Six months ago, I had a somewhat heated exchange with a political operative who fancies himself something of an online communications expert. The individual, who works for one of our state's more prominent elected officials, and not surprisingly isn't from New Mexico, though neither am I, made a derisive comment regarding the quality of the New Mexico blogsphere. My exact response is hard to recall, but I'm pretty sure it included pointed questioning, such as who asked him, mixed with a dash of profanity followed by awkward silence, which is generally the best kind when trying to get a point across. For a couple of minutes after the individual departed, I almost felt bad for not apologizing for my emotionally charged response. However, after reading coverage of the Damron/Dendahl switch, I'm glad I was able to so easily ignore that brief twinge of remorse.
New Mexico's blogsphere may not be as big as some of those in bordering states, but what we lack in size we more than make up for in quality. While the AbqJournal and the New Mexican delivered the broad outline of events, it was the blogs that had the first hand accounts and other information that filled in the picture of how events unfolded.
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