POLITICAL WEB SITE AUTHORS KEEP IDENTITY SECRET (Mercury News) When Essex County Executive James W. Treffinger dropped out of the U.S. Senate race on April 22, The Associated Press put a one-sentence "news alert" out on its wires at 2:08pm. But for New Jersey's political junkies, it was old news. The anonymously operated Web site politicsnj.com had about 100 words describing Treffinger's withdrawal at 1:40pm. It was the latest soup for an e-publication that in a little more than two years has grown to become mandatory reading for the political class in New Jersey by providing a virtual clipping service for the morning newspapers and a combination of tips, gossip, and opinions. http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/editorial/3210258.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sign this pro-therapeutic cloning petition: http://www.franklinsociety.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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