Bob Orr really blogs.
In a segment on NBC 17's new "At Issue" program Sunday, your Dome correspondent and the Charlotte Observer's Mark Johnson discussed political blogs run by the gubernatorial campaigns.
Regularly updated features on the Web sites of Richard Moore and Fred Smith just look like blogs, we said, while "More from Orr" really reads like his personal blog.
We noted that there is a risk that Orr could offend voters (as when he referred to a black teacher as "articulate" and "attractive"), it's also more likely to be seen as authentic. (Laura Leslie agrees.)
On his blog last night, Orr wrote that he has imposed a "2 glasses of wine" rule and no late-night blogging. (Weren't those the rules for Gremlins?)
"I confess, however, to have violated that rule once but fortunately woke up at 5:30 a.m. and edited the entry before anyone actually read it," he writes.
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do not assume that posting on a blog at 1:30 am and deleting that entry at 5:30 am before anyone actually read it means that people won't see it. Bob's blog http://www.blogorr08.com/ has an RSS feed (sorry for the jargon in this comment) and feed aggregators like Bloglines http://www.bloglines.com troll by periodically and push the post to their subscribers. Bob Orr's feed has one subscriber on bloglines, and even after a post is deleted, the post will still show up in the cache at the aggregator for that subscriber to read. (no, I am not subscribed). Full disclosure: Bob Orr and I were law school classmates.