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As I mention during my previous meandering mess of a post, when I first came to Raleigh I was a bit of an oddball among the capital press corps because I blogged. While I'm still an oddball, it has nothing to do anymore with online presence.

There have been new additions even since Winston-Salem's Paul O'Conner wrote his excellent column back in October. For those who may not know the bloggy haunts of us mainstream media wretches who cover the capital, here's the list as far as I know it:

• * WUNC's Laura Leslie is the barkeep over at Isaac Hunter's Tavern. She typically does one comprehensive post a day and it's always well worth the read.

• * James Romoser is the gorp-master over at Trail Mix, Winston-Salem's new campaign blog. As late, he's been in Iowa.

• * WNC stands for Western North Carolina over at Capital Letters by Asheville's Jordan Schrader.

• * Charlotte's Jim Morrill isn't a full-time Raleigh denizen, but he's here often enough. His Campaign Tracker blog is worth a look.

• * When Charlotte's Jack Betts talks over at This Old State, you should listen.

• * News 14's Tim Boyum works his own camera, thankyouverymuch. He also writes a good blog at Political Connections, where he sometimes posts video of his work.

• Last but certainly not least, there's Under the Dome, or the Legion of Dome as I like to call them. Ryan Teague Beckwith leads the blogging here, with contributions from a cast of thousands from the News & Observer's political staff. This is where you go if you just can't read enough about the topic/scandal/dead horse of the day.

That list leaves off folks like the Insider, who while very blog like and part of the press corps requires you to get past a pay wall for most all its stuff. And it doesn't count Gary Robertson, the capitol reporter for the Associate Press without whom all us other MSM types would be lost. (Without him, none of our papers could afford to have us blog.)

And left off are the various blogs produced by think tanks, individuals and other folks - which actually might make for a post of its own on another day.

So have I missed any Raleigh-based MSM types? Who are you reading these days?