A Blog gets you free press!

Ed Cone: "There is no doubt that the publicity Tara has received for and through her weblog caused the dominant regional daily to give this neophyte Libertarian equal billing in an article about her race with a nine-term GOP incumbent. Otherwise, we would have gotten an article about Coble being pretty much unopposed." [Scripting News]

But, the important thing is does it get you money and votes.  Exercising the web as a campaign tool is still quesitonable territory for pols as the population most active on the internet tends not too vote.  Still, worthy of obersvation, study and activism.

11:13:57 AM    

Following the links.... leads me home.

Sarah of [alterego] responded to a recent post pointing me to ITC Insights a blog run by members of the Instructional Technology Center of Georgia State University (less than a mile from me).  It took the power of blog linking thoughts thousands of miles apart to alert me to activity a few minutes in people time away! (Wonder if this stuff will help me know what my teenagers are doing?).

Initial inspection led me to Tim Merrit's DV site (Digital Video for Teachers) -- wonder if Tim is looking at the dialogue Marc Canter has been stirring with regard to video and audio blogs?  Newsquest seems to be a blog with student participation at a local elementary school coordinated by one of the educational technologists at the center -- I need to walk (yeah, its good for you and gives the typing hands some rest) down the street and learn more.

Sarah's advice to investigate the contributor blogs from Sebastian's site will be heeded.  And, I need to start learning to use outliner and a possible search appliance to start cataloging these ideas rather than consign them to the vast wasteland of a single large category.  Sarah's blog also noted a piece from Learning Circuits on the second wave of e-learning (got to get ready for a meeting -- more analysis later) -- the thoughts are appropriate to discussions in Georgia for a new statewide policy on e-learning.

Sebastian is into a series discussing development of dynamic web publishing centers.  Very interesting.

9:03:31 AM