs of War

Dec. 18: Patrick Ruffini's 2008 Presidential Wire. I'll be damned if I can find a way to permalink to him, but his software found my post A Christmas Present From John McCain

Dec. 28:  The Guardian's News Blog by James Sturcke

And thus endeth 2006.

2007:

Feb. 9: Soccer Dad

Feb. 9: Wizbang

Feb. 9: Just One Minute, Dean's World  -- Plamania.

Feb. 10: Just One Minute, Instapundit, Memeorandum

Feb. 12: Mary Katharine Ham at Town Hall.

Feb. 23: Stephen Spruiell at NRO's Media Blog

March 9: Volokh Conspiracy

March 13: Instapundit courtesy of guest pirate blogger Tom Maguire

April 5: Susan Daniels at Slate (scroll down--about the disappointingly reasonable explanation for the weird Saturn hexagon.

and June 22 from Soccer Dad-- PostWatch's most constant friend. Thanks.

The Story of PostWatch

PostWatch, a blog critiquing the Washington Post and other media follies, originally operated for little more than a year, from February, 2002 through April, 2003. There were a few scattered posts after that but nothing sustained. My nom de cyber was Christopher Rake. I'll soon be operating it under my own name, and I plan to add some original reporting along with the media criticism that several dozens of you came to know and love. Okay, so it's a short story. The original blog is here.

UPDATE, JUNE 22: Now the slightly longer story can be told:

PostWatch is owned and operated by Christopher Fotos, a veteran commercial aviation journalist. It is the revival of a blog that I ran, primarily during February, 2002 through April, 2003, under the pseudonym Christopher Rake.

I spent most of  my career with McGraw-Hill's Aviation Week Group, including eleven years from typist to reporter at Aviation Week & Space Technology, two years as a government affairs reporter with Aviation Daily, and six years as editor of Airports, a trade publication covering business, regulation and politics. Other stints include a brief tour as an editor and public relations chief in the early 1990's for Avmark, an aviation consulting firms whose U.S. headquarters were in Rosslyn, Va., across the river from DC's Georgetown.

When my position as Airports' editor was terminated in the summer of 2004 as part of a downsizing, I pursued freelance work and served briefly as managing editor of McGraw-Hill's Homeland Security magazine. I signed on early with Pajamas Media but didn't make the corporate cut, and am now blogging as part of the Government Relations Blog Network.

Opinions expressed at PostWatch--past, present and future--strictly are those of the author.

Bio revised Dec. 17, 2005.