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Meteor Blades Comments

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Meteor Blades is the pseudonym of journalist and political blogger Timothy Lange. He discovered blogs in December 2002, and created his pseudonym in late January 2003 to comment on Daily Kos. After serving over fourteen months as an official guest blogger on Daily Kos, he continued making front-page posts there, later becoming a Contributing Editor to the site. He was named the site's Director of Community on June 1, 2009. He co-founded the group blog The Next Hurrah in February 2005.

This page only contains information about Meteor Blades's blog commenting on Daily Kos; for additional information on his writing see the main Meteor Blades page.

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Commenting on Daily Kos

Meteor Blades's first comment on Daily Kos, using his pseudonym, was on January 25, 2003, responding to a story by guest blogger Steve Soto, So Much for Dismissing "Old Europe" The comment thread link to that post is here, and his comment was signed "MeteorBlades". He added the space to his name for two days starting on June 18, 2003, reverted to the original signature, and then changed permanently sometime in late August.

He also made two prior comments on Daily Kos under his real name, Tim Lange. The first, in the Markos-created Open Thread: waxing philosophical, can be found in the post's comment thread.

List of Comment Links

When Meteor Blades started commenting at Daily Kos, the blog was using Movable Type software. Markos was the sole blogger—though he began inviting guest bloggers to cover for him occasionally as 2003 began—and comment threads popped up in a separate window. The Movable Type site has subsequently been archived at DailyKos.net, and all links are to that archive.

In the archive, direct links can only be made to individual front-page posts, and to the comment threads of those posts. Only the entire thread can be linked to; there is no way to link to individual posts. So, once you bring up a comment thread in your browser, use your browser's search function to find "Meteor". This will find all of Meteor Blades's comments regardless of whether the space is used in the name or not, plus some direct references to those comments or questions to Meteor Blades. If you only want to find Meteor Blades's comments, then search on "by Meteor".

In the list of comments below, the date given is the date the particular front-page post was made; it is possible that the actual comment was made the next day. Note that Meteor Blades traveled to Bali on February 21, 2003, and he didn't comment on Daily Kos for several weeks after he arrived.

The person writing the original front page post is assumed to be Markos; if there was a guest blogger that day—Billmon, Steve Soto, Steve Gilliard, RonK, Seattle, or DHinMI—that blogger will be named. Any open threads that Billmon or Steve Gilliard may have created will be credited to him on this page; if uncredited, open threads are also assumed to be set up by Markos.

Note that comments attached to Meteor Blades's own front-page posts are not listed on this page. Links to those comments will be found on the Meteor Blades Posts page.

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July 2003

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July 2–31: Movable Type comments were shut down on July 1, 2003 at 5:01 p.m., and HaloScan comments were brought up in their place as a temporary measure on July 2, 2003 at 11:48 a.m. Unfortunately, due to problems setting up the first Daily Kos-owned server, Movable Type comments were not restored until August 16, 2003 at 9:44 a.m.; hence, any comments made Meteor Blades under HaloScan from July 2 through early morning on August 16 have been lost.

August 2003

August 1–15: All comments made in this period have been lost

August 16–17: no comments made

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After August 20, 2003

Comments posted by Meteor Blades after August 20 and until the Movable Type (archived) Daily Kos site was shut down on October 15, 2003, will be added as their links are retrieved from the archive. As this is a labor-intensive process, the task will take weeks or months to complete.

Link to Daily Kos comments on current site

Here is a link that will show you all the comments Meteor Blades has written (36,406 as of January 18, 2009) on the current Daily Kos site (Scoop-based; opened October 13, 2003), 50 per search page. He created the account at the first instant the site became available, capturing User Id 6. He is one of the ten most prolific commenters on Daily Kos since the introduction of Scoop.

Original Source

This page is based on the Daily Kos diary Top Comments: Meteor Blades on Daily Kos, part 1 written by sardonyx, and published on July 6, 2008.

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This page was last modified 21:12, 16 May 2010 by dKosopedia user Sardonyx. Content is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.


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