Big Sky Blog

Carroll College in Helena is looking for some student bloggers:

The Carroll Admission office is looking for 3-5 Carroll students who are interested in blogging their campus thoughts for prospective students looking at Carroll as a college option. This will be a one-way blog, so you won’t be getting any feedback from other users, but you will in fact be blogging about your experiences on campus. We’d like to give our prospective students an honest (and positive) snapshot of campus life through your eyes. You can journal about the mundane, the extraordinary, and everything in between.

Emphasis mine. While I appreciate that they are doing it, it’s a bit sad to see them only “halfway” doing it.

I’m not sure exactly what the LG Report is (think it’s the blogger’s initials – Lazarus G____?), but he’s started a 50-State Interview series, and in today’s installment he visits with a Montanan:

Today we move on to the second installment in The LG Report’s 50-State Interview Series (collect ‘em all!) After starting with Dannie in New York, we’re packing up the wagon train and heading out West to meet Patty from Gardiner, Montana. Giddyap little doggie!

The stereotypes and jokes are rampant in the interview, but I think it’s relatively harmless, good for a few chuckles. Go say hi.

Here’s a whimsical site that has been going for a while:The Button Valley Bugle! It is the official news blog of the Last, Best, Imaginary Place: Button Valley! From the About page:

Button Valley is centrally located. Nestled gently between the Purcell Range and the Black Hills in the Treasure State. County seat of Boxelder County and home to the Button Valley High School “Fighting Pikas”. Button Valley is slightly to the Left side of Montana. Home, every August to the World Famous Button Valley Hand-Cranked Ice Cream Festival.

And take note of the commenting policy: “We reserve the right to withhold or delete comments by idiots, morons or people from North Dakota.” Heh.

A new media outlet seems to be off to a good start in Montana: the Montana Watchdog. According to the website: “It is a branch of the Montana Policy Institute, a nonpartisan policy research center and an associate member of the Montana Newspaper Association.” Be sure to follow them on Twitter and/or Facebook, too.
UPDATE: looks like the folks at Montana Watchdog are on Governor Schweitzer’s radar!

New Montana blogger Jason King is off to a great start – he’s an illustrating genius, and topical to boot! And how could you not love the title of his blog, Scorn On The Cob?! Check out his “condolence card” to Conan O’Brien:

Just a reminder: there’s a whole lotta bloggers here in Montana; here’s the current roster of all of the Big Sky Bloggers that I know of! Please let me know of anyone that I have missed, and keep me posted of new bloggers. If you ever run out of blogs to read, come on over here and just start clicking!

If you’re a right-of-center person – who in 2008 can be called Conservative, Republican, Libertarian, Paleocon (or should that be Palin-ocon now?), Neocon, Independent – and you want to start blogging, check this out: Right Montana! It’s a free, push-button simple blogging site where anyone can sign up and begin blogging literally within minutes. It’s based on the Wordpress platform, which can’t be beat, and did I mention that it’s free? And there are dozens of Themes (templates) to choose from, with lots of options to customize your blog.
So if you’re Right and want to tell the world what you think about Life, The Universe, and Campaign 2008 (and beyond), head on over to Right Montana and start blogging!

The dark horse just might turn out to be the front-runner: some sources are saying that they have confirmed that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been selected as John McCain’s Vice-Presidential nominee. You knew that there is a blog about this, right? I suspect that most (not all, but most) Montanans will approve of this selection.

Randy’s Billings Free Press continues to improve — he’s done a great job with it. He’s got a great layout/design, fresh content, images, tags, the whole thing. If you live in Billings – or will be visiting – you owe it to yourself to both read the Billings Free Press AND add it to your blogroll (or bookmarks).

The roster of all of the Big Sky Bloggers! Please let me know of anyone that I have missed, and keep me posted of new bloggers. If you ever run out of blogs to read, come on over here and just start clicking!