Over at Evergreen Politics Ken’s good idea for a state party blog is getting a thorough airing. Good for Jon for putting it up there. Anyway, I put up this comment that I think bears posting here and some additional explanation: I agree with Ken and Jon that there is a huge benefit for the…
Month: April 2006
Washington state is untapped netroots
I just finished reading Ken‘s piece on why the Washington state Democratic Party should invest more directly in the netroots and forget about their current “let them blog” attitude. Part of this attitude seems to be coming from a perception that there really isn’t anything to be gained from going onto the internet in a…
Adele Ferguson’s mea culpa on the “slavery was the hand of God” column
Well, not really a mea culpa in the true Latin sense, but she does share and rebut her readers’ views on the topic. From The (Collville) Statesman-Examiner, one of the papers that still prints Adele: Okay, so I failed to get much, if any, agreement on my supposition that the blacks came to America by…
A city council that blogs?
Portland is pretty lucky to have not only members of its city council blogging, but also their mayor. And, they’re not just using blogs as another (rss feed strengthened) way to get their well oiled opinions out there, but they’re blogging with comments on. Which means they’re having conversations, or at least encouraging conversation between…