This is driving me insane! I can't seem to raise the levels of estrogen in this blog --and it's killing me.

So please people, take a moment to promote your favorite New York women bloggers. They can be "mommy blogger", "edubloggers", foodies, blawggers, hell even sex bloggers if you dare.

I absolutely positively want to see who is out there but also, I want to know who are the women who want to come to The Daily Gotham and just estroswarm the shit out of this blog.

Please, take my blog.

Please, join our cause.

Several news outlets have covered the Duffield Abolitionist homes.

The Real Estate Observer gives us a nice shout out.

Curbed summarizes the last DailyGotham post.

The Gowanus Lounge also wades in, and NY Magazine offers a few words.

NoLandGrab offers original analysis by picking up a point published here. AKRF/NYCEDC chose to print a map without its legend, and NoLandGrab suggests that the missing legend offers support of the residents' oral histories.

Thanks y'all for keeping this on the burner!

Azi "Wolfman" Paybarah howls at the proverbial moon while we're waiting for Bill Richardson to arrive.

I wonder if when people talk about "those crazy bloggers" they have an image like this in mind.

Some time ago, we did a poll to find out what issues our readers are most concerned about. The poll received 150 responses; the poll question was What's your top New York political issue in 2007?

The results show an interesting divergence between what our readers want and what most New York blogs seem to be writing about. Nobody cares about the Presidential race (well, one respondent named it) as much as about the need to reform Albany.

Poll results and some rudimentary analysis on the flip.

Everyone once in a while, it's a good idea to talk about what we consider the editorial standards at The Daily Gotham, in especially as far as posting and comments are concerned. It's my understanding that our friends at Room Eight are currently wrestling with these same questions, and maybe this will be helpful to them as well.

As to posting, we encourage our readers to sign up and blog their own content. This site is read by many influentials in New York, and your content here will get noticed. Unless we know you, however, we're not going to immediately give you front-page privileges. That's just the way we do things. But by all means, give it a go. Specifically, I'd love - love! - more coverage of Queens, the Bronx, Westchester and Long Island. I'd also love, but that's a question of my personal taste, more gay, Jewish and black-themed content.

To comment on this site immediately, also, you need an account. If you don't have one, your comment needs to be manually approved. So if your anonymous comment does not appear immediately, it's not that us sellout tools of the system want to silence you, it's that we haven't gotten around to moderating it yet. We're sorry about that.

Politics, politics, blah blah blah. Who cares? I am sick as a dog (or would that be a bitch) and I see no end to this nasty flu.

Which is why I ended up at MySpace. I lost the ability to blog in this haze of kids' flu formula (yes, I am a weenie) and albuterol. Trolling for "friends" on the biggest site on the planet seemed like the most sesible thing to do.

It seems though, there's no getting around this net-working-world if you don't have a MySpace. Heck, if Obama has one, then so should we.

I haven't checked if any of our local politicians has a MySpace profile. If you know of any, post the link to the pages in the comments pages.

I actually have been looking for the right coding recipe to customize the profile pages on our site to resemble the MySpace layout. I just haven't found an efficient way to do it.

Tack one more to the redesign To-Do list.

While I dream up a Daily Gotham MySpace, add me to your friends' list over there. Or I'll pout until my lips turn blue.

Just a bit of an advance notice: there's a lot of work being done behind the secenes here at Daily Gotham, as Liza and myself prepare to launch a revamped version of this site.

Thing is, over time, we've added a ton of features that nobody ever uses - "Digg This!" "See this in Iambic pentameter!" - to the point where this blog does everything except make your coffee (a feature available with certain versions of Firefox).

Problem is, all these features, bells, whistles, chimes and the kitchen sink have made using this site a bit more difficult than it needs to be, in part because of the visual confusion it engenders. In terms of information architecture, this site has come to resemble a house with too many lean-tos and a double garage tacked on to the living room.

So here's a question: what do you use, as a reader or a contributor? What could you do without? Let us know, in the comments (also up for radical simplification, of course).

No wonder Matt had a huge grin on his face after this happened. I was so oblivious about who she was, I took it as one lesser mortal trying to upstage this goddess and blogdiva.

Oh yeah baby, I'm having a moment here.

The Democratic National Committee Winter Meeting was exactly that --a meeting to discuss the order of business within the DNC and it's caucauses. Fascinating stuff to witness for someone who is as clueless as I am on what people actually do within political parties.

So, during the general session there was some kind of a discussion lull involving financial reports. I stepped out to get a soda --an endeavor that at the horrid Washington Hilton took an eternity to complete.

When I come back to my seat, I see a woman sitting on my chair --notwithstanding the fact I had left my laptop, purse, camera, podcasting gear and basically everything that no self-respecting blogdiva would blog without.

My first thought was "bitch, get off my seat". Being the marginally professional diva that I am, I calmly requested the woman's attention and said to her : "Excuse me, you're in my seat."

Now, you have to understand something about this : This woman happened to be sitting in the credentialed bloggers section. This was were a big chunk of the top bloggers were covering the action. We were even making fun of Ezra loosing his coolness credentials because he was working that day and had to sit in the press section.

Every once in a while, we update our blogroll, mainly to showcase other Progressive blogs in New York State. Here's a request: if we've overlooked your blog, please, by all means, let us know. Odds are, we're not ignoring you because we're bad people who think you don't matter, but because we've simply either not noticed or not gotten around to adding you. Please email editors – at – dailygotham – dot – com when you have a free moment. Needless to say, we exercise some discretion; "Hot Grandma's Golden Shower Blog", "The Bolshevik Cannibals' Club" or similar probably aren't gonna make it.

Anyway, here are the newest additions:

Progressive blogs

Blue Spot
DragonFlyEye
NY 13
Simply Left Behind

Ben Smith's newest

The Politico

That's, if I count correctly, Ben's fourth new blog in a bit over a year. Jeezuz.

[Update] : Heh. Today is the day, as The Albany Project points out, that everyone is doing this blogroll-updating thing. I blame Kos and his secret mind-control rays. More blogs after the jump.

Rubyji is not the only one to have noticed the John McCain ads that have been popping on the site lately.

Last week I got pinged by Azi Paybarah, of the New York Observer's Politicker fame. I guess Azi needed to check out how babelicious I am and was perusing my (soon to be updated) bio and photo at lizasabater.com.

To his horror, he found this :

Yes, that's a John McCain ad right next my mug.

Now, there's the "sensible" explanation for this freakish political mashup and then there's the conspiracy theory. The explanation, though, will shed light into some of my web development skills and the techniques I have used to develop my sites.

So grab yourself a cup of coffee, pull up a chair and get yourself comfortable. Some major geekatude is coming your way.