{"id":12942,"date":"2011-11-29T07:59:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/?p=12942"},"modified":"2011-11-29T07:59:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T15:59:39","slug":"antiwar-com-featured-in-making-it-in-the-political-blogosphere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/2011\/11\/29\/antiwar-com-featured-in-making-it-in-the-political-blogosphere\/","title":{"rendered":"Antiwar.com Featured in “Making it in the Political Blogosphere”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our devoted Managing Editor Eric Garris is featured in a new book called\u00a0Making it in the Political Blogosphere: The World’s Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>by Tanni Haas. It’s a brilliant insider’s look at the political blogosphere and the minds that lead it. Other top figures in the blogosphere featured in the book are Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post fame, Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, Nick Gillespie of Reason.com, Tyler Cowen of Marginal Revolution,\u00a0Ben Smith of\u00a0Politico, <\/em>Lew Rockwell of lewrockwell.com, Matt Yglesias, Kevin Drum, Juan Cole, among many others.<\/p>\n

Eric has a chapter devoted to him and it features a lengthy interview. Here is an excerpt:<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve contributors of various political persuasions.Has that been a challenge?<\/strong><\/p>\n

No, it\u2019s not really been a challenge. It\u2019s given us the ability to be different.We\u2019re not left-wing or right-wing; we\u2019re anti-war. There\u2019s an anti-war\u00a0tradition that goes back on the left and on the right. Our goal is to bring\u00a0those traditions together, as well as every other part of society that\u2019s against\u00a0war, or at least against particular ones. Th e only way we\u2019re going to be able\u00a0to stop wars is by uniting, regardless of our positions on other issues.<\/p>\n

…Why do you think Antiwar.com has been so successful?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s the focus on a very important issue that\u2019s probably not going\u00a0to go away for a long time. And there are a certain number of people out\u00a0there who realize how important an issue it is to them, and they\u2019re the core\u00a0of the people that have kept us alive both in terms of readership and support…<\/p>\n

…Do you have any other, more specific advice for\u00a0aspiring political bloggers?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are successful sites that are all over the spectrum, in every way. It\u2019s\u00a0just a question of saying. \u201cThis is what I want. This is why I want to do it.\u201d\u00a0If you want to do a site just because it\u2019s cool, you\u2019re probably not going to\u00a0succeed, because you don\u2019t have a vision.\u00a0You have to have a vision. That\u2019s the most important thing. After that\u00a0you have to make a good product.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For a more in-depth look at this interview and other similar insight from many other top bloggers, order this must-read book<\/a>. Here’s Nick Gillespie’s recent blog post<\/a> on the book.<\/p>\n

And as for “the\u00a0core\u00a0of the people that have kept us alive both in terms of readership and support,” please consider making a generous, tax-deductible donation to Antiwar.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our devoted Managing Editor Eric Garris is featured in a new book called\u00a0Making it in the Political Blogosphere: The World’s Top Political Bloggers Share the Secrets to Success\u00a0by Tanni Haas. It’s a brilliant insider’s look at the political blogosphere and the minds that lead it. Other top figures in the blogosphere featured in the book […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-12942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":{"disable_donate_message":"","custom_donate_message":"","subtitle":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12943,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12942\/revisions\/12943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12942"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}