The Talent Show is dead. Long live The Talent Show.

As the FEC will not include blogs in its media exemptions for campaigns, bloggers across the web are closing up shop: "Atrios asks some good questions about the FEC's proposed regulations on bloggers:

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• Why is somebody who prints up and mails out weekly vanity newsletter entitled to the media exemption but not me?
• Why is Michael Savage entitled to the media exemption but not me?
• Why is Salon.com entitled to the media exemption but not me?

"In order to avoid any potential pitfalls, let me use this opportunity to announce that this post will be the last one on The Talent Show blog," writes greg. "Starting either late today or tomorrow, I will relaunch (without any fanfare whatsoever) my new web magazine, The Talent Show. I will still be the primary writer around here, but the traditional blog posts will be replaced with articles of varying lengths and topics. I will also be replacing the comments with article specific message boards. The look of the site, the writing style, the subject matter, the content, and the technological back-end will be identical to what I'm using now, but the change (as least as far as the FEC is concerned) will be drastic. Starting tomorrow, my days as a blogger are ending and my days as a writer begin." (The Talent Show)