TECH BUZZ: The Huffington Post launches the first local version of its site. We hope at some point the big sites go hyper local, neighborhood-level. Chinatown needs its own HuffPo, too.

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The Best Links:

1. Chicago News and Opinion on The Huffington Post
2. Chicago Gets Its Very Own HuffPo Site
3. Former Chicago Sun-Times Blogger Is The Sole Staffer
4. Arianna Introduces HuffPost Chicago
5. Marketplace on HuffPo’s New Offering
6. How Will It Fare In the Fracas?

TV BUZZ: Scuttlebutt that Tim Russert has had Arianna Huffington blacklisted from NBC over comments about him in her new book. There are several passages in Right is Wrong about Russert, calling him (among other things) “one of the temple guards of conventional wisdom” and a “conventional wisdom zombie.” Huffington was reportedly un-booked from two NBC shows, but she’s talking everywhere else about the tome. We love a good media scandal. Also, we just wanted to use the word scuttlebutt.

The Best Links:

1. Tim Russert Blackballing Arianna At NBC?
2. Is Tim Russert Keeping Arianna Off NBC?
3. Tim Russert Takes Offense, Bans Arianna Huffington From NBC News
4. NBC VP: “I know some people have issues with her as a guest, but it has nothing to do with the book.”

POLITICS BUZZ: Arianna Huffington’s new book exposes the “Lunatic Fringe” of the Republican Party. What happens when the right wing’s “Lunatic Fringe” takes control of the government? Find out in Arianna Huffington’s new book, “Right Is Wrong: How the Lunatic Fringe Hijacked America, Shredded the Constitution, and Made Us All Less Safe.” It makes the whole Obama Vs. Clinton fight look silly when the alternative is four more years of the lunatic fringe in power.

The Best Links:

1. Right Wing’s “Lunatic Fringe” Gets Mainstream Attention on ABC’s 20/20
2. Official Site of the Anti-Lunatic Fringe
3. The Lunatic Fringe Book: “Right Is Wrong” on Amazon
4. San Francisco Chronicle On the “Lunatic Fringe”, Arianna’s Crusade, and the Huffington Post
5. Lunatic Fringe Definition: “The Fanatical, Extremist, Or Irrational Members of a Society Or Group”