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His column entitled "Rough Draft" is primarily humorous.

He has a regular Blog on the Washingtonpost.com website as well, attracting a small audience of devoted fans as well as a larger group of casual readers.

A large degree of the conversations on Achenblog tend to arc back to previous posts, creating a large litany of phrases and comments that are somewhat opaque to the average internet surfer. Here are a small sample of some of the terms used on Achenblog:

  • SAO-15: The Select Audience of 15, used to describe the core group of users who post regularly on Achenblog

  • Rovestorm: A post which attracts a huge number of casual readers due to its political content

  • Boodle: the conversation thread itself on Achenblog (Derives from the phrase "kit and kaboodle," by Achenbach, wherein the "kit" is the main blog entry and the "kaboodle" is the collection of comments.)



BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • ''Why Things Are'' ( 1991 ), ISBN 0345362241

  • ''It Looks Like a President Only Smaller: Trailing Campaign 2000'' ( 2001 ), ISBN 0743223489

  • ''Captured By Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe'' ( 2003 ), ISBN 0806524960

  • ''The Grand Idea : George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West'' ( 2005 ), ISBN 0743263006



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